You really seem to not care..that might be why some have issues with your statement.
While other diseases are as important, this virus can be stopped to a certain degree by people doing their part.
That's the prob. people think it isn't a huge deal can pass this to someone who can be killed
If you don't care that's your opinion, but some people don't want to die because others felt it shouldn't be taken seriously
why do you think it's going to be stopped? it can be slowed with drastic measures, BUT NOBODY is self sufficient. NOBODY any more. Society hasn't functioned remotely in that function for a long time now. Even the little we've done so far is going to impact people for a long time. Lives will be ruined. If this runs into fall? oh man, society has a very good chance of collapsing completely across the globe. What do you think those implications are? people are free to take whatever precautions they feel necessary. If I felt that at risk, i wouldn't be going thru a drive thru with my dog to get ice cream and then ***** about the servers not changing gloves. and yes, i've seen it. The amount of idiocy and hypocrisy I see right now makes me embarrassed sometimes.
I happen to think much could be changed. Testing, Isolating, and some societal measures, yes. Instead of No testing, send home, treat only very sick that 1 place I read if you get ventilated your 80% good as gone. But then who's numbers do I believe at this point? I happen to think there are a lot of things that SHOULD have gone differently, but everyone was too busy making money. The experts and the leaders and now their only hope is convince all of us this is the only way. Fear equals compliance.
50% of the people I drive by every day were staring at their ****ing phones and NOW they're concerned about lives. despite everyone supposedly staying home, we have 82 deaths on just WI roadways this year already.
Yeah, I am a bit callous in all of this. I'm disgusted by most of America right now. NOW suddenly they care so much about their health LOL. Your average American is a walking disease themselves because of the choices they make willingly every single day of their lives without a single regret. I saw a guy tryin to publicly shame anyone still going to restaurants and putting all ,those workers and his family and everyone at risk because they're so selfish to think they were entitled to a served meal. Meanwhile I bust that blowhard at Woodman's buying a case of wine for his quarantine LOL Spare me the concern.
I do think it should be taken seriously, I also think the ramifications of what we're making society do should be taken seriously as well. So far nobody seems to be too much. they had 600 ventilators on stand by for crisis intervention that were flooded in LaX a couple years ago and left to sit. NOW they're concerned with having enough. Nobody was concerned when they were flooded, still cashing checks and putting it in their pockets. "health care managers" still taking in 6 figure salaries for moving money around and saving nobody.
The average American doesn't know what mask or how to use it effectively yet they want to demand we have more and everyone wear them everywhere. Gloves become nothing more than an extension of their hands. They're pissed the fast food worker serving their food didn't change between customers yet their sitting in a fast food line expecting food that was prepared and delivered in a sterile environment LOL. by all means, feel free to lambast me for going to Menards to work on a home project.
and you're right, I don't think this is that much different than normal. 500 people more per day in a world of 7.5 billion. Could quadruple right now and it wouldn't push the death rate anywhere. and we don't even know if it is "more" at this point. So far as I can tell, Americans still die between 8-9K per day from something, like always.
when they declare pandemics, things change. Like the need for a serologic diagnosis. It can be diagnosed because they've determined it to be more likely than not, through the last one with H1N1 proved those numbers to be woefully inaccurate when they were all gone over. is that happening now? I don't know. I do know almost all suspected cases are being sent home to families without tests. The same families they then need to keep away so they can die alone in the media accounts. Makes complete sense right? it does when fear=compliance.
I hope when this is all over, I sincerely hope, and I do mean that, that you and I will still be around to have a chat about the Packers chances of winning a Superbowl, and what the new signings are doing to improve the team
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as much as I'd never like to see your tiger nipples again, that would be fine with me if I was forced to again in the future
How long would your "500 a day" stay "500 a day" if we were to resume normal activity? Not a difficult thought exercise there.
And fyi, it's not 500. It's currently ~5,000 per day. It was 500 a day a little over 2 weeks ago.
60,000 since this started in December. Do the math. in 2 years when the numbers are poured over and I see the death rate in the US jumped to 12K a day for the year and then only returns to "normal". as long as we're between 8-9K like always I don't care what they call the deaths. Label them whatever you want. if we jump to 12 and then go down to 7K a day the following year, don't try and convince me we went thru anything "abnormal" only the names have changed.
another exercise that isn't difficult, how long can you shut down the global economy and not expect serious consequences?
