I can tell you about the family herd here in southern CA......not the 98 pound weaklings clinging to masks and other such current fantasies. It's a thundering herd of bison out on the open range. Me 60 something, son mid 30s, and his kids 14 and 8. That's the herd. First the kids.....closing the schools was the most egregious thing in the history of the world. That was designed by cowards that know absolutely nothing. These kids can literally run marathons with this virus in their system. That is no joke, not even a hint of a joke. I know more about cowards now than I ever did before.
For the adults its a little more complicated. Both of us knew we had gotten the virus back in the December January time frame but there was no testing going on. It was about 2 solid weeks of suffering, not dying. I thought if I could just get a little better, then I could die.....my best joke about it. Ok.....then more recently this past week we both had to get tested for various reasons, I needed an unrelated medical procedure that I normally do twice a year......no test, no procedure. And he was starting a new job. So after just 3 days on the job he was feeling dragged down and went and got tested. A few days later I got tested, and my results came back positive in 2 days, but I didn't start feeling it until the morning after the nose swab.....before the results came out. And this time it felt like a hangover. He was feeling the same, and his results came back positive a few days later. Both of us feel like it's been a 36 hour hangover and then it's done, and we are now back to roaming around on the open range again. Not even close to the first time around which was not the most fun I've ever had by far. We both have to get retested again some time later this month.
Think like the herd......that is the right mentality. The book for dummies on the subject even says as much. Go with the herd, or wait around and see if the dummies can come up with a vaccine without screwing it up. And it can take multiple tries on fighting the virus to get the herd back to 100 percent.
Edited by LMF, 11 July 2020 - 11:53 AM.