The same number that have died with mitigation. First even the lockdown proponents admit it doesn’t save lives they just want to flatten the curve or some such nonsense. Once a contagious virus is widespread in the community those who are going to get it will get it. It certainly can’t be stopped by wearing masks and ruining the economy. Secondly please tell me how you will get 2 million deaths in the US when there arent 2 million cases worldwide and the death rate less than 1%? Please. we have been played
So you contend that if we had kept going to basketball games, weddings, restaurants, work, etc., etc. that the curve would have flattened the same way it has.
Magic's wonderful.
First even the lockdown proponents admit it doesn’t save lives they just want to flatten the curve or some such nonsense.
It can save lives in two ways. If you stay within the capacity of the healthcare system patients get better care and more survive.
Also, if you delay the deaths you may get more effective treatments or potentially a vaccine.
Nonsense, I know.
please tell me how you will get 2 million deaths in the US when there arent 2 million cases worldwide and the death rate less than 1%?
We probably won't because we've taken pretty severe mitigation measures, but if we don't get treatments or a vaccine we could reach that number over several years.
Do the math. Let's say you need 70% infected to get herd immunity.
70% of our population is 224M people. If the death rate is 1% that's 2.2 million deaths.
Where's the flaw?
Given the incubation period, the contagion vectors, and so on, it’s highly unlikely that millions of people in the United States alone haven’t been at least exposed to COVID-19. By the time restrictions even happened, people would already have gotten it, and were just beginning to show symptoms after 1 or 2 weeks of incubation.