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I did my part and recycled mine.

June? How can a governor expect his state to survive 2 and half months with no economic activity? This is insanity.

Maybe those reasons are legitimate. But you can't discount the possibility he was suicided for knowing to much about why governments are creating mass panic over a virus that isn't that bad. None of what is going on in the world feels right anymore.

That makes sense, there is never anything wrong with voluntary donation.

I intend to resist. This virus panic is a mass delusion and I will have no part of it. It's not that bad and I do not intend to give up any of my freedom for it. I have just been going about my life as normal.

Why bother with a mask? I currently as a US citizen have a 0.044% chance of infection and a .00007 chance of death from this virus. If this was Vegas I would bet every penny I had that I will be fine. With my geographic location my chances of infection are even lower.

You have to figure with all the mass hysteria somebody is going to start shooting sooner or later. I was hoping it wouldn't be us.

You don't have to be an expert to see that the number just don't match up to the level mass panic. Our economy is destroyed for years to come and our population is cowering fear in their homes over something that has effected .03% of our population.

But that is misleading. Without testing the entire population, you can't know the actual number of infections. The death rate you are stating is based on confirmed by testing cases. We have no idea how many people are infected and asymptomatic or mild symptoms and didn't seek testing or medical care. The actual death rate among infections is likely much lower and below 1%. Last year per the cdc website, there were 34,000 deaths from influenza and we did not destroy our economy over that.

Yes they are. This really isn't that bad.

I hope this mass panic subsides in a week or two, maybe it will blow over. But I think this is the beginning of the end. If you don't cower in your home in fear of the virus, you are a terrorist. If you question why 800 deaths brought a nation of 325 million to its knees, you are a terrorist. Maybe when the economy is devastated they will see the damage done was worse than what the virus would have caused some will get it.

I'm not opposed to that. I have a sense that something is horribly wrong in the world, but can't figure out who or why.

He's just a puppet. Who is pulling the strings and why?

He took an antibiotic for a viral infection?

You are operating on the assumption that governments want to return to normal life.

I didn't try the word overblown. I had tried hype, overreaction and mass panic.

Actually, something fishy is going on with the search engines especially google. You can find just about no articles, forum posts or anything that questions the hype about this virus. I think dissent is being suppressed.

What is your idea of mass panic? I think I have seen mass panic. The local stores are emptied out for no reason. Whole isles are empty. My kids say they saw shoppers in masks and gloves. I have family members refusing to leave their homes and losing their shit about having a visitor come over. I was on a plane last week so I have people refusing to be near both me and anyone I contacted. This is in the middle of nowhere, we have no cities within 50 miles. I offer no explanation for what the majority of the public and the government are doing. I don't understand it at all. I'm not concerned at all about the virus, I'm concerned about the economic fallout.

It will get buried in the daily doom and gloom reports. Six months later in a tiny article, we will see they got a slap on the wrist

Not really news. Every politician does this.

I have no explanation as to why there is mass panic over this particular virus and not others. As you have seen, statistically it's not that bad. I don't know if I buy into the whole idea of a nefarious global cabal conspiring to benefit from mass panic, but something hinky is surely afoot here. This doesn't feel right. Anyone with half a brain can google the numbers and see it's just not that bad.

I'm opposed to bailouts as well. But if the government is handing out money I am taking it. It was mine to begin with.

Cash reserves are important in business but not always practical for some. My business could currently survive 4-5 years without a sale. A lot of my competitors are not going to survive this. They have their inventory financed and constantly rob Peter to pay Paul.

I don't think we will see much push back at all from the public. They are meekly complying so far. This may be how freedom ends, from a mass panic over the flu.

The loss of perspective here is just astounding. We have a population of 320,000,0000. About 20,000 people have mild flu symptoms, less than 100 are in intensive care, 250 with pre-existing conditions have died. So we have martial law and lock the entire population in their homes? Not to mention the real problem here which is destroying the economy for years to come, which is going to hurt us all more than any virus does. I have never seen mass hysteria like this in my life. This isn't that bad.

From the CDC website the 1918 flu infected 500,000,000 people and this 2019 flu has infected 250,000 If this thing ran it's course naturally it would not even be close.

It's very important to note that this mortality rate is based on deaths v. cases confirmed by testing. Without testing the entire population we have no idea of the number of infected with no symptoms or mild self medicated symptoms not requiring medical care. The actual mortality rate could be below 0%.

Think about this. If we really tank the economy and society falls apart from this hysteria or we just have a great depression type event, how many lives will be lost? I think more than a virus would kill. I have hope this will pass and people will come to their senses within a few weeks. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin I found my old Ron Paul 2012 shirt and wore it to work today. That was my statement on all this. I felt a little better.