To those who think that you can't it is stupid. To those that think that you can it is common sense. It buys time. Valuable time that was wasted by the bumbling fool in the white house. I wonder what the world would face if the same complacent attitude was in place for AIDS and ebola. Your right Kathy stupidity is a big problem. It makes all problems worse
buys time for what? Everything done needs evaluation. that evaluation has to include consequences. The first point would be that you can't stop a virus. Temporarily, you may slow the spread. This is valuable if your medical system is at risk. Beyond that, it simply lengthens the time a population has to deal with the virus. This puts the most vulnerable at risk for a longer period of time. We DO want to protect those who are most at risk for serious illness.
Consequences: We are already seeing an increase in drug/alcohol abuse, domestic abuse, suicide, other mental illness issues. We do not yet know how many will be impacted negativly by not being able to have medical tests, cancer diagnosis, and in some cases, cancer treatment.
17,000 possible child abuse cases are referred from schools each year. That is potentially 17,000 kids who are living in an abusive environment, not going to school, and invisiable.
We are already getting data from places that locked down and those which didn't. There is no difference in outcome. In fact, many of the places that locked down have done worse than those which didn't.
Hawaii is now having an increase in positive tests. Same with Austrailia, New Zealand, and several European countries.
Sweden peaked in June and has very few cases now.
We don't know what our infection numbers are because of deceptive/inept reporting. We don't know what our death rate is for the same reason.
AIDS was primarily a lifestyle driven disease. Even though it did extend outside those high risk lifestyles, it was never a danger to the general public. There were specfic things you had to do to get it, and most people could avoid those things.
Ebola was far more deadly, but again, not a risk to the general public in this country. Also not as contagious unless you were exposed to body fluids from a later stage infected person.
Explain the wasted time bit please.
