Originally Posted by
AntiPeter
80% of people won’t even know they have been infected. And the death rate in New York has been lower than forecast, much less than an exponential climb. New York City and New York State have kept good statistics, they are available online.
As the NYC statistics show, this is a virus that almost exclusively kills sick people:
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/down...ary-deaths.pdf
Those with underlying conditions can sit at home in isolation and protect themselves. The rest of us should be working.
The potential for economic depression and all the problems that come with it is simply not worth the risk. Repressing everyone equally is an absurdity with a virus that is so specific in who it impacts.
Im sorry but you’re simply mistaken. Nobody is immune. The flu kills about 50,000 a year, this would kill 2,000,000 according to estimates if we don’t do anything as it’s been said by the cdc. The ones that have survived have done so because the hospitals so far have been able to support them. If it went as business as usual like you say, there would be mass casualties as the system would be overrun. The only reason why there’s not more dead is because the majority are taking the advice of staying home. Ironically the only way to stop this is if the gov to actually enforce a lockdown. Most businesses should be able to survive a few weeks of lockdown, but the way it’s going on now where there’s still people thinking this isn’t serous would ensure that this will go on for a long time.