It remains to be seen what the course of this will be. We still don’t know if warmer weather will cause the virus to decline, nor even if it does what happens when fall and winter arrive. My hospital has had more cases in the past 3 weeks than ever. One of them on my unit right now is 21 and has major brain damage from anoxia.
You guys would be a lot less nihilistic about this if you were up close and personal with it. Guaranteed.
Without a doubt, there are still many unknowns concerning the course of this current strain of virus. But the numbers have been consistently and steadily drifting towards it not reaching the level of severity it was advertised to be. Not even close. Obviously, to the dead and the dying it was/is. But that just puts it on equal ground with countless other causes of death.
So far, it's still worse than the flu, for adults. Though the numbers keep trending closer to it, as well.
But the flu has killed more children than the China virus.
As with most every virus, the older and less healthy are the most susceptible. That'll never change. Our overreaction to it was a disastrous change from the norm, IMHO.
As to being on the medical front line of things, I get it. They see things in a totally different way. All of my criticisms do not for a second take away from the admiration I have for them, in what I can only imagine is the most frightening thing in that profession....the unknown.
But the Fauci's, CDC's, and WHO's of the world, relying on models that are rarely correct, were wildly wrong with their early projections. And I fear the devastation from these mistakes, which have also not run their course yet, cannot be overstated. So, while the health community should always be involved in the discussion, they should never be the driving factor of policy. Because the big picture transcends such a singular view.
I also don't believe I'm being nihilistic. I'd call it realistic.
Being outside the confines of the medical field, the evidence jumps out at you.
Where are the massive outbreaks from the grocery stores, Walmart's, and Home Depot's?
Where are the outbreaks from road crews, construction sites, liquor/pot stores?
They don't exist. If they did, all that would have been shut down too.
It just doesn't add up. But rather than admit that they collectively screwed the pooch, the architects of it all keep doubling down on the fear factor.
Not to mention, the gorilla.