The inability to recognize that part of government's role is public safety in times of pandemic is pretty sad.
In theory maybe...but when the government idea of public safety is one big confused mess of misinformation, and is achieved through totalitarian control tactics, as seen in some states, I would rather they not worry about my safety too much, because I can do a better job of it on my own...
...but I know there is a large portion of the population that thinks big government is needed to care for us womb-to-tomb, as though we are all little children who can't think for or take care of ourselves.
...IMO highly unlikely this particular virus will see a round two...
Mmm...they've been saying for days now that there is a growing concern of a bigger round two...and I think much of it will be *because* of the shutdowns, since many healthy people who were not previously exposed will be coming back out soon.
The shutdowns were a mistake here IMO, because the virus was already here and well spread...so allowing natural immunity to develop rather than shutting in healthy people would have helped prevent a big round two.
If you look at my state of NY...there has been no "flattening of the curve"...the daily rates since the shutdown stared back on March 22 have just climbed, and for the last 3 weeks have pretty much stayed up...a day down, then two days back up...but no significant downturn or "flattening".
Now because our "NY on PAUSE" order isn't really achieving what they expected with the spread...governor Adolf Cuomo wants to create a "tracking army" to go around investigating everyone and who they were in contact with.
I mean really...we are so close to becoming a military type state here...and all being sold as a way to make us more "safe".
Meanwhile...they are now starting to realize that there may very well be way more infected, but not sick, people than they thought...which would both bring the mortality rate of COVID-19 down, and it would also mean that natural heard immunity was already well in play...and we just messed it up by shutting all the healthy people in.
It will be interesting to see where the numbers end up in a few months, and the explanations for them that follow from all the experts and politicians.