The Coronavirus panic is sick. The way the US and international community is handling this outbreak by cancelling events, schools, and entire sports seasons is incredibly stupid, selfish, and thoughtless. If we continue to overreact like we are doing, we are setting a dangerous precedent for future generations to come.
Imagine living in a world where seasons of sports begin to get cancelled because of a bad flu season or a bad case of strep throat going around. Those two diseases also dangerous to people over 60 and those with underlying health issues. The selfish nature of taking away things from people that worked incredibly hard for is a tragedy itself.
For some the Ivy league basketball tournament might not have been a big deal. But imagine how it feels for those seniors that will never have a shot playing in an NCAA game again. The NYC half marathon was cancelled and I am sure there were thousands of people that put in their blood sweat and tears only to have their big day be canned.
Cancelling all of these concerts, sports, and movie premiers are causing a recession. People are going to lose their jobs, restaurants are going out of business. People are becoming terrified for no good reason.
Shame on you, the person that posts how these events need to be cancelled, shame on the person that constantly retweets every source of news they find without fact checking. Shame on all the people who keep saying rather be safe then sorry.
I don't want to live in a world where people are afraid to go out, afraid to go to races, concerts, movies, basically just live. So to all the Letsrun users constantly posting about how dangerous they think this virus is and how they should cancel every event under the sun, Shame on you!