Just 2 months ago, my home state of Washington was the epicenter of the covid 19 pandemic in America, #1 in the nation in cases and deaths. Today WA is #18, and is on track to fall out of the top 20 very soon. How did this happen? First, our Governour listened to our doctors and not the politicians, we were the first to set up temporary care facilities. Second, our employees went home to work in droves, even before the stay at home order was in place. Third, our citizens took this very seriously, very few here were listening to The Donald declare "it is all a hoax" "America is in great shape, we have it totally under control" and "This will magically disappear" and finally, our citizens are returning to offices and confined work spaces in fewer numbers and with more social distancing than many other states, despite the lifting of our stay at home order.
Washington State is not a perfect example, but many people in America have still not gotten the message: This virus is a killer. It's not a "hoax" and it's not going to "magically disappear" and all the happy talk from the White House is not going to change that fact.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/may/05/coronavirus-map-of-the-us-latest-cases-state-by-state
@eladar saidIt so very easy to trivialize this. I'll wager it's not you struggling to breath, because if it were, you'd be singing a different tune (just not very loudly)
@mchill
It's a killer, a killer I tell you. It is not the killer old outbreaks used to be. 15 to 20 percent mortality rstes is what communities who quarantined had to deal with.
Covid is not a killer for the vast majority of the population. But keep repeating the lie.
@mchill said8000 people die every day. That means 1.2 million deaths over that time period.
Over 75,000 people have died in America in just the last 5 months. How many people have to die before this becomes important?
Those that it kills are generally not long for this earth anyhow.