RandyAg98 said:
amercer said:
The next couple weeks should be interesting.
Not picking on you amercer...but I am so sick of hearing this. We have been hearing "the next two weeks" since March 2020.
I'm sick of hearing the **** it crowd complaining about patience and data driven decision making. Whether you remember or not, I remember in June and early July people were talking about how we shouldn't care about cases because the instantaneous death rate of COVID cases had dropped to zero. I said deaths will follow in short order. Que the "just two more weeks" meme, i.e. "I'm done thinking doomer". And then deaths started rising quite quickly shortly after that. I also remember, there's only 1,000 cases in NYC why are we overreacting bit and the rise in cases from Thanksgiving to Christmas. The truth is these events play out on too long a time horizon for the attention span of a message board. That's the only reason "just two more weeks" became an effective talking point. Ignore the projections and the data (too impatient for that) all that matters is I am ok right now is basically the point. I still firmly believe if people had a bit more of an intellectual, less populist approach America would be looking at 300,000-400,000 dead instead of 600,000 with very few changes. All it would have taken is some self-responsibility and some thoughtfulness. Mocking all the data that's inconvenient to you with "Just two more weeks" is an example of the mentality of (on a nationwide scale) why that didn't happen. I still interacted with friends and family, just in more private settings when I knew I didn't have the virus. I still traveled to places, except they were all outdoors like national and state parks. You can still live your life, but small adaptations go a long way.
I am very much looking forward to the end of this ordeal. It'll be about three months and we'll be finished. Now that my grandmother are vaccinated, I am certainly less worried overall, but we still need to let the data clean up in Austin before we make decisions that have systemic effects. Cases can easly rise again if people act like it's 2019. That won't be true in a few months, but it is true still now.