[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

Ok question for everybody...

Now that multiple reports are showing fatality rates for people under 50 to be equivalent to a bad flu season, what is the point in continued isolation of that demographic after our death rates plateau or start to fall?

Let's say we have already hit peak and the next few days we stay below 1000 deaths/day (this is not a prediction but a hypothetical). At what point do you ease restrictions on the extremely low risk people? We obviously can't shelter in place until a vaccine comes out. Do we wait until a treatment has been proven to be effective? Do we wait until a certain percentage of America has immunity? What is your metric?

The virus will make it's way through the herd and claim the weak and then the rest of the herd will have an immune system in place.

It's just the way it works, seen it in hogs over and over. And the larger the population it's moving through, the higher the microbial density and the higher the death rate. Rural America won't be hit hard.