Re: Memphis Game Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 1:26 pm
ponyboy wrote:Only 353 of whom were aged 15-24 years old.
But that is the point. If you had a way to restrict a disease to only certain ages getting it, that would be awesome. But you can't.
And remember, don't focus on the vaccine. Better treatments and cheap, accurate testing are the key, and coming in shorter time periods.
Our goal is to limit spread. If R can go from 3.4 down to 1.0, that stagnates spread until the treatments are ready to go.
If you are in a position where you would normally have a 100% chance of catching the virus, then you wearing a cloth mask reduces that chance by 35%. If both people wear cloth masks, it reduces the chance by 58%. In a more realistic environment, such as a store, if you have like a 10% chance of catching the virus but everyone is wearing cloth masks, now you are down to only a 0.4% chance of getting sick. Masks and social distancing are what get the R level down enough that it gives us time to improve testing and treatments and reduce the number of deaths.
At the end of the day, this is all the secondhand smoke question - do you have the right to give me cancer? Should the market naturally control this problem? Or should the government step in and not allow you to give me cancer?