It is what it is at this point. It has stopped the economy (though the rural towns seem to be chugging along pretty similar to how they always have... aside from closing the few sit down restaurants and the haircut places, not much else is closed in those towns as they have fewer "non essential" businesses) in most major metro areas with dense populations, especially on the coasts. The travel industry is going to be gutted. The restaurant industry? How schooling is done in the future... the way businesses operate is going to be altered for a long time.pseudo3d wrote: ↑May 6th, 2020, 9:46 pmI may be in the minority here, and I'm sure that I'll probably (certainly) be getting long, angry responses explaining why I am wrong, stupid, and possibly a misanthropic sociopath, but the answer is:
No. I am not kidding. I believe most of the posters in this thread are being far too overdramatic about COVID-19.
Did I mention how much I enjoy visiting rural towns these days?
I can't even imagine what it must be like to live in a major metro area on the east or west coast right now... nor am I going to go visit one to find out.
So whatever it takes to make people in these major metro areas comfortable again to go spend money and congregate is what is needed. That means the number of cases needs to decline. So you need more masks. You need more testing. A big segment of the population is very, very scared right now.