USA situation virus?

[the big wheel]

So now we have all had some time to see things unfold although to me just about as many questions as before since politics has been used to skew both sides version of how dangerous this is.

Major views are it’s dangerous but we can’t let it stop us financially,
It’s not dangerous, it’s dangerous so stay at home. It’s dangerous but use common sense and it won’t be bad.

The USA openned up earlier than us and now major spikes in infections Texas for example hospitals at near capacity and cases rising so what’s everyone’s prediction? Realize predictions are based on what is known today and actions taken by governments change daily but if this stays the course with the USA basically openned up how bad or not will this get?

[farmaholic]

Herd Immunity or Vaccine.....

Until either is achieved, it will linger and lurk for a while with the risk of high infection rate.

[jazz]

I predict it will magically disappear after the election.

[farmaholic]

I predict it will magically disappear after the election.

It won't but the hysteria might.

[sk_wheatking]

I predict it will magically disappear after the election.

The u.s. election will be decided on which party can get people to vote more than once due to the fact that they are pushing for voting without presenting any form of identification, or maybe this has been implemented already,and mail in ballots going to be an absolute joke in fraudulent voting as well. What is wrong with providing identification when casting a ballot just to make it that much harder to vote multiple times at multiple locations. Mail in ballots will be harvested from the elderly or outright purchased from people who don't care and will sell to whoever comes along. Not to mention how many people that are incapacitated or dead that will be voting.

[Blaithin]

Herd Immunity or Vaccine.....

Until either is achieved, it will linger and lurk for a while with the risk of high infection rate.

Didn’t think anyone seems to get immunity from having it. Seems to be quite a few who get it again.

Which would make a vaccine harder.

[chuckChuck]

I predict it will magically disappear after the election.

Like Trump we hope! Get your Bud Light ready there Jazz!

[burnt]

Didn’t think anyone seems to get immunity from having it. Seems to be quite a few who get it again.

Which would make a vaccine harder.

Then we have a real problem.

The world's new "smallpox" crisis. Beatable only by selective-immunity survival?

[Blaithin]

Then we have a real problem.

The world's new "smallpox" crisis. Beatable only by selective-immunity survival?

Not so bad if that fabled .026% mortality rate rings true. But would that apply to all infections or just the first? Would people be more or less likely to die on second (or third or fourth) rounds with the virus.

Either way, the average lifespan might be dropping like a rock. No need to have retirement savings that’ll last 20+ years at least!

[LEP]

Not so bad if that fabled .026% mortality rate rings true. But would that apply to all infections or just the first? Would people be more or less likely to die on second (or third or fourth) rounds with the virus.

Either way, the average lifespan might be dropping like a rock. No need to have retirement savings that’ll last 20+ years at least!

I have been saying this for years. That life expectancy will peak at some point in the future and start dropping. So hopefully mid-80s for me. Possibly only 80 for my kids as they are in way worse shape than I was at their age and so on.

[burnt]

Not so bad if that fabled .026% mortality rate rings true. But would that apply to all infections or just the first? Would people be more or less likely to die on second (or third or fourth) rounds with the virus.

Either way, the average lifespan might be dropping like a rock. No need to have retirement savings that’ll last 20+ years at least!

So could this be nature's solution to the ethical dilemmas created by unnaturally intervening to extend our years beyond what we are capable of achieving without extensive and expensive medical interventions?

Like a drug for every bug, a pill for every ill and a stitch for every itch...

[Blaithin]

You can’t successfully fight Nature. Eventually she’ll win. She has no ethics or morals to cause dilemmas. She just does what she does.

Farmers know this. We battle her every year and how often does it end in our favour.

It’s only a matter of time before something takes out large chunks of the population. Be it natural disaster or pandemic. We’ve become extremely reliant on drugs, engineering, our intelligence, Etc. like those will protect us from everything, always. Fat chance.

It’d be like fighting human nature. No matter what people think, we’re pretty much always just going to be selfish, conceited, asshats more concerned with ourselves than our neighbours.