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Originally Posted by Maruzo
Herd immunity should never be a goal, considering how deadly this virus is to certain age group of the population.
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I agree. But barring any other alternative, it may be the only way. I don't like it any more than you do. Hopefully I'm wrong and a vaccine is available much sooner than they expect.
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Originally Posted by Maruzo
I cannot fathom continually having this virus rampaging out there unchecked, uncontrolled, while our dear family members are exposed to it without any effective means of killing it.
You may not wish to admit it, but there are many aspects of this pandemic that is very much like a war.
Like war, we have to lay out a defensive line to contain the enemy's attack.
It's a defensive war at the moment, since we have no effective way of killing it. Our current and only viable goal is containment.
We cannot successfully contain it if there's constant breach of our defense line by our own people.
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But the war analogy falls apart once you take the economy down. In war time we are still producing. Unemployment, I believe, typically goes down. Not up. And maybe GDP goes up in war time? I'd have to look it up. I don't "wish" to call it anything except a horrible rock and hard place that the world is in. I just think calling it a war gives the illusion we currently have a way of dealing a "blow" against the enemy, or even defending against it. But again, whatever name you give it, the situation is the same. I'll call it a war if it furthers the conversation.
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Originally Posted by Maruzo
Lowering the "R" number down to 1 and hopefully below one is our primary way of finghting it and then relaxing the social distancing mandate and then allowing the economy back in force slowly and carefully.
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I agree on lowering the R value. We agree on the principles. We just disagree on how feasible it is for the government to keep printing money and for people to go into their homes. I understand your point of hammer and dance, but, as we're seeing, once you open things up, people go about their everyday lives. This is an unprecedented event in our history. Not the pandemic, but how we're handling it. We'll see how it progresses. We are all along for the ride. Do what you can to keep you and yours safe. We can't control other people, only ourselves.