How many weeks do we buy the old and infirm?
 

This "Flattening of the curve." With all the cool math models out there which ones are projecting the number of weeks added to the lives of the old and infirm?

I mean, that is the crux of this. Without a vaccine all we are doing is buying the old and infirm some time. How much time? (on average)

Knowing that this question will really challenge some people's fantasies about living forever (in lock down) I will await the flood of one-star retorts.

For the more level headed out there, if you have seen any such math model I would really appreciate seeing it.

Righto! Let's face it, they all had a pretty good run. We should probably just gas everyone over 65 now and get it over with. Then we can all get off our couch and out of our home theaters and get back to fine dining like we so richly deserve!

Bravo Island!

Logan's Run their asses.

wait..i havent watch that show in decades. what was the age cutoff?

30, IIRC.

Cajun, I have a 79 y/o mother recently out of a weeks-long hospital stay and recovering with in-home care. She is at very high risk and is horrified by this shut down. She thinks it not fair that her grand, and great grand children are going to have a ruined economy so that she MIGHT get another few months of difficult life.

No one is suggesting that we should snuff old people. But BRAVO Cajundaddy! for making that up.

We're buying the old, and infirm enough time to die in the Autumn/Fall 2020 version of Covid 19....when things go back to "normal" !

don't think you can buy them time..
as the co-morbidities they have aren't going away..
so old or young..
you catch it..
and have health issues..
this or the flu could kill you..
could..

as for vaccine..
it will / may help the healthy..
those with a foot in hell or heaven..
becomes roll of the dice or bones..
depending on your deity...

Rika

Previous generations went to war and knew they could die so that the American Dream would survive.

This generation believes that the American Dream should be killed off 100% so that a factor of .007 might live a bit longer.

Oh sht, it was 21!

21!!!??

wow! hahahaha..nevermind that.

So true.

And sadly the operative word is might.

methinks that many are liking their sofa king smug shut-in. As long as the pizza man keeps coming and their interwebs bill gets paid. ..

Plus they get to feel like they are doing something grand, by sitting on their non-productive, non-essential asses. --What a life! Pajama-boy is so proud.

social security? Oh, what a puny thing that is in the scheme of current costs.

Depends on the state...:eek:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWTGSZzU...png&name=small

Our medical system is learning more about treatment options that will improve the death/ hospitalization rates, and time spent in the hospital. We are better st treating today than a month ago and a month from now we will be better then we are today. It is not a static situation.

Aurel - Telling the weak that they need to take extra precautions is not sacrificing them.

Sweden, for example, is focusing energies on giving those weak some focused protections, rather than telling EVERYONE to sit on their (hopefully washed) hands.

A friend of our just had her brother in law go into ICU and a ventilator. He is in his 40s.

If we live, that will cause people to die. -- THAT is the common false dilemma being propagated in this viral mental catastrophe.

Apparently, the young can get strokes from the virus:
[OK this is CNN, so we know they have an agenda to spread this info...]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/health/strokes-coronavirus-young-adults/index.html

i think i read 88% of those that went on a ventilator in NYC died. the vent is the last harrah. the "punt".

suffocating is my nightmare death. (this includes drowning, air tight vaults, etc)

i have an acquaintance that went on a vent here, he pulled thru..but it was super touch and go.

Yes, you should wipe your screen with Lysol. --Destroy that virus, CNN.