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Your Covid Cribsheet, Updated. Mysteries remain but one thing is known: We will be living with the virus indefinitely.
Wall Street Journal ^ | September 29, 2020 | Holman W. Jenkins

Posted on 09/29/2020 5:14:24 PM PDT by karpov

Since we reviewed the key knowables and predictables about Covid-19 in April, new points have emerged. Sewage studies and patient samples seem to show the virus was circulating in Europe and South America before an outbreak was officially recognized in Wuhan.

Lockdowns might or might not have been important contributors to suppressing eruptions that overwhelmed hospitals in the Chinese city, in New York, in Northern Italy. These episodes are not well understood. The hospitals themselves may have been a progenitor of local spikes. The mandatory closing of local businesses is hard to disentangle from the steps people were already taking to protect themselves.

Anybody—an individual, an entire country—can avoid communicable disease by avoiding contact with any carrier. This was an obvious starting point and yet has not proved useful or practicable information for many people and most countries. As Bloomberg News recently acknowledged in puzzling over why Italy is not currently experiencing a resurgence, experts remain stumped by “doubts over what exactly is effective.”

Lockdowns at least are universally understood, even by the media, not to be a solution to the virus. Governments need strategies for coping while still having an economy, so people can eat and sustain themselves and receive services. Something else to get realistic about: Large classes of people, like the young, are at relatively low risk. By the laws of human nature, they will start behaving as if the disease is not a serious threat to them personally.

Countries that apparently suppressed Covid with strong measures to keep people apart now are experiencing outbreaks once people no longer find it tolerable or acceptable to be kept apart. Epidemiologists, to reconcile a desire to have both minimal spread and an economy, pushed aggressive testing, tracing and confining as the magic pill.

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Full article. We can't stay locked down "indefinitely" -- someone tell De Blasio and Cuomo.
1 posted on 09/29/2020 5:14:24 PM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Probably will end sometime after early November....


2 posted on 09/29/2020 5:16:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

You’re not the only one to think that. ;-)


3 posted on 09/29/2020 5:18:27 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Fill that seat!)
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To: karpov
We will be living with the virus indefinitely.

Like 100% of all viruses that have come before it.

4 posted on 09/29/2020 5:18:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (In all things ... trigger discipline.)
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To: karpov

But the exalted Pooh-bah says otherwise.

F raudulent
A gitator
U nder
C CP
I nfluence

The FauXi goals:

Flatten the economy.
Stop the spread of Trumpism
Eliminate FREEDOM.


5 posted on 09/29/2020 5:20:16 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: TigersEye

Including AIDS.


6 posted on 09/29/2020 5:21:15 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: karpov

The election infection.


7 posted on 09/29/2020 5:23:33 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: karpov

where is accountability against CDC and FauXi and Xi
and SoroXi and GateXi for making this ATROCITY?
and then committing GENOCIDE BY THEIR PATENTED VIRUS??

oh. so sorry.

there is no accountability, is there?


8 posted on 09/29/2020 5:26:47 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: lightman

Yes, and every other one that has ever existed.

The influenza virus which caused the far more devastating pandemic of 1918-22 is still around.


9 posted on 09/29/2020 5:29:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (In all things ... trigger discipline.)
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We will be living with the virus indefinitely.

Flu, Syphilis, Common Cold Plague....

10 posted on 09/29/2020 5:33:32 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: lightman

Very good, I like that and believe you are absolutely correct.


11 posted on 09/29/2020 5:38:15 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: karpov

Virtually all viruses are with us forever, and occasionally will become a problem. But after the first flurry, they usually settle down because a population as a group develops some level of immunity and because the viruses become less deadly, since it’s not in their best interest to kill their hosts.

There has never in history been such an insane and destructive and pointless overreaction to a disease, even diseases that were much more lethal.

It’s got to stop NOW.


12 posted on 09/29/2020 5:46:00 PM PDT by livius
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Hasn’t more money been spent fighting Anal Intrusion Death Sentence than every cancer combined except breast cancer?


13 posted on 09/29/2020 5:49:06 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Even the libs at work are thinking this!


14 posted on 09/29/2020 5:50:23 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: TigersEye

Bingo

We will be living with the virus indefinitely.
Like 100% of all viruses that have come before it.

Apparently, not just the ones we are exposed to, but maybe every virus our ancestors were exposed to.

Also, every flu shot we had, is with us for the rest of our life and probably our DNA descendents.


15 posted on 09/29/2020 5:56:55 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (3 NOV 2020! VOTE JOBS! NOT RIOTING BLM/ANTIFA/DEM/MOBS! /POLICE FOR US! NOT JUST FOR THE ELITE!)
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To: karpov

New York hospitals were not, I repeat not, overwhelmed. I’m sure that since you could not get the basic facts straight you will understand that I could not spare the time to read the entire article.


16 posted on 09/29/2020 6:07:10 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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Large classes of people, like the young, are at relatively low risk. By the laws of human nature, they will start behaving as if the disease is not a serious threat to them personally.

I have seen that in the mountain tourist area of Californian where I live. Record number of visitors this year, mostly in their 20s and 30s. As soon as the National Forest closed down two weeks ago due to the nearby fires, most of them left and our Covid infection rate went down.

17 posted on 09/29/2020 6:07:17 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: TigersEye

Except smallpox.


18 posted on 09/29/2020 6:08:07 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: karpov

And all you “non-essential” people, please just die.


19 posted on 09/29/2020 6:08:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Elections have consequences. We won, you lost. Get over it." --Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Don Corleone

Syphilis and plague are both bacterial diseases.


20 posted on 09/29/2020 6:10:04 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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