re: How can you be for opening up and against mask wearing and contact tracing?

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Do you not understand that until a vaccine is produced and distributed, this is the only way we can safely open up? What do you think will happen if we don't take these precautions?

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The death toll in the US has been .00002% of the population. The worldwide morbidity rate has been just over double that of the flu.

You might as well be terrified of going outside because you think a meteor will hit you.

We survived the Spanish Flu for one reason: our immune systems kicked in. Many, MANY died from it but that's the way of nature without making a vaccine.

We won't have a widely available vaccine before winter comes back around, it's simple logistics. Even if we do then we face the problem of constantly chasing down new vaccines for the new strains it mutates into. Congrats on yet another vaccine every year?

Our best option is to work on herd immunity now while trying to manage deaths among those most vulnerable while the weather is good and we have the opportunity. Waiting until another wave hits during a possibly bad winter is a mind-numbingly worse idea than going out and about without masks.