[JoMar]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

You can't contain what you don't even know you have. The virus was widespread before we even knew what we were looking at. What happened in March was hysteria. The hysteria has led to some bizarre health mandates like putting COVID-19 positive patients in with vulnerable elderly residents of LtCs, hospital procedures were put into place to prevent the spread to healthcare workers but those same procedures led to deadly delays in treatment. There was that loud cry for ventilators and when they were provided, suddenly they weren't needed anymore.

After months of doing our part to socially isolate and flatten the curve - businesses shut down, professional sports seasons ended, no concerts, bars, casinos, elective medical procedures cancelled or postponed indefinitely, schools and college campuses shut down, gyms, restaurants, salons shuttered, DMV closed....after months of this, we finally start to cautiously reopen only to have massive crowds of protesters, some wearing masks, some not wearing masks allowed to swarm the cities.....

So, now, after just seeing our 4th of July celebrations cancelled, we are being scolded for not doing enough to prevent the spread....it's just this perpetual blame game that just will not end.

The cure is worse than the disease.

Only if neither you, your family or those that are close to you don't get sick. When they do you and you see how bad it can be, you might think otherwise. We don't get to see how devastating it can be, only what the mild cases are or what we read. As with everything, nothing is a big deal until it impacts you.