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Remarkably restrained response from Noah.

Those of you who have not been personally affected by this should stfu. Those of us that have lost family and friends, or who live in affected urban areas know its no joke.

The vast majority of what hospitals do is non crisis care. That was turned off by the need to keep those folks safe from exposure. Those caregivers know that they could be called back to work on a virus ward if needed.

If we could trust people to exercise sound judgement we could ease into a reopening-but you can't trust people to behave voluntarily. The scenes at the beaches and parks during the early days proved that.

And its not a matter of "personal" choice, because those that don't exercise appropriate caution exponentially increase the risk for those of us that do.

Lost someone in my extended fam to the cytokine storm, and it is no joke. Started as flu like symptoms, and very rapidly progressed into liver failure and almost complete kidney failure. Sadly, while he responded to dialysis, while sedated he a some sort of a cerebral vascular event, and couldn't be awakened. 58, reasonably fit, volunteer first responder.