Here is another issue that has been bouncing around my head this morning. Is it realistic to expect and put so much responsibility on the rest of society when dealing with these mitigations? I have no problem doing them myself, but it's not selfishness driving the people's desire to end restrictions and mandates. It's b/c, in my opinion, certain mandates and restrictions may not be reasonable and to expect people to take such efforts, many of which reach levels not seen since WWII in terms of affecting our everyday personal lives and lives of our families, will never be realistic. As some try to argue that we need to stay the course and stay restricted and reduced in our personal lives, those people need to remember that the statistics work against that theory. If 99.97% of all those who contract Covid will be fine and the overwhelming majority of those show no signs of aftereffects than its hard to expect a population as large and diverse as the United States to be this determined. We have a lot of more important things to consider in our lives, like caring for our children and our own family. My parents are elderly. And they are intelligent adults who can take care of themselves. I know not to risk their situation. But they also know that staying out of harms way is their responsibility and no one else's. Outside of them and other loved ones, is it not slightly unreasonable to expect much more from each person? Maybe. But I think it's a losing battle in the end. I honestly think that even if the hospitals were to be overrun in a spike, the vast majority would still not be personally touched by this. And if they were like me and avoided the news and its ever present sensationalism of issues like Covid (yes its a real issue but we all know that the press makes money off of scary headlines-look no further than the famous "summer of the shark" in 2001 right before 911 where you'd have practically thought sharks had declared war on humans when it turned out to actually be a down year for shark attacks yet a couple of high profile attacks caught the media's attention, so now sharks were "stalking us' wherever we were.) they probably would never know unless some one actually told them. If you are a doctor, I get that you are on the front lines of this. But try not to forget that a lot of us aren't and never will be. This will never be like other greater pandemics of the past, where bodies lay in the streets and 20-40% died at times. So given that we are taking these measures to prevent the most comorbid from catching the virus and dying, it is a lot smaller portion of the population and even with those rare outliers in which younger, presumably healthy people also dies from Covid, that is the exception, not the rule. People start to recognize the use of anecdotal situations just to scare us into compliance and it pisses us off. It causes more to resist than to comply, and is thereby propagating that which you are trying to eliminate.
