Preface: I'm sure I'm speaking to the choir here at C99.
Think for a moment, when our “founding father's” wrote the first constitution, only white property owners could participate (vote / run for office) in the “political” process. Chattel slavery and indentured servitude, were normal and legal in the colonies. (most anyway)
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” ~ Ned Vizzini
The other day I posted an essay detailing how tens of thousands of poor people are certain to die from this extended lockdown. To my surprise, some commenters took a very calloused attitude to this news.
One commenter said "the entitled class is just going suffer through getting paid to read the net."
This will have to do:
We had three inches of snow last Sunday, and it has been cold since, and what with The Virus, there haven't been many opportunities to take photos of anything particularly interesting.
Stay well and safe.
When a big change in life occurs how should you feel? What should you do? How should you move forward? Since 1969 the path way many Americans use is the five DABDA stages (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance) described by Dr Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying. It moved from the realm of end of life care and hospice into how to manage change in business and all aspects of major disruptive transitions in life.
For me Acceptance became not a stage to achieve, rather letting go of Denial, Fear, Anger and Depression to let in rational thought. Life may not be what I want, it does become easier to live, make changes and move into the directions I desire.
Over time the five stages have morphed into 7 steps on a Change Curve
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0bO3o4iZHY]
The following calculations are rough and do not use any fancy epidemiological equations. The poor availability of testing and flaky reporting of outcomes make it difficult to know exactly what the numbers are.
According to Johns Hopkins on April 16, 2020:
Case fatality rate 4.5%
Confirmed cases 636,350
Deaths 28,326
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/cumulative-cases
Witness, for example, this gem from the Nation magazine:
President Trump wants to re-open the economy, and that means that I should automatically oppose it because it will cause some people to die.
That is 100% true.
But will more people die if we continue the lockdown?
This is not a hyperbolic question.
