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Originally Posted by GoodLife
I didn't actually say the virus would disappear. I predicted that the surge of new cases in Florida would start going down before end of July (it did) and then said that by October 1 cases and deaths would be at very low levels.
As far as masks go, I think they are better than nothing but would not trust them to protect spread or infection of very fine aerosols indoors. Safest form of protection is social distancing and stay out of buildings. If you look at places like New York where they locked down March 14 and then started recommending masks a few weeks later, the result was one of the highest death rates per million in the world.
Or look at the Philippines which has been locked down tight for almost 5 months and is the most mask compliant country in the world, but they are currently experiencing a surge of new cases which is probably worse than it looks because they don't test much. Virus appears to do it's thing no matter what we do. Fortunately, it looks like large percentages of populations have pre existing T cell immunity.
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When one person down-plays the risks of CV (which are not yet completely understood or quantified), then some others that listen MAY? be influenced into increasing their own risks. Enough people taking MORE risks means MORE hospitalizations, suffering, and DEATHS. The taxpayer pays for hospitals and also picks up the tab for some risk-takers hospital stays. Who is more responsible? The risk-taker or take-a-risk advocate?
PS -- Fl cases decreased recently directly BECAUSE high level "down-players" made a concerted effort to limit and discourage testing in Fl and elsewhere. Less tests, less cases, but still CV rolls on. Too bad, so sad, it is what it is as Florida's happy life style and 'good life' rolls away. It is what it is. Strange world!