@Elessar social distance inside Costco or social distance on the beach. No proof anyone in that picture transmitted the virus to another. Too many people are scared by headlines.
@SecondMarge Except I don't give a f*ck about headlines but look at sheer numbers and reality. I live close to one of the most affected areas and I don't need newspapers to see what it has done.
@SecondMarge Patient one over here was a perfectly healthy 38-years old amateur soccer player. The fact you don't die from it doesn't mean it won't leave you severely/permanently injured. The guy is on a wheelchair at the moment, 4 (FOUR) months after hospitalization.
@SecondMarge Seasonality probably has an effect (and luckily we're getting to Summer, at least in this hemisphere), it still doesn't mean beaches are safe otherwise tropical countries would be seeing zero cases.
@sunsporter1649 Yeah, and those who saturated hospitals over there massively went to ICUs because they had nothing better to do at home, I guess 🤦♂️ even if only 5% get severe, but even if it's just 1%, you won't have enough hospital capacity to treat everyone, if they all get sick at once.
Besides, I guess you're too ignorant to know the difference between this virus and flu ones. In fact you keep confusing names.
Worst area is NYC where most people are inside. It hit California before NY. They have far more people yet a tiny fraction got sick enough to hospitalize. Florida was predicted to have a big problem because so many NYers live here part of the year and yet our hospitals are empty and we are opening up already.
@SecondMarge Yeah, but a tiny fraction of severe cases is still enough to paralyze hospitals, as you've probably realized by now. If it is allowed to spread uncontrollably, the moment temperatures will go lower (not sure which are the minimum temps you'd get in Florida, I suppose never too low?) it'll ramp up again like crazy. It can happen potentially anywhere.
@SecondMarge Not all people can stay in the hospital as well, for that matter, but all of them can avoid gathering unnecessarily e.g. to sunbathe at the beach.
@SecondMarge Who has ever said it's post-virus? I've just asked if you think having beaches crowded like that seems like a good reason to you.
How long since they open? The virus has been circulating in Italy since mid-January and the situation has become critical only at the end of February, so you know, might even be too early to claim it's safe.
So stay at home, under the porch, nobody is forcing you to venture forth into the big bad world
I'm not senile, you don't need to repeat the same bullshit over and over. Like I told you, if that was enough to stay safe from idiots like you, I wouldn't even mind about you going out at all. Thank goodness we live in different countries at least.
@Elessar spring break happened here before the beaches were closed. No cases of the virus reported by those that attended. You put up an extreme picture. Beaches are opening with social distancing again. You can’t hide forever. The actions were taken to level off the number of cases so hospitals would not be overloaded. Not until there were no more cases. Most hospitals in the US are so empty they may go bankrupt. For 90% of the country the spread of the virus never happened. Even states that had no restrictions in place.
