I think it’s a combination of two things.
1) The virus is real and preparations do need to be made
2) All these cancellations and closings are a bit over the top considering nothing like this was done in 2009 so I think that part of it is dems/leftists not letting a crisis go to waste
How do you explain El Salvador closing the entire country with no cases.
Are just crazy leftists doing this for no reason?
Really?
This will be like Y2K.
Lots of behind the scenes work by the professionals.
Things won’t be as bad as everyone thinks.
Muggles will therefore conclude Y2K was a hoax.
...moving on...
Agreed Pollard. Real people are not able to pay their bills.
I know you can’t pay your bills if you are dead or intubated. I agree that high risk individuals should mostly shelter.
I don’t agree that our entire economy should be destroyed.
I did well today. But taxi business here is down apparently 75 percent. Drivers can’t work because they can’t actually make anything. No conventions, no sports, no entertainment, half the work force
Staying home, all businesses cutting back - it’s destroying people. Way more than the virus ever would have destroyed the vast majority of them.
2009 Swine Flu, AKA (H1N1)pdm09 had an extremely low mortality of 0.05%, half or less than most seasonal flu strains and 1/20th or less of COVID-19. Swine flu only got any attention at all because it mostly killed younger people rather than "old people". If COVID-19 had the mortality rate of (H1N1)pdm09, no one would care about it. If COVID-19 killed mostly people under 50, the entire country would be shut down right now, and nobody would be complaining.