(May 04, 2020, 03:03 am)plhbg.sprby Wrote: I think it's just a sort of balancing between new infections and cases with results (death or recovery).
Lockdown is good at maintaining the balance with adjustment of opening and closing depending on the load of health facilities.
So, if your government is closing the place too much, it means that the load of your health facilities can't seem to allow additional opening for increase in the number of new infections (healthy people's freedom).
Unfortunately, 'death or recovery' is not how this virus was designed.
It is SARS 2.0. Modified version of the 20 year old booger.
Publically available research in 2015 clearly states that the modification was done.
BUT....
There is some new feature enhancements to the new version.
Most viruses in nature target a single type cell receptor (or closely related families). Covid has been shown to target not only the ACE2 receptor (which would make it a very bad chest cold/pnemonia) but also the CD-147 receptor which is expressed throught the body, and even nerve cells. As evidenced by the frequent attacks on the vagus nerve which leads to loss of smell and taste. Plus it can direcly target red blood cells, and release toxic amounts of iron into the blood stream. Its why people on ventilators do not respond to antivirals - because the virus in the lung is gone, and the damage from the CD-147 body cells is taking its course.
This means that like a Herpes type virus, it can tunnel into nerve cells, and reappear at any time.
Most will indeed not suffer these symptoms, becuase not everyone will be able to split the crown protein to enable CD-147 activation. But those suscepible are a vastly greater number than previously supposed, and initial infection may simply present as a minor cold.
Some of the 'antivirals' simply block the crown protein cleavage site.
And keep in mind that for decades no one has ever been able to create a corona virus vaccine. Successfully at least. The FIV vaccine seemed like a success, until it started killing cats exposed to it a second time.
Monoclonal antibodies are promising, but in theory can be damaging to the cells (and their environs) that express them. ALso in theory can attack the brain stem where the boogers would be hiding.
Think of the stories of people dropping dead in the streets - suddenly. But on a mass scale of those treated with the Monoclonals.
So: I'm with Moe.
While not quite an extinction event, any attempt at 'herd immunity' presents us with a reasonable probability of a greater economic and civilisational disaster from disabilities resulting from this plague.
Remember that SARS, MERS and another of the past were not cured. They were extinguished.
'Flattening the curve' is only a secondary reason for the shutting down of economies. The FED has infinite printing capabilities it has been using for the banksters. Its time to send more than $1200 our way, suspend all debt, and/or simply proclaim a 'Jubilee' until this mess is over with.
And impose price and wage controls like Nixon did after dumping Bretton Woods.
Oh: And this is not a particularly 'Chinese' virus. The Wuhan lab was heavily funded and even manned by American sources who were not allowed to experiment with 'enhanced function (weaponized)' boogers in this country until the chump lifted the ban in 2017. And the CIA was definitely tied to that funding.
Part of the blame may be at the feet of the chinese provincial system, where their governments can even have foreign policy differences from the Peking central party.
So.. People should not think because they are young and healthy that they are somehow immune from this. I have a twenty-something nephew who appears to have had a mild case, and has lingering bronchitis after more than a month . Others are reporting Chronic Fatique Syndrome.
The perfect weapon does not kill:
It disables.