The people of the very left wing New York have apparently decided the draconian government that they keep voting in isn't in charge anymore. Why aren't these woke individuals social distancing? Why do they want 80 year old Aunt Tilly to die? Will The Atlantic write an article about how New Yorkers are experimenting with human sacrifice? You only have control over millions as long as they let you have control.
Lockdown-weary New Yorkers ditched the distancing to get social this weekend.
nypost.com
I don't even think this is quarantine fatigue.
I think that people were only fine with the lock down, provided it wasn't nice to go outside.
How many would have bet that if this entire deal had started in June, that not a single person would have forgone going to the beach at all?
Based on what I've seen, people never cared about the quarantine.
Even the first week of the "lock down", I saw kids riding together, having BBQs and parties. I saw people jogging and going to the park. The only thing that changed was the weather.
When this started it was cold. Now it's warm. People are going out. They are not going to stay isolated. It's that simple.
My favorite gas/convenience store/lunch counter just reopened. No eat in dining yet but they're as busy as they ever were, which before they closed at the beginning of April, was not the case. No one was going out at all then and they couldn't afford to stay open for the thin trickle of customers.
The reason I mention them is the big sign in the front door:
WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET. MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE.
We are NOT out of the woods yet and we're never going to get there if people don't behave reasonably.
Here's my problem with that.
When do we achieve "out of the woods"? When does that happen?
Because I think I know what people are thinking, when they say "out of the woods".
They think that we are going to eliminate this virus from the Earth, like Polio.
But Polio and Corona are entirely different. Polio, we knew how to control it, and had a vaccination for it, and it worked very well.
Corona, is more like the flu or the common cold. It is so contagious, that nothing will stop it's spread. We've seen that. No amount of travel restrictions have stopped it. No amount of quarantine has prevented it's spread.
The only case you can make is China, and that assumes you believe what China is saying.... when they are still locking up doctors who blow any whistles.
So I personally do not believe at all, that there will ever be a "out of the woods" moment.
Are you waiting on a vaccine? Even the most optimistic doctors are still saying it could be 3, or even 10 years for a vaccine.
Think about Ebola for example. Ebola we know how to treat it. We know how to quarantine it. Because it is far less contagious, we can limit it's spread.
Did you know, they have been having outbreaks of Ebola for decades? Ebola has been having outbreaks since 1976. It's now 2020.
And they had an outbreak of Ebola, just in 2017 and 2018. 33 people died of Ebola in 2018, a 33% death rate.
Should we have shut down their economies for 50 years? Waiting for a vaccine? Waiting for them to eradicate the virus? Waiting for them to isolate enough to kill off the spread?
And it never happened. Even a more controllable illness like Ebola, they can't stop it.
So again, I ask you, when will the "out of the woods moment" be?
I think Corona isn't going away. I think it will continue to pop up for years, if not decades into the future. I think we need to go back to normal, because this is a permanent thing from here on.
I think we need to move on with our lives, because we simply can't live in fear. By all means, if you are sick stay at home. By all means if you hear someone is sick, put some distance between you and them.
But this idea that we are going to completely destroy our economy, and hide from people with masks for all eternity from here on, in the hopes that they'll come up with a magic wand that eliminates the virus.... more people will die of depression and isolation, than those who will die of the illness.
That's not a trade off.
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