OK. But keep in mind, in the US, 50,000-80,000 people die from plain 'ol influenza and pneumonia each year. In a country of 330,000,000 people... viruses are NOT our biggest health threat. Not even close.
You're not wrong about most that. Covid is a little worse than regular flu. A little more communicable, a little more deadly. It spread around the globe quick, there's a lot of weird stuff about it, it may end up starting ww3, and there's a whole bunch of sheeple in our country who are ignorant and scared shitless because of this.
So people look for answers, for anything proactive we can do to help. What we don't need is more arguments among us. What are actual reasonable steps we should take right now? Shut down the economy? Hell no. Sacrifice our civil liberties? Never. Be a mature people and collectively say okay to doing some small changes in our personal hygiene habits? Yes. Wash your hands. Wear a mask in crowds. It will help with this and lower the cold/flu rate if we just keep doing it. Most of the Asian world does. It's not a sacrifice to think more proactively about pandemics. The next one could be way worse, and if we are to get through it it's collectively working as a people on stuff to combat it.
Now, people are taking mask wearing to ridiculous extremes with legislating it and recommending it, as the page i last linked suggested, anytime outside of the home. But crowded spaces, we should just already do that for the most part when practical. Be mature, be reasonable.
Longish rant, hope you were able to follow along with it.
You're not wrong about most that. Covid is a little worse than regular flu. A little more communicable, a little more deadly. It spread around the globe quick, there's a lot of weird stuff about it, it may end up starting ww3, and there's a whole bunch of sheeple in our country who are ignorant and scared shitless because of this.
So people look for answers, for anything proactive we can do to help. What we don't need is more arguments among us. What are actual reasonable steps we should take right now? Shut down the economy? Hell no. Sacrifice our civil liberties? Never. Be a mature people and collectively say okay to doing some small changes in our personal hygiene habits? Yes. Wash your hands. Wear a mask in crowds. It will help with this and lower the cold/flu rate if we just keep doing it. Most of the Asian world does. It's not a sacrifice to think more proactively about pandemics. The next one could be way worse, and if we are to get through it it's collectively working as a people on stuff to combat it.
Now, people are taking mask wearing to ridiculous extremes with legislating it and recommending it, as the page i last linked suggested, anytime outside of the home. But crowded spaces, we should just already do that for the most part when practical. Be mature, be reasonable.
Longish rant, hope you were able to follow along with it.