Thread: The C. Virus and human reaction

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

My wife teaches and she can retire if she wants and if they decide to go back to normal teaching she be gone.

The boss and I were talking about that very same thing the other day. It is back to school in a month up here and both of us agreed that if we were teachers qualified to retire we would be gone under those circumstances.

Bob

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There is no way I would work as a teacher in a classroom. Life is to short. I would not risk my life for a paycheck if I had the choice.

Originally Posted by randydance062449

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There is no way I would work as a teacher in a classroom. Life is to short. I would not risk my life for a paycheck if I had the choice.

Yes, feel the same way and so damn glad I have been retired for 11 years now. It sure takes a lot of stress out of the situation the pandemic has left us to deal with. The boss has been a homemaker for the last 25 years so no stress there either.

Bob

My daughter in law, the teacher, just took a years sabbatical. We fully support her decision.

C.S. Lewis -

https://americandigest.org/c-s-lewis...an-atomic-age/

I think Lewis makes a good point. If we become so preoccupied with avoiding the risks of life, which are many, then we add an additional risk - that of not really living.

Originally Posted by honedright

C.S. Lewis -

https://americandigest.org/c-s-lewis...an-atomic-age/

I think Lewis makes a good point. If we become so preoccupied with avoiding the risks of life, which are many, then we add an additional risk - that of not really living.

There is a not so fine line there.We could all go rock climbing without ropes and drink water from that bubbling brook next hike or drive 120 miles an hour. So if I die I die doing something I like eh?

To those who think we should just throw caution to the wind and screw staying home and shutting down and wearing masks and hey herd immunity will solve the problem the question then becomes how many folks are you willing to sacrifice? Maybe a quarter million or maybe one million maybe more but hey the economy will be fine.

So you sit down and watch the news in the morning and see 150,000+ dead from this thing and think my, what a terrible thing and then go on with your life. Yes it be easy to read about the death of strangers. What if it's your family having a loved one in the hospital fighting for their lives.

Sure there are no guarantees in life. You could get terminal cancer tomorrow or get run over by a truck tonight or we could be invaded by Klingons tomorrow or be hit by a giant meteor. but there are some things we can do something about as opposed to some things we can't.

If you live to be around 80 and have to spend a year or less restricted so what percentage of your life has been spent "not living"? What is a human life worth to you? Civilization will survive just about everything. It survived the black death, it survived two world wars and it will survive this.

Hyperbole anyone?? Hello???

Who says really living means living recklessly? I think Lewis (and common sense) would agree that we take certain precautions, but that we don't allow fear to dominate. Remember Roosevelt's great quote?

One thing we could do is to end the rioting in the streets. If staying home and isolating will help end the spread of the virus (not to mention ending the disorder and destruction) then that should be a priority. Or is that one of those things that we can't, or won't?

Apparently all of those involved (in the rioting - both participating and facilitating) have thrown caution to the wind and said "screw it." How many are they willing to sacrifice? It seems they want to screw the economy, which may not be fine at all when this is all over.

Awesome comments, I have had to go out and work the entire time as I am an essential worker... We don't know really what the virus is capable of, it is still mutating according to what I have read. And in response to above comment my mother died from the flu a few years ago and it is hard for sure. She survived WWII, Korea, the Asian and Hong Kong Flu pandemics which the world lost over a million people during each outbreak and over 100K each here in the U.S.
The loss of life is going to be horrific worldwide because of the long reaching effects of the virus, they are projecting anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 people a month starving due to food shortages because of the economic impact of the virus. The impact on the world economy is going to be far reaching and last a long time, I am just praying it doesn't mutate like the 1918 flu did then I believe we will see what bad really is..

I'd say that the virus has had no impact on the economy. It is just a very tiny RNA strand enclosed by a protein capsule. Not even really a living (by most definitions of "living") thing. It don't care a hoot about human economies.

What has affected the economy is our, primarily our elected representatives, reaction to the virus. What short term, and long term, economic, educational, and social effects that result from our handling of the pandemic is yet to be determined.

My regret is that our descendants may be damning us eternally for the effects, that they will inherit, due to our pandemic policies and decisions of today.

Originally Posted by honedright

I'd say that the virus has had no impact on the economy. It is just a very tiny RNA strand enclosed by a protein capsule. Not even really a living (by most definitions of "living") thing. It don't care a hoot about human economies.

What has affected the economy is our, primarily our elected representatives, reaction to the virus. What short term, and long term, economic, educational, and social effects that result from our handling of the pandemic is yet to be determined.

My regret is that our descendants may be damning us eternally for the effects, that they will inherit, due to our pandemic policies and decisions of today.

Yea, I agree totally.