No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better

Re:No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we a... by jjeaff on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:46PM (#24640738)

As long as any concert, large public gathering, or whatever else you want to go to inevitably results in the deaths of dozens of individuals, those events won't be going on as normal, no matter how deep you stick your head in the sand.

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Re:No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we a... by anoncake on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:33PM (#24645379)

Are we talking about the same virus, the one with a death rate far below 1%? The one that's almost completely harmless to everyone who wasn't severly ill and going to die soon to begin with? The one that many people are immune to already thanks to cross-immunity?

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Re:No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we a... by jjeaff on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:05PM (#24675326)

In a community near me, a church had a revival. Estimated 100 infected from 175 in attendance. 3 members of the congregation have died so far.

Now, if you had large events with mostly young people, you probably wouldn't have as many direct deaths. But those young people probably have older family at home.

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Re:No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we a... by jjeaff on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:52PM (#24667388)

>The one that's almost completely harmless to everyone who wasn't severly ill and going to die soon

There are no facts I'm aware of the back this up. Existence of a comorbidity is not a severe illness.

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Re:No getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we a... by xg15 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:54PM (#24645571)

Not sure what you're talking about, but we're talking about the virus that killed a million people in nine months as of October and left millions more with lifelong medical conditions.

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