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Moonroof posted...

I am still waiting for someone to tell me why we dont quarantine for the flu. I understand its not as contagious or fatal or whatever else people say, but it kills more people. Why not quarantine them?

It's not really practical at this point given its range. While I don't agree with the reactions of some, for instance the obvious ones like toilet paper goblins or doomsayers, I do think action should be taken to contain the disease. The biggest issue is that as a country, we are not really capable of containment and the strategies we are utilizing annoy me. They close all the schools but then moms just bring their kids and pack in tight in the supermarkets to buy up enough food and supplies for 3 months; what's the point of closing areas where large gatherings take place if those just cause even larger gatherings, and at important points of interest at that? Until recently absolutely no limits were being placed on the purchases of important goods, allowing some to hoard as much as they could fathom, which I blame squarely on the sensationalism surrounding this situation. The thing is, this is a country that elected a blithering buffoon as president. If you tell that sound populous things like "millions could die", they panic. The thing is that yes, if left unchecked millions might die. But those estimates were made against the country doing nothing to combat the virus and continuing living life as they were before, yet clearly measures have been taken to prevent that number from soaring to such heights.

I don't think saying the coronavirus is "nothing to worry about" is a good idea, not at all. But the opposite end of the spectrum is no better because it scares the general population into being idiots. It's important to get out the message about this in the right way so people can approach the situation with a calm, measured response that lies somewhere in the middle of what were are currently seeing I think. Unfortunately, given our culture resides squarely in the extreme realms of sensationalism it makes it fairly difficult yet I feel we are doing well with containment thus far, compared to other countries with outbreaks in the same time period. As much as I don't like it, the best thing moving forward is to just "get over" these idiot hoarders being idiots because Trump's initial response of "meh, no biggie" is a lot worse than crazy people beating each other with wine bottles outside Sam's Club.
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