Quote Originally Posted by deadheaddawg View Post
We will start seeing hospitals fill up to the point it will cause real problems. We had some advanced warning. We had too many people ignore the advanced warning.....advanced waring from experts......hell we have people still ignoring it.
When the stuff does hit the fan, there will be no reason to be surprised. We know it is coming. We have known.

So much of the fallout that is coming will be our own fault. The ironic part is the people being ignorant and running around dismissing this and comparing it to the flu are doing so, because they are actually scared. Scared of "the media" and political parties. And because they fear experts and sound advice they think they need to act tough and ignore reality.

So in everyone's effort to not to "freak out" about the virus and show how "tough" they are......they will let their fear of "the media" and political parties cause problems.

I am honestly a bit shocked that so many people are scared of people with college degrees. Those evil smart guys in their lab coats
People are not scared of the media, they just rightly don't trust it. Our media is garbage. Even if they weren't hardcore partisans willing to spread misinformation if it helps "their side", they are mostly stupid and even the ones that aren't stupid aren't smart enough to understand what they don't understand.

Even if we had some non-garbage media options, another problem is that we are a big country and different areas of the country need to take different precautions. Hell, different parts of different states need to take different precautions. People in New Orleans should probably be engaged in strict social distancing. People in Shreveport may be ok with more moderate social distancing. We just don't have good local media and health authorities that can credibly spread that messaging right now.