A second wave requiring another quarantine? Nope. The people won’t stand for it.
.... what, are you going to demand to speak to covid's manager and tell them that? It's a virus. It doesn't care what you will or won't stand for.
This virus will be a yearly thing from here on out, and it will mutate and make its rounds just like the flu and every other virus out there. We have to adjust and move on with our lives.
It's mortality rate in the US is, by current official numbers, just shy of 6% (though
according to this article on the Economist, the number dead from covid may be significantly higher than the official numbers). For comparison, the flu has a 0.2% mortality rate.
I have been in and out of stores for almost 2 months now, just like normal. If they hadn’t taken away my jobs, I would have continued working them. I have not worn a mask even once, neither have my family members except the ones who work in the containment and restoration industry and were already wearing them at work before this.
Please reconsider this. At the very least, wear a mask. A recent model
Link Removed And all you need to do to be part of the solution (not the problem) is wear a mask when you're out in public. If you like, I can get you in touch with one of my friends who is making cloth masks.
The purpose of wearing a mask isn't to stop you from getting sick; it's to stop you from getting other people sick. And since covid has many asymptomatic carriers, and since even those with symptoms become contagious before they display any symptoms, this is an important step for all of us, whether we feel sick or not.
I go in the store, do my business, and then leave, practicing appropriate hygiene and cleansing. All these things they tell us to do? We’ve always done them, like washing our hands immediately after shopping, using hand sanitizer, not sharing drinks or utensions, no kissing the kids on the lips, staying home if we’re sick, taking vitamin C and D, etc.
Again, I urge you to reconsider your flippancy. To you, 6% mortality may just seem like an abstract number, but would you be cool with 6% of your family dying?
Forgive me if I seem a bit prickly about this, but my wife is immune compromised; if she catches it, her odds aren't great. And while I'm at it, her father has chronic respiratory issues, and my own parents are 72 and 64. And if everybody wore masks and tried to eliminate non-essential outings, all of them would be much safer; as is, every time I have to pick up groceries there's a chance I could get my wife killed just by breathing in the wrong place.
Because somebody who feels fine might be a carrier, and might have shown up to shop without a mask because they didn't realize they had it.
Common sense approach goes further than panic-driven solutions like slamming the doors of businesses shut and forcing people into unemployment and house arrest and tanking the country’s economy.
How many lives does your common sense say we should sacrifice for the economy? Or flipped another way, how much money should we be willing to sacrifice to keep people safe? For perspective, our current military budget is $700 billion; current projections suggest that the death rate could hit 3000 (roughly the number that died on 9/11/01)
daily.
People live with the flu all around them, even while it continues to kill 20,000-60,000 people every year (facts, not my opinion),
Covid has killed that many in two months.
and they continue to drive cars even though cars kill about 30,000 people per year
Covid has killed more than that in April alone. Furthermore, we have very strict regulations on how people are permitted to use cars, and failure to abide by them can result in a revocation of driving rights
even if nobody is injured. You are required by law to remain within certain speeds on public roads. You are required by law to wear a seatbelt on public roads. You are required by law to be uninhibited by alcohol or other substances while driving on public roads. You are required by law to drive in the correct lane. You are required by law to stop when told by an automated system (traffic lights) to stop. Etc, etc, etc.
We accept all of these laws because we recognize that they keep us and the people around us safer.
By comparison, having to wear a mask and maintain 6 feet of distance from other shoppers seems pretty minor.
As I have said many times before: the goal should be for it to feel like we overreacted. And honestly, we won't really even know how bad the problem really is, or how much of a risk there is with reopening, until testing catches up to actual infection numbers -- and right now it's not even close.
Just being alive is a risk. Another shutdown will not be tolerated, and it boggles my mind that this one has gone on so long without violent protests (but I see them happening in the near future if things don’t change soon).
Sadly,
the violence already begun.
At any rate, you didn't really address the rest of my post. Do you think attendance at crowded events will spike right back up to 100% where it was before?
