COVID-19 Operational Considerations

On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 3:44:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 11:01:24 AM UTC-4, John Godfrey (QT) wrote:
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 11:15:01 PM UTC-4, wrote:
I understand in some places usual average death rate is down. Attributed to less motor vehicle accidents, sadly probably also due to less people getting medical care as medical mistakes are one of the top causes of death in Western countries. For evidence of hinkyness in overall corvid death numbers look at the reported pneumonia death average and the recent pneumonia death average. My opinion is this is just a flu with flu like death rates give or take and all sorts of people are jumping up and down to push various agendas. None of which I care about, I just want to fly.

The assertion that this is "just a flu, with flu like death rates" and thus does not merit action is an astoundingly naive and unsophisticated opinion. Even if the death rate from Covid is as low as seasonal flu (and it might be) the difference in impact is that there is no immunity...
If there is no immunity then a vaccine won't work and we might as well get on with the dying.

How do you get from "people have no natural immunity to Covid" to "a vaccine won't work?" The whole point of a vaccine is to create immumity where there is no natural immunity.

A difference between seasonal flu and Covid is that there is some developed immunity in the population plus a vaccine for seasonal flu. Neither exists (yet) for Covid.

In other words, there is nothing to slow the spread at the moment save for "social distancing." Slowing buys time for developing mitigation methodologies, treatments, and vaccines; while not having folks dying in the street.

Geez