How About We Open The Country Back Up When We Get A TREATMENT For Covid-19

[DanieRains]

So when we push the envelope, and risk our health to make a living, we won't die if an infected person gets within 6' from us.

I don't want to get close to anyone until we get some pill that kills this stuff off. I really don't want to risk getting sick, and spend a week on a respirator before I croak.

All this talk about opening up things so we all risk our lives for god knows what makes me kinda scared.

Maybe it's just me.

Even though my business is being destroyed I have a little dough to get by and just want a pill for me if / when I get infected.

Thoughts?

[rzemanfl]

1. God knows it is for corporate profits and the one percent.

[Under The Radar]

2. Sorry but that makes entirely too much sense

[Nay]

3. I feel the same way! I'm retired, so I don't have to worry about going to work, but

I feel like I have a target on my back when I go to the grocery. I'll go out when they have a really good treatment or a vaccine. Not until then. It's ridiculous.

[customerserviceguy]

4. How much of a rainy day fund do you have?

Me, I'm pretty well off with Social Security, my pension will start in November, and I still have a bit rolling around in my rollover IRA from my 401K that I built up in my working years.

But most folks aren't in that great shape. They need the economy to come back, and if we do that in smart ways (nothing that Trump's ass-kissers will suggest) then we don't put people's lives on hold.

If social distancing is the new normal until a vaccine is developed and administered, then so be it.

[OnDoutside]

5. No, though waiting until there is a massive ramping up in testing

for CV, for Asymptotic carriers and historical carriers is a possible trade off, along with infection cluster teams wherever a subsequent outbreak occurs. That's being prudent. You won't have a treatment for another 15-18 months, so as a society we have to manage risk.

[jmg257]

6. I won't survive 18mos without working. Not

W/o substantial increase in aid.

[Mister Ed]

7. Aye. It's neither the calendar nor politics that should decide. It'll happen in these three phases:

Phase 1: (The phase we're in now)
We buy time. Everybody stays away from everybody else, as much as possible.

Phase 2:
Wide availability of reliable tests for antibodies. If it's proven, as expected, that those who've weathered the illness will not get it again, then we'll know who can safely commingle with co-workers again. And we'll know which doctors and nurses can safely tend to COVID-19 patients.

Phase 3:
Wide availability of a proven vaccine. That won't happen soon, but when it does, it's ally, ally in-come free.