Originally Posted by
claritycycler
I am one of the more vulnerable, I'm not promoting his viewpoint, don't know who he is or the validity of the studies he references, was sent a link to this, just posting it for thought and comments.
Forrest Leichtberg
So many posts about how it’s not time to begin the gradual process of reopening the economy. My perspective from consulting with various medical professionals each day is the following:
- Keeping the lockdowns in place to save lives sounds great, until the fact is recognized that the virus isn’t going anywhere no matter how long things are locked down, and that the virus is going to spread to the majority of people regardless. That’s the factual life-cycle of a pandemic like this. Locking down doesn’t stop the spread, it only delays and slows it so that hospital overload is prevented. I don’t like or want the virus to spread, but reality must be accepted or else we’re living in a fantasy.
- Stanford just came out with a groundbreaking anti-body study conducted in Santa Clara County estimating that 50 to 85 times more people have acquired the virus than previously thought, thus reducing the fatality rate to more like 0.1% - 0.2%. LA County officials will be releasing their own anti-body study results next week and have already shared that a similar story will be told from it. Also, German scientists ran a study in a city called Gangelt and found similar findings. These are some of the only if not the only major anti-body studies that have been conducted thus far, and they all point to the same ballpark mortality rate of right around 0.1%. If their results continue to be replicated and shown true in the coming weeks and months, then the politicians who advocated for mass shutdowns will have potentially sabotaged their chances of being elected and re-elected. Yes, this is a friendly warning to the Democratic Party to be cautious about sabotaging their own chances in the upcoming elections.