Twilight in Northwest Georgia: A Surefire Cure for Covid

Thursday, August 6, 2020

A Surefire Cure for Covid

The anxiety in the US brought about by the Covid-19 virus is dominating this country. There is no clear consensus on the state of the virus, what to do about it or how long it will last. The divisiveness regarding what to do as individuals and organizations (schools, retail businesses, sports, etc) has gotten ugly. The real problem is that except for the hope of a vaccine, which won't be available for many months and which many people wont take anyway, there is no end in sight. Given that there is no clear plan to end this nightmare and 50% of the people don't seem to care anyway, maybe it's time to look at another approach...maybe it's time to let mother nature do her thing.

What would happen if we discouraged, no, make that prohibited the wearing of masks, social distancing, and the constant washing of hands? What if we encouraged mass gatherings; the bigger the crowd the better? The result should be that nearly everyone would contract Covid, that we would have achieved total 'herd immunity' and the virus would disappear within weeks.

But what would be the price?

The present population of the US is 331,000,000 people. We don't know how many of us have the virus, but we do know from the John Hopkins University Resource Center that there are 4,826,861 confirmed cases. According to this site there have been 319,686 Covid hospitalizations, or 6.2% of all confirmed cases. Applying that same percentage to the total population would result in 20,522,000 hospitalizations. There aren't enough medical facilities or personal in the solar system to handle that case load. Those requiring hospitalization would find the doors closed and have to become familiar with new concepts of self-suffering and self-dying.

Based on numbers from the John Hopkins University Resource Center there are 4,826,861 confirmed cases, and 158,300 Covid deaths, resulting in a death percentage of 3.28%. Applying that same percentage to the total population yields 10,856,000 deaths.

So...our medical system would have completely collapsed and there would be 11 million +/- dead Americans. But the virus would be gone and the economy would be on its way to recovery, allowing us to get onto important matters like..........

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Hi. My name is Tom. I am a long-time blogger, having started in my native Wisconsin some fifteen years ago and continuing during my ten years living in Peru. I all but stopped posting to my blog when my wife and I returned to the United States and moved to Rossville, Georgia in July of 2017. We don’t actually live in Rossville. We live in one of those census-designated places, a term I really don’t understand and am not interested enough to learn about. The only practical difference I can see is that the city does not pick up our trash.

I’m starting a new blog because my old one was Peru specific, and that was yesterday. I chose the title ‘Twilight in Northwest Georgia’ for two reasons: twilight because I am old and for me age is playing an ever-increasing role in how I view myself and the world around me. And Northwest Georgia for obvious reasons. It’s not a great title but it identifies and introduces what it needs to. Good enough.

This blog is not going to have a central theme…it’s not going to be about anything specifically. I like to write and will post about anything and everything that may interest me at the moment. I do know that my wife Maribel will be mentioned frequently because she is everything to me.

A comment here about my writing style and philosophy might be in order. We live in an era of political correctness…a time when the broadcast and print media, politicians, and petty people in general are lined up like vultures, eagerly waiting to pounce on anyone for the slightest faux pas, no matter how innocent and unintended. The media do it to sell their services. Politicians do it to advance their careers by degrading others. Petty people do it because…well…because they’re petty people. It is never my intent to be politically correct, politically incorrect, obnoxious or offensive. I can be critical and sometimes very critical but try my best to be objective. I do like to praise when praise is warranted. I do have pet peeves, am very opinionated and can be very vocal about them, which in the past has drawn the ire of some readers on my old blog. But that’s life. We all have different likes, dislikes, values and beliefs. The key is how we handle those differences.

The purpose of this blog is to provide a platform for me to write. I am opening it up to the public simply because someone may find something of interest in my ramblings. Any reader comments or criticisms, provided they are civil, are welcome.