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Originally Posted by AustinChief
I am going to again ask a question I asked a while back...
If by April 3rd(Wednesday) we have a solid trend of fewer deaths per day AND we have more significant data showing that the treatments we are applying are effective (let's say a 50% increased reduction of viral load compared to a control group or we can use cytokine storm reduction as the barometer), would you support starting to reduce government imposed restrictions?
If not, where do you draw the line? What metric would you use?
The way I see it, at some point WE need to make up our minds where the acceptable risk lies. There is NEVER going to be a world without risk. The flu kills 20-60k a year in the US and we don't bat an eye, we live with that risk every year. What is the acceptable risk for Covid-19?
Just to preempt anyone talking about number of cases... I will say right now I will never care about that figure it is fairly meaningless especially if effective treatments are an option. Deaths are really what matters to me when it comes to this discussion.
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If there’s a treatment and there’s a way to effectively sequester the elderly and at-risk then I’d be okay with something once the case load starts coming down in a meaningful way.