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To me personally, I'd practice social distancing as long as I think I should because I have family members who are medical doctors and I don't want this virus in my body, period.
This said, I don't want to call these people ignorant either, because they made their own choice and they shall live their own lives.
One of the icons of our society these days is that people are not easy believers. They been fed so much crap and sensationalism that they wait until they can see it in front of them to believe. Most have a set of life conditions they follow which are based on their silo of ideology.
I think that if COVID-19 could be easily caught just by being within six feet of an infected person not wearing a mask, there would have been over a million cases in the U.S. by March 15th, at the latest.
Think of six degrees of separation, the fact that there are about 330 million people in the U.S., the accepted fact (?) that COVID-19 has a five-day incubation period and that 20% of those infected will show symptoms, and do the math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation From the link: "Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. Also known as the 6 Handshakes rule. As a result, a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps." [END QUOTE] But it doesn't even have to go that far -- think of someone who unknowingly has the virus, and think of how many people the average person has a "face to face" conversation with in a single day, and then think of how many each of these people are in contact with, and so on and so on.
The fact is that I live in Denver suburb, and yet I have (fortunately) not personally known anyone (old or young) who has not been diagnosed with having COVID-19. Of course, that is just MY experience and I might very well be unusual in that, but it does make me think that stay-at-home orders in places that are not "hot spots" is a very great overreaction. My belief is that if the risk of contagion was THAT bad, grocery stores would now be facing a huge shortage of cashiers being out of work due to being sick.
And, yes, before anyone lambasts me, I do know that many people have become very sick from this and thousands HAVE died from it -- but I think that government leaders 'preaching' that a very large percentage of us are going to end up in ICU's unless extreme measures continue (indefinitely) seems to me to be nothing short of an attempt to dominate, manipulate and control most of the population.
P.S. However, I do think that people in "high risk" groups or those who live in "hot spots" should continue to take precautions, but I just don't think that most of us should live the rest of our lives in fear, and that it is time for us to slowly and cautiously start getting back to life as in was six months ago.
Last edited by katharsis; 05-14-2020 at 12:50 PM..
I think that if COVID-19 could be easily caught just by being within six feet of an infected person not wearing a mask, there would have been over a million cases in the U.S. by March 15th, at the latest.
The number of airplane passengers and cruise ship passengers who got covid back in Feb proved how contagious it was.
Mitigation efforts slowed the outbreak spread and definitely in less densely populated areas, but the U.S. is already well over 1M total infections. Imagine if nothing had been shut down and no social distancing occurred and people weren't taking any precautions. Look at high density areas like NYC to see how quickly the virus spread.
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