If you have been reading my posts lately, you know I have been expressing amazement that our situation regarding COVID 19 has so quickly reached the point of mass hysteria. I won’t repeat all the statistics here. You can read the details in the previous articles which I linked at the end of this post. I will summarize. Although I am certain the number is inflated due to political and financial reasons I explained in earlier posts, I will use the number currently being published (200,000) as deaths from COVID 19 in this one calculation. This number means 1 death from COVID 19 for every 1,650 people given 330M population for the United States.
Even that number is not a good representation of what is
happening to the general population because as of the latest statistics I have,
75% of all COVID 19 deaths are among the elderly in nursing or assisted living
homes. 94% of those people had other health issues which would have caused
their demise in a relatively short time. This means that the mortality rate for
COVID 19 among otherwise healthy individuals is so small as to be almost
insignificant. Yet we have trashed the economy, wrecked the education system
and thrown the general population into a panic.
As bad as all that is, there is something else that no one
is talking about. We hear daily about the tens of thousands of new COVID 19 cases
being reported. What we are not hearing is that the vast majority of those
reported infections are without symptoms or with very slight flu-like
conditions. Here’s the story no one is telling: those tens of thousands who get
infected every day without serious complications will develop natural
antibodies that make them immune to the virus. This is known as herd immunity. Our
current policies dealing with COVID 19 are actually thwarting the advance of
herd immunity and prolonging the suffering.
As I have said before, I don’t mean to sound crass or unsympathetic.
I mourn with those who mourn the deaths of their elderly parents or
grandparents. I am sympathetic toward those who have lost loved ones in any generation.
It may sound like an oxymoron, but death is an inevitable part of life. Ever
since we were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, people have been dying from
disease. That’s part of the curse we bear because of sin; not personal sin, but
corporate sin resulting from our being human beings in the line of Adam.
I believe we would be better off if we dropped all the COVID
19 restrictions except those that apply to any flu season: be sensible, wash your
hands, cough into your sleeve, etc. If we open back up for business (and
school) as usual, herd immunity would eventually render COVID 19 as harmless as
SARS or Swine Flu or H1N1 bubonic plague. I cannot do that myself; neither can
you alone. However, if herd rationality were to catch on, herd immunity would
save the day. Will you spread this message?
Related articles: “Join
the Lemmings, Anyone?” “The
Angel Says… Fear Not” “The
Emperor Has No Clothes” “The
Winnowing Fork of God” “2020
COVID Easter” “Finding
God in COVID 19”
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