There would be much more suffering by overreacting. It is disgusting to politicize this. But not surprising the people who are. Power is their game and they have no shame.
It’s 100% fair to legitimately raise praise and grievances towards leadership in a crisis. Government, corporate, school boards, wherever. It’s not their fault for a crisis (this the name...), but the response DOES matter and shows an adequate government that actually does it’s job instead of it running by the market and established government alone.
We need to trust facts and not be as partisan and we must actively avoid propaganda, sensationalism, and fake information, and be willing to be wrong, and cross parties in a vote. This has been rapidly accelerated in the last four years, but that would overly simplify it. It’s really been on since the 1960’s, then 90’s, then 2010, and since Trump’s election.
Ideologues have ruined American government from functioning. I just hope they don’t ruin American businesses either. The timing of WDW/DL’s closing suggests they were feeling pressure from state governments and the cancellations of events recently, but wanted to milk out this last weekend. Hey at least Rise will have awesome uptime when they’re done with it!
Side Note: I’m surprised people are acting like this will just magically end. It takes a China style lockdown to virtually halt its spread. Think that will fly here at these current numbers? Think again.
If we assume a conservative estimate that a third of the US can get this without slowing its spread we have a problem with overcrowded hospitals which means the death rate will be high. I don’t want to see a lot of old people dying. There’s no flu vaccine to prevent its spread, and this virus has proven very dangerous without enough hospital capacity to the millions of older individuals and health-issues folks in other westernized countries.
Check my post history, I said we were heading into a recession over a month ago, and I’ve been warning people of COVID-19’s severity using fact-based models and my understanding of what was going on. People either blinded by ideology, biased sources, or irrationally overreacting/under reacting showed me the scope of ignorance in this country. There’s no counter-evidence (which is required to refute evidence) that says this will halt in the summer, it may slow down, but there’s just no evidence that suggests it won’t be around 12 months from now. Why should entertainment facilities re-open en mass a few weeks from now? Schools are done for the semester, etc. as to do otherwise would just increase its spread again. Just at Costco today you see legitimate panic and it’s like, well, if you would’ve been smart and researched yourself and not fallen for propaganda would have been cool, calm, and collective, and done what was needed months ago.
Anyway, I’m not going to write about this subject anymore on this forum or anywhere else online. I’m ready to move on and focus on actually doing what I can to help people.
I just ask my fellow American, and world citizens that we stay away from partisan sources that declare an us vs. them mentality so common today that allows conspiracy theories and rejects an objective truth.
I hope this post doesn’t get deleted, but it’s not my loss. I’m frankly optimistic about the world!
