When will the covid restrictions end? (poll)

[ibanezfoo]

After the next civil war is over and we've eliminated all the commies and authoritarians trying to rule our lives. Other than that. Never.

[9Cal_OC]

We’ll be wearing chin diapers till we croak

[SAN compnerd]

It only takes a few weeks of conditioning to damage people permanently, and we are well past that. Many will never understand, and TPTB will again call for masks in the future to test the sheeps unquestioning compliance. Then there will be an incremental step to take more liberty away.

TPTB want this permanent, and they may have already succeeded.

[el tardo]

[Kyle1886]

It only takes a few weeks of conditioning to damage people permanently, and we are well past that. Many will never understand, and TPTB will again call for masks in the future to test the sheeps unquestioning compliance. Then there will be an incremental step to take more liberty away.

TPTB want this permanent, and they may have already succeeded.

In a way it demonstrates how culturally we have changed since the 1918 flu and the aftermath and resumption normal day to day activities. I don't think we have the "fight" that previous generations had in general either.

(Since that was before my time by about 21 years, I can only go by history. Basically the Spanish Flu lasted from Feb. of 1918 to Apr. of 1920 and ran in four waves. So It may be a bit longer, if ever for the resumption of what we deem as a "normal" activity and lifestyle").

Respectfully
Kyle

[sd_shooter]

In a way it demonstrates how culturally we have changed since the 1918 flu and the aftermath and resumption normal day to day activities. I don't think we have the "fight" that previous generations had in general either.

(Since that was before my time by about 21 years, I can only go by history. Basically the Spanish Flu lasted from Feb. of 1918 to Apr. of 1920 and ran in four waves. So It may be a bit longer, if ever for the resumption of what we deem as a "normal" activity and lifestyle").

Respectfully
Kyle

We're wimps and wusses compared to previous generations

[SAN compnerd]

In a way it demonstrates how culturally we have changed since the 1918 flu and the aftermath and resumption normal day to day activities. I don't think we have the "fight" that previous generations had in general either.

(Since that was before my time by about 21 years, I can only go by history. Basically the Spanish Flu lasted from Feb. of 1918 to Apr. of 1920 and ran in four waves. So It may be a bit longer, if ever for the resumption of what we deem as a "normal" activity and lifestyle").

Respectfully
Kyle

I disagree. The 1918 flu was different in the sense that there were some local restrictions in some areas of the nation, but there was no nation wide government mandated closure of the economy as there was in this instance.

Because of this it's difficult to draw conclusions about how we as a society today will react. If the president had issued a nation wide economic shutdown in 1918 the country would look quite different than it does today and you'd still have some people who believed it helped and insist that it's so. The resumption would have been more protracted in 1918 since there was less knowledge/communications/awareness of how viral contagions spread and the people would have been more superstitious back then.

[balgor]

I disagree. The 1918 flu was different in the sense that there were some local restrictions in some areas of the nation, but there was no nation wide government mandated closure of the economy as there was in this instance.

Because of this it's difficult to draw conclusions about how we as a society today will react. If the president had issued a nation wide economic shutdown in 1918 the country would look quite different than it does today and you'd still have some people who believed it helped and insist that it's so. The resumption would have been more protracted in 1918 since there was less knowledge/communications/awareness of how viral contagions spread and the people would have been more superstitious back then.

Flu of 1918, we were in medical terms, totally screwed: no vaccine, no therapeutics, rudimentary hospital care, and no hope of any of those things improving in the short run. The only strategy they had was to get to herd immunity levels of infection. There was no point in locking down, since you'd just be prolonging the inevitable.

Today, new therapeutics are being discovered and standard of care is improving. Most importantly, we are weeks to months away from having at least one approved vaccine candidate and probably several with mass rollout taking place next year. We just need to hold on for a few more months. By fall 2021, this pandemic will largely be over IMHO.

[BillSmith]

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