You Are So Right
 

You are so right. Covid is a hoax. The world is flat. The holocaust did not happen. Aliens have abducted you. And Elvis is alive and living in the basement of the White House. Since Covid is a hoax, may I suggest all the deniers volunteer at hospitals with Covid patients. You won't have to wear masks..

Dr. Fauci seems to think that we could achieve "herd immunity" with 70% of the population vaccinated.

Also read this today on Reuters;

"The World Health Organization has referred to a 65-70% vaccine coverage in order to achieve herd immunity, Reuters reported."

Healthcare workers are masked up, gowned up and gloved up. Please explain the numbers in this article:

Over 90,000 health workers infected with COVID-19 worldwide: nurses group | Reuters

And they use N95 masks, not the crap that most people are wearing. Masks do not stop the virus.

The conservative estimate is there are over 59,000,000 health workers in the world and 90,000 would make it about 1,525 per million. According to Worldometer number of Covid cases is 7,748 per million. So maybe PPE helps?

I guess. Didn’t help those 90,000.

Actually your numbers are off: “The 90,000 estimate is based on information collected on 30 countries from national nursing associations, government figures and media reports. The ICN represents 130 national associations and more than 20 million registered nurses.”
That works out to roughly 4,090 per million... With the N95 masks...

numbers
 

Most of TV is in Sumter County. The numbers given are meaningless. Cases per 1000 population would tell a much different story.

Don’t know what 30 different countries use as PPEs, but in New York the studies indicate that:

“New York City and its surrounding metro area have emerged as an epicenter of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak worldwide. A recent population survey1 for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies among those in New York state shows a prevalence of 21.2% in New York City and 16.7% in Long Island. Across the US, up to 11% of reported COVID-19 cases were found to be in health care professionals....” JAMA intern med Aug 11, 2020

To me, Velvet, that seems to say that health care workers who work directly 12 to 16 hours a day with Covid patients have 1/2 the infection rate that we, walking around in our common everyday lives do.

Nope
 

The numbers are meaningless withought context, as in cases per 1000 population.

more tests
 

More tests yield "more cases." If, God forbid, there is mass testing of intelligence, the number of idiots will increase, too.

Sorry - but it's just statistics...

Seriously? Sleeping next to your infected wife? My eyes are bleeding just reading those words. You are part of the problem we have here in America. You very well may have been an asymptomatic carrier of the virus and who knows how many people you may have passed the virus to.

Just one question......did you quarantine yourself the the required amount of time when you knew you were in close contact with an infected individual?

Just wondering how these modern day folks would have fared during WWII with all the sacrifices the American people made for their country.

The measures needed to slow the spread of the virus have nothing to do with an individual's personal risk. The risk is not only to the individual but to everyone around the individual. Society is at risk when one person decides not to follow CDC guidelines. The economy is at risk when an individual refuses to abide by guidelines. Those folks must realize it is not all about them and their individual rights. It is about what is best for the community on a local level and the country on a broader scale.

Take a look at what is happening in large cities in our country. Is it sinking in yet? Hospital beds are being set up in remote locations to extend bed capacity. This is no joke. That is happening in our United States. There is a big picture to all of this......not you individual risk is at stake here.

Have you actually looked at the number of Covid deaths in Sweden?