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Wait, did someone mention time travel? I'm always down for a discussion about that!!!

There will probably be no "second wave" in the US as it looks like we will naturally extend the first wave till the second one would have started. The question then actually becomes if the virus is/will mutate, and people can get it more than once.

If that is the case we could be looking at a very bad situation until a vaccine has been made (and hopefully it works for multiple strands and isn't like the flu).

The original estimation was for the virus to have mostly dissipated by July (and it has in most of the world), allowing people a small window before the fall (september/october) when it would return more than likely.

Currently though we are experiencing the largest number of cases per day in the US, and are heading towards the largest # of deaths as well (Which will probably continue to get worse as average time till death is 3 weeks after getting the virus and the high number of new cases are only a a week or so old at this point).

To add to the confusion and misery, fall and winter are the traditional flu seasons as well, and flu symptoms are very close to the virus, which could easily cause panic, force people to isolate completely (no shopping etc) or force them to go to the hospital/get tested which can put them at risk of actually getting the virus if they already don't have it.

The only real solution honestly if for a very severe (more then we have in the past) stay at home, where nobody goes out unless absolutely neccesary (which is what I have done for about 6 freaking months at this point), and those who do, social distance, wear masks and wash their hands/use disinfactant etc before touching their mouths/face etc.

To not do so with the current numbers in the US right now is crazy. I hate to be overly political on here, there are people who feel strongly about our president one way or the other, but Trump basically ignoring the virus and having rallys etc, is insane and very dangerous. It can easily cost thousands of americans their lives and many more to get sick and have long term damage.

I sure as heck wanna get out of my freaking basement and go out while it's sunny/nice and there is plenty of daylight. I'm dead tired of staying at home, I'm all alone, and the only way I interact with friends/family is through zoom or my phone. It's been 6 months for me due to having pneumonia, and if this keeps up, it'll be the equivalent of sending me to freaking mars solo, in a ship (I think it takes 2 years, but it's gonna feel like that soon).

Even so, going out now is basically making all the previous sacrifice worthless. I know it's hard, but (at least in the US) we need to freaking stay at home and kill this virus like much of the rest of the world has done.

IF people do that, we can maybe end this in a month or two, if they don't, it could easily be 6+ months or more before any type of normal life returns. Sadly it's probably going to be longer for people who are high risk like me, even if we did drop the numbers drastically it would be pretty crazy for me to go out much in the next month or two, and then we would probably have another wave.

This, sadly, is life for many of us in the near future. I hate jails, I hate putting people or animals in cages. But right now, although we can make them fairly comfortable, and we have netflix/games/books etc to entertain ourselves, we pretty much have to do the responsible thing and jail ourselves until this is over:(

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