“He said if the downward trend continues the pandemic may end up no worse than a bad flu season.”
And that’s with no vaccine.
The damage has already been done. I just spent a day socially distanced outside with a good friend yesterday. She will only go back to the old normal once there’s a vaccine. It doesn’t matter what I try to tell her about the numbers. She doesn’t believe me. She believes whatever Lester Holt has been saying.
She’s still pro-Trump, but she is firmly in the camp that only a vaccine, not even therapeutics, will bring relief. She will only trust a vaccine. I ask her what happens if they don’t find a vaccine? She says, oh, they will, it will be here before the winter gets here.
I can only shake my head. I’m through with trying to talk common sense anymore. People’s minds are made up.