What we should know "Virus" and be doing.

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I do not believe any numbers that China reports in any shape or from. Do you really believe they had fewer cases than the U.S.?

No way! Take all of China's numbers and multiply them times 100. I guarantee they are burying people in pits dug by bulldozers.

It is at the point where you reopen or ruin as a nation. The prevention is worse than the disease and you suffer decades of institutionalized poverty while in economic recovery.

They should have never closed down as they did in the first place. It should have been an isolation of the old and those with chronic conditions. Shutting down the schools probably did the most to stop spread. That and the stores that are open telling people to leave their kids at home when they shop. Children are nasty little creatures.

As is is there has still been 2/3 of the population working and going about as normal due to them being"essential workers", like the guy at the convenience store, grocery workers and home supply stores, but not the clothing store, communications store or office supply store next door to them. While the people that worked in those closed stores can still visit and shop at the "essential services".

That is not isolation, a shut down or a any form of real infection control.

We are all going to get it anyway or we have a natural immunity and will not get it, all we can have possibly done is prevented swamping the health services. That way as the worst cases do rotate in there is equipment as needed to save those that can be saved.

This is not going away today, tomorrow or next week. "Flattening the curve" is just another way of saying we get it latter and not now. The curve started at zero but it will never get down to zero again, there will be residual cases popping up for years until the pool of victims is exhausted, just like the Spanish Flu and every other flu strain out there. The moose is loose! They are nowhere near a "cure" or vaccine.

All I am doing in isolation is using up my survival supplies while the stores are still open and full, and when my supplies are all gone I will have to go get food and expose myself to the inevitable possibility of infection.

My "isolation" has been my normal. I missed lunch with the friends 4 weeks running, have not been to the grocery in 3 weeks. Other than that life is the same old-same old. I am about ready to mask up and go shopping. I can do it now or do it latter but eventually I will have to anyway. No matter how long I hold out the germs are still going to be there.