You know what is really funny though.
If you were to turn off your TV and internet, you would never even know this is happening. There are no mass of ambulances taking sick people into care, there are no dead people everywhere, there are no sick people everywhere. We are being told this is happening via the media, we are not seeing it happen before our eyes.
The world is ending, but it's not.
Nothing like this has ever happened before and people are just letting it happen over a catastrophe that's intangible to almost all of us, we are being convinced we need to do this instead of seeing we need to do this. If you go out now there is almost nobody outside at all. The region I live in has over 100k people and we have had 1 case of the virus in 2 months and we are still in total lockdown.
If we were living in a time with a new black death and people were dying, you could see people dying or dead bodies being carried away out your window. You would not need to be told not to leave your house, you would not be leaving your house at all because you would see it yourself.
We are all acting like a virus that is infecting 0.02% of the population and killing 0.0003% of people (even people over 80 only have a 15% death rate, so this isn't incredibly deadly) is the end of the world and everyone is accepting it.**
The way this is right now, the incredible overreaction we are in now will have consequences for the rest of our lives. This will not end here (or in 6 months) unless our leaders come to their damn senses at a point in the near future and say "hey wait, we overreacted! and we need to go back to normal life now!" I really hope Trump does this because he is one of the only world leaders with the balls to actually go against the media and hysteria to do it.
We are headed for an end to a normal way of life, the level of actions our governments are taking (based off of medical demands) is near tyranny right now and it is escalating.
Look at this rubbish, what the hell is this? They were all spaced out in a green field and they are being told it's lockdown time and they need to go home. This is in the UK, not communist China btw.
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If we are at this level now, this will not end. Every virus has a very high mutation chance (as the cold and flu do every year) and so it is impossible to cure it, a vaccine will need to be remade every year and if the virus mutates again too quickly the vaccine will be useless for that year anyway. At that point we will be back at this level of hysteria and lockdown again.
Everyone is mostly fine with what we have done so far and maybe another month of it but past that? not so much.
I can see some common sense changes being made for life in a big city but I fear it will go far further than that. Forced yearly vaccinations, yearly lockdowns in the winter? Who knows.
**329 million US population, 68k infections, 1k deaths.