If there is a big second wave, can we go bank into lockdown again?

[testcase]

Dennis S wrote:
I don't think so. In addition to this being largely a stupid country, it is largely a spoiled country.

:agree:

I'm continually amazed at the number of people who simply do NOT follow simple steps such as wearing a mask when out of their homes and following the "traffic signs" in stores that try to keep people from face to face encounters. Most supermarkets I've been in have clearly marked signs indicating how "traffic" should flow. Inevitably, the knuckleheads who walk INTO oncoming shoppers are also NOT wearing face masks thus increasing the likelihood of transmitting any and all "nasties" they're contaminated with. :villagers:

As far as I can see, a "second wave" of Covid19 Pandemic is inevitable.

[Blankity Blank]

A big rebound? The short answer is yes. If left no other choice, at the barrel of a (stun/)gun.

Body bags have a loud voice and don’t negotiate. Once they start to pile up, really pile up, you have people’s attention. And if hospitals start turning people away and the degrees of separation between the living and the dead starts to drop, Billy Bob Qanon and Mary Sue The-Illuminati-Ate-My-Cousin’s-Barber’s-Baby are going to see their protest crowds dwindling to the single digits.

There are at least a couple of X factors, of course.

Who’s in charge? Biden? Well, you’d already have a lot of MAGA’s mad and spinning in circles. But a calming voice instead of a combative, prideful ‘leader’, contradicting his own experts, undermining government leaders on the frontlines and spouting literal nonsense and ‘victories’ that exist only in their own mind, should go a good way in their creating community rather than chaos.

Congress would also have to finally really loosen the purse strings so people can focus on coping with challenges of the pandemic rather than looming financial disaster. Six months blocks, not month by month water torture; and real world amounts.

Yes, it will cost a metric butt-ton. And (hold your hats) businesses will have to make do with profit levels that don’t leapfrog by hundreds of millions of dollars year over year. Time to cut the bullshit for awhile that making obscene profits are the only way the sun will rise in the morning.

Trump still in office poisons the well on all of this. We’ll still stagger through, but it will be ugly, there will be unnecessary death and I would not be surprised if we are a first world country in name only.

[deckeda]

Our small, rural county has more than doubled the number of confirmed cases in the last month.

This was anticipated, but there are no plans to do anything about it.

A month ago the county was headed toward 30 cases and today it’s 81. 3 deaths, I think they’re at the nursing home.

[RgrF]

There's going to be a strong push to stop reporting numbers. Fox News is again leading the way, their COVID stories have already dropped in half and are plummeting fast. If they don't report, it didn't happen - you decide!

[SteveG]

deckeda wrote:

A month ago the county was headed toward 30 cases and today it’s 81. 3 deaths, I think they’re at the nursing home.

Hell, I can do that walking down the street to the laundromat.

[Blankity Blank]

RgrF wrote:
There's going to be a strong push to stop reporting numbers. Fox News is again leading the way, their COVID stories have already dropped in half and are plummeting fast. If they don't report, it didn't happen - you decide!

That’s what I expect also.

News organizations to dial back the emphasis on less than encouraging aspects in an attempt to provide ‘balance’ and not appear to be fear mongering or pessimistic. Reporting any growing rebound mostly around the edges, only raising genuine alarms after or very shortly before the wolf is back at the door.

[NewtonMP2100]

......wave your hands up in the air......like you just don't care.......