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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (161350)	4/24/2020 5:25:46 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 360653

I think we really don't know squat about this virus, and we'll be living with it for a long time. It's differing effects on different people are confusing. Some young people get sick, some even get sick and die. Mostly older and immune-compromised get sick, and a respectable number die, but many of them don't get real sick. I can get tested here, as anyone over 65 can, and I think I will. I haven't been sick at all, so, the best result would be that I test positive, and didn't know I had it. The worst would be that I test positive, and just haven't gotten sick yet. People here seem to be taking it seriously. Everyone treats everyone else like they're infected ( if they don't know them ). I saw where a doctor assumes she's infected, because she could be. Being a healer, she says everyone should act like they are infected, thinking they'd avoid social contact to prevent infecting other people. It seems like my actual chance of contracting the virus here is about 1/250, currently. Then, if I get it, my odds are far worse.

To: combjelly who wrote (161350)	4/29/2020 6:12:24 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 360653

A few day ago I posted an interview with a MD director of infectious research and policy at some university and he calculates that 50% to 70% of the population needs to be infected to get herd immunity and that works out to 800,000 to 1.6 million deaths. But the good news is, that the Nazi Proud Boys and their ilk, seem willing to go out and march in groups and I say we should encourage them-lol. Let the Trump supporters get us herd immunity if they are into it-lol.