Re: Covid 19
Sorry, les, but worry does no good. Action does good, precautions do good. Sitting at home wringing our hands will not help anyone.
How do you know that a vaccine will not be available for 12 months? Israel thinks they are very close to one. So do several other countries.
Yes, we have anti-virals. And yes, they work.
Your outrage comes across as glee, that the virus will take down conservatives, that Trump will be defeated -or- better yet die!
I see the glass as half full, not as half empty. I see people trying their hardest to work towards preventing disaster. I see people self isolating. I see people helping feed school children who depend on school to feed them. I see people helping the elderly to get in supplies. I see people checking on neighbors, friends and family. I see our public officials trying to enact sensible rules to deal with this. I see sports players pitching in to help out stadium workers financially. I also see a very few people doing unsafe things. We need to help educate them, not call them names.
Spreading panic helps no one. Not you. Not your loved ones. Not your friends and neighbors. Not your internet friends.
Working together, helping the less fortunate, we WILL get through this.
Worry is a result of knowing things are going very badly and unless we remove the current leadership it will get very, very bad
How do I know there will be no vaccine? Because all of the pharma companies have said it will take at least a year. NIH spokesperson has said this multiple times. NPR did a number of excellent segments on this. Another one today. You cannot magically manufacture. It takes at least a yr. even if things go swimmingly. They usually aren't successful on the first try. The guy interviewed today made a point to say he has never seen a vaccine come out and succeed first time out.
We have anti-virals. And NO they are not consistently successful. There are some anecdotal trials of treatment with an anti-arthritis drugs combined with HIV cocktails. These DO NOT have reliable results and are being tried, seat of the pants in the hopes it will work. On multiple occassions the President has stated we have meds or they are close to a new med. This is incorrect. The head of CDC, NIH, WHO and HHS have all stepped in to correct him. He doesn't hear them and keeps saying it.
The comments about political party are based on research showing the Republicans are less likely to believe this is dangerous or that they need to respond to it. They view it as a manufactured crisis. Dems are more likely to believe it is a threat. Your posts are an excellent example of this. I am not spreading panic. I am stating facts. My state is an epicenter. My County has the highest number of cases. Our Local politicians are behaving like leaders. Our Federal politicians are not leading. If you don't believe me look up reactions of GOP governors making statements to this effect. THey are expressing disgust.
I am glad you are seeing so many positive things. It is wonderful people are helping each other. There is a whole other group of people who are willfully flaunting the recommendations while taunting people that they are 'over reacting, or causing panic'. Telling people it is really bad is the fact. It is really bad. It will get worse. Pretending a positive attitude will make things OK is not constructive. Having people brush off warnings as causing panic is frustrating and is just one more form of denial
Our Gov enacted multiple restrictions because people were not doing what they needed to do. Skim this thread. Look at all the people who are posting stupid things that people are doing. I have posted at least a hundred times correct facts in response to the misinformation that is still being perpetrated by this Administration and parroted by people who do not fact check beyond Faux news.
Yet, here you are posting the same things that have been posted about numerous times. The spokesman for NIH, WHO and at times CDC have all repeatedly and immediately refuted these claims any time someone in the Administration tries to say them. Yet, here we are. How much patience do you think a person should have when they see the same stuff, over and over that will put people at risk? Educating people is not working. It won't work until we get the false narrative off of the false network and they muzzle people who are not willing to lead.
Am I strident? Yes I am. Because while people continue to believe the horse sh1t they are selling about how we should all be OK the stats are not playing out that way and it is still really early. The number of cases in our county more than doubled in 3 days. Those are facts. saying them out loud, saying we aren't prepared enough, don't have the resources are facts. If you see that as creating panic I can't help that. Because this is how it is.