Quote Originally Posted by confucius say View Post
Correct. And I don't like trump.

Hospitals being overrun is not a new phenomenon. That's why I posted the above. It's our response that has changed.

We destroyed our economy, which was at a near all time high, for a virus that kills less people than the flu for those under 50. Less people than car wrecks if you're under 40. It is mind boggling that the response was not to shelter those over 50 and let them work from home and everybody else go about life.
If sheltering everyone under 50 worked then we would not have outbreaks in nursing homes...

But we do, so that doesn't work.

and the entire world shut down. Every nation shut down it's economy. the difference is most of those goverments too it seriously, required masks, tested, contact traced, and isolated.

My home office is in Belgium. Belgium had the worst response to Covid -19 in Europe. They got a late start. They were shut down a month, work from home with 25% staff in the office for another 2 weeks, then to 50%. They wear masks, social distance, and shut down everything. 11% of the population was laid off.

Now they have less than 125 cases a day for the past 2 months. Wearing a mask is required in public. Social distancing is required. Most businesses are open.

We have been shown what to do. And that it works.

But we have too many that refuse to do it. And that's why we will not have in person schools or sports this fall.