RAHkid94

First line “a group of about 70 students”

pitchtrim

How many students went in total to spring break this year, ect... I think I was clear in the rest of the questions as well.

IDriveJets

Does it matter who or how many people went or got sick or died? Are you really basing your reasoning on that like the typical “the flu kills more people” or “car accidents kill more people” than Corona theory?

pitchtrim

If it doesn't matter why were you toting spring breakers getting sick? Figured you knew more about it but apparently not.

IDriveJets

Alright genius, stick to Fox, act like an unhinged indifferent know it all.

I mean you lot think you’ve got it all figured out and have the facts don’t you?

I forgot the part where people like you and your chosen one act like ten minute doctors or scientists or economists.

pitchtrim

Oh so you're an expert in this field or just some regional pilot? Because you haven't for 10 pages acted like you know better than anyone who disagrees. You must not have been listening to the medical experts that said open the country back up in sections but in phases with the understanding you may have to close parts down again. You also probably don't understand that you can't close a country down for a year or two while they try to find a vaccine.

Duffman

I really don't get it. The same people who would never think about taking a no-go MEL'ed aircraft for sensor failures are willing to try to run headlong through a pandemic from an novel, highly contagious disease with an unknown, but high, lethality rate. We also don't even know the long term effects of the disease yet because even in China, it's only been a few months since the first people got it. There are plenty of news articles talking about how people have serious lingering effects long afterward, but there hasn't even been enough time to really do any studies on the long term effects. Everyone seems to assume it's like the flu and you just recover and move on with an immunity, but there's a very real chance that's not the case. I mean, the point of novel diseases is the human population largely does not have a natural immunity to it. Look what happened to native tribes a couple hundred years ago when they got introduced to novel diseases. This stuff is no joke.

Normally if someone wanted to just go live their life despite the risk, I really wouldn't care. If you're arrogant and dumb enough to act like nothing is wrong and you get the virus at Coachella or some artisan bakery or a ball game, then you deserve it. But the problem is these same people aren't going to wear masks, they're going to cough in their hands then molest every door knob, touch all the produce at the grocery store, wipe their dick beaters all over the gas pump, and generally make life really hard for everyone else whose trying reduce the spread. Now some Uber Eats guy gathers groceries for grandma, they've got COVID19 all over them, and despite taking all the precautions and washing her hands 10 times a day, the virus is now on a plastic cheese wrapper in grandma's fridge for at least 72 hours (probably longer because it's an ideal temperature and humidity).

My fiance is an epidmiologist tracking this virus and she can't tell me specifics, but she has told me that this virus seems to spread like wildfire through families in particular. If one person gets it, their whole family seems to gets it eventually. Common sense would say if your family isn't genetically pre-disposed to handle the virus well (remember, this is a novel disease, so it's a complete lottery, doesn't matter if you never get sick), then that really sucks for your family.

Personally, I'm not too happy about this. My career is on hold, finances are not doing better, wedding probably cancelled, awesome reserve TDYs all cancelled, there's a real chance that I switched careers right into another lost decade, and this might turn into a full on financial depression, but I know what has to be done and I'm not going to whine about it or try to find 'facts' that loosely support what's more convenient to believe. It does **** me off, however, when people want to undermine all the sacrifices the world has collectively made, because "they want to live their life." It sounds like a vapid, self-centered Coachella snowflake.

pitchtrim

Yes it does spread like wildfire and it isn't the flu. In other words we'll all get it eventually unless we weld ourselves in our homes till 2022. There are risk in life. Those of you deathly afraid can stay at home for a year or two, the rest of us will make responsible decisions based on our circumstances.

RAHkid94

“If you’re old or have other health conditions just become homeless or die”

pitchtrim

Why would the old or those with health issues become homeless and die by staying away from the general public? Explain that one to me now.