Are you predicting 500-900k deaths in the USA due to COVID-19?
Healthy middle aged person who wears a mask in public but goes about his life with his family as if nothing happened. Haven’t gotten COVID, but if I do, I’ll take sick days and move on. What else would you expect people to do, hide inside forever? Curve was flattened, there’s no appetite to do so further if necessary, life goes on (or it doesn’t).
Can’t fault people for responding to incentives and policy accordingly.
Are the policies and incentives so powerful that it's overriding your knowledge that you and your neighbors would be better off if you continued to self-quarantine as much as possible?
Not the least problem is that it implicitly assumes that others will take steps to reduce the worst effects, so that you don't need to bother. The basic anti-social anti-vax position.
In any case it's so easily dissected that I'm going to invoke Brandolini's Law [1] and decline to waste the time to refute BS.
Many are asymptotic, many have mild symptom, yes there is deaths but low in number. Is it not the same case as in Italy, Spain, NYC ?
>Not the least problem is that it implicitly assumes that others will take steps to reduce the worst effects, so that you don't need to bother
I don't assumes others will take steps to reduce the worst effects. Even in in the worst case situation where everyone eventually will get infected (including me), it didn't bother me.
Like I said, the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands to millions doesn't bother you. That is repugnant, and sociopathic.
This is a once-a-century pandemic of a virus that is not at all the influenza or any other common virus. If left to itself it would kill, most likely, millions in the US alone. That's not millions who were going to die anyway, it is millions of avoidable deaths with 10's of millions of years of life extinguished.
The sociopathic narcissism of individuals who feel like that's fine as long as they personally don't feel at risk, which this exchange typifies, is deplorable.
A vaccine. This may well happen in under a year. How much of a difference this makes will depend on the efficacy of a vaccine and how many people get it.
Improved treatments. Some experts seem optimistic about monoclonal antibodies. Cost, production, and ability to administer early enough in the course of the disease are still unknown.
Living in a country that is actually suppressing the disease. Countries that have competently managed COVID-19 are not on a course that will eventually infect a large fraction of the population. It seems likely that if all countries were this competent, then COVID-19 could be eradicated without a vaccine.