We have had many epidemics of viruses in the USA. Yet we have never had this level of Hysteria or Panic. The media is driving this, and creating this irrational fear.
Zika virus barley made the news in 2015-2016
Ebola virus barley made the news
MERS virus 2012 to present, not much news
H1N1 virus 2009 not much in news until over 1000 deaths in the USA
There are many more examples. What makes this one so much worse? Why are we shutting everything down when we have less people infected and way less deaths? Why is the media making such a big deal of this when they never have in the past?
The above unanswered questions are why I am skeptical of the panic being created.
All good points and good questions.
Some people are skeptical of media and government. Most it appears believe medical experts. Media utilized the medical experts they needed to manipulate this and those who watch the media are influenced into irrational frenzies and panic. Worldwide. An irrational overblown panic at the same level as Y2k was with the same lack lustr results. People tend to forget the enormous waste of resources and irrational nutty behaviors of Y2k, a media created frenzy with aid ffrom the government & some savvy computer folks out to make Big Bucks. Why? Because remembering how stupid one's behavior was is easier to forget than remember. Almost every company had a Y2k response emergency plan. Yep. Colossal waste of time & energy & money - Y2k. Corona virus, the Y2k of 2020?
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It really is as bad as "they" say it is. Infection rates are off the charts, an event similar to the Spanish flu epidemic of the late 1910s. Millions will die hospitals will be unable to cope & the medical response will be overwhelmed to the point of ineffectiveness. Worldwide death on a scale never seen since maybe the bubonic plague. Supply chains so disrupted the survivalists will finally be proven right. Morgues will be overcome to the point we will finally fully utilize all those empty shopping malls. And so on...
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It is somewhere in the middle of that. There are other extremes, impossible to list all the extreme scenarios but it will be somewhere in the middle of all that. Could be toward the better middle or the worse middle.
Me? Will still do stuff as much as I used to but will take some precautions like washing hands more. No hoarding, that behavior annoys the crap out of me but it appears a lot of folks love hoarding. The new national past time - frenzied hoarding. Some things I like to do have been cancelled, some places I planned to go like a ride to a restaurant today had to be changed because they are closed. If I lived in a huge city figure my response would be different. If I lived in a much smaller town, same deal. Life goes on until it doesn't. Am not a pandemic internet expert like so many "are" on social media these days. So I take all that with a grain of salt because the Next Big Thing will happen & then all the social media pandemic experts will morph back into social media lawyers or social media doctors or Facebook military strategists. Unless we are all dead, then it won't matter anyway.
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