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I'm totally fine with opening everything back up. I'm young, healthy and make an amazing salary. My wife makes a ton of money. We'd love to get back out to the amazing bars and restaurants we enjoy. We have a first class flight to Vienna Austria coming up this holiday season for Christmas.
BUT, I don't think it's a good idea. If we just open everything back up, this virus will spread like wildfire. Seniors and the sick will die at an alarming rate. Honestly, after conducting a poll six months ago right here on CD, it seems 75%+ of posters are 65+. Many of you will be the ones at risk. I'm sacrificing to try to save YOU.
But hell, if you don't want it, go ahead and open everything back up. I'll enjoy a nice steak dinner at a nice restaurant downtown. Don't come crying to me if you or your loved one gets sick. I did what I could.
No one is benefiting from any of this confusion and uncertainty, so why not aim for actually KNOWING when this will cool down, how it will cool down, and when we can go back to normal? It does no one any good for the economy to tank and for millions to be jobless, in addition to being sick.
Uncertainty is the driving force behind all human action and interaction -- commonly known as progress.
Those who promise absolute security usually are in pursuit of absolute power.
I think if everyone adheres to social distancing and simply stays at home until Easter, we could perhaps have flattened the curve and be on a roadmap to returning to normal. However, people cannot think that they can get out and live their normal routines now because if people don't stay home, that won't be enough time.
I don't know when, but this does flatten out by Easter, if that is the hard and fast deadline, than I can at least live with that. Going into May or June, I can't risk that. The thing is, alot of people don't have the option of staying home. Truckers, construction workers, people in the medical industry.
I want to see things go back to normal as soon as possible. The way things have been going, it's been costly. And people are still getting sick. How long do we need to stay down? How much is it going to cost? How much should we be willing to give up. There are people going home without jobs left and right. The economy has taken a major hit.
This is the thing. I'm sick of living day to day. I'm sick of the uncertainty. I never know what is going on. What I'm hearing is 15 days, and then I hear sometime by Easter. I don't know how long we're going to have to remain down. I don't have the money to remain down for MONTHS. I have work now, but if things continue the way they are going now, there could be even more layoffs. It could very well be me.
Here is another thing that is scary. It's hard to tell what is going on. I'm not panic shopping, but I'm panicking for another reason. Uncertainty. I rest alot easier when I know what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, and how it will happen.
1) How do we protect the vulnerable while at the same time, letting the healthy live normal lives? I'm not one of those persons who says "let those old people die". I don't want anyone to die. I do wonder which better ways this could have been handled.
2) How long is this going to last? I am really scared. And not just Covid-19. I'm scared of the possibility of losing my job simply due to lack of work coming in. And Covid-19 has alot to do with it.
3) Not knowing the truth. I'm hearing conflicting reports from all over. The left, the right, everywhere. Only panic everywhere. Panic on one end, arrogance on the other side. What treatments are out there? Do they work? Has this stuff peaked? Is it going down? Is it getting worse? Just more uncertainty, something I don't work well with.
All valid concerns, but right now it's imperative that we heed the warnings of public health officials. "Please do not take medical advice from a man who looked directly at a solar eclipse." as a prominent political figure just posted on Twitter.
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All uncertainty is doing, at this particular point in time, is creating alot of panic and misinformation. People need to KNOW, not assume.
The problem here, is we can't know. We can only put our best minds to making a good educated guess.
The reality of this, in the US, will be something between a huge nothing-ball with very very few people dying percentage-wise, and most who test positive healing fine at home with no medical intervention, to the other side of the pendulum that shows all our hospitals over run with patients who are dying and needing respirators to save their lives, but there aren't any to be had.
Those are the two extremes, and everything in between, and we just don't know.
All valid concerns, but right now it's imperative that we heed the warnings of public health officials. "Please do not take medical advice from a man who looked directly at a solar eclipse." as a prominent political figure just posted on Twitter.
I'm not taking medical advice from Trump. However, it seems no one knows what the freak is going on. Even the medical experts seem to barely know.
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Speaking only for people I know, some of them are talking about every positive thing they can think of; and some people seem to truly be relishing the terror and are trying to whip up a panic. And they get really, really frustrated if you try to say Italy is not the norm. Talking about mid May when all our hospitals will be closed down and people will be dying in the parking lots trying to break in to steal respirators. Honestly, there are people who are enjoying that, in a grief porn way.
Why are people so upset about getting back to normal?
Why do you ask loaded questions on the pretext of sounding reasonable?
You have demonstrated in your short tenure here on CD that you understand very little about what's going on here. This thread is yet another example.
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