The coronavirus (COVID-19) is serious, sure. Is it good to take precautionary measures, absolutely! But exactly how serious is thing, really! In our state of Wisconsin, there so far has been one case of the virus and that person has recovered. In fact, here’s the world death toll link https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ 3,652 out of 107,490 cases have died and 60,914 have recovered, and it says that 42,924 are currently infected, in other words, “pending”, and by doing the math, the numbers come out exactly to that number of 107,490 cases (as of 3/8/20). Go ahead and use that above link to keep track on the updates.
I guess for one, medical experts have yet to get a handle on it, that’s one thing. It’s also a good thing to take precautionary measures. The United States seems to have better sanitation laws than two of the countries I have been to and that’s South Korea and Mexico, I’ll be willing to back that by remembering the odor of it’s outside air that makes you think that you are at your local aluminum recycling plant. So by saying that our country has seemingly higher stringent sanitation guidelines, you can’t blame us for being careful. But how careful? Taking precautionary measures such as washing hands, not shaking hands, to make sure “(it) doesn’t get brought over here!” is fine. Then you have to wonder how strong this virus is? Believing for one, that medical experts are still working on getting to the bottom of it, there IS no guarantee right now that the virus cannot get more lethal. It also could just be what it is now, meaning that the 85% recovery rate will not get much lower (it could even get higher) and will start to subside once a vaccine is available, and remember, symptoms at their worst is nothing more serious than a fever (according to the CDC), sure, no picnic but it definitely can be a recoverable illness. It also does not help that politics are being applied either. Did our President really need to hold not one, but two “stand alone” press conferences about this? OR, did some media outlets have to use a negative spin regarding those aforementioned press conferences?
Then you start to look at the workers in the hospitality industry; concerts, conventions, sporting events, etc. The NBA administration is talking about possibly playing games with no fans. There has been talk that actual paper cash might be spreading the virus. How about for the stadium to let it’s in-seat beer vendors take cards?
It’s good to take precautions, sure. But what exactly is going overboard? Doing things to deprive workers the opportunity? You’re going to see outbreaks every time such as poison ivy at a camp, food poisoning from a restaurant. Not too much of a death rate there? Let’s just not go to the extremes.