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I'm in Virginia right now (near DC) and most people appear to be going about their lives like nothing happened. I'm also not worried, I think the whole thing is
by brenden2 7y ago
I'm in Virginia right now (near DC) and most people appear to be going about their lives like nothing happened. I'm also not worried, I think the whole thing is largely mass hysteria and blown wildly out of proportion.
There's a doomsday pandemic narrative that some people are trying to push, but I think there's a significant portion of the population that simply does not care and isn't worried.
Of course, trying to have a real discussion about this on the internet is hopeless because people downvote anything they dislike or don't agree with. Facts don't matter, and this whole virus mania is the greatest example of facts not mattering I've ever witnessed.
- daxorid 7y agoYou very well may be correct, but I'd like to point out that for a broader sense of "doomsday narrative", living in or near DC while the rest of the US crumbles would be a lot like living in Rome when the Germanic tribes were overrunning the Empire's frontiers. DC is the absolute best place to be during an American empire collapse - until, of course, the very end.
- brenden2 7y agoI actually live in NYC, I'm just in DC for a few weeks (have already been here a while). When I left NYC it was very quiet, not at all like it is here. I left before things got really crazy.
- madengr 7y agoHow is traffic on 66 and 495? That should be a decent indicator.
- brenden2 7y agoIdk, haven't been on freeways, but stopped by Home Depot today for some plumbing parts (curbside pickup) and I've never seen it so busy in my entire life.
- ModernMech 7y agofwiw, my wife's uncle is now on a ventilator due to covid, and he has traced it back to going to our local Home Depot. He also believed it was "blown out of proportion". ymmv.