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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
There will be peaks and valleys of course but as time goes on we are increasingly more immune (more and more people have been exposed to this - there’s research starting to come out showing that it’s possible that MANY more people have been exposed to it and were / are asymptomatic than originally thought). So do you quarantine people that have already had it too? That’s just crazy. At some point this has to end. We can’t allow the entire country’s economy to be deliberately tossed into the toilet just to satisfy one political party’s agenda.
I’ve said all along that the initial steps taken were justifiable as an immediate, short term way to “flatten the curve” and avoid overwhelming the healthcare system. They’re NOT a long term solution (nor are they constitutional, but that’s another discussion...) Government can’t be allowed to take the lazy / zero-effort “zero tolerance” route and simply close everything and tell everyone to sit at home as their livelihoods and savings slip away. That’s idiocy.
Even if you don’t believe there are forces more odious at work behind this now to keep the closures and pain going (and I for one definitely DO), it’s becoming unjustifiable. Government has a responsibility to come up with new guidelines to reopen safely with controlled risk, not just vapidly say “just close everything - were good” and pat themselves on the back for a job well done. We should DEMAND to know where the reopening guidelines are and force them to work tirelessly FOR US to put them in place.
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We have become an impatient society. Most states have been under social distancing orders for less than a month. Your state is seeing 100 Covid deaths a day. Your curve is one of the steepest in the country, and isn’t flattening. Given your job, you’re probably not suffering financially. Yet you’re acting like its “Red Dawn”. Yes, your state needs to communicate what criteria it will use to decide when and how to lift the restrictions, so people can assess the actions. Whatever criteria they are, I suspect you’re not there - not with IL’s curve as steep and linear as it is.
