Viruses do what viruses do,
Spreads from 2 to 25 to 800 to 80,000 and beyond.
Shutdown does what? Slows the transmission? The virus is still waiting for you when you emerge from the basement in a month. It is not going away. In fact, it will stay endemic and likely become a seasonal thing....like the...... wait for it.....flu!
So unless ALL the hospitals are full with COVID cases only, what is the purpose of another shutdown? You gonna shutdown until 2022? 2023?
It will take that long to develop and distribute and administer 300 million doses of the vaccine in this country alone. Meanwhile, the virus will keep doing its thing.
I thought the mask was the answer? Plenty of people are faithful with this mask thing, yet numbers keep going up. Why is that, mask people?Certainly in this state many more people wear the mask in public than don't. Many more. Thought this was the answer? Thought Social Distancing was the answer?
There are only 2 answers: 1.) an effective vaccine or 2.) Herd Immunity
Since #1 isn't available at this point, Mother Nature is making #2 happen. Mother Nature is defeating your social distance, your masks, and your shutdowns. As is typical for these respiratory Pandemics, the numbers grow until they seem to shoot into the stratosphere, and then plummet. We are in that logarithmic growth phase right now that is typical. I'll guess we will see cases skyrocket right through the first of the year, maybe until Spring before the curve breaks and plummets. That is, unless everyone hides in the basement. Then it will slow while they are in the basement, then Mother Nature takes over and the virus grabs people and once again the numbers jump.
Anybody think this start and stop stuff is the answer?
It's a virus. It does what viruses do. Once out of Wuhan, you weren't going to stop it. You have 2 solutions, and #1 ain't here yet and no guarantee it will be here soon enough.
