Chaos Emperor
No hope.....
It's not like they'll do shutdowns forever. No clue how it is in the US (I've heard it's getting worse there again). But until we have a vaccine or cure we'll have to do shutdowns, albeit preferably on a more local level than entire nations. Cause if we don't, with a virus like this, people WILL die by the millions. Several models predict that without any shutdowns about 60% of the population of the average country would get infected at a rapid rate and of that 60% around 1% would die, which are huge numbers all counted together.
The prime purpose of "flattening the curve" isn't actually to prevent new cases, it's to stretch it out over a longer period of time so your healthcare facilities remain sustainable. If you do nothing it'll last shorter, but it'll go down in the history books like the bubonic plague and spanish flu did.
You're right about the media. Media love sensation and from what I've seen in the US they're more into sensation than information (not gonna say it's not the case here but it seems a bit worse over there). If you're an average young person without and chronic illnesses, you won't die, though the symptoms are worse than the flu and fatigue, loss of smell and loss of taste can last for months.
Is this just a flu? Not at all, it's much worse. Is the media hyping this up to apocalyptic proportions? They sure are.
yeah cases are on the rise in America, but the death rate isn’t going up with it. It also doesn’t help that BLM protests are being allowed without any restrictions, while concerts and the like are on hold but that’s a whole other can of worms.
well we e apparently flattened the curve when medical nurses make cringe tiktok vids cause they have nothing to do when medical facilities are limited to dealing with COVID and nothing else. I think people now can make their own choices on what risk they’re willing to take given all we know about the disease now vs in March when shutdown began.
Yeah the media in the us are priming this as the worst disease in human history, having running totals of cases and deaths. I can’t speak for the rest of the world but when many news outlets elsewhere are govt run/funded, I can’t see them as being much better.
still none of this answers the question of why is this one illness considered so dangerous that we have to resort to all this when other similar diseases were allowed to just run their course even if they were more deadly or spread easier? This didn’t happen with h1n1, or sars (another strain of coronavirus), or West Nile virus, or any other illness that became a major news cycle? Why this one specifically?