07-11-2020, 10:55 AM
(07-11-2020, 06:19 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: Not to make you feel worse, but it seems to me putting all our eggs in the vaccine basket is a bad idea. ...
The odds a vaccine will work are extremely low, IMO. ...
The only way out of this disaster is federal intervention. ...
...The solutions are not easy, but they are absolutely doable if we stop being stupid and use the power of the United States to its potential. If we don’t eradicate the virus by changing our behavior, we might face living with it forever.
Thanks OF for this answer. Not what I wanted to read, obviously, but I asked because I wanted your thoughts and there it is. I'd like to disagree but none of this is my expertise. Particularly chilling is that conditional: "if we stop being stupid." Gulp.
(07-11-2020, 06:19 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: It’s frankly outrageous that we have 10 nuclear Air Craft Carriers, dozens of subs, ICBMs, hundreds of fighters and bombers, tanks, artillery pieces, shells, bombs, electronic warfare, and thousands of soldiers and commanders to protect us, but we can’t stop a minuscule strand of RNA.
Yeah, I agree with that sentiment too. Sigh...