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 was once a great state.
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- A health care professional told me after I described the symptoms I had back in December/January, that I most likely did have the virus. That it has been in the US for probably six months or more. Figuring that, the number of infected is most likely in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
I know about 6 people, personally, who had the symptoms, tested negative for the flu, and pneumonia, but had upper respiratory infections entirely new to them. Sick, fever, severe fatigue, for a couple of weeks and have since recovered fully. This was back in November/December. thomasmnile wrote:
No, I think we're okay here. If it was in the ATC forum, it would have been gone after the first dissenting opinion. :) Differing views tend to be accepted in the other forums, as long as it doesn't get hostile.
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Tom N wrote:
All the odds and real experience say they'll be just fine. Just like nearly everyone else.DallasSteve wrote:
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 was once a great state.
What if your family contracts this virus?
Exactly. This is a bunch of fearmongering that most people have bought hook line and sinker. If my family contracts the virus there is a 99% chance we will survive. I may be at the most risk because I'm 63, but I'm not afraid because I am in good health. I eat well and I exercise almost every day because I know that my life and my health are my responsibility, nobody else's.
And what is the price of shutting down society? How many lives will that cost? It will cost some lives. Do they care? It doesn't seem like they do care. They are willing to trade one group of lives for another group of lives. They just want to throw everybody else under the bus because they are afraid.- About the 1% ... NY has 138,836 cases. Currently 5,489 deaths and many more of those sic will die to add to that total. Do the math 5,489/138,836 = 3.95% at this time are dying from this. I say we stay home and hope it gets better.
schlep1967 wrote:
About the 1% ... NY has 138,836 cases. Currently 5,489 deaths and many more of those sic will die to add to that total. Do the math 5,489/138,836 = 3.95% at this time are dying from this. I say we stay home and hope it gets better.
Unless every single New Yorker has been tested, the denominator is wrong. The "cases" are those who were sick enough or priority enough to get tested.schlep1967 wrote:
About the 1% ... NY has 138,836 cases. Currently 5,489 deaths and many more of those sic will die to add to that total. Do the math 5,489/138,836 = 3.95% at this time are dying from this. I say we stay home and hope it gets better.
well then stay home. nobody is suggesting any differently. us? we're at our winter quarters in AZ but at some point we will need to head home. closing all of the parks just unnecessarily complicates matters. self-contained RVs are an excellent way to self-quarantine.- Have to say, the various bans and mandates don't appear to have properly taken into account the likely multi-generational impact of destroying our own economy. I don't have the right comparative scale to apply, but is (potentially) saving some number of lives worth reducing the standard of living for the rest of the country for a couple generations? And concurrently drying up the economic resources to address the next pandemic?
We simply can't keep throwing trillions of $$ at even significant problems. At some point another problem will arise that can be solved by $$ (my opinion is that there is not much elasticity in COVID-19 risk v. the $$ being spent on it)....but at that point, we won't have either $$ or more borrowing power because we destroyed our economy in 2020. - If you or a member of your family were in that 1 percent you would be whining because they did not shut them down.
- Closing the parks anywhere has more to do with protecting the government employees than the camping public. Not one will be laid off and they can enjoy not having risks involved at work..
- Many of us seniors have lived under the threat of biological warfare for over fifty years. This little test showed that we were not prepared at all. Ventilators are the modern equivalent of bomb shelters back in the 1950's.
