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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 879014">That has not been established as a certainty, nor has it been established that you cannot communicate it after 14 days after contracting it.  Only recently has evidence emerged that asymptomatic carriers can communicate the disease.  The death count, buy the way, is not the key measure of societal impact.  No matter how well improved treatments might be to improve survival, the larger and longer range impact may be in how many people have permanent vascular damage.  Anybody admitted to a hospital, and ICUs in particular, are leading candidates.  I don't believe it has even been established that an asymptomatic person is immune from that permanent damage.The bottom line is that whenever there's "return to normal" without the constantly repeated prudent precautions the virus rips through the population like wildfire.  "We must learn to live with it," is not sound advice.This ain't a bad flu.  It would be foolish to think 99% of people who test positive will suffer no affects as one public figure would have you believe.</blockquote>

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