Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(09-07-2021, 01:38 PM)bengaloo Wrote: I dont know if it can "end it" or not, but it can definitely end the really scary part of it, if we can save the lives of the most vulnerable. If we can do that, is there really a pandemic left, even if corona is here for many years? My point is if we can take the 99.3 or so survival rate for elderly/vulnerable and make it 99.9%, as a society, do we still need to lockdown, mask, or even more importantly, be scared for our loved ones? 

Again, vaccines do the same thing but better when it comes to making cases less severe and they stop the spread from occurring. So if you want to make cases less severe, you promote vaccines because you get the added bonus of stopping the spread. Stopping the spread ends the pandemic.  

If you just try to make cases less severe and not control spread, you are going to go backwards. More spread means more people in the hospital. More people in the hospital means more deaths per capita because we deplete the limited resources that we have to treat patients. If we stopped using masks and social distancing, we'd also have more spread, which means more cases and less resources to treat patients, causing more deaths. This also doesn't take into account the long term effects of covid. 

So just treating covid means that death rate goes up.