In the next few weeks we will have our answer.
So, everybody can stay calm and wait or...
We can yell and scream, name-call, finger-point, and howl at the moon.
Hmm—I wonder what folks here will choose...
I hope people can really crunch some numbers in the next few months. How early did it appear? How many cases were there really? How much did we over count the deaths?
My belief is that the lockdown achieved less than expected. The deaths were less than reported. I say this was a flu season comparable to 2017 and far less severe than 1969. Our over-reaction was unwarranted.
If this thing “returns” in the Fall, we should be prepared to NOT panic.
IF it happens it will be 1st to 2nd week of June, right after Memorial Day Weekend.
Last weekend in North Central PA the rail trails and water ways were busy. Cyclists, canoe, kayak, hikers and fisherman. I met up with a cyclist group from Berks Co. were at a rest point on the trail. They are from a lockdown red zone and feel the way I do. Normally, everyone stays more than 6 feet apart. You are outside.
You will more likely to get rona going to Walmart but, not between two State Forests.
In Florida we are in phase II. Here in the north part of the state restaraunts are now 50% capacity inside dining, barbershops, salons and all beaches open 100% and hallelujah it’s a miracle....were all still alive...Imagine that. Now if they’d just get rid of the one way isles in grocery stores and walmart etc....what a dumb idea.
How dare you!! People with high risk conditions stayed home and fully supported businesses financially by ordering delivery and buying gift cards.
What’s Disgusting is self-proclaimed “heroes” who are just as much control freaks and judgmental scumbags as the Leftists.
Georgia is one of the first to “open”... but it’s not open like it used to be. Yes, it’s open... some stores are still using curb service.. Walmart has men at the door... they are keeping it uncrowded.. many stores do not have enough help. .. I need to buy a dishwasher and am hesitating because not sure there are installers, drivers to deliver it, etc...
so when it gets more normal... it will pick up.. but there are still face masks and hesitation ...
a mess o' shit.
Why are the flu numbers the same if all this virus crap works??
Proof that this virus isn’t the monster people stupidly claimed it would be. With ZERO PROOF of anything, people made absurd predictions of millions dead and destroyed their country. Things cannot return to where they were. We have enough feeble minded people suffering from nosophobia of COVID-19 that they are willing to die in place.
When the money runs out, watch out.
2) It's getting warm and/or humid over a large swath of the USA, and COVID-19 - like all coronaviruses - does not live as long on surfaces in such environments:
The one-size-fits-all lockdown solution was based on an alleged high potential of random, aerosolized transmission, and constitutes criminal madness if such transmission is actually not occurring at the predicted rates. Which is exactly what the evidence so far is suggesting.
Time to get back to work and #rebuidtheeconomytogether
The truth - the 110% increase in cases was due to a 400% increase in testing in Montgomery. In Alabama - the actual numbers we went from 6800 cases with 65,000 tests before reopening - to 2600 cases in 84000 tests after reopening. An actual DROP to 1/3 the positives.
The truth - Montgomery's SEVENTY-EIGHT hospitalized patients were across FOUR LARGE HOSPITALS, and over 60 of the patients were from over 10 counties in the area that only have Clinics and funnel all patients to Montgomery ICU facilities.
But the models say.....
Spike is a character in the “Nancy” comic strip. What does he have to do with the lockdown?