Name:   CRD - Subject:   Oh l agree about the mayor CRD Date:   7/7/2020 10:50:28 AM

Crisis?  Definitive action?  The Georgia COVID death rate stands at 27 per 100,000.  The US average is 40 per 100,000.  New Jersey, that bastion of conservatism, is 8 times that of Georgia (once described by the media as the US's Number 1 Death Destination when we re-opened).  Even though Texas is experiencing a COVID outburst, their death rate is 9 times less than NY and 30 times less than NYC.

So what is happening?  No crisis, but the younger age groups, who fair far better after contracting COVID, are getting tested, and I say absent a vaccine or other miraculous intervention, are assisting in the development of herd immunity.  Less hosts to infect and the virus peters out.  Pure science and no politics.  Am I alarmed by the numbers?  No, nothing we can do, even shutting down economies is going to eliminate this virus.  Practice proper distancing, make wise choices and maintain meticulous hygiene if you are 60 and older or if you have significant co-morbidities.   For now, the numbers are rising, hospitals are not overwhelmed, hydroxychloroquine has been shown, despite media panic, to be an effective course of action and we must ride out this wave.  There will be more, but a crisis?  Far from it.