05-01-2020, 02:25 AM
(04-30-2020, 03:34 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don’t want to mislead anyone. It’s not professionals saying it (that I know of) it’s Facebook and other places. They are speaking in reference to masks and social distancing. Talking about how restaurants will never be the same again. Sporting events will be changed forever. How I see it, is we either get a vaccine or the vast majority of people will get it. Either way it ends.
I am a little confused about the mutating and what that does. I don’t know if protection from one strain helps with the next strain. It seems, on limited reading, that viruses tend to mutate to less lethality and milder symptoms as dead people don’t transmit the virus and people laid up transmit it less effectively.
I see what you're saying. I don't really want to hear it, either. I'm getting ready to return to a workplace with a totally new set of rules and procedures just to get in the gate. It's going to be a total nightmare.
The public policies that people are getting worked up about are one thing. People can protest and ignore advice if they like with various legal penalties and recourses. These people are going to really be hating life when things really start getting cranked back up and they find private businesses and employers with much stricter countermeasures in place and a much clearer legal basis to enforce whatever they see fit to protect themselves from liability. It's going to be tense. Your boss can make you take a drug test. They can take your hair, blood, and urine. It's not hard to envision employers forcing temperature checks and COVID tests if they have the means.
I do think that it will go back to normal. People are already fatigued by the changes. If distancing and PPE continue for months without significant mortality or spread, it will end organically. If the threat isn't in the public's face, they'll stop worrying about it. People will lose their fear of it.
I'm just not quite there yet. I think it's a longer term process than a couple of months.