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Well, we all stayed home for two months and "flattened the curve", and now that's over and the hospitals didn't get overwhelmed.
And now it's time for the rest of us to get a mild or moderate or severe case of that flu and we know the hospitals will not be overwhelmed.
Right?
So what's the point of continuing the masks and distancing?
The resistance to finding out how many people have been infected, which is the most basic bit of data which would be useful for rational decision making, persists. Estimates based on the information available puts the number at about 10% in the U.S..
A further percentage of the population don't seem to be able to get the virus at all. Their bodies seem to kill it off without leaving any traces at all. Estimates are that this is over half the population. Seems possible that this is because having had a similar coronavirus within the last few years confers innate immunity in people with healthy immune systems (e.g., so-called 'anti-vaxxers'.)
Anyway, the science needed to make these kinds of logical policy is being actively thwarted and the data to do so is being actively corrupted. There's certainly a reason for doing so. With 10% or so of the population having had this common cold, the 'scientists' and the CDC can create a '2nd wave' any time they want just by testing a random selection of people for antibodies. Or they can do RT-PCR and set whatever cycles as they need to get a positive result. That's how you can get a positive result from a goat or a papaya.