I've been going out and about into the community almost every day. I'm just being very smart about it and managing my risk by distancing and not standing in place talking to anyone for an extended period of time. Not that hard to do, even in the office. Just stay separated and don't stand around next to each other shooting the shit.
Oh and my very high risk daughter is taking extra precautions, as she, and anyone else who is high risk, should. It's not rocket science, nor does it reduce the risk 100 percent.
And, please, spare me your ridiculous misinterpretations of my comments. Nowhere have I said anyone should be forced out into the community, nor am I telling anyone what's right for them. I've simply said they should be able to make the choice themselves, not be told what to do by others like you.
Back on topic, another look at the data shows how ridiculously stupid continuing to remain shut down is, when even the realistic worst case scenarios would still have the deaths from this disease lower than many other causes that we accept year in and year out and year in and year out. And many of the Covid 19 deaths would overlap with those other causes (diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease), because many of the people most impacted by the coronavirus also fall into the leading cause of death risk categories. Far too much emotion and not enough rational thought going on at this point, and far too little transparency about the demographics of the virus, largely I'm guessing because it might indicate that our approach to it wasn't exactly the best. Rather than target the most vulnerable and protect them we simply took a sledgehammer approach and tried to protect everyone, even the least at risk, at the expense of real effectiveness. We played single coverage, when doubling might have made a lot more sense.
