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It’s governments overreacting not the people. I haven’t met a single person who is actually “scared.”

by xoxoy 6y ago

folkhack 6y ago
I'm higher-risk due to past lung disease and have been taking this incredibly seriously due to not wanting to go through pneumonia again. I've been taking the social distancing stuff seriously, wearing a mask every time I go out, and have taken steps to get deliveries when I can to ensure I maximize the time at home. The sky's not falling but I am a bit "scared" as you put it.
brenden2 6y ago
Scroll through /r/coronavirus if you want to see what how scared many people are.
gtaylor 6y ago
Hello. I'm Greg and I'm scared. Well met.
alistairSH 6y ago
:raises hand: I'm scared. Not enough to be curled in a ball in the corner, but enough to be taking social distancing seriously. My wife has medical history that puts her at higher risk, plus she's in her 50s (and me in my 40s) so we're both at slightly higher risk just based on age.
astronautjones 6y ago
People should be scared. This isn't over, and this idiotic preemptive celebration/busines reopening is going to render a lot of our sacrifices in vain.
- xoxoy 6y ago
  Seems a bit hyperbolic to me. All signs point to greater spread than previously known in places like NYC, meaning majority of people who had it either had no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms and didn’t even notice.
  - mikeyouse 6y ago
    At least 75k Americans died of a horrible respiratory disease in a little over a month with the country fully locked down and people are still arguing that it's not that bad because many of the cases don't end up in the hospital?
    - pnako 6y ago
      People die every day of all causes. We don't shut down the country because of car accidents, do we? I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter). We did not have to "innovate" with those lockdowns, prompted by completely wrong doomsday predictions amplified by the hysterical media.
      - mikeyouse 6y ago
        Are car accidents contagious? If you crash your car, do two other cars crash? If they did, we'd certainly lock things down. > I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter). Good lord. Last flu season, 35 million Americans got the flu and 34,200 died. We have 1.3M confirmed Covid cases so far and 78k deaths (the real total of both is surely much higher). If that 6% CFR is 5x too high due to mild cases that haven't been counted and we made it to 35M infected, we'd have over 400,000 dead. I'm getting the strong feeling that we're going to find out exactly how deadly this thing can be since people are so ignorantly dismissive of how serious we should be taking it.
      - astronautjones 6y ago
        > People die every day of all causes. We don't shut down the country because of car accidents, do we? if car accidents JUST started happening in january and 80,000 people died of them by may, yeah man we probably would have
  - taurath 6y ago
    I'm in the camp that a disease that has 80,000 people dead is not a hyperbolic thing to be afraid of. I have a good friend who is a nurse who still doesn't have enough PPE to protect herself, gets tested constantly and has colleagues who are in the ICU right now. I also agree with you that its probably a lot more prevalent. We already know that its possible to have no symptoms. But that doesn't take away that for many people it is actually a horrible virus that has killed huge amounts of people and we have no idea how prevalent it actually is because we can't do community testing yet. If you're wrong many more people die.

It’s governments overreacting not the people. I haven’t met a single person who is actually “scared.”

by xoxoy 6y ago

It’s governments overreacting not the people. I haven’t met a single person who is actually “scared.”

I'm higher-risk due to past lung disease and have been taking this incredibly seriously due to not wanting to go through pneumonia again. I've been taking the social distancing stuff seriously, wearing a mask every time I go out, and have taken steps to get deliveries when I can to ensure I maximize the time at home. The sky's not falling but I am a bit "scared" as you put it.

brenden2 6y ago

Scroll through /r/coronavirus if you want to see what how scared many people are.

gtaylor 6y ago

Hello. I'm Greg and I'm scared. Well met.

alistairSH 6y ago

:raises hand: I'm scared. Not enough to be curled in a ball in the corner, but enough to be taking social distancing seriously. My wife has medical history that puts her at higher risk, plus she's in her 50s (and me in my 40s) so we're both at slightly higher risk just based on age.

astronautjones 6y ago

People should be scared. This isn't over, and this idiotic preemptive celebration/busines reopening is going to render a lot of our sacrifices in vain.

xoxoy 6y ago
Seems a bit hyperbolic to me. All signs point to greater spread than previously known in places like NYC, meaning majority of people who had it either had no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms and didn’t even notice.
- mikeyouse 6y ago
  At least 75k Americans died of a horrible respiratory disease in a little over a month with the country fully locked down and people are still arguing that it's not that bad because many of the cases don't end up in the hospital?
  - pnako 6y ago
    People die every day of all causes. We don't shut down the country because of car accidents, do we? I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter). We did not have to "innovate" with those lockdowns, prompted by completely wrong doomsday predictions amplified by the hysterical media.
    - mikeyouse 6y ago
      Are car accidents contagious? If you crash your car, do two other cars crash? If they did, we'd certainly lock things down. > I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter). Good lord. Last flu season, 35 million Americans got the flu and 34,200 died. We have 1.3M confirmed Covid cases so far and 78k deaths (the real total of both is surely much higher). If that 6% CFR is 5x too high due to mild cases that haven't been counted and we made it to 35M infected, we'd have over 400,000 dead. I'm getting the strong feeling that we're going to find out exactly how deadly this thing can be since people are so ignorantly dismissive of how serious we should be taking it.
    - astronautjones 6y ago
      > People die every day of all causes. We don't shut down the country because of car accidents, do we? if car accidents JUST started happening in january and 80,000 people died of them by may, yeah man we probably would have
- taurath 6y ago
  I'm in the camp that a disease that has 80,000 people dead is not a hyperbolic thing to be afraid of. I have a good friend who is a nurse who still doesn't have enough PPE to protect herself, gets tested constantly and has colleagues who are in the ICU right now. I also agree with you that its probably a lot more prevalent. We already know that its possible to have no symptoms. But that doesn't take away that for many people it is actually a horrible virus that has killed huge amounts of people and we have no idea how prevalent it actually is because we can't do community testing yet. If you're wrong many more people die.