And I put my head down and work. (a millenial's perspective)

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-15-2020, 05:32 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Do you have an actual source for your statement?

Quote:Texas and other states are, while they have curves still going up, hospitals already heading towards overload.

I don't know about Texas but Georgia, which has been heavily criticized, the infection rate is essentially flat.  But then again the governor is also still encouraging people to wash their hands and wear masks WHILE going about their business.

One should also not discount the major differences between how different governors are treated.  Andrew Carona Cuomo is being treated with kid gloves where as D'Santis in Florida is not by the media.

Rachel Maddow of MSNBC put up the curves for various states last night.  Apparently the curve for New York is going down.  New York was so big and so early that if you don't count New York as part of the rest of America, the rest of America is going up.  The states that are opening in spite of their curves going up and hospitals heading for overload get Rachel's usual line these days, said with heavy irony.  "Sure.  Why not?"  My tendency to look at meat plants, nursing homes and prisons as the center of outbreaks, soon to spread to the population, comes from her.  I suppose the next step is that it spreads from counties who have these problematic facilities to their neighbors.  It seems rather too late to stop the process.

The various governors are being treated well or poorly according to how close they are adhering to the science.  The general public seems to be of the take it seriously school.  If you are anywhere close to the CDC advice, both the blue media and the people treat you well.  If you don't, the coastal press treatment and the approval poll numbers go to pot.

Cuomo was one of the guests last night.  He said one of the biggest things he wishes he could do differently is that while he was looking at China, the bug was coming in from Europe.  He also said that the bug has always been ahead.  There has never been a moment when he has taken too heavy a set of precautions.

I suspect letting the people follow the advice of the doctors might come close to working if that were the dominant form of advice.  Trump and Fox lie.  People respond as if the lies are true.  Some look only at their own odds, not at their community's.  As a result the honest attempt at saving lives is treated as tyranny by the ignorant and selfish.