Jeb, sorry if my post wasn’t easy to follow. First, as Handy pointed out and, you actually admitted from your own research, our country has a significant number of people who have underlying conditions due to lack of general overall health. Thus, a greater percentage of our population is obviously more susceptible to the virus. Meaning, we’re likely to have more deaths if we don’t lock down. When this all started, the majority of models were predicting over a million dead if we didn’t lock things down. Obviously, considers where deaths are currently at, the lockdown did its job. However, with the way we’re opening and when — not one state has met the CDC guidelines for opening — this means we’ll definitely have more unnecessary and preventable deaths than we otherwise would have. And, it seems as though your main mantra is why are we locking down all these healthy people, especially considering what it does to the economy. That’s where my point that we could’ve done this like Canada and other Western European countries did and just paid all adults 2-3K per month until we have a vaccine. That way, we really kill off the virus and, not only do we cut the unnecessary and preventable deaths down from 250,000 down to around 125-150,000 instead AND.... we keep the economy moving along just fine.
