Result: Mask protocols are ratcheted up, fear and division is magnified, and shut down part 2 is on the horizon. All while the death rate of the virus is falling markedly.
This will all resolve on Nov 3rd.
This is not a media creation, for fucks sake.
Every public health official in the country is worried and depressed. That’s what’s being reported.
I hear people keep beating the drum about mistakes made with states who re-opened earlier than others. They're now pointing to rises in positive tests - that was always going to happen! We could have opened in April or opened in October - whichever date that we opened, the number of infections and -- by fractional math -- deaths would begin to increase.
The question is what is the goal - to have as close to zero deaths as possible at all societal and economic cost? If that's the case, mandatory house arrest nationwide, government commandeering of food, utilities, and banks, no travel in or out of the country, and everyone is under a shelter-in-place order until the bureaucrats work out a vaccine. We'll see everyone in 2022 after 330 million people have been vaccinated.
Or was the goal to manage our risks as best we can without removing basic freedoms and put enough restrictions in place to prevent health care facilities from being overwhelmed?
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I am happy with the decreased lethality news. The rest was alteady baked in from my perspective. I knew this would spread regardless while your media mislead you that we could mask wear our way out of exposure.
The disease is real but far better than initially claimed.
You are depressed because the media is manipulating you intentionally.
Hospitals are full, but 75% due to backlog of nonCOVID
The death Rate has dropped. We have enough vents and icu beds - I do watch that carefully since full beds are full beds regardless of cause, so there is reason to be wary.
But I reiterate:
Shutdown costs (loss of education to kids, damage to economy, suicides, unemployment, business shutdowns,
Lack of usual routine screening and medical care, etc, etc) far outweigh the risk of this virus to our country.
For that reason, I advocate isolation of the elderly and immunocompromised....not for all of the low risk others.
You are depressed because of who you read. You also continue to trust every new report without remembering how many lies have been told by the media. Always give any convenient-sounding msm a few days before jumping.
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But that would be if you were in the medical field at all.
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