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Originally Posted by DianeM
As a child, I was taught by both my grandmother and my mother to “mind your business”. I think that applies to reporting people these days. Unless they’re pointing a gun in my direction, their actions and consequences are on their head.
I think it was ridiculous to shut down a country for this length of time. Be cautious yes, but live our lives.
As for the people, not dollars mindset .... well we need both. What good is being alive if you cannot take care of your family and pay bills. Eventually money and food will run out and anarchy will begin. I do not wish to live in the United States of Venezuela.
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According to the statistics on the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 web site, currently the US has 722,000+ cases of COVID-19 and 33,900 deaths. That is with most of the country "shut down" for the past 3 to 5 weeks, depending on where one lives.
What if the governors had not placed any temporary restrictions on businesses, schools, houses of worship, entertainment venues, etc. since mid-March? Where would the number of cases and deaths be now? 10% higher, 20% higher, 30% higher?
Not enough people were "cautious" (i.e, the spring breakers partying on the beaches of Florida in March, people getting too close to one another on Chicago's lakefront a couple of weeks ago).
Until there is a vaccine developed, and by most reports I have heard that is at least 12 months away, "normal" is going to be different for a while.
Several years ago at my former job, I voiced my unhappiness to my former manager about a two week trip I was going to have to make to the company's headquarters in Houston. My manager's reply was "Laura, you're just going to have to suck it up and make the trip."
So as much as I want for things to return to normal tomorrow or next week, I know that's not going to happen; I am "sucking it up" for now.
I am grateful I have a job and an employer that has the technological capabilities to enable its office employees to work from home the past 5 weeks.
The sooner the numbers of new cases start declining, the sooner life can start to return to "normal", however you define normal life for yourself.