Ridgerunner
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The way I see it, if you are infected eventually you either recover or you die. If the death rate is 3.9% and the recovery rate is only 5.5% does that mean we are waiting to see if 90.6% of all the infected people in the U.S. are going to recover or die? At this point I don't see the 5.5% recovery rate as being very meaningful.
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I trust the U.S. death rate figure much more than I trust the world death rate figure. Also, what is not figured into the death rate and recovery rate is how many people were infected but only had minor symptoms so they were never tested. For the most part in the U.S. only people who show symptoms have been tested. Just recently have we started widespread testing.
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Here is what I would do to reopen the U.S. economy. It appears that 98% of the people infected by the virus recover. So first I would require or recommend that the people most adversely affected by the virus ( the elderly and those with medical conditions) to continue their isolation. I would institute widespread testing to determine who is presently infected and who has been infected but now have an immunity to the virus. I would require the infected people to quarantine until they are virus free. I would allow the rest of the population to return to work and to school. Those people returning to work and school could still observe mitigation policies at work and school.
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All that video clip did was prove Trump changed his attitude as he learned more about the coronavirus which is the intelligent thing to do. How many European leaders also changed their opinions as they learned more about the disease? And it is true, you do not want a cure which is worse than the disease. Time will tell whether closing down our economy was worse than the disease. Maybe we could have done something other than shutting down the economy that would have been even more successful.
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Again, you just talk from Trump fueled hatred. Trump never said 'he preferred the economy to the health of his people'. The statement that Trump murdered people is a stupid, ignorant bullshit comment. Also, Trump never said with the first heat of April the pandemic would disappear. He said that he hoped the coronavirus would behave like most flu viruses and die off with the heat of spring and summer. You really should get your facts straight before you make such wild accusations. Also, the U.S. economy affects the health of the U.S. population. Poverty causes a lot of health problems. Right now many people don't have health insurance because the economy is shutdown.