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How about this math: at the end of April, Texas had 28k confirmed cases. It now has 38k confirmed cases. A 40% increase in 9 days.
There is a reason why new cases are declining in NY but accelerating in Texas.
As expected. As long as the health system can handle the load with regards to those requiring hospitalization, we are good to go.
The goal is not to run away and hide from this virus. The goal is to achieve herd immunity without this situation completely overwhelming the hospitals. If that happens, then Governor Abbott's plan will have been a huge success.
As expected. As long as the health system can handle the load with regards to those requiring hospitalization, we are good to go.
The goal is not to run away and hide from this virus. The goal is to achieve herd immunity without this situation completely overwhelming the hospitals. If that happens, then Governor Abbott's plan will have been a huge success.
So far, so good.
I don't think that nurses and doctors want the business.
Herd immunity is not a solution with so many unknowns, most experts advise against anything other than a measured approach. This disease can spread rapidly under the right conditions.
I don't think that nurses and doctors want the business.
Herd immunity is not a solution with so many unknowns, most experts advise against anything other than a measured approach. This disease can spread rapidly under the right conditions.
There are no actual "experts" with regards to this virus.
And herd immunity us the only effective answer to this virus.
This virus is not tricky at all. It is doing what viruses always do, and our immune systems are responding to it in the way that they always do. This routine has been going on for as long as we have been on this planet. There is nothing new or novel happening here at all.
As far as your morbid eagerness to see harm come to President Trump, why am I not surprised? So much for the compassion and humanity of the "democratic" left. What a farce.
Trump is a scummy person, who cares about nobody but himself.
I have great compassion for the people, especially children, who have this virus. I have heard it can be awful with fever and horrible dreams. I don't have compassion for Trump, as he is a terrible person.
No, it's not for the reasons already explained to you.
Unless a vaccine is developed.
It is unlikely that a vaccine ever will actually be developed.
However, all a vaccine does is to trigger the immunity system of the recipient to product the required antibodies. Not only does a vaccine not protect anyone directly from the virus, it actually exposes the recipient to the virus itself
In other words, the goal of a vaccine IS to help establish herd immunity through controlled exposure to the virus.
Since you did not apparently know this, you are obviously not sufficiently knowledgeable about how a vaccine works for you to be acting as if you know anything about this, when you pretty clearly do not.
Either way, with or without a vaccine, herd immunity is the only answer at this point, since eradication by containment is clearly no longer an option.
It is unlikely that a vaccine ever will actually be developed.
However, all a vaccine does is to trigger the immunity system of the recipient to product the required antibodies. Not only does a vaccine not protect anyone directly from the virus, it actually exposes the recipient to the virus itself
In other words, the goal of a vaccine IS to help establish herd immunity through controlled exposure to the virus.
Since you did not apparently know this, you are obviously not sufficiently knowledgeable about how a vaccine works for you to be acting as if you know anything about this, when you pretty clearly do not.
Either way, with or without a vaccine, herd immunity is the only answer at this point, since eradication by containment is clearly no longer an option.
Lol. Did you miss on purpose the fact the vaccine exposes you to a dead or highly weakened virus (or parts of), or you just didn't know that? That's why it is safe, and does not come with the mortality rate of reaching herd immunity the "natural way".
Lol. Did you miss on purpose the fact the vaccine exposes you to a dead or highly weakened virus (or parts of), or you just didn't know that? That's why it is safe, and does not come with the mortality rate of reaching herd immunity the "natural way".
You can try to squirm out of it however you like. But the point that I made earlier continues to stand, herd immunity is the only effective response we have available to us now that containment is no longer an option.
And you can speculate about a vaccine as much as you like, but scientists have been trying to create vaccines for coronaviruses going back 50 years now, and have never been able to produce one yet.
They are not likely to be able to produce one now, either. But if they do say they have miraculously produced one, under clearly rushed and panicked conditions, people would be foolish to take it.
Herd immunity, bro. That is the only solution in this case. But it increasingly appears that your people are more interested in keeping everyone locked down for as long as possible than they are in any actual end to this terrible situation.
Herd immunity hasn't been shown, yet, to be an option. It's possible it is completely off the table. We will not know until more data is available.
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