“So you’re saying our governments response is equally paranoid since they are ramping up more and more policies to slow the spread and get past it.”
I was pretty skeptical about the federal response initially, but I think I may see what the strategy is.
There was a good article by Steve Sailer in Taki Mag that provides the background:
https://www.takimag.com/article/crushing-the-coronavirus-curve/
Essentially what it said is that the normal infection rate can be so steep that it’s easy to overwhelm health care responses, especially intensive care facilities - that’s what happened in China. So more people die than need to. But if you can slow the spread of the infection you can also spread out the occurrence of really bad cases, so that the hospitals can keep up. In the long run you get about as many people infected, both mildly and seriously, but you don’t get battered all at once. And then the health care system can do its job in handling the tough cases.
That sounds like a good plan whomever came up with it.
At least the evidence appears to show this will be mostly over with in a month or two at most. I guess the next question is if this will be part of the seasonal landscape going forward.
They say a vaccine is a year out so if this shows back up next winter then the world will be in trouble again I guess unless an anti-viral med is readily available by then (worldwide).