(April 18, 2020 at 4:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(April 18, 2020 at 4:41 pm)Athene Wrote: The effects of long-term isolation and people being unable to work and feed their families will lead to tremendous devastation as well.
IMO, maintaining stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders for 12-18 months--or potentially even much, much longer--would be unreasonable considering that most people infected with COVID-19 will have mild symptoms and not become critically ill as a result of the virus. Additionally, everyone is not going to be lining up to take a new, barely-tested vaccine--mandate or not, regardless of what Bill Gates says.
At some point, much of the onus of prevention may have to fall on those who are at highest risk and/or those who provide care for them.
No, sorry, huge difference between plowing ahead regardless of warnings, and sheltering out of safety.
And this particular virus isn't "risk" aimed. Perfectly healthy out of risk range people have died from it.
https://time.com/5823124/sailor-dies-cor...dentified/
I understand that young and seemingly healthy individuals can be affected. Nonetheless, the vast majority of those infected will be experience mild symptoms and recover fine at home, and that is not something that to simply be disregarded the further along we go into this pandemic--especially if developing a vaccine proves to be more challenging than people hope.
So something's gonna have to give prior to the vaccine coming down the pike. Ultimately that may come down to re-opening the country and utilizing approved treatments, recommending that only the high-risk socially-distance themselves and/or taking stringent precautions, and mandating that everyone cover their face in public spaces.
There's no way to stop all identifiably (or non-identifiably) at-risk persons from dying from this without fundamentally wrecking the country and/or inflicting immense damage upon the middle class and working poor. And if you think people won't people won't suffer and die behind that, think again. Suicide, domestic violence, rising drug and alcohol abuse, crimes of desperation---starvation even.
Everyone doesn't have the same access to resources, and food prices are steadily rising. Shelves aren't as readily restocked in the poorest neighborhoods.
You're kidding yourself if you don't think this shit is a disaster in the making.