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Good points.

I use my home town as an example but Destin has an influx of 60K people per week from all walks. We have a total of around 460 cases since this began. I’m shocked we don’t have more but people are still going to pile in Crab Trap and Joes alcohol or not.

Boz, you and I are in the same atmosphere regarding tourists. But few stay 2 weeks or more in the summer, so how many are coming to the beach, mingling in the bars, restaurants, and beaches and all, contracting or spreading COVID that they either brought with them or caught here and going home asymptomatic, then spreading it through their hometown? It's such a damn domino effect spreading under the radar.

It's almost to the point where you want to throw up your hands and say frick it, let's treat it like we used to treat chickenpox when we were kids. (This is pre-vaccine for chickenpox for you young-uns) If our parents found out someone in your circle had the pox, they would take you over and deliberately expose you to get you infected and get it over with. It was a relatively mild disease, with little danger if you were young (sound familiar?) but could be more serious if you were an adult. They didn't worry or know much about shingles at the time, so that wasn't a concern. So you has your chickenpox and were immune thereafter. Herd immunity in a real life example. How much better off would we be if everyone under 30 without comorbidities just got the damn stuff and got it over with if it conveyed immunity? But one of the serious problems is all of the data so far points to immunity quickly waning. It's looking more like the seasonal flu than the chickenpox, requiring annual vaccines to keep it at bay. Big Pharma has got to be loving that; another mandatory yearly vaccine that everyone will need to get and someone will have to pay for.

This post was edited on 6/28/20 at 12:16 pm