I don't consider the government making suggestions as being interference. Maybe that's where that's where we are are on different pages. I'm fine with the CDC putting out suggestions on how people can stay safe, and at that point it is up to the individual to be responsible or not. The free market will work this out. For example Ford and Chevy are now making ventilators. The free market is undefeated. Let it work.
I think seat belt laws are ridiculous, but should you wear one? Absolutely.
Brother, I don't know exactly where I am at on this, I tend to lean your direction but then I ponder scenarios like smoking which I despise.
But, see, the smoking thing is the perfect example of how the free market worked itself out. Way before there were laws against smoking in establishments the market had already started trending that way. It started with non-smoking sections and then morphed into very very few establishments allowing it inside. That's the free market working out an issue. We didn't need the government overlords stepping in to "take care of us". Again, we are a resilient and resourceful people for the most part. And, we are a much better people when the government stays the hell out of the way.
I still dont wear a helmet while riding my bicycle, gamble, gamble.........
That is exactly what I'm saying.
American ingenuity at its finest!
Not sure either but it's interesting to me anyway. I wonder why the death rate looks a little high. I'm guessing it's because the mild cases aren't getting tested. Or maybe we are doing a better job of testing the dead at this point.not sure what tracking these stats accomplishes but here they are nonetheless
the fatality rate has increased substantially over the last week
Sounds like Sweden is testing this concept:
Should be interesting to see how that works out for them.
My guess is they will have a spike in cases and then it will level off as people start self-policing themselves out of fear. Back to the smoking topic, there is a reason smoking is now demonized. The social construct has made it that way. People/society in this country has made it into a bad thing so they socially corrected the problem. People are already demonizing people for going out and they should. The social construct will correct the problem by social shaming just like it did with smoking.
I agree, I tend to think everything will work out just fine for them.
For a lot of people that’s the case, but to see it as minimized as it is today took social shaming or whatever you want to call it. The pressure from your fellow citizens to make restaurants smoke-free, etc.
linkyThere was a time in the not-too-distant past when hand-washing, even for doctors, wasn't considered part of basic hygiene. That is, until one man sounded the alarm.
You have to hand it to Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th-century Hungarian doctor. For it was Semmelweis who determined, after studying maternity ward deaths, that it was hand-washing by doctors that could make all the difference between life and death.
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), of Hungary, proposed health care workers wash their hands with an antiseptic to reduce infections - an idea antithetical to medical thinking of the day.
Far from welcoming his insight, though, fellow doctors rejected it ... and Semmelweis went on to die in an insane asylum, of sepsis, the very thing he'd devoted himself to fighting.
Later generations came to recognize the truth of his discovery, and of course the need for thorough hand-washing has never been more important than now.
