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elliemae says

All of these people defying social distancing orders are gonna change that. What people don't appear to understand is that the reason the infection rates are down is that we've been able to limit social interactions.

I stand by my statement; it's here, and it's scary as a mofo.

I did not dislike your post, but I vehemently disagree.

1. A student in my class came down with corona in middle March. He talked to me 2-3 days before getting symptoms, and came to school for a few days coughing and sneezing. Neither I nor other students in class had any symptoms of corona, despite this being the PLAGUE! of CENTURY! we will all die from.

2. In Houston, 1!!!!!!!!!!!!! person with no underlying health issues has died as of now, and he was over 70 yrs old. A total of about 35 have died from or with corona in Houston. See https://abc13.com/houston-mask-order-masks-in-sylvester-turner-coronavirus/6127370/

So all this batshit panic for 1.5 months to avoid 2-3 healthy deaths, which we would have without quarantine??? How about banning cars, we get 1-2 deaths from car crashes PER DAY with wonderful South American driving skills around here, which think that red light is a mild suggestion??? People who panic perhaps should see the number of deaths in perspective. Shutting everything down here has already resulted in a few domestic violence deaths, more than healthy person deaths from corona! Also, barrio businesses are all open despite quarantine - try telling a Texas Mexican that he has to shut down his only family income because some damned bureaucrat wants him to. You will likely die in a hail of bullets. Which means that quarantine is a joke if 40% of population ignores it. It is mandatory only for middle class.

elliemae says

it's here, and it's scary as a mofo.

What makes Covid-19 more scary than the latest mutant strain of flu?

NoCoupForYou says

check this shit out. Looks like your Governor sent his family to North Florida to enjoy the beach, while he's telling everybdy else's family to stay home.

Yup. And Desantis just cock blocked our vacation to the Panhandle. His executive order for vacation rentals was set to expire tomorrow night, but the cock sucker extended it until Monday? WTF?

We were going straight to a house, in a county with 2 positive cases TOTAL, no deaths. None of us are sick and none of us would interact with other people. We were brining all our own food and booze. We didn't need a fucking thing from the state of Florida. I'm not even sure how all this bull shit is constitutional. Blocking my free movement around my own country when I dump 40 fucking thousand into your lap.

Beyond pissed at this point.

WookieMan says

I'm not even sure how all this bull shit is constitutional. Blocking my free movement around my own country when I dump 40 fucking thousand into your lap.

It's not constitutional.

Directly violates 5th and 14th amendments which prohibit removal of your freedom without due process.

The big question is how we can get our rights back. Will it take a second American Revolution?

There is no pandemic in Santa Cruz County.

Since it all began over a month ago, 18 people went to the hospital and 2 older sick men have died.

Everyone should just put on a mask and work, like my dentist has for decades without quitting or going broke.

My liberal friend is an anesthesiologist and he is now unemployed because a pandemic was expected in his location. It never happened.

Yet he is ambivalent about the response by Newsom, as if he doesn’t mind the unpaid vacation he is taking stuck at home.

I am annoyed by the waste and stupidity of the whole thing.

NoCoupForYou says

And I'd guess 100,000 will die prematurely because they didn't get their colonoscopy or mammogram or cholestorol/BP testing during COVD19 and avoided the hospital.

How many hundreds of thousands of deaths will happen as a result of the biblical famine? How many years of life will be lost due to destroyed businesses? There is a direct correlation between economic livelihood and lifespan.

Onvacation says

elliemae says

it's here, and it's scary as a mofo.

What makes Covid-19 more scary than the latest mutant strain of flu?

Can any of you that are afraid of Covid-19 tell us why it is more scary than the latest annual flu strain?

Onvacation says

Can any of you that are afraid of Covid-19 tell us why it is more scary than the latest annual flu strain?

because when they show virus on TV it is ORANGE!

Newsome's 6 point Plan for Reopening

1.)Expand testing “to appropriately address the tracing and tracking of individuals – the isolation and the quarantine of individuals using the technology and using a workforce that needs to be trained in an infrastructure that needs to be in place in order to begin the process to transition.”

2.)Continue to protect “the most vulnerable populations in the state of California from infection and spread,” primarily seniors, the homeless and people with immune deficiencies.

3.)Provide needed PPE and other resources to hospitals and their staffs and prepare for potential surges in COVID-19 cases “as we adopt new strategies [and] we loosen the stay-at-home orders. … We need to make sure that that infrastructure is protected and to make sure that hose assets are well prepared.”

4.)Continue to work closely with academics and research partners “as we bridge, ultimately, toward the herd immunity and a vaccine within, we hope, the next year or so.”

5.)Redrawing floor plans in businesses, schools, playgrounds and other facilities – “large and small, public and private” — to incorporate safe physical distancing.

6.)Maintain the capacity to “reinstate more vigorous controls” – to “turn on that faucet again,” as Newsome put it. That process, he said, “will perhaps be the most challenging if indeed we lean in but we have to then lean back out as we toggle from stricter to looser interventions, back and forth, as things change [and] data comes in.”

If this is it, it's all nebulous shit that can be delayed as long as possible.

Coronavirus cases fall in Japan despite lack of mandatory social distancing

https://thehill.com/policy/international/494994-coronavirus-cases-fall-in-japan-despite-lack-of-mandatory-social

Onvacation says

4.)Continue to work closely with academics and research partners “as we bridge, ultimately, toward the herd immunity and a vaccine within, we hope, the next year or so.”

Is he fucking daft? There's no wait for a vaccine, we just have to deal with it until then. Yeah let's wait til we have a vaccine, great strategy. Unbelievable BS.