Freeholder
This too shall pass.
Dennis, I’m not sure what your definition of panic is. I’ve seen panic - on an individual scale, not the mobs crushing people that were discussed elsewhere - and I haven’t seen too many signs of real panic here on this board. Concern, yes. Justifiably so, in a lot of cases. I’ll give you a list of vulnerable people just in my family - people I care about and really don’t want to lose to some d**n disease that shouldn’t ever have even gotten to this country:
my mother, age 83, still of sound mind and living at home
step-father, late seventies, ditto, has diabetes
brother-in-law in his seventies
sister-in-law who is in her early sixties and has lupus - she’s dependent on periodic infusions of some medication that probably comes from China
three aunts and three uncles, five of them in their eighties
my ex, who has lung cancer (never smoked; he had a malignant melanoma almost thirty years ago, then kidney cancer a few years ago)
a son-in-law who is almost the same age I am, and has had a couple of heart attacks
a brother who has been sick from undetermined causes for several years, and last winter had pneumonia for several months
There are thirteen people on that list, and I could probably add a couple more if I thought about it. Statistically, we could lose two to five of them - depending on if the health system collapses before they catch this virus. I care about every one of them, and so do a lot of other people.
Panic is rushing around unproductively, unable to think clearly. I’m not panicked, and neither are most of the other people here. But we ARE concerned, and justifiably so.
I do think that people are using this to get people all worked up in the hopes of defeating Trump. It’s the same fools who use every mass shooting to try to cram through more restrictive gun laws. And they are going to try to use this to cram through a national health system, too. We need to be aware of that, and don’t let them take more things away that they will never give back.
And we need to be prepared, which is, after all, what this board is here for. Being prepared prevents panic - and it gives us something to do when it still isn’t quite clear what else we need to do, like telling dad to boil water when the baby starts coming.
Kathleen
my mother, age 83, still of sound mind and living at home
step-father, late seventies, ditto, has diabetes
brother-in-law in his seventies
sister-in-law who is in her early sixties and has lupus - she’s dependent on periodic infusions of some medication that probably comes from China
three aunts and three uncles, five of them in their eighties
my ex, who has lung cancer (never smoked; he had a malignant melanoma almost thirty years ago, then kidney cancer a few years ago)
a son-in-law who is almost the same age I am, and has had a couple of heart attacks
a brother who has been sick from undetermined causes for several years, and last winter had pneumonia for several months
There are thirteen people on that list, and I could probably add a couple more if I thought about it. Statistically, we could lose two to five of them - depending on if the health system collapses before they catch this virus. I care about every one of them, and so do a lot of other people.
Panic is rushing around unproductively, unable to think clearly. I’m not panicked, and neither are most of the other people here. But we ARE concerned, and justifiably so.
I do think that people are using this to get people all worked up in the hopes of defeating Trump. It’s the same fools who use every mass shooting to try to cram through more restrictive gun laws. And they are going to try to use this to cram through a national health system, too. We need to be aware of that, and don’t let them take more things away that they will never give back.
And we need to be prepared, which is, after all, what this board is here for. Being prepared prevents panic - and it gives us something to do when it still isn’t quite clear what else we need to do, like telling dad to boil water when the baby starts coming.
Kathleen
