[Jeff Higgins]

Mike, we are far more in agreement than is apparent from my post. If you were to go back and read through some of my earlier comments on this situation, that would become quite apparent. Since there is no way I would expect anyone to waste their time in such a manner, I'll quickly summarize.

My position has been that our efforts - mankind's as a whole - have been largely futile. Mostly for naught. Proponents of one approach over another will jump with glee and exclaim they were "right" - at the right point in time. Just about as soon as they have settled back down into their easy chair, smug in the notion that they were "right", their favorite example population becomes the next virus "hotspot" and their numbers skyrocket.

"Sweden did it wrong!!" "Israel did it right!!!" We have heard both, with snapshots in time to support those arguments. I have maintained that we will not know for at least a decade. Country to country, state to state, we have seen wildly varying results. But only, I believe, because the sample time is still far too short. I bet that, normalized over many more years, we all come out of this about the same. COVID is going to have its way with us. Haughty, arrogant man thinks he can fight back and win. Oh, we will declare "victory" in the end, after it has run its course, but IT will decide when it is done with us, and there ain't a damn thing we can do about it.