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CDC recently said the infection fatality rate of covid is 0.26 percent. Why are we still treating covid the same as we did in March/April?
In March and April, they thought the death rate was between 2 and 3 percent. So I fully understood the lockdown. But if we knew the death rate was 0.26 percent from the beginning, I doubt we would have even went into a lockdown. So why are we not correcting course and instead focusing on isolating higH risk people. And putting emphasis on keeping a strong immune system(vitamins, eating well, getting enough sleep, etc)
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- Anonymous9 months ago
The death rate is NOT the real problem.
The REAL problem is how many people end up in the hospital for treatment. Hospitals can easily become overwhelmed by the shear number of people who need treatment that they can't do at home.
Sure - the ratio of people dying is improving - more people are recovering - but the hospitals could easily become understaffed and overworked and have a shortage of equipment trying to treat all the people who need respirators to breath while they recover.
High risk people still need to go to stores and get groceries. There are many "high risk" people who still need to GO to their jobs. I am 55 and work in a factory that makes hand sanitizer. I have barely had a day off work since this started. The company has been working 24/7 for the majority of the last few months. (just a couple breaks to give people the holidays off)
So - if every one you consider to be "strong" is running around taking risks - they are still putting the rest of us who may not be able to isolate completely at risk.
