We can’t live in fear and afraid to leave the house. What is becoming apparent is this virus is not nearly as deadly or as big of a deal as they made it out to be. There are lots more people testing positive because we are doing a lot more test. The death rate is going down because many people have had it and never knew it, and it did not kill them.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > New Zealand, Australia, China (especially China), Italy, Germany, Greece, > Spain all had good luck with initial lockdowns. Big economic hit, but far > less severe than a health system collapse and a real rather than induced > economic downturn. > > The problem is that far too many people think getting the case load down to > manageable means they don't need to keep practicing all the things that got > it down in the first place. > > I have a couple friends who have made more than one trip to vacation spots > recently, for instance. Plumb nuts, there is absolutely NO reason to assume > vacation spots are safe, at all, ever, especially when going there involves > consumption of large quantites of alcohol in public. Unfortunately, for > those friends the alcohol part is the main reason for going..... > > The message should be "act like it's 1900 -- no antibiotics, no treatments, > no drugs, no vaccine" -- the way out of this is to treat it like any disease > outbreak prior to the advent of antibiotics in the 1940's. Quarantines, > social distancing, face masks (which worked pretty well in 1918 too) and stay > at home! > > We will get there, just gonna take a million extra dead people before the > unwashed masses figure it out. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
