Delaying the virus is the same as saying "saving lives". Are you against saving lives? Maybe they opened too early and they will learn from that. Their total deaths will be lower than the US's when and if this Plague is ever over. The US is learning NOTHING from other countries.

The increase in deaths in July and August would have nothing to do with the governor allowing bars, tattoo shops, massage parlors, etc. to reopen in the beginning of June?

I don't see anyone hysterical. I see them calm and careful. I am tired of people taunting others with labels like "paranoid" and "hysterical" and "afraid" and dismissing their being careful and knowing the risks with being a "sissy".

Isnt hindsight great thing to have?

The CDC mortality rate we saw was 4% for 70-79 and 24% for 80 and above. I agree you can’t shut the whole country down for a small age group like us and it was wise to reopen Florida. Those of us a high risk need to be extra careful and the extended shopping were helpful. We will also be wearing masks until there is an effective vaccine.

Yes, Nostradamus!

Did you read the paper I pointed too. Not a chance? Stay sheltered for everyone's sake.

Wow that Nostradamus guy sure gets around

Delaying the virus is what it is all about. Delaying the virus is buying us time to achieve herd immunity with a vaccine. That is the safe way to do it.

Vaccine....sign me up. THEN I will live life back to normal.

At least it gives everyone a choice,
I would think any good business Will ease into it.

Survival rate means living through the virus. It also means living through the virus, but having severe pulmonary problems for the rest of your life.

If you’re high risk, as I am, nothing has changed to allow me to go back to normal.

So personally I have to continue to stay home.

But we each have to decide what is worth the risk.
If you’re not high risk you may have more options.

Praying for an effective vaccine soon. Stay safe.

I completely agree. People are free to choose their own comfort level—and free to ignore the small-minded comments about their carefulness. We see fairly consistently what happens in areas in the US and around the world when they are opened up for reasons that seem to defy public health policy—and one doesn’t have to be Nostradamus to be aware of this.

I could never wrap my head around the thinking that the percentages are so small that the disease is inconsequential overall. Remember that these now 200,000+ deaths—whether directly from COVID-19 or from a complicating issue that they had learned to live with, perhaps for many years—these are individual lives and families struggling through a terrible tragedy....

Finally, there is some common sense. Thanks Dan !

Shame on those people for removing their mask to eat!! Mask wearing is supposed to be in conjunction with social distancing so those tiny particles that squeeze out of the alleged useless masks are not spread to others.