"Well, we are going to employ these strategies until..."
"If we do all this for [a period of time], then we can get past all these restrictions..."
"Whenever [this] happens, we will know that this pandemic is abating..."
Get it? Everything is, "Do this for now," but there is no end date. That's what is causing the anxiety. I realize that nobody wants to stick his neck out and project an end date to this "social distancing" stuff, but at least they could say that when a certain set of conditions prevail we will be starting to scale back.
I haven't heard that from anyone, even though the factories in Wuhan are starting up again, eh?
As I look at all this stuff - the closings that seem to be an over-reaction - I recall what my mother did when my older brother got the chicken pox: Had us sleep in the same bed so I'd get 'em too (it worked).
No more worries.
"If we do all this for [a period of time], then we can get past all these restrictions..."
"Whenever [this] happens, we will know that this pandemic is abating..."
Get it? Everything is, "Do this for now," but there is no end date. That's what is causing the anxiety. I realize that nobody wants to stick his neck out and project an end date to this "social distancing" stuff, but at least they could say that when a certain set of conditions prevail we will be starting to scale back.
I haven't heard that from anyone, even though the factories in Wuhan are starting up again, eh?
As I look at all this stuff - the closings that seem to be an over-reaction - I recall what my mother did when my older brother got the chicken pox: Had us sleep in the same bed so I'd get 'em too (it worked).
No more worries.