Baloney. IF nothing were done THEN it would have been catastrophic. The WHOLE world took action. Why do you think President Trump is so stupid?
I think Washington state proves that wrong.
King County (Seattle) had the first USA confirmed infection on 21 January 2020 - from someone who flew straight into Sea-Tac airport from Wuhan, China.
King County (Seattle) had the first USA death on 29 February 2020 - probably someone (identity never confirmed) from the nursing home in Kirkland, WA, where 35 residents died and half the staff were infected.
King County schools and the University of Washington were not closed until 12 March 2020. When they were closed, not even one student had tested positive for COVID-19.
Governor Inslee issued a Stay-at-Home order on 23 March 2020.
I started tracking “Positive Test Results” for King County and the State of Washington on 13 March 2020 - 10 days BEFORE the Stay-at-Home order.
Our COVID-19 tests were originally given only to high risk individuals - specifically, to individuals who had known exposure, or had a travel history to highly infected regions, or who had obvious symptoms.
The Positive Test Rate for high risk individuals in Washington state and King County has been between 6.5% and 9.0% for the last four weeks.
Compare that to New York City, where the infection rate for high risk individuals has been close to 40% in recent weeks.
There is only one way that California, Oregon, and Washington could all have such low infection rates...
We already had millions of people with immunity to COVID-19.
Oh, please . Panic is unbecoming .
These models were done WITH the mitigation in the program the outcome has absolutely NOTHING to do with mitigation they were dead wrong PERIOD!!!
No way that is true. It is apparent that many pig headed people ( mostly old farts ) cannot accept that is an old persons disease. Young are not immune from the effects of COVID but are in no more danger than from the "regular" flu. Knowing this the economic shut down was unnecessary. The whole thing had been a mishandled pile of BS.
Some just fail to see what Happened in areas where they didn’t act or began too late should have been a wakeup.
I’m certainly convinced had we not taken the measures we did our work force would have been sick and dead, and companies, businesses, families crippled far worse and far longer than the few weeks we’ve been closed down.
Just understanding how terrible this virus affects the body’s system, how quickly it spreads, and without a vacccine or immunity or treatment was sufficient to call for measures. Not to mention the many Dr’s who consistently said they never saw anything like this affect patients so hard and fast.
I recall Emt’s saying they could actually tell which people they picked up would make it or not.........