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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Pretty certain that at least some people who aren’t part of the “ruling” class would benefit if some businesses opened up if it was deemed safe by reasonable governors of their respective states. [/quote]

They will benefit right up to the point that they are infected with coronavirus.
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And 99% plus will survive it and go on to see another day.[/quote]

That would be a mortality rate 10 times that of the regular flu and would result in potentially millions of deaths (depending on the spread of infection).

[b]But again, feel free to risk your and your family's lives. Just don't expect others to do it for you.[/b]
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Jeff, I really don’t see how you see coming into contact with a virus that has such a low fatality rate as “risking your life”. [/quote]
DP. And I really don't see how you think that ~1% of people dying of a disease that spreads like wildfire and can't be contained is NBD and won't have its own, worse, economic impact. In the US, that could be something like 1-2M ppl, if you assume that 40-70% of us will get it in the next year. And that's not even counting the fact that a much higher fraction (maybe 10-15%) have severe cases, that can lead to permanent lung damage. And, even worse, there's growing evidence that even mild-to-moderate cases can lead to permanent organ damage.

I posted elsewhere, but in February I was an athletic, healthy mother of two. I've been sick for 5 weeks, with what I'm told is probably COVID...but I can't get tested because I don't need to be hospitalized. Now, instead of working out and running hills 5-6x/week, I have to stop and catch my breath walking up the stairs in my house. My lungs burn with relatively mild exertion. I am technically a "mild case that will resolve without treatment", but no one can tell me that I won't have long term health effects. How about, let's understand this disease a little better and come up with solutions to enable reasonable precautions (like enough PPE and testing) before conducting a massive, uncontrolled, human study?[/quote]

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