ones: Some neighborhoods are approaching 50%. A very few nationally. Overall, we are only around an 8% prior infection rate.

This infection, although not as infectious as measles, is capable of infecting most people who come in contact with it. And for the population as a whole, it kills about 0.7%. That means if we don't try to control it, it would infect about 250,000,000 Americans and kill between one and two-million.

You say deaths have dropped. Yes, because most people protected themselves for a while. Then the country stopped protecting in June, and now cases and hospitalizations are more than in April. The deaths will follow in another week or so.

You say high risk patients should protect themselves. Well risk factors are not only age but also obesity (half of America) hypertension (one third of America) etc. That means most of America is at risk.

You suggest everything is getting better. Well I'm running two clinical trials and the safety committee for two more and I speak to physicians treating COVID-19 in hospitals across the country everyday and I can tell you, it's not. The situations is deteriorating. And as the Excel spreadsheet updates come across my desk every morning, most of the patients in our trials are less than 65 years of age and a lot are less than 45.

If you want to look at where things are really bad, look where people have done what you suggest they do: Mingle together. Marti Gras did not have a lot of old people celebrating, but it resulted in hundreds of deaths, including in younger patients as the young patients returned with the virus and spread it, frequently, asymptomatically. As I see that insanity being repeated on television and then hear the fatigue and fear in the physicians treating the results from such behavior, I am sorely tempted to label people such as you for what you are.

But let me be polite. I'm sure you are a really good lawyer and can give good legal advice. But I'll bet you don't have a doctor of medicine or a doctor of sciences degree, or experience running a university intensive care unit, or experience as a medical reviewer at FDA, or running a publicly traded biotech company. So since all those things I have done, how about if you don't give faulty medical advice and I don't give faulty legal advice. Or to quote Edward R Murrow, "Speed is only good when wisdom leads the way."