From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 18:48:08 +0300 Organization: Tidorum Ltd Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net MmBA07CUuW1BF26ieZaEuwDWIJ7BFn+xpAWhCRip9w93oQoSLd Cancel-Lock: sha1:n7Z7RYDltS9VXUrsoUfGNyD6+ig= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58681 Date: 2020-05-13T18:48:08+03:00 List-Id: On 2020-05-13 18:31, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On 2020-05-13 16:58, Rick Newbie wrote: > >> The lockdown accomplishes nothing other destroying our countries. And >> let's not forget that the original purpose of it was "to flatten the >> curve so that the hospital's can handle the cases and don't get >> overwhelmed". Well hospitals are empty, nurses kill their time by >> dancing on Tik Tok and people are running out of money and food. >> >> What is the argument to keep this insanity up? > > I listened to a professional epidemiologist who said that a total lock > down is straight wrong. One should have isolated vulnerable and elderly > people, also from their families, but keep schools, offices, plants open > in order to bring at least 60% of healthy people in contact with the > virus. Because when the second wave comes this Autumn, and it will, all > these people will have antibodies to suppress it. A total lock down > guarantees nothing but a large second wave. Spanish flu's second wave > was far worse than the first one. We are just rehashing discussions and arguments that have already been worn out in other media. Boring already. Even if there is a second wave when the lock-downs are eased, at that time the health-care system will have more experience of covid-19 and how it should be treated -- Remdesivir, proning, early measurement of blood oxygenation, etc. Outcomes will be better. -- Niklas Holsti niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .