Dousing a fire before it burns your house down is not panicking. It's taking appropriate actions in an emergency.
How long are you going to wait? One week - 15,000 Americans will be infected. Two - 150,000. Three? 1.5M. Four 15M. Five? everyone.
I am not panicking. I am supporting the strongest possible public health measures to contain and control this. Now!
The fire is in the kitchen, the bedrooms and bathrooms and game room are fine.
We’ll be okay, we can always have Uber deliver meals...
Although I'm in my early 70s, I am far, far more concerned with the fear and outright panic that's going on throughout our country than with what I am incessantly bombarded with about this new flu virus. I mean, it's like "climate change"on steriods. Get a grip people!
If you practice good hygiene -- alright, "enhanced" hygiene -- and keep yourself in good health and be extra cautious around people who are coughing and sneezing (that is, who look and act like they have a cold or the flu) -- things you should normally be doing anyway! -- you'll very, very, very likely get through this disease just fine. And if you are exposed (that is, you "test positive"), and then if you do happen to get sick, chances are excellent that you won't die, especially if you're under 80.
Despite all the breathless reporting by the fear-obsessed media and by so, so very many "experts", the incessant reporting of how many people are dying (in contrast to how many people recover as they do from the "regular" flu), and the truly over-the-top reactions of so many people and organizations which have been deliberately scared half to death, this virus is not a death-sentence for everyone one who may get sick from it. For God's sake -- if not for the sake of you and for your family -- be cautious, be vigilant but maintain a little perspective here.
A 30-day moratorium on travel and events may be a good idea on a national and international scale, but a 30-day break (or even a one-week break) from the media's outright panic at this point would seem to be a fine idea on a personal level.
Some of the people I've discussed this with have dismissed me as being a "denier" -- a "virus denier" I presume (sound familiar?) Well, I'm not. Just like with so many other hysterias over the decades, I accept that the corona virus is real and that it can make you sick -- I don't "deny" that at all. But I do not believe (and thus, "deny") that the threat posed by this virus to the world's population is anywhere near as bad as so many of my fellow citizens have been scared into believing it is. Buck up, folks. This will run its course and we'll get through this.
I care about people and I care about their health and well-being. So while the virus is a threat to health, so stress-induced panic is to well-being. Cheers!