Excargodog

Even with upticks in the virus we are getting there simply because even panic attacks can’t be sustained indefinitely. People are just starting to move on. You can’t stay scared indefinitely, the mind adapts and it becomes the new normal.

LoneStar32

We would need the capacity on the right routes for that to happen.

senecacaptain

people move on until they don't move on. any severe upticks or spikes will result in the Karen's staying home all over again.

Roy Biggins

Agreed. Hoping for a steady 1.5 by next spring...possibly more with a successful vaccine.

kingairfun

After seeing yesterdays number I'd like to change my prediction to this Sunday or next.

Excargodog

Severe upticks or spikes of what? Cases? Deaths? CNN scare stories?

we are seeing more cases, but is that better case finding with more testing being done or what? Because there isn’t any correlated spike in deaths:



Is that better treatment? A shift in the pathogenicity of the virus? Are we simply running out of elderly people with so many comorbidities they always had one foot in the grave and the other on a wet cake of soap?

Thread drift alert...

Frankie Avalon

I disagree. Most people who were spooked enough to batten down the hatches in March/April (myself included) were afraid of the unknown. Was this airborne AIDS? Maybe it's being undersold to avoid public panic? But now we know what the deal is. We know how to mitigate our risk of getting it, we know how to treat it, we know who's vulnerable, and we know this isn't Black Plague 2.0. We don't know every little thing about this bug and won't for a long while...but I think we know enough to not be terrified again. I definitely don't want to catch it and will do my best to avoid it, but it's not going to impede my life anymore than I can help. I also don't want to be in a car wreck and I take measures to balance that risk with my life. Statistically I'd be safer if I stopped driving too...

itsmytime

Im with you, 1 million Sunday, at worst sometime next week.

firefighterplt

Also remember that most state quarantine list BS is predicated on cases/per day and/or positivity rate, not deaths. As those wickets are met and states like NY start requiring quarantines for travelers from most of the union again, people are going to start canceling flights.

So it ain’t all Karens...some people just can’t afford to miss two weeks of work or school after a trip.

kingairfun

As winter approaches, high and mighty States like NY, NJ etc, will realize maybe they shouldn't have thumbed their noses at 30+ other States (mostly red States)... There are little to no mitigation efforts that have proven to be effective unless we want society to end.

I am yet to meet more than maybe 3 people who are afraid of this sh!t. Once I felt the State governments and media were selling a line of fear I became suspicious... We shouldn't have to be forced to be fearful. And once we were I called BS on the whole thing. We're literally being told we have to be fearful.

Case in point... nobody in my gym wore a mask when the gyms opened (because nobody was afraid of the Vid) and to this day (especially now) the only reason 9 out of 10 do is because it's a business policy. Even the older people find ways to lower it below their nose and mouth when they can.

My folks live in FL, amongst a much older group. Just talked to them, today. They commented how not even the elderly are afraid of it down there. We're being forced to be fearful and being forced to change our lives. Especially in NY, CA,HI etc.