I stopped blogging about 4 years ago. Today I decided to write a post because I went back and read some of what I had written. Today we are on a stay at home order because of Covid 19. 4 years ago I would not have guessed that we would all be subject to staying at home for an extended period of time. I would have never guessed that all the schools in California would be closed for nearly 2 months with more weeks to go. I would never have guessed that the world would be turned upside down as it has been. So maybe it is a good time to start again?
Today we passed 60,000 deaths from Covid 19 in the US. That is a huge number, but it still is not as many deaths as the flu in 2017-18. The flu that season killed about 80,000 people. So is Covid 19 not as worse as the flu? What people forget is that we have had most of the 60,000 people die in the span of one month. The flu kills people over the span of 3-6 months. Plus, the death toll is still climbing. The real problem is the health care system, not the disease itself. I think the big reason for the stay at home order here in California is to keep the hospitals from being over run with sick people. So far, hospitals have not been over run.
On the other hand, how much of our economy are we willing to destroy? If we lock down for much longer, many businesses will never reopen (many have already decided to call it quits). Today we have over 30 million people unemployed across the country. Is is worth the cost? At this point we can't tell, but at some point we will be able to look back and either conclude that we did the right thing, or that we overreacted and killed off the economy. Hopefully it will be that we did the right thing because if we did not, our children will never forgive us.
What do you think?
