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Originally Posted by alnorth
We are not going to stay home and stay publicly apart for more than a year while waiting for a vaccine (even early 2021 is thought to be optimistic). We could have aggressively locked down and quarantined anyone with symptoms in February, like other nations successfully did. Once we failed to do that, by March it was too late.
When the NFL and college football starts up, the people are going to collectively go "ok damn it, enough of this, let us assume the risk", and not want to listen to arguments about how they would therefore be infecting people at home or the store who didn't want to take the risk.
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I agree to an extent. The other part of the problem is the 2 sides that get painted inaccurately:
Side 1: This is a death sentence if you get it and you're a selfish **** if you don't hide in your house in a plastic bubble or go outside in a space suit.
Side 2: **** this, if I get it I get it.
Neither is accurate but people tend to lean one way or the other. The media doesn't help either side but particularly they are on side 1 for the most part. They want tragedy, pain and suffering. Their ratings thrive on it.
The reality is this can be a deadly virus and particularly for certain high-risk individuals. But in large part the virus is mild if you get it and most certainly not a automatic death sentence like AIDS once was.