I had it. Was achy after work one day, had less than 1 degree of fever, felt sluggish for 36 hours, and that was it. We've turned the country upside down and trashed civil liberties and our economy all to fight a cold-like virus that has a survival rate of 98%+ across all age groups. If we have any freedoms left after this charade is over this will go down in history as the best example ever of global mass hysteria.
Sorry, OT.
Not everyone has the same reaction. Not much of a problem for most, but a big problem for some.
Not having restrictions is something I could consider, if the virus could be spaced out over 100 months. One per cent getting it every month. Our hospitals won’t be overwhelmed and the death rate would be around one per cent. But the natural course of the disease, like all diseases, is to grow exponentially. So, with no restrictions, with the disease doubling every week or two, half the people in the country will be sick with at the same time, when the disease is at its height. Hospitals will be overwhelmed and the death rate would be something more like ten per cent or more, as it was for New York when their hospitals were over stretched back in April. Indeed, hospitals would be overwhelmed about four to six weeks before the disease reached its height.
Not only would there be more deaths but the loss of production would be similar.
Restrictions: everyone loses one year of production of work (not really as bad as that): 200,000,000 man-years of labor lost.
No Restrictions: 10% of 200,000,000 die, losing 10 years of production each, costing 200,000,000 man-years of labor lost.
