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Things are pretty much back to normal in parts of Mississippi: https://neckbeard.xyz/notice/9znbtKqgRaGgwdVxgm https://neckbeard.xyz/notice/9znbtKqgRaGgwdVxgm
by djsumdog 6y ago
Things are pretty much back to normal in parts of Mississippi:
https://neckbeard.xyz/notice/9znbtKqgRaGgwdVxgm https://neckbeard.xyz/notice/9znbtKqgRaGgwdVxgm
..and the secondary effects of the economic and psychological devastation are pretty bad. I wrote this back in July:
https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/ https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/
It's been eight months! We cannot keep living like this. We know now the largest deaths came from a failure to protect the elderly and misusing nursing home facilities (Michigan, Kirkland/Seattle, NYC). We need to do more to protect the elderly, but other people need be able to assume their own risks again.
Most lockdown restrictions have ended in Ecuador. Florida and Mississippi are opening up. Pennsylvanian had a cord order by Stickman to open up, but it's been stayed pending appeal.
Humanity cannot be put into low power mode like a laptop. We are not cogs in a machine that can be stopped and started at will.
- gotoeleven 6y agoIt's getting to the point on HN where the informative posts are greyed out and you have to find them before they get killed completely. Sad!
- NationalPark 6y agoDaily new cases in Mississippi are still pretty bad. Removing restrictions because you feel like you should be done with the virus is just going to drag this out.
- djsumdog 6y agoand yet Sweeden is doing very well. What is your long term goal/solution exactly? This thing isn't going away. Keeping people locked up delays infections, it doesn't stop it.
- rweir 6y agothe US hasn't even been able to match the measures[0] Sweden put in place, though? there's still thousands of people showing up with no masks to breath on each other at rallies etc [0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coronavirus-strategy-a-cautionary-tale-or-a-success-story/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coro...
- matwood 6y agoSweden’s voluntary measures were/are likely followed better than the patchwork of measures in the US. I’m not sure they can be used as an example of anything that’s possible in the US. Also, this whole ‘locked up’ straw man is growing tiresome. There is a large gradient between locked up and going out like there is no pandemic.