What do you think the status of COVID-19 will be in six months (September, 2020)?
I voted "other." I knew even back then we have the best health experts, and scientists in the world when we first knew we were in a pandemic which started in China.
I knew even back then our doctors would have therapeutic drugs available that would save many lives even before a vaccine was developed.
By now I did think we would have had about 300K deaths or more since it has taken so many lives all across the world.
It was only logical sadly we would have thousands of deaths since this virus pandemic has touched 188 countries. No country has been immune from many deaths if a person or persons came into their country with it undetected at the time.
Our country is known as the freest country in the world where our citizens are usually allowed to make their own choices. So you would think the amount of cases would be much higher than it is. The federal government can't mandate wearing masks for states. The only ones who has those powers are individual state governors, and local mayors, and even in some states or cities the citizens are suing stating it violates their constitutional rights.
So I think it could have been far worse in a country where freedom is always at the forefront.
It certainly would have resulted in far more cases including countless deaths if people from China (the root cause imo), and other countries hadn't been banned for now from coming here.
So I feel very hopeful ....like we are known to do, we will conquer this deadly virus too.
I was elated to read that over a 100 drug makers of the vaccines state they will develop the vaccines with safety the top priority. Of course I already knew that is the guideline in any vaccine or new drug.
As soon as a vaccine is available, and I believe it will be in record time , I will get the vaccine shot as soon as it is available in my area.
We are going to defeat this monster just like we excelled in the worst of times in the past. Imo
Imo, Not only will we have vaccines available that will save countless lives of our people... our economy will also rebound like its already been doing in the past few months..even though our economy was knocked to its knees by this invisible deadly virus.
Imo, there isn't anything that America's citizens can't do when it needs to be done. We will overcome this too, and be stronger than ever before just like we always have been.
The great thing too is we will share our vaccines with other countries who desperately need them. We've already sent life saving ventilators to help many other countries. It shows even in the worst of times for us we are still a very compassionate country.
God bless us all!
Jmhoo