The deaths that don't matter: "Suicides on the rise amid stay-at-home order, Bay Area medical professionals say"

[CWayne]

Some people stupidly think because they have not seen that many cases that lockdown measures were unnecessary. Brazil is pretty much doing nothing, watch what happens there in the next few weeks.

I cant say the lockdown was a total mistake

the scene in Italy was pretty shocking with patients being left to die in hallways for lack of medical services

we certainly didnt want that to happen here

but I think that danger passed about a month ago

Watching just how fatally stupid people seem to be with social gatherings we are going to be chasing serious outbreaks for a quite a while. My county locked down hard and only had a couple of imported cases but now the tourists have invaded in a big way. Rode around yesterday looking at all the out of state tags. Every place is rented out and the RV parks are full. Masks seemed to be a rarity. This thing is about to fuck us up.

We never got rid od the common flu and we will never get rid of the chinese disease either

Yeah but outside of extreme cases, the common flu isn't going to kill people or have a chance of medically handicapping them for life. This isn't the flu. Opening up and going back out wouldn't be as big of a deal if people could just be counted upon to do the right thing like socially distance or wear a mask. But I've given up on people being able to exercise common sense. What's coming is inevitable. How bad it gets will determine what action will be taken if any.

More and more data coming in is leaning towards this actually being closer to a bad flu than the really bad flu (Spanish Flu of 1918-1920).

The first few weeks were reacting to the worst case scenario, but that never played out. Now governments that seemed OK to shut down entire economic sectors when they had the virus to blame can't or won't reopen those sectors because they probably think they will be blamed for any resurgence.

Guess what? There will be one, probably small, that we will have to deal with unless we decide to create a new depression while waiting for a vaccine.

No, it's not like the flu. Spreads easier and faster. And as far as shutting down/starting up, if people could be trusted to do the right thing, it wouldn't be an issue.
How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu?

With certainty, you leftist idiots cannot be trusted to do the right thing, ever.

 

[Mac-7]

Yeah but outside of extreme cases, the common flu isn't going to kill people or have a chance of medically handicapping them for life.

the common flu is deadly to about 60,000 Americans each year

but this year the number might be less because the chinese disease got them first

 

[Mac-7]

No, it's not like the flu. Spreads easier and faster.

All that means is that is not the common flu

but both diseases have many similar characteristics

Thats all we mean when we call it A FLU instead of THE FLU

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Some people stupidly think because they have not seen that many cases that lockdown measures were unnecessary. Brazil is pretty much doing nothing, watch what happens there in the next few weeks.

No one is saying "doing nothing".
We need to all be careful, we need to take measures that lessen our chances of getting the virus, but we also need to realize staying locked down like Dimocrats want us to do, is also going to result in lost lives.