Coronavirus

[EeveeBailey]

I wish I could just smack these people who don't practice this social distancing at your store - and those people that still make fun of the situation/don't seem to care - with a frying pan, it's those people that all of us have to suffer under unfortunately.

Honestly, I see nothing wrong with making jokes / memes so long as you're actually taking it seriously; it's kinda the modern equivalent of Victorian jump-rope and nursery rhymes based on the plague.  For a lot of us, humor is a coping mechanism -- if we don't occasionally take a jab at it, we're just stifled by anxiety 24/7.

Though the most dangerous threat right now is the abandonment of science and common sense. Claims that 5G causes the virus, that the virus is a conspiratorial hoax, comparing the mandatory masks, quarantines, and lockdowns to Nazi Germany, etc. all this bullshit to try to get the US government to lift the restrictions before things are even close to being safe and getting people to disregard WHO and CDC information is going to lead to more and more people not being careful, and the already bad situation getting much worse.

Such as our lovely leader of the Free World pushing antibiotics and antimalarials for a virus and asking if it was possible to inject disinfectant to cure the virus?

I get the drive to want to find a cure and find it quickly, because the death toll is steadily rising (I read recently that the U.S. coronavirus death toll has now surpassed the number of people killed in 9/11 per day) and people are getting antsy to get back to their normal daily lives.  But randomly grasping at straws, especially with untested concepts, is not going to get us there any faster and could likely get more people killed as they do desperately stupid things (like drinking fish tank cleaner without realizing that chloroquinine is NOT the same thing as hydrochloroquinine).

Meanwhile, I will continue donning my face mask (graciously made and mailed to me by a former professor) and standing at the designated six-foot markers outside the grocery store waiting to get in. Do I like it? Hell no. Do I wish I could have finished out my last semester on campus with my friends and attended my first actual graduation ceremony in a couple weeks? Absolutely I do. But my city's curve is pretty damn flat right now (which I acknowledge that this is a considerable blessing compared to places like New York), and if these inconveniences are doing the job to keep it that way, well... all the better.