From mid March I just assumed that we would all get this and the draconian measures were just to ensure we all don’t “get serious symptoms” at once and overwhelm the health care system.
There seem to be a lot of asymptomatic people that test positive. It may spread like crazy, but it doesn’t seem to be all that deadly except for the old and sick.
Actually, not. The antibody tests that have been touted as showing incredible numbers of asymptomatic infections are not that accurate; for all I know, they are showing the number of people who have had ordinary colds caused by coronaviruses.
The best data possible, in which 100% of potentially infected people were tested, comes from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. At the time of testing, 52% of the positive cases did not have symptoms. This does not mean that they remained asymptomatic. They also could have had symptoms that were so mild that the patients attributed them to something else. I found one analysis that found that something like 13% of the Diamond Princess cases were asymptomatic; wish I could find that again. What is NOT the case is that gadzillions of people are walking around infected without any symptom whatsoever. That is actually a nightmare scenario.