Posted on 04/08/2020 5:52:42 AM PDT by Hojczyk
01:36.02] JOHN: You mention in the piece that in fact you think containment would prolong the duration of the virus. Can you talk about that?
[01:45.00] WITTKOWSKI: With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated.
[02:33.24] JOHN: And so, what do you make of the policy that was enacted in the United States and England and most places throughout the world, this policy of containment, shelter-in-place, etc.? What’s your opinion of it?
[02:47.05] WITTKOWSKI: Well, what people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why. But, what happens is if you flatten the curve, you also prolong, to widen it, and it takes more time. And I don’t see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary.
[03:06.17] JOHN: And what do you say to people who just say, “We just didn’t know about the lethality of this virus and it was the smartest thing to do, to do what we did, and contain everybody, because we just didn’t have the data.”
[03:23.16] WITTKOWSKI: We had two other SARS viruses before. Or, coronaviruses. It’s not the first coronavirus that comes out, and
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Paging Dr. Wasshole!
https://ratical.org/PerspectivesOnPandemic-II.html
Long but every interesting....we may have done all this for no reason
Big Canoe - on the WuFlu (long, involved, but good-esp part 3)
A relative - in medicine - sent me these.
There has been a dearth if critical thinking and a reliance on so called experts.
The Dr. makes sense when he says flattening a curve just makes the line longer and wider. My uncle used to say that if you flatten the hills, Kentucky was actually bigger than Texas.
There is no escaping some hard facts. There is no vaccine in the foreseeable future because we have never been able to develop a vaccine for a Corona virus. This virus spreads easily because it is a mild virus for most people. The spread slows as people become immune. None of this logic needs an expert to validate it.
The only sure fire way to stop the virus is the hated concept of herd immunity.
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