Corona Virus #7

[k0ua]

Hindsight is 20-20 and finger pointing etc. is expected...but regardless of everything that was said or should have been said would have fallen on deaf ears (the public) until the bodies started piling up so to speak...Nobody minus a few were taking it seriously and even if they would have taken it more seriously nothing of importance could have been done...
Declaring a national emergency before there is one is always a bad idea and once reality was setting in with the public the herd mentality had already commenced...

Do you finger pointers really think that if the earliest announcements contained worse case scenarios that the public would have calmly started stocking up on food and necessary products in a civil polite manner with no hording?...I don't think so...

Also when the earliest warnings were starting and prompted the admin to make an announcement even less was known about what was going on in china and exactly how bad they thought it could get...even today they are not getting factual data from china...

Because we live in a partisan world people are going to be misguided into thinking the fingers they are pointing are aimed correctly even when they are not...china bears the brunt of the blame whether people care to believe it or not...

Rgr that.

 

[k0ua]

I'd like to see people thinking about how we get people back to work safely. My wife's engineering company has almost all been working from home but that sure doesn't work for all. Surely with the right safety equipment many more people could go back to work. We live in a complicated world but that doesn't mean we can't figure out how to solve problems.

Chris

Good points.

 

[MikePA]

Why do some people find it so hard to NOT include politics in their posts? Is winning an argument on the Internet that important to you? Do you really think you are going to change anyones mind?

There is a separate forum for politics. Use it.

 

[ultrarunner]

It is tragic that this virus has finally made its inroads into the homeless population. Many of whom have few defenses or resources to apply against it. This could explode in places like California.

Coronavirus spreads in Los Angeles''' homeless community

The entire concept of shelters and Navigation Centers is being reevaluated in light of contagion.

 

[ultrarunner]

Homeless populations
Prisons
Detention Centers

One heck of a storm is brewing, Right Now

Inmates continue being released in large numbers in some Bay Area counties.

 

[MikePA]

Open the next Corona Virus thread in FP. Oh, look, there already is one, just waiting for political posts that will be sure to guarantee winning an argument on the Internet.