One of my customers is a virologist. We had a long discussion yesterday.
She explained/clarified that we all breathe viruses everyday. A normal immune system can handle it. She compared viruses to the candy machine in the famous I Love Lucy episode. Everything is fine until the machine is sped up and the body can’t handle the incoming.
Masks don’t (and can’t) stop all viruses. They are meant to reduce the outgoing from the asymptomatic infected.
She then gave me this visual. If you and an infected person were locked in a 10 by 10 room, would you get sick? If you were in there for a minute, probably not. If you were in there for an hour, more likely you would. If you were in there for an hour and stood facing each other one foot apart for an hour, it is even more likely. If you spent the hour in opposite corners of the room, both wearing masks, your chance of getting infected would be low.
You get sick when the amount of the virus that has entered your body overwhelms your immune system. This amount varies greatly from person to person.
Immunity develops when you are exposed to small amounts of the virus over time. Isolating the healthy means that more people will get sick when they are eventually exposed to one another.
It was her opinion that the people behind the policies of stay at home are trying to stretch this pandemic out for as long as possible.
Makes sense.
If there really was a medical crisis ( 2.2 million dead Americans & 500,000 dead in the UK as modeled by the *experts* like ( lying & cheating ) Ferguson at the Imperial college ) ... but there is not a medical crisis overwhelming hospitals - the original excuse. Now the corrupt politicians are moving the goal posts for their political agenda to try to impeach President Trump, again.
Various field hospitals had capacity to treat 14,817 coronavirus patients across the US.- treated only 1,177 patients.. like the NYC virtually empty 2,500-bed Javits Center..
"Flattening" the peak has the effect of LENGTHENING the peak.