Normally I wouldn’t engage on such an emotional and irrational subject, but…
SC, you are correct. Things are going to get very, very bad in the coming weeks, and possibly month(s). I do not believe anyone would debate that.
All of us will know indirect and/or direct tragedy as a result. This story was written before this virus even landed on our shores…
The quarantine is not meant to “stop this” as you state. The quarantine / shelter in place purpose is to delay and spread out the inevitable impact of the virus and allow our healthcare system to ramp up and prepare for the certain onslaught they will be faced with. Additional opportunity is to allow for a possibly vaccine to be developed, but in my humble but uneducated opinion, the impact of a potential vaccine will be negligible when we look at the scale of the problem. Millions will still be infected, tens of thousands + will still die.
What I do have a difference of perspective on, is the judgement and blaming of others and correlating their activities to an impact to me, or in your case, to you, your wife, or others being impacted because of it. The quarantine is in place for a portion of the population. Healthcare, Restaurants, Public Safety, National Guard, Logistics (UPS, Fedex, USPS, etc..) Distribution, etc… are still operating. Are they all to blame for what happens to our families as well? The virus is out there, it will spread, that ship has sailed.
In this situation, I tend to focus on what I can control and my responsibility therein, and it is not because of the grocery clerk at Stater Bro’s, or the waitress at the Café, or the biker at the biker bar, or….. It is because I did NOT take care of my responsibility. Any activity should be done using common sense, social distancing, understanding all public surfaces are suspect, washing hands, sanitizing, etc…
Of far greater concern to me right now is the impact to America’s financial stability and our ability to dig out of the chasm we are creating.
Save that for another thread from another person, but we HAVE TO get back to work as a nation!