people are getting all panicky about a few 1000 cases
People are being paniced by the constant barrage of doom blaring from every type of media there is.
We were not serious in our responses to this mess: we did not slam shut the borders and keep people out thereby minimizing the chances of widespread infections from abroad.
I am sceptically cautious. I acknowledge that the death rate of this virus is higher than colds or flu but its no where near the level of “bring out your dead”. Every time I hear a report about how there are so many people that have it but do not know it or who have no symptoms, I do not take that very seriously when you can’t quantify it by any means other than projection. Yeah, it can spread to the “vulnerable” just like anything else that we do not jump off buildings about.
About the only positives is that some folks will not have to buy toilet paper until at least June and will have the whitest whites from all the bleach that was bought with their Purelled hands.
Just my opinion.
AMEN to that! It's simply staggering that we limited people coming from China and later Iran, and left the door WIDE OPEN to people coming in from other infected hot spots like Italy and S. Korea.
Insisting that people are "screened" before they are let on a plane is insulting our intelligence. Everyone knows by know that this virus takes up to 28 days (average 5-6) to show symptoms, and that it can be spread by asymptomatic people. So why are we expected to believe that it can be stopped by "screening" when "screening" WON'T DETECT a large majority of infectious people?
Worse, it appears we are not screening people on arrival..
And don't even get me started on the complete mess that was made of our testing readiness, or the lack of stockpiled masks. Both of those are screw-ups of epic proportions given we've known of the virus for literally months now. I won't blame Trump directly as he can't be on top of everything, but the administration bungled this big-time.
[[but its no where near the level of “bring out your dead”.]]
Not now it isn’t- but it hasn’t even started here yet- as the article points out- IF, and it’s a big if, IF this virus turns into a pandemic- then yes- it could result in ‘bring out your dead’- but like i and others have stated, viruses ‘tend to’ dwindle in severity, and the threat burns itself out- usually- every now and again though it doesn’t- and that’s what folks are cautious about, and they should be
As the old adage goes- it’s better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it’- so folks are stocking up on things ‘just incase’ this virus really takes off- so they can stay home, and not go into public unless absolutely necessary in order to cut down on the chances of getting it- that’s all we can do- we need to leave the rest to God- Rely on God, but do our part to decrease chances-
Noone’s saying we should jump off buildings- Folks are just saying we should prepare- if we prepare, then we can face it IF it hits- if we’re not prepared- then we could be increasing our chances of not getting through it because we don’t know what kind of effect it will have on folks- healthy people in prime of life are dying from it- from what we’re reading- and others breeze right through it no problems- we don’t know why it affects some so severely, while others it doesn’t-
Another point- folks say ‘it’s no worse than the flu’ but in 2017 the flu killed 80,000 people in America alone- Healthy and unhealthy alike- just like this virus- Many folks say they always make it through flues with no real issues- but the fact is, they do make it through, until that one where they don’t- it’s never a bad thing to do whatever we can to try to help make it through, whether it be a ‘common flu’ or a virus like this- people shouldn’t take either flues or viruses for granted- thinking that it ‘only happens to others, not us’- one should always do whatever they can to try to mitigate the consequences as much as possible-
As healthy folks, we tend to think we’re invulnerable- that deaths from flu only happen to unhealthy folks- that flues can’t bring us down- Well, They can- and do- even healthy people in their primes-
Yes, people are worrying about a few 1000 cases- because of the potential- and rightfully so- we should always try to prepare for outbreaks- while this particular virus may never take hold and spread like wildfire, it’s just a matter of time before one does- God will be bringing disease and pestilence ‘at some point’ - but in the meantime, viruses do pose a threat- but fortunately, we do our best to contain them, create vaccines, and weather through them- IF for instance, this starts hitting schools hard, then schools all over will close down for a period of time- and folks will be urged to stay indoors- away from public as much as possible- some states are already doing that-
We tend to think that ‘oh well, so some already sick elderly folks will die- no big deal’ but it is a big deal to those families, and lived ones- there may be only several 10’s of 1000’s of people that die from this i n the end, but that is 10’s of 1000’s of families that have been devastated by it-