Posted on 04/10/2020 1:06:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
We are not what we used to be. We will probably hide from the virus for the next 18-24 months until everyone gets herd immunity or get a vaccine.
i think everyone is skeered and will hunker down, willingly.
Personally I really hope that we are not going to become a nation of cowering germaphobes hiding under the table over a 100-year event.
As Fauci and Birx have been seeking an AIDS vaccine for 30 years WITHOUT SUCCESS, I’m not buying the crap that they’ll have one for this in that timeframe.
People are going to have to be pulled out of their hidey holes. Stadiums aren’t going to be filling up any time soon.
My parents lived through the depression as kids and WW II as adults. They then enjoyed the most prosperity ever known in the 50’s, but they always saved for a rainy day, unlike the millenials.
IF Facusist had been as strict on the homosexual community in the early days of AIDS, that epidemic would be certainly far more contained than it is today.
There is some vaccine pessimism that is warranted, but AIDS was only going to ever effect ~1% of the population. COVID-19 has the potential infect 100%, so there is much more incentive to find a vaccine. There will be more money, more people, more effort and research to get a vaccine.
The country is done...
The governors can all be little dictators or big dictators what is to stop them now..
“But we’re not going back to that exact normal life we remember.”
A new normal will set in just as it has after all major catastrophic events.
All you have to do is look at this site. Even a fair number of the patriots on here are still scared to death.
It is going to be a long, long, long time before things get back to normal.
Also I must admit that Europe and Japan were devastated by WW II and took 20 years to recover to rival the USA. I don’t think Communist China will recover after this in 20 years.
Let Inga Tell You: A trip back to the early 1950s. Polio,
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3831760/posts
“Dr. Fauci, if social distancing is the most effective strategy to arrest the spread of a deadly virus, why did you refuse to recommend the closure of San Francisco’s bath houses in the 1980’s?”
No one ever asks him that at the pressers.
A huge percentage of Americans live in fear of something, anything, i.e. climate change. Yes, I’m talking about liberals, and some in the squishy middle.
Those people ache for governmental control, and nothing makes them happier than watching resisters crushed.
If we’re not going to deal with China, it’s not going to matter, anyway.
If we deal with China, we will certainly be blazing new trails, and clearing old ones.
Thank you for your service in Vietnam! Vietnam vets hold a special place in my heart(the love of my life) as do WWII vets (my Dad) both born on the same day, Nov. 6th
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