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(174 posts)#StayTheFuckHome
A Movement to Stop the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our governments are only slowly implementing measures to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Slow reactions, public appeasement policies, and their urge to stabilize the economy have kept them from taking the measures needed to protect millions from this disease. However, it is not only the governments burden to bear. It is time for us, as citizens of this earth, to take action now and do our part in fighting COVID-19.
Let's put it bluntly: Stay The Fuck Home!
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(29,199 posts)"containment" failed (they never really tried here or Europe, we value our economy and our freedom too much).
So now we are trying to flatten the curve. No point in testing anymore, if you present to the hospital with trouble breathing, high fever... they will assume Covid-19.
The trick now is that at no one time will we have so many people that the hospitals run out of rooms and ventilators... and you die in the hallway or a warehouse because we can't save everyone (like Italy).
So, for anyone at risk or elderly... self isolation and hope you don't catch it until a vaccine or effective treatment is available.
The rest of you... well... something like %.5 of you will get sick and die.
That is the calculation being made now. Very sad. Had we acted early we could have contained this and only a very few people would have died.