That’s essentially what social distancing is a (realistic) form of, isn’t it?
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I’m sure you can point out where that’s EVER been the case in practice.
No, not really since the people are neither quarantined nor isolated and they can still spread the disease.
It will help some, but it’s not the same.
That assumes a complete break of all infection chains…a “freeze in place”.
Nothing even close to that has happened.
And tnt’s point was not “nothing”…it was spot on.
We don’t know what the curve would look like without us doing what we have done…all we can do is model what it would look like and then track our own current curve and see whether it’s statistically significantly different from the model.
So far it is…but that doesn’t mean we should see daily cases start dropping back towards zero after two weeks of social distancing.
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It’s going on all around you with colds, flu, and the CCCV. Everyone’s immune system is a bit different, those with a stronger/quicker immune respnse will have the mildest symptoms. Those with the slower/milder response will have the strongest symptoms.
That’s why those with an already compromised immune system are at highest risk.
Now might be a good time to start a business in public business sneeze guards and clear personal space barriers.
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I love manners being demanded from people who casually compare you to mass murderers and basically everything that’s wrong with the world. Nice touch.
“Hey you guys are baby killing traitors who hate everything good and decent but can you watch the tone a little”.
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What kills you with the coronavirus is not the virus itself, but your body’s overblown immune response to it - so a “stronger” immune response is not necessarily a good thing.
no you won’t. You won’t be able to conclusively say way the trend would be had be not but down a portion of the economy. Unless you look to the computer models.
The pneumonia is due to an IMPROPER response, a cytokinetic storm that literally clogs the lungs with inflammation and WBC’s.
Don’t confuse the two.
If you fabricate and machine clear plexiglas sheets or glass sheets.
Prepare for your best quarter ever.
Our stores here are installing plexiglass shields around (e.g.) grocery store checkouts, so apparently folks are already all over that.
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There remains a large market for restaurants and shuttered businesses.
Plus those barriers are often slapped together.
They will be looking for a better, more permanent, design.
Your lungs can get clogged up before or without a cytokine storm. This article, by a doctor who had a severe case of COVID-19, has some interesting insights on what it’s like (should be able to get around paywall in an incognito window):
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/05/what-it-feels-like-to-survive-covid-19s-dreaded-cytokine-storm/
He never said it was a magic cure.
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He’s essentially telling first line workers and responders to violate ethical principles and take it absent any evidence it works prophylactically.
This of course taking doses away from people that need it, or that could be used in further clinical trials.
Whether you want to call that “calling it a miracle cure” or not, the effect is the same.
I have to get out at least once a day, even if all I am doing is driving around for a bit.
We are also in the middle of a bathroom rebuild, so down to 1 toilet kinda sucks…lol
We are just waiting on the flooring, tile, and cabinets to get in and it will be finished.
I get out and drive around a bit too.
Yeah…I have to putz around. Over the weekend I was doing some stuff for my nephew.
Now planing on building outdoor living space for him. Which I believe will become more in demand when this is over and done with. I think social change is going to take place.
May drive out to one of my daughters house and take a walk. She lives a bit out in the boonies and you never see anybody walking the rd she lives on. 
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