Covid 19. Over reaction ?

[Mike Pearson]

Personally I thinks all of this is a gross over reaction. There are diseases all of the time that cause death. None are worth shutting down the economy. You cant believe anything that you hear from the Media of out of the politicians mouths. Some of the experts have indicated that all of these so called precautions that they are taking to "flatten The curve" are just going to prolong the inevitable. the weak, old and people with compromised health will have issues with this disease just as they have with other types of virus that as popped up in the past. Time to get back to life and work. Much longer and the economy will be in shambles. I doubt this would have happened if it wasn't an election year.
Just my .02

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

Personally I thinks all of this is a gross over reaction. There are diseases all of the time that cause death. None are worth shutting down the economy. You cant believe anything that you hear from the Media of out of the politicians mouths. Some of the experts have indicated that all of these so called precautions that they are taking to "flatten The curve" are just going to prolong the inevitable. the weak, old and people with compromised health will have issues with this disease just as they have with other types of virus that as popped up in the past. Time to get back to life and work. Much longer and the economy will be in shambles. I doubt this would have happened if it wasn't an election year.
Just my .02

You are always knocking the media. It's not perfect but it's our only hope of keeping up with the moment by moment events of the day. Covid 19 is much more potent than the seasonal flu and should not be downplayed. Without social/physical distancing we would see just how bad it could be. The hospitals are overwhelmed, emergency Army ships are brought into heavily infected areas and the Army Corp is building temporary emergency hospital units. Because of the efforts by our governors and the media giving factual information the disease may not be able to kill as many people and that's to their credit. But there is nothing overblown about Covid 19's ability to kill people.

I would love to be racing right now but there is no way in hell that I would risk the health of loved ones by potentially bringing this killer virus home. No way!

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

You are always knocking the media. It's not perfect but it's our only hope of keeping up with the moment by moment events of the day. Covid 19 is much more potent than the seasonal flu and should not be downplayed. Without social/physical distancing we would see just how bad it could be. The hospitals are overwhelmed, emergency Army ships are brought into heavily infected areas and the Army Corp is building temporary emergency hospital units. Because of the efforts by our governors and the media giving factual information the disease may not be able to kill as many people and that's to their credit. But there is nothing overblown about Covid 19's ability to kill people.

I would love to be racing right now but there is no way in hell that I would risk the health of loved ones by potentially bringing this killer virus home. No way!

Behind you 110 % Bruce,...It’s not just about US...

[Carguy49]

There is no answer to satisfy everyone. The thing that we must look at is keeping as many people from dying from this virus as possible. If that means more social distancing, then I am all for it.

Racing is on hold here in the Pacific Northwest until early May at the soonest. I would love to be at a track to visit with and help friends with their cars. I don't want to risk the possibility of spreading the virus.

Yes, I am bored at the present time. I talk with friends daily and they feel the same way, but are willing to wait for the situation to end.

By the way the death toll is over 7,000 in N.Y. at this time.

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

You are always knocking the media. It's not perfect but it's our only hope of keeping up with the moment by moment events of the day. Covid 19 is much more potent than the seasonal flu and should not be downplayed. Without social/physical distancing we would see just how bad it could be. The hospitals are overwhelmed, emergency Army ships are brought into heavily infected areas and the Army Corp is building temporary emergency hospital units. Because of the efforts by our governors and the media giving factual information the disease may not be able to kill as many people and that's to their credit. But there is nothing overblown about Covid 19's ability to kill people.

I would love to be racing right now but there is no way in hell that I would risk the health of loved ones by potentially bringing this killer virus home. No way!

Bruce I fully understand your concerns. Right now I am not really concerned about racing either. I am more concerned about the long term health of the economy. Just for example. My wife works for a restaurant company that has locations around the country. They had about 2000 employees before the virus shut down. now they have only 100 still working. All of the others were laid off. This is just one small example. In the first two weeks of the shut down the company lost 2 million in business. There is a good chance that they might not weather the storm. Multiply this by millions of small business and you have a major calamity in just the restaurant business. I work construction and we are considered essential so I have been working everyday as normal. hopefully that will continue. during the last downturn the company that I work for went from 70 superintendent down to 20. Hopefully this wont be as bad but has to turn around pretty quick or the damage will be real bad.