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[CrazyDaisy]

Everything you do in life has risks, this is no different.  Make the choice best for you.

[Bhvbum]

Unfortunately the risks you are so willing to take affect us all.  Healthcare workers, EMTs, health costs, more transfer of the virus, etc. is the fallout of your "willing to take a risk."

 If you get sick, we all pay for it. And it also jeapordizes businesses being able to open safely.  

[CrazyDaisy]

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@Bhvbum wrote:

Unfortunately the risks you are so willing to take affect us all.  Healthcare workers, EMTs, health costs, more transfer of the virus, etc. is the fallout of your "willing to take a risk."

 If you get sick, we all pay for it. And it also jeapordizes businesses being able to open safely.  

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Virus is not going away anytime soon.  People need to find a way to live with it.  Some will remain hold up in their houses, others will move on and do the best they can.  Make the choice that is best for you.

[goldensrbest]

It seems to me ,we have been forced to change our lives around,  ignoring it is also plain dumb.

[geezerette]

@suzyQ3 

Thank you for posting the entire piece.  I admit that when I first started reading I almost moved on.  But I'm glad I didn't.

This gives some facts (at least as the author sees them) that I can actually use in my new daily life to make decisions about how I go about functioning.

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[ScarletDove]

@hckynut  Thank you for that excellent comment--I totally agree.  I am used to keeping distance from people and children I do not know since I became immuno-compromised due to results of Haemophilis Influenzae contracted 9 yrs ago.  Age and health require me to be more cognizant now but allow it to determine my life--no--I am well aware.

[Anonymous032819]

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@Bhvbum wrote:

Unfortunately the risks you are so willing to take affect us all.  Healthcare workers, EMTs, health costs, more transfer of the virus, etc. is the fallout of your "willing to take a risk."

 If you get sick, we all pay for it. And it also jeapordizes businesses being able to open safely.  

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I refuse to live in a bubble, and be terrified of my own shadow, just because you're too scared to leave your home.

Because that's not living, and it certainly isn't thriving, it is nearly existing, and that's no way to go through life.

[Trinity11]

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@hckynut wrote:

@suzyQ3 

Reading this, up to a point. 

Indoor Sports: Then they(he, whoever) talks about the Canadian Sport Curling?  Much different than the Canadian Sport Ice Hockey.  Curling compared to ice hockey? Like comparing a chess game to a tennis game. They have what in common? Nothing!

Knowing all this stuff accomplishes what? People that were germaphobes before the wuhan virus are now looking for what, a personal bubble?

Then there are people like me. I understand risks, life has and always will be full of them. While I realize this virus is very bad, why would I willingly change my whole life around this 1 risk? I wouldn't!

Reading things like this are going to promote more fear/anxiety, whatever word one prefers, to those already scared almost to death. For people like me it only reinforces my belief that each adult person that has the ability to read and react, does not need anyone to take them by the hand and guide them their world in what is safe.

Places open that interest me? Yep! Risks involved? Maybe! Believe and follow everything I read and hear, including "experts"? Not happening.

hckynut(john)

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@hckynut The sad part about denial is that we can do our own thing and bring back the virus to our family. It isn't just about ourselves because I might be asymptomatic  and transmit it to my loved ones. 

If we don't listen to the experts, then respectfully, who should we listen to?

[Porcelain]

[pitdakota]

Thank you @suzyQ3, I think the more understanding that people have about the risks, the better decisions they can make for their situations.

In our state, we have more than 50 cases with 6 deaths associated with just one night in a group that held a revival against the mandates calling against mass gatherings.  

This article also does a good job discussing the release of viral particles into the air with just talking.  One reason you won't find me in a restaurant for a good long time no matter when they open.  Early on in China and Italy there were multiple reports of many individuals contracting the coronavirus from being exposed from someone not sitting a their table in a restaurant.  The air circulation carried the respiratory droplets from the person talking at another table for a period of time to others seated at other tables.  This was documented in both countries.  Nope, just not a chance I am going to take now.  Curbside service or carry out will have to do for now.  

I have seen the blueprint for the call center mentioned here in the workplace setting.  It is quite impressive.  I believe that was in Singapore?  Another documented level of contact tracing with a blueprint that comes from a different area than Wuhan and Italy.  

 I think the author does a good job of explaining that social distancing only really applies to short term possible encounters.  It might help in work places and it might not.  Guess we will learn more as we go along.