The Virus that didn't go Viral

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I was "gone" (as in "off line") for two days for Sukkot (a Jewish holiday) I come back to find out that, despite the "Chicken Little" attitude about Covid 19, both Potus and Flotus are, thank G-d, doing fine despite testing positive for the "deadly virus". 

I am happy (but hardly surprised) that they are both doing fine -- the virus is getting weaker and the tools that are available to fight the virus are more ubiquitous, the virus is much less deadly.

What I am surprised about is that huge numbers of people believe the following:

1) Most people have the virus and can give it to anyone they see on the street if they are less than 6 feet apart 

2) Most people seem to have the notion that all it takes for someone to get Corona is to be close to someone who isn't wearing a mask (despite the fact that at any time only about 1 out of every 2000 people has it. So every person you run into only has about a 1 in 2000 chance of even having the virus

3) There is also a notion that everyone who gets the virus will die from it. So add to the fact that only about one in 2000 people might have it, only a small minority die. 

4) It seems as though most people seem to think that children are as vulnerable to the virus as people over 70.

5) Most people don't realize that the masks they are so fond of look like the Holland Tunnel for a virus. In other words, to use a quote that seems all the rage on my side of the medical "fence" -- "wearing a mask to keep out the Corona Virus is like putting up a chain link fence  to keep out mosquitoes. 

In any case, whether or not these steps do anything to protect one from the Corona virus at all, the goal was originally supposed to protect us from deaths. If there are more deaths that are caused by "following the rules", it no longer "saves lives". And, at this point, because of people losing their jobs and businesses, people being alone or those being "imprisoned" with abusive relatives -- more lives are "impacted" negatively by the lockdown than the pandemic. This is not saving lives anymore! This is costing lives, ruining lives, destroying lives. 

People are not listening to the doctors in the trenches, the doctors who are working with people who are in the hospitals. They are not listening when the doctors say that hydroxychloroquine and its adjuncts are saving lives (they have a better "track record" than masks and "social" (read: physical) distancing). People are not looking at the numbers. They are in a state of fear. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a well respected President, said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." When we fall for the fear-mongering, we end up causing harm to people. Don't fall for the fear -- look at the evidence yourself.