I like you. Common sense. Normal. And being a Razorback family doesn’t hurt either! . WPS!What’s “risky”? Shopping? Golfing? Walking in a park? Daring to go maskless inside their own home (some idiot “expert” in Texas is advocating this)?
I like you. Common sense. Normal. And being a Razorback family doesn’t hurt either! . WPS!What’s “risky”? Shopping? Golfing? Walking in a park? Daring to go maskless inside their own home (some idiot “expert” in Texas is advocating this)?
We feel the same way! Just to give you a positive virus story - my 76 year old father and 73 year old mother both got the virus 2 weeks ago. My dad was sick for about a week, my mother a few days. Both recovered wonderfully! Neither required medical attention. All they have left is just some fatigue, but they are growing stronger every day. I know some people have underlying conditions that make the virus more dangerous for them, but my 70+ year old parents are a testament that getting the virus isn’t life threatening for everyone!
You also have to realize that this is unprecedented. There is no right or wrong way to feel. And we cannot simply say go back to work. None of us are walking in anyone else’s shoes.I take precautions but I am also firmly falling into the camp of everyone needs to be sent back to work. If you aren’t comfortable then don’t go but don’t expect to keep getting paid.
If the new standard is you only need to go to work when you are comfortable then nobody is going to be at work anymore.
For me I was just starting to get comfortable and think maybe I could do a few things and then things started getting crazy. Now I am back to feeling like I can't go anywhere or do anything. I am resigned to staying home until the fall.
Sounds normal to me.I feel like I’m the only one who goes back and forth between being terrified and resigned about COVID-19. One minute I’m “taking the proper precautions it’s ok to have limited contact with others and send the kids to school.” The next I’m like “keep the kids in the house or we are all going to die.” I try and read only scientific and unbiased information, but that seems harder and harder to come by. I’ve been snoozing people on social media who clearly have an agenda one way or the other, but it only helps so much. Who else feels like this?
Where are the statistics on that? I can’t find it and would really like to have it to show some people.I wish your parents health, but there's no evidence at all they are recovered if it's only been 14 days. Most hospitalizations occur at the 3-4 week mark when the virus comes back.
Yeah New Yorkers have a different perspective and risk assessment for sure! But it NEVER made sense to 100% lockdown the entire country all at the same time nor for as long. It should have been as spots pop up- people would be more compliant NOW vs just fatigued with the whole thing. I realize we didn’t know what we didn’t know but we had a global monkey see/monkey do reaction. And then zero re-evaluation to adjust as needed here. So states were left to figure it out on their own and welcome to the mess! The news constantly crying “spike” when yes cases doubled —> from 2 to 4! It climbed 200%! Hospitals at near capacity! (Leaving out fact hospitals nearly always are near capacity context!). Please note I’m not making light of rising cases but the constant news bombardment of absolute DOOM when most haven’t experienced anything like that leads many - even normally rationale thinkers- to disregard everything now. And hence the constant flux of emotions and burnout.Context: I'm a New Yorker.
Life is not going back to normal anywhere until we get a lot stricter about locking down. NYC had zero deaths yesterday for the first time since March. Because we locked it down.
Where are the statistics on that? I can’t find it and would really like to have it to show some people.
I wish your parents health, but there's no evidence at all they are recovered if it's only been 14 days. Most hospitalizations occur at the 3-4 week mark when the virus comes back.
May I ask respectfully, what point you'd be trying to make? If you're advocating that Covid is not being taken seriously enough, please don't forget to calculate in the number of hospitalizations vs. the total number of cases. In all demograpics, the reality is that most people recover. Anecdotes like the one about the PP's parents immediately get brushed aside and I wonder why? Is it because people are worried the overwhelming number of reports of that nature will cause people to let their guards down? I really just don't get it.Where are the statistics on that? I can’t find it and would really like to have it to show some people.
You also have to realize that this is unprecedented. There is no right or wrong way to feel. And we cannot simply say go back to work. None of us are walking in anyone else’s shoes.
I am hoping things get better again (say by October) before they get real bad this winter. I just want to go to the coast for an afternoon and feel comfortable.‘I am actually thinking (here in Massachusetts) I better do some stuff now because I think fall and winter are when I’m going to be stuck home again. Praying I am wrong.
I feel like I’m the only one who goes back and forth between being terrified and resigned about COVID-19. One minute I’m “taking the proper precautions it’s ok to have limited contact with others and send the kids to school.” The next I’m like “keep the kids in the house or we are all going to die.” I try and read only scientific and unbiased information, but that seems harder and harder to come by. I’ve been snoozing people on social media who clearly have an agenda one way or the other, but it only helps so much. Who else feels like this?
I wish your parents health, but there's no evidence at all they are recovered if it's only been 14 days. Most hospitalizations occur at the 3-4 week mark when the virus comes back.
I know that I sound crazy but I actually worry that my friends will be rude to us since she is doing what they consider risky. My younger daughter came home almost 2 weeks ago from a plane trip to Minnesota to see her best friend from college. I was raked across the coals for allowing her to do this completely unnecessary risky adventure.