Doug64 wrote:You are correct, and most especially the age of those getting effective. Which means that we can expect at least temporary upticks in death rates in all states that reopen, whenever they reopen. And they can’t all stay closed forever, and the longer they wait the more damage they inflict on their economies.
Here is the deal, for as long as there are so many cases we cannot control the age/demographic of who gets infected. If we had a very low incidence rate, we could just try to cohort, isolate older and more at-risk individuals and try to play as such for a long time.
This haphazzard approach has been very damaging for business and individuals. If the goverment had approached this in an organized and disciplined manner, we could have controlled the outbreak. We know this because plenty other countries did it and simply because it is logic.
Instead we will be dealing with this shit for a long time. I know that every so often an article pops up to stroke the power of the vaccine and how it will fix the economy... it won't. Vaccines are a long time away and deploying them will be hard, and people are going to be skeptic about them (and/or political).
We are fucked