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Old 12-17-2020, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by coffeebean View Post
With Covid "raging nationwide", doesn't that help to progress our country to herd immunity, although the unsafe way to achieve it? Together with the vaccines which are the safe way to achieve herd immunity, I would not consider that it is "too little too late" for us, as a country, to have the ability to come out the victor in this war with the virus.
I was comparing the US to other 1st world countries. They started taking it seriously right away - we did not. They have already slowed it down to just a slight nuisance - with us it is a raging inferno. The US loses more people to CV in an hour than Canada does in a week (on a per capita basis). I hope it is NOT a "too little. too late " situation, but it is possible and unnecessary. The range of predictions for US deaths is as high as 700,000 for 2021 - even with the vaccines. I can NOT be optimistic when the US has ALREADY failed. You do not get a vaccine that can bring BACK lives. So, it is logical to be pessimistic!

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