The west has really forgotten what disease spread looks like when there are no vaccinations or easy cures. The closest to that we have is AIDS which has fallen off the radar over the decades, but beyond that you'd have to go back to things like polio and smallpox.
@GlennS -- But there
was an easy cure for polio. I think there's a strong probability there's an easy cure for coronavirus as well, using the same method; IV Vitamin C.
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For those interested in the political aspect of this, below is a snippet from
THIS ARTICLE:
Sixty-eight percent of Democratic voters are worried that an immediate family member might catch the coronavirus, compared with just 40 percent of Republicans who agree. Fifty-six percent of Democrats believe their day-to-day lives will change in a major way, versus only 26 percent of Republicans. And 79 percent of Democrats say the worst is yet to come, versus just 40 percent of Republicans who hold the same opinion.
Just as importantly, if not more so, while 61% of Democrats said they're steering clear of gatherings, roughly half (30%) of Republicans said the same thing. More than a third (36%) of Democrats are avoiding restaurants during the crisis, while only 12% of Republicans are making the same choice.
Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff and his firm, Public Opinion Strategies, said, "Simply put, it is very clear that partisanship has infected our views of the coronavirus."
The latest survey from Quinnipiac
pointed in the same direction: across every age group, Republicans are simply less concerned about the public-health crisis than their Democratic counterparts.
For weeks, as GOP leaders and conservative media downplayed the threat, this was more than a political annoyance. The concern has long been that voters on the right, who've been told repeatedly not to listen to mainstream sources, would take the conservative rhetoric seriously, and conclude that the coronavirus is comparable to the common flu, and the global reaction is little more than a scheme to affect the 2020 election.
Such talk had a predictable effect.
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