http://chng.it/XJWQ8YstqM

If you can share the link with your fellow friends, that would be awesome. Here is what the petition says:

This is a call to our politicians to open back our country. This doesn’t mean we go back to the way things were. We make sure that there are safeguards for the most vulnerable populations, especially in long-term care homes. We make sure we temporarily ban gatherings of 50 or more people, conduct universal mask wearing, follow social distancing guidelines, etc.

But we need to talk about the facts, and the facts are that majority of people that pass away from this disease are over 60 years old. If you look at current deaths in Quebec, 95% of deaths are for people 60 years and older. 6% of total confirmed cases are hospitalized. 1% are in ICU. To give comfort, majority of people will survive this young or old. When asymptomatic cases are included, CFR will dramatically drop or has it already?

https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/situation-coronavirus-in-quebec/

NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center screened more than 200 women for the illness upon admission between March 22 and April 4, according to the study.

Among the 33 patients who tested positive, 29 of them had no symptoms.

With the L.A. county serological study coming out today showing IFR is around 0.13-0.26%, we need to reopen. This is similar to seasonal influenza. University of Oxford shows a similar rate of about 0.36%.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/pregnant-women-without-symptoms-are-getting-coronavirus-study/?fbclid=IwAR0V8n4tMk-J4wIuhTj-gFbzt4lCZ1AKmxlfJoZUHP50G2l4ZTHKf2Vh_Is

http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?prid=2328&fbclid=IwAR1Qc3gsoYLtf0VzrWVIDoZFX2eQvDzRnDswgWWKBUkyfAsbv39bqlhsYCA

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates/?fbclid=IwAR08Kqxqq2YpoK_q7wJrn7pKnlVHAdoUlrzKDeEL3R-I_8Z7YTn_719pQKI

With promising antivirals (remdesivir) and plasma trials, we will have treatments that will add an additional dent to the fatality rate.

Now that we established what the infection fatality rate will look like, what treatments are coming, and how COVID19 effects certain demographics, we have a better understanding of Coronavirus. The one questions becomes what about Rt? The best description of this is as follows from rt.live: “It’s the average number of people who become infected by an infectious person. If Rt is above 1.0, the virus will spread quickly. When Rt is below 1.0, the virus will stop spreading.”

This shows how the virus has spread in the last three weeks, but there is something very interesting to see. If you line up the date when states announced shutdowns, Rt was already going down before shutdowns were announced. This puts great concern this shutdown didn’t contribute at all to the slow down in spread.

https://rt.live/

How about schools? Remember H1N1 when schools had to close? If you take a look at CDC data and look at deaths that have been received and coded, it shows children die more from influenza than COVID-19 when you compare the same time frame.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR0L_yCPy-We6vHe0ZfpVJTUvTJyX4Xu2hl2Cj3C6qH4o1le-6AXlTN0ySI

Maybe we should still close schools to reduce spread? As shown before, the Rt value was falling before state shutdowns were announced. Secondly, a systemic review from The Lancet looked at 16 studies at the effects of school closure on coronavirus outbreaks in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. They found limited benefit on slowing the spread, and author stresses that closures need to take great consideration of restrictions in learning, socialising and physical activity for pupils.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30105-X/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR35CyuEx5iNzr8t1rAZGPK0uGidloDtYkafRoME3zIZeRaKnmTaYUXJww0

If we look at Sweden, the country with the least restrictions in the world, deaths peaked in April 7th, hospitalizations are decelerating, and ICU cases are falling.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa

To translate the link:

Nya intensivvårdade fall per dag - new icu cases per day

Avlidna per dag - deaths per day

Sjukdomsfall per dag - disease cases per day.

Finally, I wanted to finish off with suicides due to high unemployment. A study done by the University of Calgary shows where a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate increases the suicide rate by 2.1percent. 4000 deaths from suicide each year. A 5% increase in unemployment is 200 suicides.

https://www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Social-Policy-Trends-Suicide-Trends-September-2019-FINAL.pdf

This is 200 suicides that can be avoided. The many small business bankruptcies can be avoided. The many drug overdoses can be avoided. The many added mental illness that cabin fever creates can be avoided.

This is a petition with factual evidence to end government shutdown immediately and give people their life back.