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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
When the Spanish Flu arrived the first thing people noticed was that it seemed to spare children and young people. Then the virus muted and killed many millions of children and young people. Shit happens.
This is a new disease we don't have a vaccine for.
Why is it so hard from some people to just heed a warning and listen to what people who know far more about it than you ever will are saying.
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My biggest pet peeve with this whole thing, which discredits the warnings, is the inconsistencies with the response. For Ohio...
School is ok to attend tomorrow, but not for the next 3 weeks starting Monday/Tuesday. Meanwhile, with parents still at work, kids are going to be congregating with babysitters in large groups, or hanging out at the mall with friends from their school district and other school districts. Seems counterproductive.
Crowds of 100+ are not ok, but airports, grocery stores, office buildings, etc., remain functional. Not to mention 100+ in Ohio isn't ok but you can have up to 500 people together in NYC, 250 people in both Seattle and San Francisco, and so on.
Sporting events are not ok, even when no fans are in attendance, but regular civilians need to still go to work.
We want solutions, but places like the Cleveland Clinic have to wait for approval from the CDC (government), which delays those solutions.
Why are there inconsistencies? Is this not as bad as the media is making it out to be? Is it as serious as it's being made out to be and our decision makers just suck? There is such a thing as overreaction, and I don't believe it to be wrong to question what's going on. Standard precautions (washing hands, not going out when sick, etc.) and common sense prevail 9 times out of 10, minimum.