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DPsx7 posted...

The risk as I've decided for no particular reason or with any appreciable understanding of the situation is mild.

FTFY

GameLord113 posted...

As more and more people lose their jobs, Ive been seeing a some individuals wanting this whole thing to end even if it risks their life or the lives of loved ones.

The thing with those people is that they don't understand just how significant that risk is. The way this thing spreads, if we give up on containing it (that is, continue gathering in large crowds, stop bothering to sanitize stuff, go back to rarely washing hands), there'll be millions of cases within a month or two. That's just how exponential growth works. Most of those won't require hospitalization, but for those that do, there won't be hospitals available for them and they will almost certainly die. Many will say "we'll just worry about containing it then," but it's infinitely easier to control the spread with a seed of a few thousand cases than with a seed of several million. Once it hits that kind of casualty rate, you're not stopping it without full-on militarized lockdown, which people are going to resist and fight back against because they're idiots.

It's very tempting to just give up and see where it goes, because this whole quarantine thing is really annoying and feels futile (bear in mind that the current spread rates are a consequence of what was happening 2-3 weeks ago, so whatever people are doing right now won't bear fruit for another 2-3 weeks), but where it's going to go is going to completely overwhelm the country's health care capabilities and result in vastly more deaths. That's not a risk anyone should want to take.

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