Posted on 10/28/2020 3:11:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
They are leading. The real question is how long will we continue to follow them over the cliff
Im not interested in the alleged number of cases.
That actually is just going to give us herd immunity.
Im concerned about the death rate and lack of treatment, and the reticence to us such treatment.
Nationally, our fatalities per day are up a little. As would be expected, some areas are up substantially, while others are not. France however, is a mess. They just had a 523 fatality day, the highest since, I believe, April 23, and the October rise is coming off, as Jim Noble mentioned, many weeks of low numbers. There is no evidence that if they continue the policies of the last couple months, the French fatalities curve will do anything but continue to accelerate for some time. One has to assume* the "serious/critical cases" curve is out in front of the fatalities curve. The question is, what treatment capacity for these s/c cases does France now have?
*Real data would be best, of course, if anyone has it.
What to do? It seems to me that if likely fatalities* from COVID-19 strongly exceed likely fatalities from a vaccine (perhaps not proven as safe as vaccines usually must be judged), say by a factor of 10, you go with the vaccine. This esp. for high risk (from CV-19) groups.
“A “Hospital Professor”? Why would you need one of those?”
I recall a multi-episode documentary from my youth that had a ‘Professor’ in it...he brought tocougtfullness and clever inventions that helped the other people in the documentary.
It was a pity they never got off of that island...
They need to focus on treatment. Lockdowns prevent nothing. Hopefully there will also be a vaccine soon
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