SvennoJ said:
Immersiveunreality said:
Take a step back and realize you have just begun to care about the already sick and hospitalized because of the mediahype,those people have always been at risk year after year and now that we ourselves have a small small chance to be affected it is suddenly important to include them into our arguments to be able to enforce our believes?
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So you don't have (older) parents or grand parents you remind they should get the flu shot yearly? It does help
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
The flu kills people, lots of things kill people. The healthcare system is dialed in to the status quo we have while slowly trying to make things better and it works since the average lifespan is continuing to increase. This new virus is a huge stressor on the status quo which the healthcare system has no reserve for to handle at scale. Every other normally sick patient will suffer when this gets too big, unless the solution is to lock anyone with covid-19 into their homes and see who is still alive 4 weeks later.
Maybe you never cared for the sick and hospitalized and never had family members or friends need healthcare, lucky you. But I admit I also have a personal interest in this virus. My wife is in the risk group with chronic lung disease (She has asthma and she catches pneumonia on a yearly basis now), chronic hypertension (needs blood pressure medication) and a generally weak immune system. So yeah, I very much like to see this thing getting pushed back.
People panicking isn't helping, however that's a direct result of the government not trusting the population to handle the facts, while the media is trying to grab attention by blowing the facts out of proportion. I haven't been following the media at all, just the CDC and WHO statements and draw my own conclusions on how this is developing.
I'm actually not all that worried for our safety (still worried though) after following how this is developing. Countries start in denial, ensuring the risk is low, let travelers check their own health for a couple weeks after coming back. Then when it starts to grow a bit some big gatherings get cancelled, still growing, close some schools, still not working, restrict travel, getting over a 1000 new cases a day, lock down. All measures that lag behind and only make a bigger mess in the end, but it will eventually slow the virus down. Those that don't travel nor have family members that travel are quite safe (for now) Community spread is still quite rare.
Countries are on a self destructive path with this disease. Instead of putting full safety measures at airports / borders, they rather wait until it gets out of hand and parts of the country need to be shut down. So with this trend it is wise to stock up to get a bit of a buffer in food and medical supplies. If only for a few weeks to get through possible shortages. Of course, governments should have advised people to do this since early Februari in a sensible way. Buy a little extra each week, be prepared which is a smart thing to be anyway. But we as a species are still a fight or flight type animal. No immediate threat, go back to our regular comfy snooze, then it hits and it's act first, think later. I have to laugh at people stockpiling toilet paper and even fighting over it, a comfort item. Just wash your fucking ass if you run out.
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