You asked "are we just kidding ourselves at great cost?" I just watched the videos on #filmyourhospital (#9 above by RBW in PA). Citizen journalists are finding no lines on the streets or in waiting rooms or in admissions in hospitals in NYC, Chicago, LA and Honolulu.
In 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic...Dr John Ioannidis Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy and of Biomedical Data Science, at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences. He is director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). He wrote a couple weeks ago...
If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average.So maybe previous years with "bad flu season" were actually viruses like this going through the populace?
What do YOU think?
i have been around when other new viruses were going through the population, the last being H1N1. so far this is not as bad but building. We would notice a peak of respiratory illness this late in the spring. What I don’t know is if all the lockdowns are doing anything to slow the spread. The simple truth is most of us will get this. What i do know is there has been tremendous cost to our economy and civil liberties. Maybe for very little benefit