This is a very fast bug. Too fast for all but the most prepared societies. So almost everyone will be exposed. That's not the problem.

Most of us will recover just fine. It may be more dangerous than the flu, but we still don't know by how much. Maybe not much at all. We'll know very soon.

The real danger is the hysteria that the media has created in absence of good information, and the political opportunists that will try to advance the agenda no one will put up with normally.

@TimTuolomne agreed

took the words right out of my mouth.

ahh i see anythings allowed until we are talking about nearly 100% certainties. then we are told to moderate?

@CuriousFury NO - is the concept of prioritizing in the middle of a crisis moment lost on you? Do you not think it wise to first do your best mitigate the harm and to try to treat those already harmed? Once the crisis moment is over you can afford to use your time and energy placing blame if indeed there is blame to be made.

@iThink man, if i am feeding the outbreak by asking an op/ed out of yall. this virus is alot more virulent than we can even imagine

@CuriousFury Its true that it is very fast-moving. But it is not proven more dangerous than the common flu yet. Some are claiming it is, but they ALL admit to being unable to quantify one variable needed to make that calculation: The number of asymptomatic infections. Some theorize that it is so large that the virus is no more dangerous than the common flu. We can't know yet either way. We will very soon. Plan on getting it, and plan on surviving it. Most of us will never know we had it.

@TimTuolomne mr tim, please can you read my original post and stop pushing selling me on it. i knew it was global as soon as they said chinese new year. i have basic medical understanding of transmission vectors and am not concerned, since my estimates told me 100% back in january.

does the government have the right to strike down congregation for a cold season?

@CuriousFury My apologies, sir.

I think there are circumstances that justify Martial Law. We are not in such a circumstance in my opinion.

@TimTuolomne yeah, i kinda agree with your assessment, but it IS being done. and then there is the stigmatic side through social pressure.

@CuriousFury. Tell me about it! I come from a family of communists, who think I am crazy because I believe in the Constitution. Talk about "virtue signaling," guilt tripping, shaming, slander and intimidation tactics. I endure them any time I have any contact with them

@TimTuolomne yeah im a constitutional libritarian maybe...but in conversation, a contrarian, and no one knows what a contrarian is, so i always get chased to the other side of the playground and the pattern repeats

Obviously because the government is elected to govern everyone and make laws.
Your local church is a volunteer organisation that has no say in anyone’s lives outside the small volunteer group that belongs to it.

And thank GOD for that!

@Hanno yeah but the govenment is elected by a coin flip. campaigning just trys to sneak in a two headed coin.

@CuriousFury, the people have way more control over that coin flip than most realize. When you stop being so polite and tolerant, and without slandering anyone speak your truth, and enough people join you, the snakes in the grass will slither away. History shows and endless ebb and flow of evil that surfaces until people speak out.

@TimTuolomne it is because the people do not realize that they do have more control that probably bothers me the most, consider how outspoken a subject it is.