Because of all those reported outbreaks that have happened at grocery stores, amirite?
We know where outbreaks and transmissions happen...in close contact where people talk to, work with or live with an infected person and in big crowds like concerts and churches where people are sitting or standing close by lots of people.
While transmission is possible elsewhere theoretically, it isn’t being documented and it definitely would not happen in large or unmanageable numbers. Walking past an infected person is very unlikely to offer an opportunity to transmit the disease.
The point of these shutdowns was, I thought, to not overwhelm the health care system. That means you shut down things where a large outbreak could happen. Not things where only very minimal transmission could potentially happen.
This is very much like the 1980s AIDS scare now where people were thinking you could catch it from anywhere. The paranoia has to stop.
And no family gatherings or parties celebrating anything.
Hmmm.
But whatever, as long as no one is having any fun anywhere or clogging up the grocery store line.
Exactly.
Deinitely more contagious than the butt sex virus, but if you breeze by an infected person, only briefly near him, I suspect you’re not very likely to get it unless he coughs in your face or some such.
Thank you. This hysteria has to stop.
Wearing a mask on a crowded subway makes sense. Wearing a mask walking down a deserted street or a sparsely populated store? Madness.
“While transmission is possible elsewhere theoretically, it isn’t being documented and it definitely would not happen in large or unmanageable numbers. Walking past an infected person is very unlikely to offer an opportunity to transmit the disease.
The point of these shutdowns was, I thought, to not overwhelm the health care system. That means you shut down things where a large outbreak could happen. Not things where only very minimal transmission could potentially happen.
This is very much like the 1980s AIDS scare now where people were thinking you could catch it from anywhere. The paranoia has to stop.”
I was telling my kids the same about the early days of AIDS - in that case, the purpose was funding. If everyone thought they could get it, then they gravy train would roll for vaccine/treatments - and it worked.
In this case, I think it’s more based on arrogance. We’ve been told all these ‘rules’ about catching colds, over hundreds of years, so they figure they already know everything. But they are IDIOTS, the people in charge. They find a few virons (if that, probably just RNA strands) on a doorknob after 17 days and conclude that not only is the virus still present, but it can attack, and if it attacks it will infect and possibly kill people. So we run around with bleach, shut down businesses for a week to ‘deep clean’ them when one person tests positive and now have people spraying bleach on their groceries.
Yea right, as I’ve been pointing out from the start - we had 10s of thousands of infected people from Asia and Italy flying here, unimpeded, for pretty much all of January and all of February. If it spread so easily, then literally EVERYONE in this country would have been infected by mid-March, if not much earlier. They weren’t, as testing shows that 90% of even sick people DO NOT have the virus, at least not yet. As to the 17-day doorknob and the deep cleaning due to it - how about shutting down the place for 24 hours if they find a case (if no symptoms) or 48 hours if symptoms - and leaving it at that. If people got sick from 17-day doorknobs, this virus would have burned through long ago.