On the flip side, once people are exposed via work they’re going to expose themselves more for fun things too. People suck at understanding how this increases their risk and/or won’t care cause they’ll expect to get it anyway.
Nobody is falling for the propaganda. We all agree that a lockdown + testing + tracing is best, but it’s not happening. 1 to 3% dead in a short term, mostly contained event, mostly affecting retirement age people is very different from 1 to 3% dead overall. It’s also more like one-half of one percent to three-quarters of one percent. 1.5 to 2 million people.
Mask wearing will almost certainly go up once we see the next few outbreaks in big cities in red states, and once the death starts to really impact lots of rural communities. Then, once more people are deeply personally impacted, we can get mask wearing up to like 90%.
I was on a zoom call with my sister and her kids in CO and yes, CO is opened up. Her daughter goes to school in Boulder and said it was insane with people this weekend.
Yeah but were that in the US I would just say we need regular testing of those 100k people and tracing. And they can full open with a lot less risk.
Otherwise one or two outbreaks and they can be overwhelmed before anything was discovered. I think the problem is some of these uninfected places think it was skill and not luck that got them there.
Too many people think the virus practices politics and will never wear a mask. Even if trump leaves office and a new admin demonstrates what to do, the same people will continue to refuse to fall for the liberal tricks.
All I can do now is put my faith in the lord and ask him only to take non mask wearing trump supporters with the virus.
They think natural disasters are partisan, global pandemics, climate change, all vast conspiracies between the liberals and Mother Nature. They are all so impotent and lacking confidence that it easy for them to ascribe natural events to evil enemies who are all smarter than them.
It is definitely not the case that there’s “been no meaningful buildup of testing capacity.” While it is certainly true that there has not been sufficient buildup, there has still been quite a buildup of testing capacity, PPE, and ventilators. Opening now is bad. Never closing i the first place would have been way worse.
