Originally Posted by thisistank

I'll give my .02 on this. Those that are elderly, have pre-existing health issues and are high risk should stay quarantined. Those that are healthy and young should go to life as normal with the exception of having no contact with the elderly and those in high risk category. The fear with this "everything locked down" philosophy is that when it is eventually "over" and everyone emerges from under their rocks, there is a LARGE likely-hood that another flood of infection will begin. There's a theory called "herd immunity" and I buy into it. For those that are healthy, COVID is a nasty flu. Gonna put you on your butt for a week and you'll recover. With herd immunity, you pass the weaker strength strain on to the next healthy person who in turn passes it on and so on and so on weakening the virus as it spreads until it eventually dies out. This wont happen if everyone just hides from it....Oh, and we're absolutely destroying our economy.

So, yeah, go back to business as usual while being smart. Continue to wash your hands, not touch your face, practice a higher rate of sanitizing, stay away form elderly and ill. I think the cease of life as we know it is way over-kill and is killing our country.

Originally Posted by Drake22.250

Your opinion my change if someone you knows dies from it. One friend dead and one any day. Five others recovered from it. Hits home a little bit different for me now.

Originally Posted by tlark

I too think this is a game changer and its being way under-reported. I work with #'s all day long as part of my job and have paid close attention to the rates of infection and NY and other national trends with this virus. The media from what I have seen have not given anyone hope that needs it. Its a herd mentality alright and it appears they want the sheep to jump over the cliff.

Originally Posted by ICDEDPPL

I don`t subscribe to the media hysteria and I`m also not a sheep that believes everything the news tells me.
Not even a little concerned about this corona nothing burger.
If we lived our lives concerned about a 99.3% fatality rate flu then we`d never leave our houses.
Been locked up in the house for 9 months, any longer and I`ll eat a bullet.

Originally Posted by thisistank

I'll give my .02 on this. Those that are elderly, have pre-existing health issues and are high risk should stay quarantined. Those that are healthy and young should go to life as normal with the exception of having no contact with the elderly and those in high risk category. The fear with this "everything locked down" philosophy is that when it is eventually "over" and everyone emerges from under their rocks, there is a LARGE likely-hood that another flood of infection will begin. There's a theory called "herd immunity" and I buy into it. For those that are healthy, COVID is a nasty flu. Gonna put you on your butt for a week and you'll recover. With herd immunity, you pass the weaker strength strain on to the next healthy person who in turn passes it on and so on and so on weakening the virus as it spreads until it eventually dies out. This wont happen if everyone just hides from it....Oh, and we're absolutely destroying our economy.

So, yeah, go back to business as usual while being smart. Continue to wash your hands, not touch your face, practice a higher rate of sanitizing, stay away form elderly and ill. I think the cease of life as we know it is way over-kill and is killing our country.