westernrvparkowner wrote:
Lantley wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
time2roll wrote:
I say skip the season and leave the national parks closed. This is non essential IMO. If you are bored this Summer it would be a good time to volunteer your assistance as needed in your local community.
Easy to say, no very easy to do. My losses will be in the multiple hundreds of thousands. If you add in the probable loss of equity due to the fact that future buyers must take into account it is possible to lose an entire year of business my true loss will likely be in the millions. Basically my life's work is hanging in the balance. Forgive me if the though of having a "free summer to volunteer" doesn't make everything rosy.
It's not ones life's work that's in the balance, It's actual lives that are in the balance. There is a difference.
And in the end there will be no actual proof that any lives were actually saved. There will only be competing statistical models based entirely on assumptions. There is no guarantee that a vaccine or treatment will ever be perfected. It is entirely possible that the steps being taken to "Flatten the curve" may prolong the time the virus actually circulates in the population perhaps allowing it to mutate into an even deadlier form. It may have been a better policy to maximize isolation of those most vulnerable to having life threatening complications and let the virus sweep thru the rest of the population creating a herd immunity, thus thwarting the virus. We will never know for sure if the steps taken saved lives or cost lives over the course of the virus. And if you really want to be a statistical nerd, it will be a statistical certainty that all the steps taken actually never saved a single life, since it is statistically certain every single one of us will die. To imply that extreme economic damage is without life threatening consequences is very short sighted. Poverty kills millions across the globe annually. Eventually a decision point of the economy over the virus will need to be reached. It is beyond foolish to believe that point can be set at a zero risk of additional deaths by COVID19.
So with your theory in mind let's do nothing. Open the parks, open the restaurants and let the virus run it course unimpeded.
Do you think that will allow your business to stay open and not impact your livelihood.
Do you think allowing the hospitals to be overwhelmed will be good for business? In a rural area like Montana it won't take much to exceed the hospitals ability to treat patients. If we leave things open will it be just business as usual or will people become sick at an unimpeded pace and fill hospitals with virus patients? Will people eventually get the point and stay home on there own?
Look up Albany,GA and see how they became the epicenter for the virus in their rural area. No I had never heard od Albany , GA either.
This is a real story not some imagined scenario. Yes the once healthy enough people actually died when the virus came to their little rural town.
Yes poverty kills millions across the globe. But the pandemic doesn't care about your bank account or your ability to pay.
The virus has shown celebrities are not immune. Wealth has nothing to do with it. Unimpeded the virus may come roaring into your CG's infecting you and your guest. It won't care if your in poverty or own a million dollar CG. It may infect you and force you to seek treatment at an overwhelmed hospital. Then maybe you will understand the difference between saving lives and saving livelihoods.
