And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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way2roll wrote:You say the number of cases have exploded, but consider why: there are now many, many more people being tested, but there are huge numbers of people that have it and have not been tested, and probably won't be tested because they show no symptoms.
According to the most recent data from the CDC, a month ago there were 279 cases in the US. Despite efforts to have people self quarantine and mandated closures, in the span of 30 days cases in the US have exploded to 375,000. With 12,000 deaths that's 3% mortality rate. Not 1% as some keep stating. That number continues to climb daily at the rate of 5-10% and not showing signs of slowing. Hospitals are overrun so much that decisions need to be made about who to save and who to let die. There are so many dead bodies that refrigerated trucks are needed at hospitals to store the corpses. This is not fear mongering, this is actually happening. While I agree that this is a wrecking ball through the economy, not just US but globally, are we to walk over dead bodies so we can eat at restaurants and shop? And it's not just TX, it's not just the US, this a global pandemic. Sure it's awful no matter which way you slice it, but I have seen a callous and morally bankrupt side of our fellow man that is rather disgusting. Anyone could be a carrier, and anyone could infect someone at risk and kill them. But selfishness and greed still prevail.
Those numbers and percentages you're using are fallacious. Only based on speculation, not real data. No one knows how many people have, or have had, this virus. The only semi-hard data is from tests, so how accurate are those tests?
I know of two people that were showing all the symptoms, but were denied testing because they simply weren't sick enough. This is in one little town, how often does that happen everywhere else?
When I was sick with this thing back in December/January, no one had to tell me to "self quarantine", I knew enough not to expose other people to what I had. It's called "thinking" and if more people would do it, we'd all be better off.
