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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 5183886, member: 73473&quot;]Case fatalities= total dead from a disease divided by total persons diagnosed for the disease over a given time. The virus just doesn&#039;t target &quot;youngsters&quot;, it targets every single person alive.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>With out social distancing and mask guidelines being followed the average infected person will infect 5.7 others. Now you can&#039;t have a .7th of a person, but that is an aggregate of the data.</p><p>See</p><p><a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article" rel="nofollow">https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, how on earth do you plan to have herd immunity without a safe and effective vaccine? You do realize that above 90% of a population has to either be vaccinated( still will be many months away for most of the population) or have previous exposure to the virus. The problem being that it is a new virus that no one has had contact with and by definition cannot have developed herd immunity. Many needless deaths and pain would occur if your idea was put into action.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You are not taking into account of excess deaths in 2020 vs deaths from previously reported years at regular intervals.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, a big thing to overlook.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh really?</p><p>While it is true that virus that are airborne and transmissible from person to person are notoriously difficult to contain, the international community successfully did that in 2002 and 2003 with the original SARS Coronavirus outbreak.</p><p>See</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002–2004_SARS_outbreak</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also here are some other recent outbreaks of airborne viruses that were contained due to proper alert mechanisms and government responses.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_outbreak" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_outbreak" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_outbreak</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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