So Trump is the only one telling the truth? While it’s pretty hilarious someone would believe that, Trump himself has told every American to practice social distancing, etc and is trying to push through a giant stimulus, but that’s all for nothing right? All the Dr’s and Scientist got together and said “wouldn’t it be fun to make everyone have to be quarantined and crash the global market”.
I believe that with the steps the states and country as a whole have taken that you are right that this won't kill 1.5 million people in the U.S. anymore. That said, NBA players are not an at risk population for serious illness from this. They WERE at a higher risk probably of contracting it just due to their lifestyle and how much they travel from city to city. The actually are at a lower risk of getting seriously ill from this than probably close to 50% of out other citizens. MOST NBA players can get exposed to this and develop nothing more than something that is like a bad cold virus. Some might get sick enough to die from it. There's always somebody in the population with undiagnosed blood disorders or heart problems who will tip over from a virus like this.
It will only be overblown BECAUSE we took it seriously and did something to try to slow it down. Look at what is happening in Italy right. They're losing 600 people/day. That would equate to 3000 people/day with our population base in the U.S. Granted the WHO is saying that in developed countries the death rate appears to be lower than initially expected but that is largely because we're at least trying to lower the risk for at risk people.
You take care man. Take it seriously and don't take any chances and you'll be okay. Smart people are trying to do the right thing. I hate shutting stuff down but we really had to try to get people (mainly young people) to help us slow this down to prevent our healthcare system from collapsing. We already near my pretty rural area have multiple healthcare workers quarantined due to travelers returning home with the virus.
I'll be very happy to be wrong. The actions we've taken are going to help immensely I think. The one thing I believe I may have been wrong about was saying about 10 days or so ago that it was already too late to change the course of the outbreak. I never believed that the government was going to do some of the things they've done.
Bringing politics in to this doesn't help the situation. There will be time later for assigning responsibility for the success or failure of our response to this crisis.Please...you can't leave us!! We need bright minds like youself to keep this forum informative.
OMG!!! He just said Trump is the only one telling the truth!!
I don't believe that we could pull off a mandatory quarantine of everybody in our country. IMO that might kill as many people as doing nothing. That is basically what Italy has done and it hasn't worked. We've got to keep some goods and services moving in this country and people have to eat or we'll have food riots in the streets. Trust me, I've sat through meetings with somebody who was a Navy Seal/homeland security official and their view a few years ago was that the next big cataclysmic event that could disrupt our political system is a food shortage. One of the things they suggested that could start the cascade was a worldwide drought or pandemic that interrupted supply chains.
NBA players are a very unrepresentative group of the general population. They are professional athletes who should be in their prime and in the best physical shape possible. It's older and more sickly people that are at higher risk.
The problem is that the mandatory quarantines have forced some non-infected people to take shelter with infected family members. I have an in-law whose grandpa, grandma, aunt and uncle were in Italy visiting from another European country and they were forced in to quarantine with their grandkids/kids who had just tested positive. That probably isn't going to end well. Quarantines IMO force some people in to bad situations. Our government isn't able IMO to "take care of" the food and personal supplies for our citizens. That is why I think mandatory quarantines would be a disaster.
Your are correct a mandatory quarantine for everyone would kill the livestock industry talk about another health issue, just think of all the dead animals. Hell hamburger would be $100 a pound pork chops $80 a gallon of milk $200 or it could be way. Worse people from town would be coming out to farms and ranches to shoot their own food
