O/T:- Are we over-reacting to COVD19?

[jackal2]

I'm feeling exasperated after reading this post.

I know how you feel. I get exasperated with people feeling exasperated. I was just stating a view. Don't be melodramatic.

Although at first glance it seems you've written quite a lot, you've effectively written nothing.

Says someone who writes a post almost three times longer, arguably to the same effect.

I actually agree with you that I was stating the obvious. [Many] People don't want to die, so they carry out certain actions which they feel help them recover some control of the situation, and to a certain extent this may be beneficial, but overall there is only so much we can do in the face of a force of nature such as this virus.

I am a long way off the high risk age bracket for coronavirus, but I have family members and friends who are slap bang in it, and my first thought in this whole situation has never been the fixture backlog, the inconvenience to my routine, the financial loss (admittedly mine is less than other posters who have been very unlucky) or counting down the days until I can go on a riot. It has been what can I do to help the general situation and stop people from dying unnecessarily.

Snap. I'm in a relatively low risk age bracket but I have a parent in their 70s with COPD, so faced with that higher risk I've advised them that it's sensible to limit their social contact and avoid mass gatherings until this thing passes.

As for me, the game is on this afternoon so I'm taking the measured 'risk' of attending. The scientific advice seems to be that if we all went into complete lockdown, all it would do is temporarily quell the virus and then lead to a spike when those restrictions were removed, so you're as bad burnt as scolded.