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Don't Minimize the threat from Pandemic: Practice Social Distancing: Protect Yourself & Others
There was a thread on the forum that the moderators shut down because people were arguing, and the OP (original poster) could not stand people disagreeing with her. The OP and others harangued the moderators until they closed the thread. This was the only thread that really focused on the dangers of the pandemic. The Mods should have closed it for spreading misinformation and attempting to minimize the danger of the pandemic.
That thread was called "Coronavirus: Fear vs reality" ( see link below). What began a a well-intentioned attempt to allay people's fears ended up spreading false information and encouraging people to go on as usual: go out, support the local economy, that the "majority of people" won't have anything to worry about, that those who do get it will only have mild cold, or flu like symptoms, and that the young have really nothing to worry about.
That thread was began on Saturday the 14th and was shut down on Monday morning the 16th.
Re-reading it now, it is cringe-worthy. It is so wrong-headed and some of the arguments made in the course of the thread read like Fox News before the truth finally dawned on them. I was attacked and ridiculed for standing my ground that the info was wrong-headed, that the danger should not be minimized and should be taken with the utmost seriousness.
Some other posters/members backed me up, but they also seemed a bit cowed by the vitriolic attack on anyone in disagreement with the OP's original statement. Now, several members have posted requests to start a thread just on Covid-19, and here it is.
It's now the 18th, four days after a member tried to assuage your fears and minimize the dangers of the pandemic. Bars and restaurants are closed. People are sheltering in place in some parts of the country. Younger generations are ignoring the common sense suggestions to avoid gatherings and to practice social distancing. A comment in the WP comments dubbed the coronavirus, THE BOOMER REMOVER, in a hateful diatribe against older people. The 3rd Reich would have loved him: that had a plan for that.
What is it people don't understand about what is going on and why thing are being done the way they are being done?
But if you believe that the Pandemic is all overblown, a hoax, a conspiracy, not worse than the flue, then you need to start your own thread and argue with people who agree with you: it's easy, all you need is a little initiative, the ability to wrote a coherent sentence and to research every idea you express to see if it can stand on it's own. I even have a title for you: call it, Don't Worry About the Cornoavirus Pandemic: It's all BS! Lol
This Pandemic will be a life changing event for the country and for many people.
Understand this: There will be no economic recovery, there can be no economic recovery, until the virus is somewhat contained.
The fewer people practicing distancing, the longer the pandemic will go on, the more people will be sick and the economy will take years to recover.
Right now we are looking at 18 months of this or longer because of the lack of cooperation from the population due to dis-information, misinformation, and fake-news planted by intel agencies of political competitors to undermine the US economy. But it looks like Americans are doing a good job of it without their help.
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https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Hosting/Coronavirus-fear-vs-reality/td-p/1258181
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