Are we POSITIVE we are not overreacting?

[ReneeIW]

I apologize for asking a stupid question but there are 1.5 BILLION people in China and about 80,000 got the virus and only a small fraction of those unfortunately passed away. And people said if China had handled it better even less would have died. Every life matters and we should do everything we can to contain the virus,  but this virus pales in comparison to the pandemics of the past.

Maybe I am missing something but it does seem like there is a bit of overreaction which is making matters worse and bringing down the economy.

Edited March 16, 2020 by ReneeIW

[johnthebaptist]

1 minute ago, ReneeIW said:

I apologize for asking a stupid question but there are 1.5 BILLION people in China and about 80,000 got the virus and only a small fraction of those unfortunately passed away. And people said if China had handled it better even less would have died. Every life matters and we should do everything we can to contain the virus,  but this virus pales in comparison to the pandemics of the past.

Maybe I am missing something.

I agree that we shouldn't over react, but it isn't over yet.

[ReneeIW]

1 minute ago, johnthebaptist said:

I agree that we shouldn't over react, but it isn't over yet.

It’s not over and we need to follow the advice of our government, but it’s a problem that has a solution. I thought panic occurred when there was no solution. We seem to be causing additional problems by the way we are reacting to this virus. That is what’s scary to me.

[Heleadethme]

6 minutes ago, ReneeIW said:

I apologize for asking a stupid question but there are 1.5 BILLION people in China and about 80,000 got the virus and only a small fraction of those unfortunately passed away. And people said if China had handled it better even less would have died. Every life matters and we should do everything we can to contain the virus,  but this virus pales in comparison to the pandemics of the past.

Maybe I am missing something but it does seem like there is a bit of overreaction which is making matters worse and bringing down the economy.

The numbers are relatively low and contained only because of their quarantining and lockdown efforts.  Nevertheless their hospitals have been and are still dangerously overwhelmed to the point of having to deny life-saving treatment to many who need it, as in Italy.  Not to mention having to deny treatment to patients for other health concerns, who don't even have the virus, because of hospital resources and staff being allocated to deal with the overwhelming number of coronavirus patients.  This is a public health emergency, make no mistake about it.  Not that we should fear, but that we do need to take it seriously and do our best to avoid catching or spreading this virus, perhaps not necessarily as much out of the fear of dying ourselves if we are healthy/young, but FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS generally.   The fewer that catch this and need to go to hospital in order to survive, the better it will be for everyone...........and the more we all make the effort the sooner this will go away (we hope and pray).

[R. Hartono]

Chinese hv dealt with it in a good manner n reduce deaths

[ReneeIW]

40 minutes ago, Heleadethme said:

This is a public health emergency, make no mistake about it.  Not that we should fear, but that we do need to take it seriously and do our best to avoid catching or spreading this virus, perhaps not necessarily as much out of the fear of dying ourselves if we are healthy/young, but FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS generally.   The fewer that catch this and need to go to hospital in order to survive, the better it will be for everyone...........and the more we all make the effort the sooner this will go away (we hope and pray).

It’s an emergency that needs to be taken seriously, but it’s a solvable emergency. I guess raising kids in the era of mass shootings, which there seems to be no solution, has made me not panic over things that can be solved. 
 

In any case, I hope everyone does the right thing to protect themselves and others, and uses this time to bond with family and neighbors. In a strange way I think we needed this. Not the deaths but a reminder that we need God and one another.

[Heleadethme]

8 minutes ago, ReneeIW said:

It’s an emergency that needs to be taken seriously, but it’s a solvable emergency. I guess raising kids in the era of mass shootings, which there seems to be no solution, has made me not panic over things that can be solved. 
 

In any case, I hope everyone does the right thing to protect themselves and others, and uses this time to bond with family and neighbors. In a strange way I think we needed this. Not the deaths but a reminder that we need God and one another.

Well, I would say it's not so solvable for all those who have died and are going to, and those who love them....and the economic fallout is not going to be a picnic....but I agree very much that we do need a wake up call and shaking in our sleepy complacent church and Christ-rejecting society.  In a strange way, it feels right...I know just what you mean.  For one thing it is to get us to look up.....when everything that can be shaken will shaken.

[warrior12]

I think such precautions are being taken as to contain the spread as much as possible, or we can let things go on with some precaution and live with the results, which would be a social experiment of sort.   Better be safe than sorry may be the application that is being implemented now.    The experts in infectious disease who have been studying these things for years should be the ones to have the final say IMO.  Our spiritual side of life is what each believer has to  come to terms with concerning his mortality.

[johnthebaptist]

1 hour ago, ReneeIW said:

It’s not over and we need to follow the advice of our government, but it’s a problem that has a solution. I thought panic occurred when there was no solution. We seem to be causing additional problems by the way we are reacting to this virus. That is what’s scary to me.

When the government shuts businesses down, they are taking away people's ability to support themselves. Maybe that should enter into their decision-making.

[George]

12 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said:

When the government shuts businesses down, they are taking away people's ability to support themselves. Maybe that should enter into their decision-making.

They are trying to flatten the curve -- so that business can be back to normal within 6 weeks.

Without flattening the curve, you'd have a lot of patients without healthcare because the system would simply be overrun with patients -- with many simply being left to die.

This is why the measures are being taken as they are.