RoshawnMarkwees
Assimilationist
- Dec 23, 2009
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So we can isolate everyone because that’s easier than isolating a percentage??The problem with isolating only those with those higher risk medical conditions is that well more than half of Americans have those high risk conditions....You heard that right. 94% of the people listed as Wuhan Flu Deaths had other significant health issues that were also listed as cause of death.
So instead of saying if you have these kinds of health issues (list them even) you need to isolate yourself because the rest of the world is moving on, we continue Kabuki Theater and America shutdown.
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
National Center for Health Statisticswww.cdc.gov
Not even counting all the comorbidities listed in the chart in your link, but just a quick look at two conditions, like diabetes and heart conditions....
34 million- Diabetes
88 million- prediabetic
And
108 million- hypertension
18 million- coronary artery disease
And there are a boatload of more high risk conditions that would add to those lije asthma and copd....
Basically, your idea does not compute or help get us back up and running because near half of the adult population and some, would have to stay at home and not participate in the workforce, or the economy.
The infected need to be found through testing, and contact tracing, and isolated until they shed the virus, and the rest of the hundreds of million, not infected , go back to their regular lives of work and shopping, and restaurant and bar hopping.
Isolating the infected, is so much better because it involves much fewer people than locking up all the people with comorbidities....
This takes heavy testing.... the money we would actually save, by spending on enormous amounts of testing is astronomical! All of these $3 trillion a shot bail outs and stimulous payments would not be needed, if we only isolated those infected for the 14 days they are infectious.
And what we really need, is an instant result test, thats cheap...spit on a strip before you enter an arena or concert or bar for the evening, if negative, the venue lets you in...
Or better yet, we can test ourselves at home, before going anywhere....