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Possibilities & Opportunities!
- Dec 13, 2019
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This is another explanation of why risk mitigation guidelines are being discussed and implemented.The point of social distancing was never -- NEVER -- to try to prevent any/everyone from getting infected. That's a fool's errand. The disease is in cats, which means it's in squirrels and rats. it's not going away, and we simply can't prevent people from coming in contact with it. The point was to prevent the hospital system from getting overrun with too many cases at once. When we -- us, politicians, celebrities, everyone -- was thinking rationally abut this, that was a good plan. it's morphed into this general idea of trying to stop an invisible, sometimes airborne disease from ever touching anyone.
But the idea that we can prevent a microscopic organism that is already in the ecosystem from spreading is ludicrous. It's scientifically impossible. If the concern is going to be "because someone might catch it", then we really do need to call it quits for the society we know and figure out what we do next.
Shutting down softball won't stop it. Keeping schools closed won't stop it. Lines to get into the grocery store wont' stop it. If you don't get it this summer, you'll likely get it in the fall. And if not in the fall, then in the winter or maybe next spring. It's going to take a LONG time to develop a vaccine or an anti-viral, and nobody wants to be the first batch of those.
So if your idea is that we should wait until the danger passes, the danger is not passing. I'm a sailor -- when bad weather is coming at seas, you shorten your sails, you get ready to heave to. But you eventually have to ride out the storm. We keep thinking that if we wait long enough or wear masks or stay away from each other the virus will just go away.
It won't. We need to stop thinking it will.