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Originally Posted by moneill
Okay -- thinking you are overly dramatic.
I did not panic...I simply, clearly, calmly stated we will al be adversely impacted.
That's not freaking out or panicked. It's merely a statement.
Deep breath -- I think you're hyped state is dramatizing what folks are saying......it's okay -- we will be fine. You failed to read or cite or quote my posts saying we will come back.......I'm not the one freaking out here....lol.
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Sigh. I'm not talking about YOU, I'm talking about everyone else out there in public. Or have you not been to your local grocery stores lately? Have you not been getting the 40,000 emails from businesses you've ever done business with sending you information on what they are doing to help stop the spread, even though everything you do is online? Or have you not been aware that people are already losing their jobs because businesses won't open due to how this has been blown up into something huge when no one has all the facts yet - but let's just keep freaking everyone out.
I'm going by what we have seen so far, most people seem to be going on "Ifs". We've got people talking about martial law, for cripes sake. "Close the beaches", "close everything", "stay in your home" - yeah, that's real easy to say if you have the money to sit at home or you can work remotely. How many millions do not have that luxury? And you've got people ticked off that they continue to go to work.
I was at the DMV the other day getting my license for my new state. They made us sit one chair apart from the next person. Seriously? How the hell is that doing anything effective? It's not. All it's doing is putting more fear into people. One chair apart, oh, that's all it takes?
The DMV lady in the front at one point coughed - JC, almost everyones head whipped up, and you could see their eyes wide and/or imploring. We don't want to get to that point - but that's where this is headed. We keep on with this panic nonsense, and we're going to get to the point that if someone coughs in public from a dry throat, nothing to do with this virus, or someone sneezes because of the sunlight, nothing to do with this virus, we're going to have a mob mentality going after that person. People are angry that a beach was crowded - angry about it! Just wait until the mob mindset sets in.
The good that has come from this is that at grocery stores, the bakery,
for example, no longer has their donuts and cookies out for people to use tongs or the pieces of paper to grab a treat. Now everything is packaged for us. That's how it should have been in the first place!
People are using the hand sanitizer as soon as they come in the store, and as they leave. That's how it should have been in the first place. People are using their sleeves to push the carts - (not all, but more) - that's how it should have been in the first place.
People are wiping things down that they bring in their homes. That's how it should have been in the first place. People are taking their shoes off before walking through their house, they are removing their street clothes and putting on clean clothes once inside the house - that's how it all should have been in the first place.
People are covering their damn face and nose when they cough or sneeze. That's how it should have been in the first place. Not just because of this virus, but because of all of the viruses we are subject to - from ebola, to corona, to the flu, to the common cold - this is how people should have been acting.
We wouldn't have tens of thousands die every year from the flu if people had been doing this all along. We wouldn't have people freaking the hell out right now if people hadn't been acting like pigs all along. There's no need to panic, just stop living like a pig.
Someone stuck in a nursing home, elderly, health compromised already - they're stuck. There isn't a damn thing they can do about their situation. I'm not "dismissing" them nor am I saying that they are "not as worthy" as other people - as some stupidly state I'm saying - they don't have control of anything. They're in a damn nursing home.
It's everyone else who needs to stop panicking. As someone said in another post, being aware and being paranoid are 2 different things. Unfortunately, we have a whole lot of paranoid people out there right now. Just do what your mother told you to do. I've been saying this for posts on end. Proper hygiene, stay away from sick people (if you don't work in healthcare), and if you see some twit blasting their spit and snot out in public, remove yourself from the area, and again, feel free to tell them what aholes they are for doing so - any time. Any time, not just now. Any time. Should have been doing it, feel free to do it now, and going forward, let them know how disgusting they are. They hate when you call them out, they get angry - so what. If more people spoke up, maybe they'd stop spitting and snotting everywhere.
For all of the lecturing that has been going on in these threads, I guarantee you that those who seem to relish in the panic, are going to go back to doing what they've always done when this has calmed down. And then, we'll have another outbreak of something - want to talk about selfish and inconsiderate? Those are the selfish and inconsiderate people - the ones who spread their germs everywhere because they are too lazy, it's "too much work" to keep clean and not spread their crap everywhere. Those words have been said on posts in regards to what people are doing right now - things they should have been doing.
I've asked that question several times now: How many of you are going to continue being clean and using proper hygiene, and doing the extra to prevent catching someone elses germs? The funny part is, no one ever wants to answer that question.
Because we both know they aren't going to continue it. So everyone here can spare me their lectures and bs. How people are acting now (minus the hoarding and freaking out) is how I've been living. I do my best not to spread my germs around, and I do my best not to get anyone elses = as much as I am able.
Unless people have already been living like that, they have nothing to say to me. Don't tell me what I need to worry about. I'm going to go about living my life as I have been for years - because I've already been living that way minus the panic buying and minus holed up inside my home watching 24/7 cable news and freaking out.
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