No way in Hades' have I read all 239 pages of this thread (stopped following it after 50 pages or so b/c of all of the arguing/defending of both sides)...

but now that more data is filtering in, Mississippi's death rate of less than 5 people per 10,000 who contact the virus really makes a loud statement about stopping the fear-mongering and letting the virus run it's course... just sayin'. And my thoughts definitely won't be popular with my wife, who's ready to shut down the economy again.