I may not be up to you. And most likely you won’t have a say. If businesses are closed, and it is enforced you will have little choice but to comply.
What have we learned in a week's time?
We don't know the death rate and the range is rather large.
No one can give an accurate prediction on how many will die. I read today from different scientists that regardless of what we do it could be as little as 10,000 or as much as 2,500,000 in the USA, which is a pretty big range.
China claims to have surprised it, but since they lied about so much already, can they really be trusted.
We don't know if self-isolation will actually end it, or just delay the inevitable. There is a very real possibility that as soon as we come out, we will just start infecting each other again.
We don't know if a second waive will come or even if you can be infected again after already having it.
I have not seen any realistic plan to increase ICU beds, nor have there been any reports on this happening. So, even if we can flatten this curve best case scenario, we still are going to have one really big mess on our hands with near the same amount of loss of life.
We have no clear end game and no one in government seems to be thinking about it. Or if they are, they sure are not telling us.
So what do we know? Neither Trump nor any governor has any clue to exactly what is going to happen nor how to handle it. I mean are you actually feeling confident in our leaders' response, especially all of the govenors'? I know I'm not. The economy is being totally destroyed, which will lead to an increase in suicides, drug addiction and related deaths, divorce and family break ups, evictions and foreclosures, prostitution and sex trafficking, and a complete and total depression if we continue down this path that will fundamentally change the country. And it may be all for naught anyway. I might also add much of this people will not recover from.
Like I said, I have no aspirations to sit back and watch the world go to hell by our own making. Unless some serious plan comes out or the death rate skyrockets, dont expect many to keep to this.
Insofar as what is up to me or not, I by myself certainly cant change this. But when half of the country changes their minds, it will no longer be up to the government either.
There is no real plan, and in very short order, no one is going to have any confidence anymore in our elected officials without one. Then it all falls apart.
