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Originally Posted by Bucco
Ebola is not easily transmittable. Infected people don’t spread the virus until they start showing symptoms, and even then the virus is hard to catch because it is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluid of an infected person, like blood, sweat, and urine, rather than through the kind of particles produced when someone sneezes or speaks. Unless you’re nursing patients (either at home or in a hospital setting) or tending to their body after they’ve died, it’s unlikely you’d acquire the infection.
This Corona has strained our healthcare system so much more because of its method of transmission, and ease of transmission.
We seem to want to discuss death rates, economy, etc. if our healthcare system simply folds under the stress, we will quickly learn economic stress. Folks are acting like this is done, because so many are not severely ill, but again.....our healthcare system is just about at the max.
But, reality seems to have faded in our country.
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The economic impact is another story. I believe that your last post was a criticism of how the pandemic was handled politically.
You changed the subject.
I personally think that the majority of Americans, no matter their politics, are aware of the severity of the Pandemic. Polls indicate that about 70 % of the U.S. population consider the pandemic as the biggest problem facing us today.
The economic fallout will hurt us to be sure and not a lot can mitigate it. The sooner the vaccine arrives the easier on the economic impact, but much damage has already been done that could not have been avoided by any means.