Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now)

[Joey_P]

@Irishman

It’s funny, experts look at the data and trends and say, “If we don’t do anything, it could be this bad.” So we do something, and the results are better than the prediction. So then people start saying the experts are alarmists and their predictions are no good because things aren’t as bad as they said. But these people are ignoring the fact that the basis for the prediction was deliberately changed because of the prediction.

I mentioned this way back in March:

@Joey_P

Also, my ‘fear’ is that when this all blows over, people are going to running around saying that it was a huge over reaction. We cancelled just about everything and for what? Every time someone calls it an over reaction, I’ve been trying to explain that if this all blows over without amounting to much that they shouldn’t think of this as an over reaction, instead they should consider that it didn’t amount to much because of how we reacted.

A discussion ensued comparing it to Y2K, or rather discussing how other people compared it to Y2K. When nothing happened on 1/1/00, people complained that all the panic was for nothing, when in reality, nothing happened because of the endless hours that programmers spent patching software and then collectively crossing their fingers while they were on call when that night.

It’s unfortunate that Covid spreads the way it does. It would be a lot nicer if the protections we’re using (specifically masks) helped to prevent you from getting it rather than prevent you from spreading it. That way when people said ‘if you’re so scared YOU wear a mask/stay home, I’m not going to’ and it would be fine, because they’d catch it, not spread it.