[conspire] When to get a covid test, brains, and a weird case, and a cardiology vs. immunology joke

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On 8/7/20 12:42 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo (mail at webthatworks.it):

>> Waiting people die and get ill, just slower? or faster?
>>
>> Slower is better than nothing since it won't put too much stress on
>> health care infrastructure and will probably lower death rates
>> etc...
> 
> Quite so.  Of course, the saner people who speak of the concept aren't
> literally saying it'd be a good thing to infect 150-200 million
> Americans, let alone doing so all at once.  The saner ones merely say
> that it's the only way short of a vaccine for the virus to diminish and
> recede.  Which is sort-of tautologically true, except that the
> observation obscures important differences such as what was done in New
> Zealand, mentioned elsethread.

So the only delta you can achieve with "heard immunity" is obtained by 
not over stressing the health care system and it is due to the fact you 
can cure better people not by the fact that by magic once more people 
get infected and some of them are lucky enough to pass it nearly 
unaffected the virus will start to be less deadly to the remaining ones.

Again if you project the death rate of region like Bergamo worldwide 
you're talking about millions of causalities.
And in Bergamo they were not *completely* clueless and did have a quite 
good healthcare system.

So "let it be" doesn't work and heard immunity without a vaccine is 
bullshit.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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