Without getting too political
Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the country ever opening again? How Do You feel? I don't think it's ever gonna happen
shareI think the new "normal" won't be like the old one.
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To political and beyond!!!
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a bitch, but whenever I see too written as to I just can't help myself. Maybe the new normal will have me worrying about things other than spelling and grammar.
Cheers
I'm at work , wearing rubber gloves and on a smart phone with my screen all cracked, sorry
shareI thought that it was obvious that with my second sentence that I was not really giving you a hard time about it, and that I was the one with the issue. It really was just a lighthearted joke.
Ok cool, I'm frustrated
shareI seen that! To bad, but you aren’t a bitch! You cannot claim too be one. 😉
shareI've always wanted to go to bad!!!
I think I can be a bitch, I just try really hard not to be as I'd prefer to like myself.
You are aware people will think my grammar is atrocious due to you not calling me on it.
It was rather difficult to type that reply...I was gritting my teeth!
BTW, sometimes I pretend to be a member of the Grammar Police Squad. One irritant is: “alright” instead of all right...we wouldn’t write “alwrong”
I'm so sorry. I thought it was hilarious, and that's really all that counts.
Let me know when your novel comes out
shareuntil there is a vaccine, its going to be iffy.
we just don't have the wherewithal politically to get testing to the state necessary to support wide-spread easing.
so, we're in for a rough rest of the year, at least.
There doesn't have to be a vaccine. All we need is to find out some medications or treatment that significantly protects us from the severity/damage it can do, including preventing it from causing death.
sharethat's the 2d best possibility. it seems likely a viable vaccine will emerge. therapeutics, though, if they are already in the public domain, would be a nice fast option.
we'll see.... vaccines are more of a sure bet, though, imo - but are gonna take some months to get here.
Last I heard the possibility of a vaccine was a year out, maybe more. We can't wait that long. Medicines or other treatments to largely reduce the effects seems more likely and yes faster.
If they could reduce it to more or less what it's like now getting a seasonal cold, we'd be back on track.
I agree with you. Right now therapeutics in trials seem to be for those who have reached the critical stage. Something that can prevent getting to that point would be a game changer.
shareI would love a vaccine, but even at a year out, have they really tested it enough for any long term side effects? So I'm with you on other treatments.
shareI feel the same way. I don't get flu shots either.
shareI've had to get flu shots the last 2 seasons, because of my MS treatments but last year was the first time I'd had one.
shareWell, if you've got to have them, then you do. How are you feeling these days?
shareHave good days and bad days, but my mri was a lot better this time around. Far fewer active lesions, so that makes me happy. Was scheduled for my next round at the beginning of the quarantine so it's been postponed for the time being.
shareGlad to hear your MRI was so much better, and you have a lot fewer lesions. Cause for celebration 🥂
sharetherapeutics which merely keep people from dying (as much), but dont prevent people from getting deathly ill arent going to have much of a social impact.
i dont know why you think some readily available drug is more likely than one of the hundreds of vaccine candidates in development. yes, it will take longer. but what can be done about that.
as far as what we can take, unless & until we get a vaccine, a magic bullet therapy or a robust test capability, nothing major ought to change, in terms of preserving public health by keeping the pandemic infection rate at bay.
distancing is what we got.
That isn't what I said.
shareThe country will reopen eventually... the new normal, will not be that different from the old normal...
I know we're in the thick of the pandemic at the moment, so people cannot see how things will get back to normal, in the grand sceheme of things, life will go on...
I wouldn't mind a new normal, unfortunately I don't see it as being a better normal, so there's that.
shareI'm pretty sure everyone will elect me Emperor and all the ladies of the land will line up at my castle for the honor of pleasuring me for the evening. I'd say there's about an 80% chance of that happening based on old Nostradamus prophesies, and a 20% chance that I'll create a hybrid grape/cherry that is awful yummy. All will rally around the Grerry and world peace will reign. Either way, the future looks pretty bright. (BTW, my Grerry will cure coronavirus).
shareCan I be first in line:)
shareBut of course. When you got there, I’d turn everyone else away and slap a Do Not Disturb sign on the gate.
sharein the short to mid-term, i'm very, very pessimistic.
not so much about re-opening...people will work through stuff, try new things, try to innovate solutions. there will be opportunities for people who can come up with new ways of doing things. we'll find a new normal, & maybe it won't be that different from the way things were 3 months ago. maybe some things will go away, & some things will take their place. i think it's likely the case that in a few months or a year, people will be eating in restaurants & visiting our moms & normal stuff like that.
but i am really deeply incredibly worried about what the next ... what? 2? 5? 10? years will look like. nothing's written in stone, & i'm no nostrodamus, but it sure seems to me that there's all sorts of ways that we could tip over into really destructive (imo) policies that would reduce, maybe demolish the incredible progress that's been made in the last 30-40 years on world poverty. at the very least, i think there are massive body-blows that are almost certain to come over the next year that will wreak havoc.
i may be completely wrong, but i think things are incredibly dangerous right now.
I work with the public and met a lot of people who don't care to do taxes and have gotten no stimulus check. They are all poor schmucks.
shareThere's no vaccine coming. It's a juiced up version of the common cold. It will endlessly mutate and be with us forever. They'll cook up some kind of Corona Flu Shot that will likely have extreme side effects in a small portion of people. Which will be just as effective as the bullshit flu shots we already have. But we'll get better at coping with it. I think hand shaking is pretty much done, and I think wearing masks will become more common, and in this age of video surveillance, good. I don't know things like theme parks and packed stadiums and festivals will ever be like they were. I wasn't comfortable sitting in a movie theater or a crowded bus with some guy hacking and coughing before all this crap started, you couldn't pay me to do it now. And schools, man. I don't see how you can keep having schools. Everybody's kids all locked up together all day, every day? It was germ fest already. I always get sick every time we have a family get together with them little grubby goobers.
shareOptimistic. There's no question it'll reopen, and they've already announced (locally) they've been working on plans for it as of several weeks ago.
What that will look like for the next few months, that I don't know. We'll all have to ease into it, and then see what happens once the flu season starts again.
How does that curse go again? May you live in interesting times 🙂