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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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MililaniBuckeye said:
The death rate will continue to fall until it levels out--at what number it will level is unknown--but will never hit zero...this shit is here to stay, just like the the other coronaviruses, the flu, the common cold, etc. The will likely be a surge during the flu season, but it has nothing to do with what happened 102 years ago. As you mentioned, we will be far better prepared to deal with it.
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I really hope and pray you're right.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Apparently there’s a concern that the virus may go away too quickly. I shit you not.

https://news.yahoo.com/oxford-scientists-working-coronavirus-vaccine-100847254.html
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Hmmm, the number of cases are "falling too quickly"? What possible reasons could there be?

1.) The initial number of cases were highly inflated, and that the virus isn't as contagious as originally thought, or
2.) The lockdown measures are having the desired result, i.e., significantly limiting the spread of the virus, or
3.) The virus is still getting around despite the lockdown and more and more people are catching asymptomatically leading to less reported cases while at the same time accelerating "herd immunity"
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Apparently there’s a concern that the virus may go away too quickly. I shit you not.

https://news.yahoo.com/oxford-scientists-working-coronavirus-vaccine-100847254.html
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There's concern for being unable to evaluate a vaccine if that happens:
Hill told The Telegraph newspaper that the number of people in the UK with the virus was falling at a rate that meant it might not be possible to effectively test the experimental vaccine known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.

"At the moment, there's a 50% chance that we get no result at all," he said.
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The trial is done by giving the vaccine to a group of participants who then mix with the population to see if they are protected from catching the virus. However, scientists are concerned that they will be unable to tell whether the vaccine has successfully protected participants if the rate of infection in the UK is too low.
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"The question is: can you chase the disease around the UK? Then there's the question about whether you chase it internationally."
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That doesn't seem especially unreasonable, or like they're mad that the pandemic might be free-falling.
 
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jwinslow said:
There's concern for being unable to evaluate a vaccine if that happens:

That doesn't seem especially unreasonable, or like they're mad that the pandemic might be free-falling.
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Yes, I read the article. My posting in the first place was, admittedly, left without comment for readers to explore so as to drawn their own conclusions as to what such news may imply.

But I nevertheless find it interesting, and am hopeful that we swing from ‘this is going to kill us all’ to ‘scientists fear the virus may go away before a vaccine can be adequately tested.’

Personally, I don’t suspect that they will run short of cases before testing is complete. They need only pick up the lab and move to Manhattan... or Detroit. Plenty of people to test with / on there.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Yes, I read the article. My posting in the first place was, admittedly, left without comment for readers to explore so as to drawn their own conclusions as to what such news may imply.

But I nevertheless find it interesting, and am hopeful that we swing from ‘this is going to kill us all’ to ‘scientists fear the virus may go away before a vaccine can be adequately tested.’

Personally, I don’t suspect that they will run short of cases before testing is complete. They need only pick up the lab and move to Manhattan... or Detroit. Plenty of people to test with / on there.
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It would be terrific if the vaccine makers are suddenly wasting their time. That seems improbable, especially with Brazil.
 
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heisman said:
Public servants report to the people in this country. Not the other way around. If you want to unite people, listen to them. You can’t arbitrarily tell them Walmart and weed matter, but parks don’t. You literally lost all credibility with your leadership (the people).
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Maybe that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be, but anybody that thinks the fucksticks in power care about anything but STAYING in power and their corporate overlords' bank accounts is delusional.
 
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If a third of the country isn't convinced about the danger of Covid, any break or quieting of the pandemic will be viewed by that third as a validation that the pandemic was over hyped and poses no real threat to life and the state and Fed governments over reacted and caused suffering. There is so much we still don't know because of a lack of testing there will be things we may never have an answer to. The lack of testing is still happening for some reason.
Talking to a Texan reveals that Texas is torn between believing the government over reacted and caused economic suffering and those in county's like Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston/Harrison where Covid has killed a larger number of hispanics and blacks and put people in food lines.
 
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