Fauci- the giant rat wrote:
I wonder why this "good" news is bringing so much hate directed towards the messenger? Once the amygdala ( fear center of the brain) is fired up logic and reasoning go out the window. Even when the threat is gone it's hard to reign the amygdala in. Someone should use covid as a study of massive cult behaviours. There must be a DNA component that allows a population to be manipulated by a virus that has a 99.99 % fatality rate. Evolutionary it wouldn't be good to have too many wolves among the sheep.
I’m against a full lock down. If you do, you need to pay people who can not work. You need to strictly enforce the lock down. I’m against the use of military and police to do so. It would need to be voluntary and quite frankly COVID isn’t perceived as an evil that will unify the country like a Pearl Harbor or 9-11.
Paying people to stay home like in New Zealand could work but republicans would politicize it as socialism and thus not an option.
I do think masks, social distancing, closing schools & washing your hands could be enough. But we don’t have a universal buy-in on that. People hate their kids, football & and dining I guess.