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Originally Posted by dilanesp
You guys act as if this is the first time anything like this has happened.
These doctors and health departments routinely deal with infectious disease generally. There are local outbreaks of all sorts of stuff, and they deal with it. And they study and attend seminars on and conduct mock-exercises on pandemics and epidemics. And they talk with their colleagues all over the world, including the ones in other countries who have dealt with previous pandemics.
These are literally people who have spent years of their lives learning exactly what the data shows and what the best practices are.
And all you guys see is a doctor getting too big for his britches. That's just wallowing in ignorance.
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Even you can likely admit that there has to be a happy medium between us blindly and openly following the directives of epidemiologists and public health officials and living our lives with protocols and guidelines designed to combat the spread of the disease.
As far as past studies and experience anyone has garnered, there's never been anything like COVID. Every medical professional would agree. We also got no guidance or assistance from the CCP or WHO early on, to the point where Fauci himself was on national news programs saying that this didn't look like a threat to North America as late as February.
The divorce that has taken place in this country is between citizens and common sense. That is true of those that stand in public protesting stay-at-home orders as well as those who believe that simply opening a restaurant with 25% capacity and social distancing guidelines will lead to mass deaths.
What absolutely blows my mind is that with the most polarizing president ever in office, so much of the population has become wildly authoritarian, seemingly relying on the government to tell us what to do. People on social media clamoring for lockdowns being extended and for additional payments as "stimulus" is incredible. I guess the millennials have struck a chord.
