I’m with you Don. All this damn pansy crap. Scared of the Chinese boogie man. If you have health issues protect yourself. Like you would any other time. Do pregnant women run jack hammers? Or apply insecticides? Why not? Cause they have to take precautions. When they are no longer pregnant do they go back their normal job duties. Yes. If you are reasonably healthy then you should be free to work. If you choose. I am so embarrassed how Americans have handled this situation.
My work just extended the half crew status for another two weeks.
Ummm, you do realize that healthy non-elderly people are ending up in the hospital right?
Again...I think this all goes back to personal choices. If you determine it is an acceptable risk to be out in public or go to different places...then it's on you. I would hope these people also take into consideration other factors. My wife doesn't go anywhere really (with the exception to a baby boutique this weekend) and if she does...she usually just stays in the vehicle. When things go back to "normal," I seriously doubt I will go back to a movie theater...attend packed concerts...or be in large groups of people like Mardi Gras or conventions. These are all personal choices that I will make because I think the risk does not outweigh the reward.
So sure...people of all ages are ending up in the hospital. I get that. SARS-CoV-2 is a nasty virus...and one that we have more to learn about. But I find it interesting that there are reports that say some states reopening have rates going down or holding steady. I have also seen info that conflicts with this. Is it possible that there will be another surge of this? Sure there could be. If we are waiting for the infection rate to go to zero...it's not going to happen. Are we waiting for a proven effective vaccine? It is still a ways away. It's just not feasible for the entire country to stay home all the time while business owners who have worked their entire lives have to file for bankruptcy. How about schools...are kids supposed to stay at home and rely on virtual learning and parents to teach them? Oh yeah, and even if a parent is working from home...that doesn't mean that the parent has time to teach their kids.
The stay at home orders were never to be a way to fight the virus...they were just implemented to slow the spread so that health care systems would not be overwhelmed, which was accomplished. Even in places where infection was the worst...New York...the overflow hospitals that were built were rarely used and never even to half capacity. Okay...so hospitals were not overwhelmed. So what are we doing now?
Again...I don't think we should be packing ourselves close together at beaches or pools or other places...but we can't all just stay at home for the rest of our lives. Not even the rest of the year or even the rest of the summer? If we did that...there would be numerous other health, social, and economic issues.
Yes...there will be people that contract this...there will be people who get sick from it...and there will be people that will die from it. When we have a particularly bad flu season we don't shut down the entire country. How about Hepatitis outbreaks. What about HIV?
I fully support the lock down to help slow the infection rate. But I also support getting the country going too. We have to be smart about things...but we can't hide in a cave forever.
Okay...I spent way too much time on this and now I am starting to sound like a raving lunatic. One more thing...every state has it's own set of circumstances...and each state has to decide what is best for it. I actually agree with the way our Governor is handling our reopening.
