Aloha,Or maybe they are a Millennial?
I just read this interesting article in The Hill, and it explains some of the differences in reaction to this virus that we've seen right here in this thread. The Harris Poll just did a survey and found that Millennials are somehow the most concerned about dying from Coronavirus, while older people (ahem!) are less concerned. And yet it's all the old people it's killing, while young people aren't being killed by it.
Here's a key sentence from the article, and it suddenly explains a lot to me...
"It also raises the question of what is driving such fear among millennials — is it their engagement in social media that is creating greater concern, or is it their lack of any comparable events in their lifetime? Or a combination: A lack of any real experience with a pandemic crisis, combined with hearing about it constantly through social media, means that they have no personal experience to moderate or check against what is in their feed. Older people, in contrast, have been through comparable crises, making it natural for them to wonder what all the fuss is about."
Worried about dying from COVID-19? You might be a millennial
Those who are most scared are those who have never experienced events of similar scale — the millennials.thehill.com
Many Millennials are too young to really remember 9/11 and what that felt like for adults. Let alone other things like the stock market crash of '87, the worst of the Cold War in the early 80's when we were certain we'd all be dead by 1985, the Gas Crises in '73 and '79, the horrible Hong Kong Flu in '68, the Cuban Missile Crisis in '62, etc.
But maybe if we'd made a bigger deal out of the Swine Flu in 2009 they would have better coping skills for this Coronavirus? The '09 Swine Flu was bad (with apologies to any pigs that may read this and anyone else from the pork community), but Disneyland never closed and you could always buy bath tissue at Target.
2009 Swine Flu H1N1 in United States
60.8 Million US Cases
274,304 US Hospitalizations
12,469 US Deaths
Up to 575,000 Deaths Worldwide
I was on this message board regularly in 2009. We never talked about it, much less its impact to Disneyland. And over 12,000 Americans died from that virus. That's fascinating to compare!
2009 H1N1 Pandemic
A summary of key events of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the CDC's response activities between April 2009 and April 2010.www.cdc.gov
Loads of room to get out there and hike as well as admire nature's beauty....just keep your distance from people AND bears!!!
National Parks are the number one place for Chinese tour bus tourists. You get shoved out of the way by them with a "sorry. sorry." It gets really annoying when a bus load comes through and they have to follow that guy with the flag as he runs through the area. Best to be at areas early in the morning or late afternoon.https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/national-parks-service-coronavirus/index.html
National Parks waving entrance fees!!! This is good.....wish I had one closer!!!
For what it's worth, Aljazeera:
In China, life returning to normal as coronavirus outbreak slows
Draconian measures, which appear to have quelled the outbreak in China, are gradually being relaxed.
I hope they don't relax too much and have a new flare up, but I take hope from this.
In China, life returning to normal as coronavirus outbreak slows
Draconian measures, which appear to have quelled the outbreak in China, are gradually being relaxed.www.aljazeera.com
But that's not fake news!
The lack of testing is extremely frustrating. My work has someone who has the symptoms and the doctor has said they likely have it but won't test. We are a small team with a lot of interaction with each other. Tomorrow we figure out how to see clients over video calls and remote access the computers. Testing would have helped us figure out who could stay in the clinic and who needed to stay home. I feel like the country is flying blind without mass testing. On the bright side clients have been really nice about working with us through all this and are being patient.
They're basing the resurgence theory on the idea that the country won't be on relative lock down for six months. After this current viral surge has peaked and gone down (probably by June, hopefully earlier) there will be a lot of public pressure to reopen businesses and ease restrictions on social interaction. This could result in another wave of exponential viral transmission which will likely result in another wave of closures and shutdowns. The hope is that by that time testing will have become so widespread that those who get the virus then will be better isolated and the next wave of shutdowns will be much less.
