Everyone dies sooner or later. The virus doesn't care about IQ, of course, so we're just playing Russian Roulette for this event. There are more events coming.

@rainmanjr Meaning; those that follow the protocols will live.

@Atheist3 They'll have a better chance of living but it's not assured. We still have to buy food so that means going out into air. Odd that everyone demands to get outside when the virus is transported through the air but USA has never made a lick of sense.

Absolutely. You've learned your lessons well, Grasshopper.

What numbers do you think we can trust? And what should we do about it?

Not sure if I care if we have 10 deaths or a hundred thousand. For anyone to die from a virus when we should be advanced in science and medicine is a rather insane outcome. We have the knowledge. Yet we still ignore it. We know why but are helpless at inturupting the blatant obstruction. So....we lose. 🥺

@Observer-Effect I trust the numbers that I get daily from media in other countries all over the world. They seem to be telling the same story worldwide. I cannot let American politics dictate how I think about these pandemic times.

@SukiSue Religion/superstitions have held us back hard. Sagan called it 25 years ago:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - 1995

@SukiSue
Yup, I think we've known about this danger for 20 years, now. Started preparing late though, in the 00's and undid what little we had prepared for just before this hit. There's no him or her, only WE who elected all of the people responsible for our safety and yet all they do is put us in harm's way. Don't see how we can do anything but lose...