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Originally Posted by dirk digler
Our 7 day average in cases and deaths is the highest it has been here in MO. A lot of people just don’t care anymore.
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Apathy is to be expected when every time you turn around someone or something is in your face about Covid. It has been over 6 months now and people have been told to stay home, have lost or in some cases have had to quit their job, many are playing Teacher for their kids and they can't leave their house without a mask on their face.
Many people understand that the majority of the risk is people who are elderly and at risk for a lot of things or people with other underlyings.
Either way the message of "you may not have it but you don't know so you must act like you do even if you don't" wears thin after a while. It's human nature.
And now you see all the countries in Europe that many of you held up in envy starting to go through the threat of a second round of lockdowns and it gets old.
The constant moving of the goal posts. The overinflation or otherwise purposely misleading information also wears on people. Almost half of our deaths have come from nursing homes or assisted living facilities. That isn't because of Covid but because of decisions that were made.
And the complete and total myopic take on this as witnesses by people like Suzzer also wears people wrong. Some of you want to focus strictly on Covid and ignore the Covide-related issues. Suzzer completely downplayed students committing suicide and told them to suck it up when in reality the fact is at any other time he would be realizing those are actually Covid caused deaths.
Frankly I've about had it myself. You can't write off kids committing suicide over a virus that by in large effects the elderly and those who are already in a limited capacity for any kind of illness be it Covid or the flu.
The media and the fear mongers want to tout the 200k death toll when in reality it's probably closer to 100k because if Covid and 100k because of dumb decisions our leaders made. Don't get me wrong, 100k is nothing to scoff at by any means. But I find it ironic that people who scream fear in the name of safety have not necessarily practiced what they preached.
I look at this way, I don't wanna die from Covid and the odds are I most likely would not. I don't want my kid to get and die from Covid and the odds are he most likely won't. Those who would well, let's sat I have one elderly family member screaming masks, masks, MASKS and the other tons of family or elderly people I meet saying "I can die from a million things but I am not about to live out my remaining days in fear".
When people start looking at Covid for what it is and not what they think or want it to be then things will get a lot better for everyone.