We are now at the beginning of the "second wave"....

Agreed, but I have to believe if it were 70 million, we would definitely know.

 

Not if there almost all asymptomatic. And that another of those questions for which we currently don't have an answer. What percentage of cases are asymptomatic.

 

I very much doubt that a vaccine is going to be widely available in 6 months. 9 months maybe. If we're lucky. I agree that there will probably be more mask wearing. But only if Biden is elected. However, I wouldn't consider that "going back to normal"

I completely agree. They turned mask wearing into a political issue. And this is the reason why we have the worst response in the world to this pandemic.

 

I don't understand your question. What goals changed? If you mean the goals of health authorities, they are now and have always been to save as many lives as possible. If you mean this President's goals, they are now and have always been to get himself re-elected regardless of how many Americans die in the process.

BTW, we did overwhelm many hospitals during the first wave. We are closer to doing that now in some places. And the 2nd wave is just starting. If we don't get people to wear masks and follow CDC protocols, it's going to get bad.

 

Not on Trump's watch, we weren't.

And that's the scariest part.

So the plan was "get a cure"

That's not a plan. That's a goal.

 

Got to have a plan to reach your goal, no?

 

No the goal is to eliminate this bug a cure is a step toward that goal. It is part of the plan.

 

And someone tell Gary that we don't have a cure

 

Democrats once again rooting for the asteriod.

 

Yes we do it's called rendesavir, we also anti body serum, and potentially others.

 

Neither are CURES...they are treatments and there is a major difference

 

the words are pretty much interchangeable in modern medicine.

 

No...they are not. They are specific and different things.

Words have meanings

 

@garyd believes we have a cure?

 

Trump loyalists once again claiming that if Dinosaurs had denied that an asteroid was heading towards the Earth, they would still exist today.

 

The cure, the human race dealing with the virus, is herd immunity. In many places we have reached that.

The oft-repeated claim that "the experts" are going to "control" the virus or "save us" from the virus is pure sophistry, meant to mesmerize the credulous amongst us.

As Trump's experience will demonstrate, most people get over it just fine. Herd immunity is the inevitable result.

 

why wouldn’t you wear a mask of biden loses?

 

I don't know. I can't get in the heads of Trumpian science deniers. But we know most of them won't.

 

i am asking you you are the one that said if biden loses you won’t wear a mask

 

Totally illogical, dinosaurs hadn't the technological capacity to do anything about an asteroid had they known it was coming. Oh and for your and Leah education a cure is a treatment that attacks and kills a disease causing agent and shortens recovery time. Both Rendesivir and various antibody treatments do that. Neither are magic bullets because magic bullets don't exist. Every cure we have for every disease for which we have a cure takes time to work.

 

You’re making up definitions
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cure

 

A cure is a treatment that kills the disease causing agent and shortens recovery time. That is exactly what rendesavir does. So do various antibody treatments. There are also palliative treatments that reduce symptoms but do nothing to treat the underlying cause. You seem confused as to the difference between cures and silver bullets.

 

Read the definition.

None of the TREATMENTS being used meet that

 

And that is precisely what I said. I simply said it in fewer words.

 

INCORRECT words

":A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition,"