Either way we are losers!

In many towns like St. Louis, it lasted months.

And our reasons for doing it today are precisely the reasons they did it then…to spread out its impact.

My point was no one looked at it as if the government was going to seize their freedoms forever. They did what they needed to do.

We are so much different today than they were then…we have taken individualism to such a ridiculous degree that community response (which is not the same as Socialism/Communism) is all but dead.

A crisis that requires a shared understanding of what needs to be done and a united response couldn’t have come at a worse time in our country.

I could not disagree more. You are confusing individualism with selfishness.

Individualism is not what killed community response, dependency is.

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What caused the end of the Spanish Flu?

Did it end because it was seasonal?

Any indication covid19 is seasonal?

Haven’t misunderstood it at all, but thanks.

We don’t even have a common understanding of what community is, and we have this misunderstanding that a coordinated response means we are waiting for the “government to save us”.

Not true.

Not caused by individualism, but selfishness. There is a major difference between the two.

That statement right there proves my point.

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You have no damned Idea what was going through the minds of 105,000,000 Americans During that outbreak.

I think making the comment “trip” was incisive and thought provoking.

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In what way?

Who coordinates it?

No you don’t.

Spring/Summer and having run it’s course.

Once people had it, those who survived developed immunity that lasts quite a few years or until a new strain develops for which they are not sufficiently immune.

These respiratory viruses have been hitting us seasonally for as long as humans have congregated into clans and larger groups.

As transportation gets faster and faster and more of the globe can be reached they have gone from being localized outbreaks to regional, then national, then continental and finally global in nature.

Unless we seriously rethink international travel they will become more frequent and eventually we’ll have one for which we have no real treatment that is very deadly and we’ll have a mass culling of the global population as a result.

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I believe Trump has finally admitted that he is not a doctor and any medical advice he proffers should be taken as unsubstantiated nonsense.

“Monkeys Flinging Poo at The Zoo”

Check the video I posted above.

I have seen it and Trump would not allow him to answer it.

There is none above.

So, Cuomo, who is not a doctor, banning non-label use of Hydroxychloroquine, now lifted. Was that his call to make?

He consulted with experts before doing so.

He’s not telling people it’s a game changer and telling first line medical staff they should take it as a preventative.

Right. It’s (D)ifferent. :joy: