re: No way to have a “normal” football season this year

So many tough times for people, physically, economically, and emotionally that when we eventually see Tiger sports, we will be thankful. The quality is somewhat immaterial. All are affected.

What line of medicine you in doctor?

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I am in healthcare but not a doc

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Well I am a Doc and it sucks now but by labor day it will be fine

At the rate cases are increasing in Louisiana the whole state will have herd immunity by August

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the concern is that the mortality of COVID-19 is 2% vs 0.1% for the flu

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The mortality rate has been dropping steadily from over 6% to a little over 1% in the US...and the reason has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with math. As more younger people with little chance of dying get tested (who previously weren’t getting tested), the mortality rate will continue to decrease. Of course without a vaccine, it won’t drop as low as the flu...but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a .5% mortality rate reasonably soon.

Life will go on by then you can’t shut the economy down for that long

Thanks. Please don't think I am making any attempt to justify the numbers I quoted other than what I had read. Personally I think there is a high uncertainty concerning the numbers published. Unfortunately we don't know how many people actually are contracting the virus because some cases are mild and others might not even have symptoms (so would not have the disease, COVID-19). And now reports from Italy say they have stopped counting the number of people that have died from COVID-19. So there are two separate mortality rates, one for contracting a coronavirus infection and one for people who develop the disease, COVID-19 (which is the mortality rate I was referring to). It's impossible to even get estimates on mortality when you don't know how many people have contracted coronavirus (or those with very mild symptoms) and how many have died from COVID-19. I frankly don't know who to believe. I am not blaming the government for that because I don't think they can know either. And we all know all governments will hide information from the general public when they feel it is necessary (eg I don't know the nuclear launch codes...and if you know, please don't tell me, because that is information I don't want to know - LOL).

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not sure how anything is ready to go by August.

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Because that’s really what’s important right now.
This dude has his priorities straight. ??

You're ignorant as all hell. Do us a favor and end your gene pool now since you don't seem to care about human life.

It spreads faster than the flu. It has no vaccine. The more it infects the population the mortality rate will go up. Do you not see what's happening in Italy? They had over 1200 die in 2 days. They might even have a more aggressive second strain over there which means mutation.

The best hope we have is a mutation where it dies out. Summer might give us a short break but that's no guarantee right now and even if it happens, it's going to surface back up in fall/winter.

The people who are dying from the flu are people who refuse to get vaccines or extreme circumstances that are rare. If everyone got their vaccines disease dies off you dumb shite instead of putting the rest of the population at risk. Take the tinfoil hat off and gain some perspective.

its not what anyone wants to hear, but i fear you may be right. the effectiveness of the next month will shed light on fall.

i can see a scenario where both happen. that is, society gets somewhat back to normal, then months later a new flattening of curve has to occur.