THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT RISING CASE NUMBERS
Don't Fear the Reaper
THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT RISING CASE NUMBERS
When we had no good way to treat Covid-19, rising case numbers meant rising numbers of deaths. That’s no longer true. We have a variety of great treatments for those affected severely and for most, it is an annoying, longer-lasting cold, as it was for me. After all, the coronavirus is a cold virus. Here are some of the possible treatments.
1. Ivermectin
2. Remdesivir
3. Dexamethasone
4. Hydroxychloroquine
5. Fluvoxamine
6. And many more
Interestingly, despite the fear-mongering, the chloroquines are taken all the time by many in African nations to stave off malaria. Fluvoxamine is one of the newest and while cheap and quick, seems to knock off the “new” aspect of the virus, leaving you with a cold. Unless you have a few co-morbidities, you’re likely to survive this illness, especially if you’re young. That’s very similar to the flu, which just a few years ago, killed off quite a few seniors. People who are already ill are quite used to sheltering when bad bugs are rife.
Now we have vaccines, seemingly enough for everyone in the U.S., at least all those who wish to take them. We have treatments. Since the goal is to reach herd immunity including those vaccinated, it’s better if the younger, healthier people who eschew vaccines get the illness since that will push us up to the herd immunity number, estimated to be 70-85% of the population. In fact, to shelter people forever means that the risk will never really go away until the virus mutates out of infectivity in humans…and we have no idea when that will happen.
When I was a child, we had German measles parties, where an infected child shared a lollypop with other, uninfected kids, hoping we would all get the disease. Why? German measles is much worse when you get older. I’m not suggesting we consider giving COVID to people, but let’s worry less about the healthy young and encourage people who are healthy to get out and resume their normal lives.
If herd immunity isn’t convincing enough, how about the impact on the physical and emotional health of people during this past year, which has led to delayed medical treatments, increased mental and physical problems and even suicide?
We know not everyone will take the vaccine (and the numbers are likely to be higher in California than a lot of places.) But let’s get on top of this engineered virus and get people back to work, so they can survive and thrive. Destroying people’s livelihoods and their health isn’t the right answer; we’ve had to watch it happen in 2020. Time to move forward.
For more on re-opening, see this site: https://gbdeclaration.org/