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NoRoadUntravelled

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4. I don't see it as my duty to die. I see it as my duty to
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 05:37 PM
Mar 2020

use social distancing when I must go out and to spend the rest of my time at home.

There is no human immunity to this virus. We will all get it eventually. Some of us will die and some of us will barely have symptoms. Younger people are dying from it, too.

The idea is to keep from getting the virus so I can stay out of the hospital if I'm one of the people who gets a bad case of it. It's to keep the healthcare system from crashing due to an overload if everyone gets the virus at once. Social distancing can be done by all ages to keep from overwhelming what's becoming a fragile system. If we space it in waves, more of us will survive.

If hospital beds are full of coronavirus victims, or if hospitals start closing, that means no physician to attend to births, it means accident victims, burst appendix, heart attacks, cancer patients, broken bones....none of those patients gets treated.

The idea of gathering hundreds of people together on Easter Sunday to resurrect the economy is lunacy. If they gather by the hundreds at Easter, that can make thousands more victims by May Day.

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