Where has anyone being led to use the common cold as a reference? Perhaps there’s another possibility.. That some of us aren’t dependent upon a corrupt, disingenuous media machine to spoon feed us any party line “truth”, actually understand science, economics, and constitutional civics, and search for understanding & facts. Here’s a few.. There’s Millions of asymptomatic covid “recoveries”, so for them it’s not even as bad as the cold. As a SARs RNA flu, it bears much scientific similarity to the standard flu in both symptoms and vectors. It’s nowhere near as dangerous as initially discredited grossly inaccurate models told us it would be, and future analysis will probably find to be somewhat more dangerous for older and unhealthy demographics, and certainly much safer for everyone else. But even this is obscured by most states following WHO guidelines for reporting all deaths with covid antibodies as covid death, whether or not covid actually caused their death. Politics and optics over fact again.

It not just belief that multiple constitutional rights are being trampled on daily, for anyone paying attention, it’s a fact. All Americans should be fearful of this, regardless of political persuasion. It’s not just about a political “win”, constitution’s apolitical, next time it may benefit you when politicians you don’t like play fast and loose with them.

All pandemics are overcome by herd immunity and antibodies, not ignorantly counting cases, cowering at home, and crushing our livelihoods like our governor forces us to do. Covid’s nearly perfect for herd immunity, nearly no effect on the young, who’re often prime vectors such as cashiers, clerks, waiters, people who interact with many. Once immune, they limit virus access to many including the vulnerable. Our economic catastrophe will end up killing many more than covid. Finally, by comparing (deaths per/x) lockdown countries vs open ones it’s easy to see that lockdowns are utter empirical failures. No correlation. Common sense countries like Sweden Brazil, Belarus et al and US states like S.Dakota. are no more deadly than their locked down neighbors, just with a functioning economy and without a fearful populace. Social distancing? It’s voluntarily prudent for the fearful or vulnerable, but not as a state edict for those who are healthy and refuse to live the “new normal” fear culture.

Covid’s nearly a perfect example of “crying wolf”, with resultant loss of credibility for our tyrants down the road. Unified? I’m sure if we had a true danger like the historical black death, smallpox, or Spanish flu I be right there with you.

Paul we might be nearer to herd immunity than many people think.

If the randomized antibody tests are correct, they show a true infection rate of 30-85 times higher than the confirmed Covid positive numbers. The current confirmed positives are 1.5 million so it could be the antibody numbers are 45-127 million. As a working estimate lets use a middle figure of say 80 million.

Of the general population numbers we need to pretty much factor in all 18 and unders as already in the herd. They so far are getting the virus at an extremely low rate and have been found to have a much lower transmission rate, even to adults, than any other age group. That is 72 million in the US.

This puts us at a working number of 152 of the 220 million in the herd currently.

Also you can’t straight use current death rate to extrapolate future death rate for at least two reasons. We don’t know the true infection rate and infection population as it expands will include a higher percentage of people from healthy groups that are less likely to die.

Stay at home orders had little positive effect on the long term care facilities, we could have kept the economy fully open while sheltering these places. In fact much of the death numbers are being driven by the fact that we did a poor job in this population group pre AND post shutdown. Not even just with some states forcing Covid positives into the facilities but also that since most are privately run state governments did little to help them acquire PPE. In NY Cuomo straight out said it was not his job to provide help to private institutions.

Washington state is one of the hotspots in the country, we have a 5,000 bed capacity stretched over 94 facilities, at our high in April we used 822 beds and zero at the temp facilities that were added. NY is the hottest of hotspots, when they were being flooded with cases they had hospitals in upper NY with virtually zero patients and barely used the temp hospitals.