Willmaker said:
Marcus86 said:
I promise you all will be fine as a whole, just like you were during Ebola, SARS, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, West Nile Virus, Mad Cow Disease, etc etc etc and just like you will be fine during the NEXT mass panic.
I see a lot of freaking out over Trump “not preparing,” people not “readying themselves” etc etc. He has some faults. But besides limiting travel into the country, keeping the panicking masses calm, and working with health officials to develop an antiviral or vaccine as these become (although many here have said they aren’t going to use these), what would you have him do? As Lunardance mentioned, this is a virus. And as with the common cold, it has no cure. A previously uninflected person has zero immune system against this as it is completely new on its own. There is no major “preparation” that can be done minus having decent food and water stores and washing your hands, sleeping well and so forth - common sense things. It’s just a fact.
All panic is achieving is DRYING UP stores of foods, masks, and causing excessive economic hardship. Many are buying MORE than they or their family need, leaving little for others or the elderly or disabled who may not be getting to the stores til later than most. Think about that.
Also, do you really think a 2-4% mortality rate, of mainly elderly and otherwise sick people is going to SHUT DOWN the telecommunications, electrical power grid/structure, utilities and internet ... and banking and etc etc as was suggested? Perhaps with mass panic, this could happen. People locking themselves in their houses even when virus free for months on end... or some crazies refusing to ever come out again, major riots of anger towards government for “not preparing enough”... these could cause some issues, you are right. And logically thinking, many folks are actually making MONEY off this panic, investing in stocks at their low points and, as I am typing this I see on a TV, the more greedy are RESELLING FACEMASKS to scared people who can’t find them at stores anymore because people raided the stores in droves.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t be ready, or keeping yourselves in the loop of things, but I can’t help but see many of you don’t know what to think and are just going along with the people who are freaking out... like the “comedians” on YT who start screaming in public and the entire store trampled each other trying to get out of the building... breathe, just... breathe.