Thread: Is there anyone out there who is still concerned about beating Covid19?

Originally Posted by sightpicture

The virus once it infects someone (and its incubation period is 4-7 days, overall between 2-14 days, sometimes as much as 21+ days) takes another 2-3 weeks to kill the - fortunately small - percentage of its victims where it turns lethal.

So what "we" did 4 weeks ago has pretty much nothing to do with many people currently being alive who would otherwise be dying or dead. The facts of biology and pathology simply do not support that narrative.

It may prove in the next few weeks that we have kept more people from dying than otherwise; but at the time of writing, that is a hope not a fact.

It is also a fact that as an island nation, had we shut our borders and quarantined inbound passengers properly many weeks ago as many of us said we should do, we would not be in our current - and in our future - economic mess.

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