End the lock down now
mark94
Arizona
Thousands of public health officials, doctors, and scientists have shown their support for The Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for an end to the general lock down while focusing on the most vulnerable
https://gbdeclaration.org/
https://gbdeclaration.org/
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Citizen: Okay, here’s 10,000 scientists who agree with Trump
Leftie: Those are the wrong scientists !
Scientific American and New England Journal of Medicine take a stand for the first time in their 175-yr and 208-year histories:
Scientific American is endorsing Biden -- the first time in 175 years that publication has endorsed *any* presidential candidate:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic…
New England Journal of Medicine: editorial signed by 34 editors said the Trump administration had responded so poorly to the pandemic that they "have taken the crisis and turned it into a tragedy."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/healt…
"Throughout its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine has remained staunchly nonpartisan. The world’s most prestigious medical journal has never supported or condemned a political candidate.
Until now.
In an editorial signed by 34 editors who are United States citizens (one editor is not) and published on Wednesday, the journal said the Trump administration had responded so poorly to the coronavirus pandemic that they “have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”
The journal did not explicitly endorse Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, but that was the only possible inference, other scientists noted.
The editor in chief, Dr. Eric Rubin, said the scathing editorial was one of only four in the journal’s history that were signed by all of the editors. The N.E.J.M.’s editors join those of another influential publication, Scientific American, who last month endorsed Mr. Biden, the former vice president."
Regeneron seems to have cured Trump within 24 hours. Hundreds of thousands of doses are being distributed to hospitals right now.
Vaccines are expected soon. Millions of doses by year end.
Just how much longer are we going to be locked down, and why ?
In Germany, if someone dies from cancer, for example, but also has CoVid, the death is attributed to cancer. That’s also true for heart attacks and other major co-morbidities.
In the US, when someone dies from any combination of causes, but also has CoVid, the death is attributed to CoVid for the purpose of CoVid statistics.
That seems like a pretty important distinction going forward for the purpose of public health decisions.
In the US, I'm pretty sure that if you test positive for Covid and then get murdered in a drive-by shooting, it will be scored as a Covid death.