COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

StudioSaint said
There is nothing rational or logical about resorting to hyperbole to make a point. Hyperbole is an emotion and personal bias driven appeal to the emotions and biases of others. There's nothing logical or rational about it.

Where can people be seen starving in the streets from hunger as a direct and exclusive result of physical distancing, staying at home as much as possible and wearing a mask when leaving the home?

Maybe some people need to accept the possibility that a difficult truth is that we will have to make some financial sacrifices and change some of our habits to prevent avoidable suffering and dying?

We do what we can to prevent all suffering and death from all causes. Show me one thing that people suffer and die from that we don't do what we can to save as many people as we can from that suffering and dying. I would think any health care professional would know this.

By what logical and rational reasons should our response to COVD-19 be any different from our response to all other causes of suffering and death?

Good question.Death and suffering are, from what I understand, part of life. This is by far the most attention a single disease process has been paid in decades, easily. The response has been unprecedented. So the answer to your last question is pretty simple in my opinion...our response hasn’t been consistent with our prior response to past sufferings from disease, it’s been much greater.

What’s your plan? What time table are you looking at? Are you waiting for the vaccine to save us a year from now? The vaccine that may or may not actually hit?

You have the means to ride this thing out until it’s eradicated 2 to million years from now? Good for you I suppose. Other people in this world need to be able to support their families...something that is a big challenge when business are closing their doors and you’re competing with the millions of already unemployed. The curve has been flattened...now we just need to keep it flat. Yes sacrifices will still need to be made, but I’m personally interested in seeing how much we can get away with while keeping the curve flattened. That’s the entire strategy of reopening in phases.