I really hate to say this but I am...a vast majority of this world's population just doesn't give a crap about anything but themselves, meaning, as stated above, the don't give a fuck. It truly saddens me that it is this way, anyways.
If everyone wore masks for a little while, covid would just die out. Studies have shown that it spreads way easier from aerosol than from surface, and surface cleaning isn't difficult. So damn peeps, just cover your face for a while and we can beat this.
Covid is going to "die out" whether we use masks or not. That's the way pandemics have always worked. Some might even claim, it has already been beaten.
In Los Angeles, there's an increase in new cases, but hospitalizations are steady and death rates have gone down.
Alarmed by spiking coronavirus numbers? Here's why officials insist they aren't worried
In Georgia, the governor was said to be gambling with people's lives by opening up in April.
But:
One epidemiological model predicted shortly after Kemp’s announcement that daily COVID-19 deaths would likely double in Georgia by August.
“The model predicts that the number of COVID-19 deaths per day in Georgia will jump from 32 people dying on May 1 to a projected 63 people dying per day by August 4,” reported WRCB TV.
In fact, the number of daily deaths in the state had already peaked on April 16 at 57 and has been steadily declining ever since. The state recorded a total of 37 deaths all last week, and zero on Sunday.
The same trend is happening nationally, which has seen the growth rate in the total number of cases steadily outstrip the growth in COVID-19 deaths for many weeks now.
So far this month, in fact, the number of new cases on June 21 was 16% higher than on June 1, but the daily number of deaths was 63% lower.
One writer weaves a tale at
The blind continuing panic over COVID-19 | Behind The Black
The lethality of the virus is going down.
The pattern is the same the world over--no matter the distancing protocols.
Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days
The death rate in the general population seems the same, maybe a bit less, than other years.
There is no longer any emergency we have to take special precautions for. The protests proved that. I would have thought some here looking to keep fear alive would have grabbed on to the paper I posted as a possible reason why we didn't see the problems we would have expected with so many doing acts almost designed to transmit the virus.
Now, how about next year? Next year we're going to have the "colds and flu" season again; just as we have had since forever. Shall we all wear masks? Shall we all social distance? Should we shut down again? We will have the same population age in the same way and we will get the same (Or, about the same.) amount of deaths from various other corona and flu viruses. I assess about the same level of risk between wearing a mask in this Covid-heightened time of fear as wearing a mask in a normal colds and flu season. I understand that some have such a desire for safety the new normal is that masks are mandatory always. I have a generally greater fear of disease and have always kept sanitizer in my car and pocket. The office was supplied from my personal stash that I have not repurchased yet. Believe me, I don't like getting sick and go through all the steps to keep from getting so. I get the flu shot every year and there is not a vaccine that's recommended I don't take. I HATE getting sick.
However, disease is a part of our lives. Viruses and bacteria are all around us. If we were to be serious of preventing disease, wearing masks might be a part of an overall strategy of life adjustments to prevent transmission as much as possible. If there's a vote as to if we need to wear a mask all the time, I might vote yes. Not because of any special risk now, but because of the risk of disease we always have.
