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...
Forum Discussion
We need to think about some facts; This virus easily transmitted person to person. And a percentage of people, (not sure of the percentage, but likely larger than flu.) will die if they get it. And it can be passed from somebody who's body is not telling them they have it. And so far, we do not have the capacity to test enough of the population to know who has it.
2,500 Americans died of COVID-19 yesterday. And the CDC says that's an under-estimation, due to lack of testing. Estimated 30,000 new people contracted COVID-19 today. That brings the total to 650,000. We need to get the idea between our ears, this is real. And in some places, the numbers are getting better, but only where the distancing is practiced.
Pick a topic. Any topic. Say dentists. Say cars. Or higher ed. Home-buying. Wars. Healthcare. Sports. Home repairs. It doesn't matter—just pick a subject, then spend 20 minutes talking with an intelligent person about how it'll be changed by COVID-19 and you'll see the problem.
2,500 Americans died of COVID-19 yesterday. And the CDC says that's an under-estimation, due to lack of testing. Estimated 30,000 new people contracted COVID-19 today. That brings the total to 650,000. We need to get the idea between our ears, this is real. And in some places, the numbers are getting better, but only where the distancing is practiced.
Pick a topic. Any topic. Say dentists. Say cars. Or higher ed. Home-buying. Wars. Healthcare. Sports. Home repairs. It doesn't matter—just pick a subject, then spend 20 minutes talking with an intelligent person about how it'll be changed by COVID-19 and you'll see the problem.
