Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

crissindahouse said:

Nautilus said:

*sigh* It's not that I dont agree with many measures being taken, but with some, such as forcibly closing the commerce.The regular, street commerce for example.

Let me put it this way, and use your own words against you:

But hey, it's up to you if you don't care that a 70 years old guy will die some months after his son or grandson has no money to pay for his medication or to have money for an emergency procedure at a private hospital(since the public ones will be full) because he couldn't work for months, and the government is too busy fixing this whole mess to help you.Or that his pension isn't being paid because the whole economy went to shit.But hey, it's up to you. 

Next flaw in your logic. You don't help anyone financially if you just let every store run like before. It would just cost even more in the long run because you would  reach so many deaths a day in USA alone that people wouldn't even go outside anymore even with open stores. It wouldn't be cheaper to let people still fly around just to save airlines because people wouldn't even want to fly anymore if you would reach the number of deaths experts believe we would reach. 

Yes, this virus is that bad if anything we see in Italy even with extreme measurements is a hint.  

But let's be honest here. You just think about yourself right now without even understanding that even you would have more problems as you will have now if the world would only do what you think should be done. 

Flaw?I never said every business should be open.Airlines should close because they are directly involved with the spread.These kind of business would be closed either way.

I mean regular commerce.Your neighbor market, the barbershop, the small restaurant just next door.People wouldn't stop going to those places, especially the ones that are essential.Those kind of business that are stupid for closing.Hell, even with Italy all in lock down, people are still going out, if any of the videos people send me through services like Whatsapp are to be believed.If I had to guess, they still have friends they wanna visit, things they gotta buy.Asking people to stay in for months(yes, months given the incubation period of this disease) is impossible.

And calm your balls.This disease won't kill as many as you think it will.Not even remotely close.As everyone said, the COVID-19 isn't that dangerous, and the biggest problem we will face is space in the hospitals.The real problem is people panicking like you are and doing stupid shit.Just read my previous post t6o understand why that is the real danger.