It is all about managing the workloads trying not to overwhelm local health care systems and hopefully improving outcomes. That's what's funny about the automobile accident screaming chimps. Try having them all at once let alone having the idiot drivers drive in to masses of people that are not in cars.

In the end I still don't know the end game. it seems to me like most people need to get sick at some point. the vaccine would be one good end point but we are acting like it is a certainty. we don't know for sure how long it will take, its efficacy or even if our own antibodies provide immunity. Combine that with once the vaccine is developed how is it mass produced and distributed (hopefully better than the tests?)

I'm not smart enough to see a good way out. I think the path that has been laid out is about as good as it gets and the states or localities not following it are playing with fire.... especially since their economy isn't in a vacuum and relies on others.

This thing is going to eff things up for a long time. The immediate gratification crowd is going to be disappointed.

teedubbya wrote:

It is all about managing the workloads trying not to overwhelm local health care systems and hopefully improving outcomes. That's what's funny about the automobile accident screaming chimps. Try having them all at once let alone having the idiot drivers drive in to masses of people that are not in cars.

In the end I still don't know the end game. it seems to me like most people need to get sick at some point. the vaccine would be one good end point but we are acting like it is a certainty. we don't know for sure how long it will take, its efficacy or even if our own antibodies provide immunity. Combine that with once the vaccine is developed how is it mass produced and distributed (hopefully better than the tests?)

I'm not smart enough to see a good way out. I think the path that has been laid out is about as good as it gets and the states or localities not following it are playing with fire.... especially since their economy isn't in a vacuum and relies on others.

This thing is going to eff things up for a long time. The immediate gratification crowd is going to be disappointed.

teedubbya wrote:

A vaccine? Yeah..........forget about that bullchit. There ain’t gonna be an effective vaccine any time soon, and in my humble opinion, there will never be one. Only hope is continued improvements and developments in treatment.

KingoftheCove wrote:

Where are they hiding all those dead people?

HockeyDad wrote:

If they were hiding them, how would we be counting them?

victor809 wrote:

US numbers of confirmed cases and fatalities are going through the roof...far exceeding any other country in the world...

why?

delta1 wrote:

It’s not mutating all that much. It is mutating but nothing substantial. I do think we will end up with an effective vaccine but it is a long way off.

teedubbya wrote:

Dunno man.... treatment for a virus isn't something we've had a ton of success at identifying either. At least the concept and methodology for vaccine development is something we have a good handle on, even if not for Coronaviruses specifically.

We've not had a ton of success with treatments for viruses. I mean.... suppression drugs for Herpes and HIV.... but this is a much different scenario than that.

victor809 wrote:

US numbers of confirmed cases and fatalities are going through the roof...far exceeding any other country in the world...

why?

delta1 wrote: