Thread: The C. Virus and human reaction

Originally Posted by BobH

Was only going by what the Doc in the link was saying...I do not think governments around the world have done a good job of conveying the realities to the general public. Bob

No problem. It's too early to tell yet. It's true, if exposed, you don't know what your body will do. You might have a case but never know. There are so few tests available that only high risk or priority cases are tested. That skews the statistics.

If numbers mean anything, in China, they seem to have passed the peak in two ways. There are less daily new cases and less daily sick cases requiring hospital care. That's really good news. It gives the rest of the world a time estimate of when their peak case rate will occur. A factor in the US is that there was an unfortunate delay in developing tests that had problems rather than buying a good test already available. If we can test more then we will have a good idea of how many real cases of Covid19 are here versus people with bad colds. Then we all will have a better idea of accurate percentages.

I agree this is not an illness to take lightly. But the main variable is ignorance/panic and that is based on good information vs bad information. I do not apologize for having very high expectations of our leadership to provide the truth to us when life and death is on the line. I am sensitive to the fact that you can't just gut punch everyone either. But when dribs and drabs of information come out, they should all be in agreement, they should all be valid, reliable and credible and the source as well. Those who fan the flames should be held accountable for wasting time and resources and putting us all a risk even more than we are.

In general I applaud individual and corporate business and industry leaders who have simply made the decisions to take an economic hit in favor of their customers and employees when they got no direction at all. Even so, waiting on government leadership (so-called) wasted precious time. Europe seems to be ahead of the problem despite more cases per 1000. They had to take more harsh measures of population control. But politics seems to take last place in their decision making too.

Each of us should get as much good information as we can get our hands on. Then make up our own minds without relying on the more hyperbolic newsies or politicians to tell us what we should be doing. There is a lot that one person can do to affect this situation, then two, then families then communities. Be an example, preferably a good one, to those you know who are scared.