You're not wearing the mask for yourself, it's to protect others "You need to make sure you live your life in a way that benefits other people while simultaneously harming yourself."
What's more important: the economy or the lives of other people? "It's worth sacrificing the prosperity, safety, wealth and happiness of hundreds of millions of young and able-bodied adults, families, and children because 130,000 profoundly brittle octogenarians will succumb to a virus rather than their litany of comorbidities they are living with"
We need to ensure hospitals don't get overwhelmed "CNN told me ICUs are at 80-90% capacity but what they didn't tell me is most of the time, ICUs are at 80-90% capacity."
The amount of new cases has doubled since last month and continues to rise "I'm unable to comprehend that number of cases increasing twofold is not keeping pace with the number of tests performed, which is sevenfold. And despite this, hospitalization and death rate is still half of last year's annual Influenza season."
What they say vs what I hear...
You're not wearing the mask for yourself, it's to protect others "You need to make sure you live your life in a way that benefits other people while simultaneously harming yourself."
What's more important: the economy or the lives of other people? "It's worth sacrificing the prosperity, safety, wealth and happiness of hundreds of millions of young and able-bodied adults, families, and children because 130,000 profoundly brittle octogenarians will succumb to a virus rather than their litany of comorbidities they are living with"
We need to ensure hospitals don't get overwhelmed "CNN told me ICUs are at 80-90% capacity but what they didn't tell me is most of the time, ICUs are at 80-90% capacity."
The amount of new cases has doubled since last month and continues to rise "I'm unable to comprehend that number of cases increasing twofold is not keeping pace with the number of tests performed, which is sevenfold. And despite this, hospitalization and death rate is still half of last year's annual Influenza season."