well put i must add
While I empathize with everyone who still wants to provide services during this time. And while we might fall under “essential” services, you are really putting yourself and others at risk at this time by servicing clients. You might make a little more in the short term but if you get sick or someone in your family contracts the virus, the costs there will be far greater than putting your services on hold until things are safe to do so.
I am providing estimates through Google and thanking customers for still calling at this time and just explaining when it is safe to do so we will start our services back up.
Your going to get it. Just make your peace with it and move on. Everyone is going to get it. Reguardless of the steps they take. A vaccine is 18 months off at best. Better to get it now before the hospitals are over run in my opinion.
@Sharpe, I’m sorry I had to delete your post. I strongly feel that it was inaccurate and harmful information.
If one of the other mods feel I overstepped, please let me know. @Steve or @squidskc
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They saod its been around for awhile, i got sick, flu like, I’m not sure if i ever got a fever tho, it was around Sept Oct. I kept my distance and slept away, stayed away from the rest of the family. It was mostly respiratory and annoying as he’ll. Still somewhat recovering, but its like clearing your throat from deep, something thatsnot a cough. If I tried to cough its not something to where if I coughed it would help any, like its not even related.
Then in January my wife got something respiratory that shes still fighting. We were eating at a golden coral(yuck right?), and a bunch of asian, I cant say for sure where they were from but its noticeable, and they all had these medical bracelet things on, all of them. This was right when the virus supposedly hit by way of cruise line.
Kids never got it.
@Infinity not really sure how its inaccurate the ohio attorney general said basicly the same thing… just not as forward. Im not going to bother posting it again. If you still havent delt with the reality of our situation, you mine as well jump on the banning free speech bandwagon!
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I respect that you are waiting; however I don’t see any harm in continuing to do our work. Ive worked nearly everyday since lockdown and have just directed customers to pay via phone or online.
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Sorry, I wasn’t trying to dispute the projected infection rate. I’ve read that upwards of 56% will eventually contract the CoronaVirus.
The issue is, this can’t be treated like ripping off a bandaid. There’s not enough gauze in the world to stop the bleeding, figuratively speaking. And hoping to get the virus sooner rather than later, “before the hospitals are overrun,” is a misguided approach.
All you have to do is read a few articles about the dire importance of ‘flattening the curve’. Yes, that means this whole thing will be drawn out a lot longer than if we just let it run wild. But the difference it will make in total casualties, quality of healthcare, and general quality of life in the meantime is worth any monetary losses it will incur. I wouldn’t trade places with Italy right now for a million bucks.
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No one knows enough yet to say whether “flattening the curve” would be worth it. No one is saying we should let people die to save money. What some are suggesting is that the damage to the economy will ultimately be worse than the lives lost. The economy is more than money, it is our way of sustaining a population as large as we do. The great depression had long lasting and significant impacts lasting throughout the 20th century. The tise of communism was partially caused by the tough times, and how many millions did that kill?
We could very easily end up in a worse depression than that was if we draw the quarantine out too long. We may be staring down the barrel of another century of warfare.
It’s not a simple question and it isn’t a simple answer. Anyone who thinks it’s as simple as “lives>money” are not thinking deeply into this.
Sometimes, lost lives are worth the cost.
If you going to delete my post dont mock me by cherry picking quotes from it. Also if I can’t have an opinion without you deleting it you shouldn’t post yours. Thanks.
We have 68 cases in my county and the hospitals are already struggling to keep up. It’s a valid opinion and I fail to see how its selfish. You would do well to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. That’s the last I’ll speak of it.
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You are right. I did not intend to mock, my apologies for coming across that way. I reworded my post, and restored yours.
It’s definitely a complex issue, through and through.
Above all, I’m trying to apply the golden rule the best that I can, and that’s really the best that anyone can do. If someone I know becomes seriously ill or injured, I am hoping that there will be enough room for them at a hospital.
If I have an opportunity to even indirectly reduce the strain on the medical system, I will take it. For me, that means doing my darndest not to contract this thing myself, or spread it to others before I become symptomatic.
Personally, I’m hoping to beat the statistics. This could be really bad for my wife if she gets it.
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@Sharpe is ok, i would be more worried about the garbage that @fredled has been posting up in recent posts. No idea what’s going on around the world.
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Don’t yall say rubbish? 
@Hotshot garbage hits home a bit better lol
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[Please bear with me guys, and hold your judgment/defensiveness/rebuttals until you’ve read through to the end!..]
He’s so far down the rabbit hole, I’m not really afraid of people taking his advice. Not that he’s actually given any actionable advice to speak of.
But the attitude of “hope to catch it sooner, rather than later,” really scares me. Because if you’re hoping to catch it, you might as well be hoping to infect others, as well; it’s just the natural result.
I’m not trying to needle you, @Sharpe. You seem like a great guy, and I’m sure you didn’t really mean it like that. But I’m hoping you stop to consider what you were implying.
I’m having a tricky time really getting the point across that I’m shooting for; here’s another attempt:
“Hoping to get it sooner”, is a catchy, appealing concept. One that someone may take out of context, and run with in a direction you never intended. One where, people are going to COVID parties to try and get it over with. Putting themselves and those around them in harms way. When in fact, all you really meant was that if you’re gonna get it eventually, you’d like to get it over with, but you’re not going out tomorrow and kissing babies and everything to try and deliberately catch it.
@Infinity I 100% agree with flattening the curve and everyone doing there bit, scientific modelling around the world has proved it’s the only way to improve things on a mass pandemic scale, Italy had the “laidback” approach and look at them now there the worst off, and there nowhere near where the epidemic actually started, that indicates it’s a problem “within” the country and the lack of measures they had in place. History shows economy’s will always recover, think of the worlds worst events and think of life before Covid 19, we didn’t have it that bad did we?
Serious question, has anybody actually heard of or read about the possibilities of getting Covid 19, recovering and getting it again?
It’s been asked many times and discussed by medical professionals but they currently don’t have enough data to say either way if you can or cannot contract it again after having it.
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Fun fact: that you might not like an assertion does does make it garbage. All you’ve posted is emotional babble. Is it your time of the month?
Tens of thousands die every year due to car accidents, cigarettes, guns, slipping in their showers, choking, etc. Do you think we should ban cars and solid food? No? Why not? It’s because you know the benefits to society are worth more than those lives. The same thing may be true here. Sure, we’re talking about more deaths, but we’re also talking about a huge risk to society to prevent those deaths.
TBH, this forum is terrible. Everything is dominated by a few ideological people who look down on everyone who disagrees with them. Whoever has the capability to do so can ban me. I’m not coming back.
Fun fact: none of those things you mentioned multiply to society’s across the world that are carrying on with there regular lives, a virus is a little different lol. This forum is fine! You will get the same response everywhere you go with extremist views.
