To those hoping for distancing orders to be relaxed by mid-May... (homes, unemployment)

[Flightoficarus87]

This is why I'm not so confident about such being able to happen...

https://komonews.com/news/coronaviru...-at-home-order

In any case, hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these times.

P.S. - that title should be "start being relaxed around mid-May"

[leastprime]

IF he was in a public sense mood, he should have said, "Use your common sense and protect those who you care about and the first responders. And we'll All get through this crisis faster."

We planned, around June 15 (+/-) to break our personal self-protection-isolation.

[CrazyDonkey]

Just one infected person without symptoms walking into a nursing home/assisted living facility is like lighting a cigarette next to a gas pump.

[flyingsaucermom]

Originally Posted by CrazyDonkey

Just one infected person without symptoms walking into a nursing home/assisted living facility is like lighting a cigarette next to a gas pump.

Yes, but what is your point? You think we're going reach a time where there aren't any infected individuals walking around?

Not without a vaccine.......

[CrazyDonkey]

Originally Posted by flyingsaucermom

Yes, but what is your point? You think we're going reach a time where there aren't any infected individuals walking around?

Not without a vaccine.......

The more infected people who are walking around not social distancing the more likely they'll infect someone who will walk into a nursing home/assisted living facility (a health care provider, for instance) not knowing they are infected and spark off a hotspot that can kill dozens of people.

[flyingsaucermom]

Originally Posted by CrazyDonkey

The more infected people who are walking around not social distancing the more likely they'll infect someone who will walk into a nursing home/assisted living facility (a health care provider, for instance) not knowing they are infected and spark off a hotspot that can kill dozens of people.

I understand how transmission works.

You understand that without a vaccine, massive testing and isolation that we're not going to stop the spread and threat of the disease?

You surely understand that we can extensively stay in our homes until June just to have infected visitors from Iowa and Georgia and the other states that are refusing to shelter down or are opening up despite outbreaks come and visit their granny in the nursing home or their cousins who will later visit granny in the nursing home and start the whole process over again. So we just sit in our homes for a year while the rest of the country figures out how to live through the pandemic balancing lives and livelihoods?

Clearly you must have a secure job and/or an awesome emergency fund, but you've seen the unemployment numbers.

We're going to have to accept some risk soon.

[TheTimidBlueBars]

If the $2,000 monthly stimulus check passes, we'll be able to keep society closed for a few more months. We can wait for the infected numbers to drop, and buy some time for the roll-out of antibody tests and maybe some kind of rudimentary contact tracing program. In my opinion, that's our only hope.

"Risk" means hundreds of thousands of people drowning in their own blood. That's what's gonna happen if we start letting everyone freely associate again.

[flyingsaucermom]

Originally Posted by TheTimidBlueBars

If the $2,000 monthly stimulus check passes, we'll be able to keep society closed for a few more months. We can wait for the infected numbers to drop, and buy some time for the roll-out of antibody tests and maybe some kind of rudimentary contact tracing program. In my opinion, that's our only hope.

"Risk" means hundreds of thousands of people drowning in their own blood. That's what's gonna happen if we start letting everyone freely associate again.

That sounds like the best option. The question is if we can develop a high sensitive and selective test and mass produce it within the next couple months.

[UrbanAdventurer]

A lot of hoopla over a minor virus. There's nothing to be afraid of if you are under 80 years old and otherwise healthy. Take the silly masks off and go back to your lives. (Also turn the King 5 "Fear not Facts" off)

[Gruvis]

Originally Posted by TheTimidBlueBars

If the $2,000 monthly stimulus check passes, we'll be able to keep society closed for a few more months. We can wait for the infected numbers to drop, and buy some time for the roll-out of antibody tests and maybe some kind of rudimentary contact tracing program. In my opinion, that's our only hope.

"Risk" means hundreds of thousands of people drowning in their own blood. That's what's gonna happen if we start letting everyone freely associate again.

Just in case anyone was wondering, the $1200 stimulus checks and any future stimulus checks were and will be printed out of nothing. This will cause rapid inflation and loss of purchasing power for the common person. Our government continues to transfer wealth from the lower and middle classes to the top, and future generations will be worse off because of it.


Everyone should spare 30 minutes of their quarantined free time to get educated on how our money system works.