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Originally Posted by Mecca
The other thing is we live in a time where we are so saturated with information that lots of people are lazy about it. So they take the few stories they want to hang onto and then hold on to them as the facts.
People heard that flu shit and won't let it go. No matter where you get your news or your information you should do some critical thinking, we seem to have lost that as a society in general.
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Maybe if the public wasn't told it has a CFR/IFR of 4% and a R0 of 5 at the beginning, and we need to flatten the curve, before we can open up... We've done that, and the curve has been flattening and we are slowly opening back up. The projected IFR for those under 65 and healthy is expected to be similar to the flu. That's critical thinking. How do we accommodate the risk for those vulnerable, while at the same time getting 30,000,000 Americans back to work, decreasing suicide hotline calls, domestic violence calls, and hoping the decrease in Child abuse isn't really just no one being able to interact with kids outside of their family...
And you are calling others dumb... When in reality, not to recognize both sides, the true risk we know now, and understand there is a middle ground to this issue. You say 2/3 approve of staying locked down. I'm guessing they have a job, at least for a while longer... Do you think that number will stay at 2/3 if we lose another 15 million jobs as predicted in May/June? What about when the extra stimulus runs out?