The analogy I like to use, in this instance, is to compare our response to this disease to how we've handled the AIDS virus.
AIDS is a killer, period, but it's highly restrictive in its ability to transfer from one individual to another. It has been known for nearly 30 years that AIDS is transmitted via sexual contact, blood transfusion, or sharing hiperdermic needles. It is a disease that you can virtually guarantee you will not contract if you don't engage in risky behavior and this information has been widely available and preached on mainstream sources for decades.
Yet, Americans are still contracting AIDS. Why?
Human beings are fickle, unpredictable, stubborn, and often willfully ignorant. If we can't eliminate AIDS, there is no amount of quarantine or restrictive behavior that will stop the spread of the Chinese Flu. It is inevitable that some people will willingly, or unbeknownst to them, place themselves in a position to contract this virus. The only thing you can really do is educate the population and hope those who are at greatest risk from serious complications take initiative to protect themselves. This virus is too communicable to be stopped, so damaging our economy and subsequently driving people to act in deliberate defiance against attempts to stop the spread will only make things worse.
I am not scared of the Chinese Flu, but a fucked up economy, an overreaching government, and a panic induced population culminate into something truly disastrous that gives me nightmares, and I want this nightmare to end.
In short, fuck all the hype and let us live our lives. This shit will sort itself out, as these diseases have for the last two millenia.
The analogy I like to use, in this instance, is to compare our response to this disease to how we've handled the AIDS virus.
AIDS is a killer, period, but it's highly restrictive in its ability to transfer from one individual to another. It has been known for nearly 30 years that AIDS is transmitted via sexual contact, blood transfusion, or sharing hiperdermic needles. It is a disease that you can virtually guarantee you will not contract if you don't engage in risky behavior and this information has been widely available and preached on mainstream sources for decades. Yet, Americans are still contracting AIDS. Why?
Human beings are fickle, unpredictable, stubborn, and often willfully ignorant. If we can't eliminate AIDS, there is no amount of quarantine or restrictive behavior that will stop the spread of the Chinese Flu. It is inevitable that some people will willingly, or unbeknownst to them, place themselves in a position to contract this virus. The only thing you can really do is educate the population and hope those who are at greatest risk from serious complications take initiative to protect themselves. This virus is too communicable to be stopped, so damaging our economy and subsequently driving people to act in deliberate defiance against attempts to stop the spread will only make things worse.
I am not scared of the Chinese Flu, but a fucked up economy, an overreaching government, and a panic induced population culminate into something truly disastrous that gives me nightmares, and I want this nightmare to end.
In short, fuck all the hype and let us live our lives. This shit will sort itself out, as these diseases have for the last two millenia.