re: #173 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We are still at the front end of this pandemic. While people are anxious about the deaths so far, it appears as if only a tiny fraction of our population have been infected.

Unless there have been vastly more infected than the case counts currently show, which some people who want to downplay Covid-19 keep proposing, then we have to keep the social distancing/lockdowns in place until a vaccine is developed, or else this pandemic will end up being the biggest depopulation event since WWII.

My sister keeps pushing the “testing is unknown so the disease is actually far more prevalent than it seems” narrative, which is driving me nuts because at an approximated 1% death rate (give or take a couple of points), that would be a LOT of dead people.