Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

So they'll go out, dick around and half-ass or ignore the precautions until the numbers spike where they live.

Smart.

 

I already had that one going through my head when I read qtlaw's post.

Here is the full scene in context.

 

There must be a high rent premium on apartments without windows in Russia. Falling from windows is epidemic there.

 

Only my anecdotal evidence, but people here are already dicking around and half-assing it, especially at the grocery store. People believe the numbers, which is dumb, since we're one of the worst states in the country when it comes to testing.

 

I think it might be bad, too. I liked June 1 as a date. (Although, by then, far more people would be absolutely up in arms.)

But what if it isn't bad? Was it just sheer luck - or a miscalculation by certain medical experts? Because the discussion feels very much like a "heads I win, tails you lose" discussion, as if we've already decided the right answer and any other path just gets to a good result by happenstance.

 

The virus is about six months old. Medical research on every aspect of the virus and its disease is of necessity fragmented and occasionally contradictory, especially given how many different studies are going on in so many different places. That's how research works and it really can't be helped. One thing we DO know is that people, from rural China to supercrowded Queens, have taken serious precautionary measures BEFORE government actions if they felt they were at risk. This is why any premature reopenings are not going to have any economic benefit. If folks perceive a return to everyday life as a risk, they won't do it.

 

All the evidence, such as it is, argues for extreme caution.

Barebacking it because you don't believe the science?

No thanks.

The uncertainty of the science is one of the most compelling arguments in favor of the caution.

 

It seems to me that the best evidence would be the procedures used in places which successfully fought off the virus. South Korea's response seems like a very good path to follow.

 

Well, in a few weeks we'll be able to look at Fla., Ga., and Tenn. and see what the results of their choices were.

 

Too late. South Korea's relative success hinged upon massive testing soon after the virus was first detected. Also, the Asian countries have used a form of quarantine in which persons tested positive for the virus and those with whom they had contact were quarantined in separate facilities away from their families and anyone except those caring for them. Think what Fox News would make of THAT.