Yet despite the me me me shit show, despite all day every day at Lowes looking like Black Friday on roids, despite NC getting an "F" in social distancing (
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242383226.html), despite plenty of people getting the Essential Business Participation Trophy and working as normal, despite having an imbecile as a President with no plan ..... despite all of that we are two months in and NC has 11,500 cases and 420 deaths in a state of 10.5 million people. If we suck so bad at this, then why haven't we been overrun with infection and death and hospital overcrowding as the experts predicted? Because it is exactly what I said in the first post of this thread: it is a worldwide 45 degree CMS snow day.
The virus clearly sucks. It sucks to get it, it certainly sucks to die from it. But, given our complete failures at the recommended course of action and the fact that the results are nowhere near as dire as what were predicted by the so-called experts, the societal reaction and resulting collateral damage has far outweighed the problem, relative to other serious societal issues. This is a media-driven circus.
I don't understand why you equate lots of people going to Lowe's and grass-mowing staff riding around without face masks on in a truck together with a "complete failure in recommended course of action." Surely you're more educated that this terribly biased line of thinking, right? I mean, if not, maybe the NC State boards would be a better home?
To help bring you up to a socially acceptable level of intelligence, I'll present a few data points to counteract those few yard maintenance guys and the folks at Lowe's you reference:
1- 1.5 million schoolchildren in NC didn't go to school with one another. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
2- 4.9 million churchgoers in NC didn't go to church with one another. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
3- 3.1 million office-based workers didn't go into the office for work. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
4- No one went to a restaurant to sit down and eat. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
5- No one went to a bar to grab drinks. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
6- No one went to a concert, play, musical, or any other similar activity with hundreds of other people. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
7- Almost no one went to an airport, got on a plane, rode a train, rode a bus, or utilized a dense transportation activity. This helps virus transmission stay lower.
8- Businesses who stayed open did not work at normal. The vast majority of them implemented measures to clean more often, socially distance checkout lines, limit capacity, etc.
You see how the above enormous changes resulted in hospitals not being overrun even though some people went to Lowe's?