Shutting down the economy is stupid without knowing the FATALITIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE INFECTION RATE.
We need more ANTIBODY STUDIES ASAP!!!
A 1000 person German antibody study by the University of Bonn resulted in a death rate of those infected at 0.37% and a CV infection rate at 15%. The Diamond Princess had an infection rate of 17%.
CV appears to be MORE CONTAGIOUS and LESS LETHAL than we thought.
If this is correct, the US economy should be reopened NOW, all schools reopened, protect the elderly with preexisting conditions and stop this MEDIA DRIVEN PANIC & NONSENSE.
I agree completely. My province has a total of 116 infections. About a dozen who were hospitalized, and no fatalities. But we are on almost total lockdown.
The restrictions are arbitrary and illogical. The government liquor stores are open, where anyone can get inside and touch multiple products. Same with pharmacies and large hardware chains (including Home Depot and Canadian Tire), and grocers. Walwart and Costco are open in all departments, because they happen to also sell food, but have now been given an effective monopoly on the sale of clothing.
There is absolutely no need for clothing, furniture and car dealerships to be shuttered, along with many other retail businesses that do not require personal contact. Reasonable sanitary precautions would be sufficient. If some person I don’t know can cook food, give it to another person I don’t know for delivery, who takes it in a vehicle that is not monitored for cleanliness, and deliver it to my building, why can’t I get a haircut by a barber wearing a mask and gloves? Because the barber is not working for a multi-national fast food corporation. Our bailouts are helping big corporations who are still operational, and strangling the privately owned small business sector.