Lwt those most susceptible to the flu...this one and most of the others (65 and over with ongoing health issues), simply confine themselves while others who barely become symptomatic go about there business.
If you are so afraid then YOU stay the hell home and stop advocating for the financial destruction of a 100 million or more of us simply because you believe the bullshit the lying media throws at you.
Let the most susceptible confine themselves — you think the Chinese and the Germans didn’t think of that?
And the most susceptible 65+ and/or with health issues are nearly half of the American adult population (health issues: cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, respiratory problems). You want them all to stay home of course. Ok - and the people who take care of them? They need to be isolated as well, right?
Among the rest - 0.2% of the 70% who get infected, die. So say that’s 70% of the 100 million non-ill, non-old, above 20 Americans. 70 million. 0.2% of those die - that’s 140,000 productive people. That’s separate from flu numbers (which hit the old and weak).
Agreed, with the addition that the non-sequestered avoid interactions with those in the risk groups.
(s) nully, who is over 65, blood type A, diabetes, HBP, obese, and has his 91 YO mom staying with him and has been hunkered down since 2/3/20....
1. people who aren’t at the greatest risk are still at significant risk. People aged 20 to 44, a0.2, i.e. 2 out of every 1000 will die. That’s 100,000 deaths just in the US and just among people aged 20 to 44.
2. With those 100,000 deaths from people aged 20 to 44 in the US, you’d have about 4,000,000 people who would need medical care urgently. There is no capacity to provide that level of care to anywhere near that number of people. In the entire United States there are only about 925,000 hospital beds, most of which are full under normal conditions. Of those, only about 55,000 can provide intensive respiratory care. Without this, the death rate would go up into the millions even among low-risk groups.
3. And for isolation of the sick and old, just in the United States, that would mean isolating about 25 million people. The current isolation regime only works because most people aren’t infected. There’s no way to provide services to 25 million healthy people when everyone who could care for them is infected.