Where I've landed on the COVID-19 crisis.

Apr 20, 2020, 10:23 AM

No, I am not a medical doctor, a pathologist, or immunologist, but guess what? They don't have the answers either. Everyone is trying to find the balance between killing the economy and staying safe. From all I have studied, and I have followed this from well before the lockdown, here's where I have landed:

1) It is a VIRUS. It behaves like a virus. We may or may not be able to get accurate testing for antibodies, a vaccine, etc. Therefore, we must allow natural immunity to build up by allowing some people to be exposed (the young and healthy). The Spanish Flu died out when a) people built up immunity and b) it mutated into H1N1, a less virulent strain. This thing has to run its course.

2) Protect the most vulnerable - nursing homes, long-term care institutions, prisoners, and the immuno-compromised. Look at where the most deaths are - it's in these settings.

3) Continue taking personal precautions such as handwashing, social distancing, etc.

4) Testing or not, vaccine or not, OPEN UP THE ECONOMY. This cannot go on. Back to normal asap.

5) Hold China accountable. I have seen enough smoke to firmly believe a) China is not being truthful b) this was not a benign, natural outbreak. I have posted videos of the early reaction in China, links to the fishy professor at Harvard, and other evidence. I won't post again. We don not know exactly what happened, but something did and China must be held accountable.

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appeal to authority fallacy, a case where philosophy and real life intersect. A doctor will, 100% of the time, tell you to stay home. Deciding what to do and when is bigger than that one factor. Economic and Constitutional factors are important at the both the individual and societal levels. If my doctor can, by threat of legal action, force me, a healthy person, to go home, at either the individual or societal level, we are in deep ####. As I have said before, if a governor and the cops arrest the wrong person, one with some sense and resources, a challenge could be made, and if our Supreme Court hears it, they will come down on the side of the individual, maybe the only branch of our govt that does right now.

The protesters have a point. Sure, some of them are idiots, and the photographer knows how to get the biggest one. But the case that goes to the Court will not be an overweight gal with a confederate do-rag. It will be a soccer mom or an employee in dockers and a golf shirt, claiming the right to meet for tea or to show up for work when all parties display informed consent. The left needs to careful in painting the issue as rednecks vs the intelligents. It wont work out that way.

Sweden is showing that people can be trusted to understand that restaurants don't spread viruses, people do. Given information and tools, individuals can be trusted to make the right decisions for more people, more often, than an autocrat. We have let fear cause us to give that up in favor of entitlement and blaming.

Where I've landed on the COVID-19 crisis.

I was with you until 4 and 5

I didn't say that about 5. I am saying China has not been

Re: I was with you until 4 and 5

I haven't really heard many people saying that about China

Re: Where I've landed on the COVID-19 crisis.

We need to make everyone out in public wear a mask

I agree.***

As we open things back up (retail, etc), I think that the

Economic recovery will be dependent on 80%. + ....

Yes, I agree.***

Re: Where I've landed on the COVID-19 crisis.

"We can't start packing people in bars, restaurants, and con

Re: "We can't start packing people in bars, restaurants, and con

I'll go with Sweden and say it is. Both of us just made the

"Will immunity build up? Yup."

Meet in the middle: Yes, but we don't know for how long.***

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