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sledge- definitely downplaying and spreading false info can hurt us at the first few months that were very critical, but after a failure to prevent the virus from entering a country, what we know now can make us careless too. another reason i think for ppl, regardless of their politcal affiliation, for not taking it seriously is bc corona isnt as deadly as it initially thought. when you hear what mortality rate is, it can be scary. but do opposite and say you have 97% to 99% survival rate then its not so scary anymore. it can be "just a flu" depends on who you apply to. sure no one wants this to mutate and become much more aggressive than it already is. but for now, ppl are more worried about losing their homes/businesses than getting sick. so US has to make a decision and stop from further devastation: save the economy or save our vulnerable citizens? i dont think US can do both at this late in stage. we all had already seen what kind of extremely brutal measure china took to stop from further spreading.. or maybe its too late to do anything and just hope and wait till it passes i dont think we all had it all at once. maybe just some of us did and cycle continued until it caught up on to larger groups with equivalently low health/immune system such as nursing homes. its incubation period is 2 to 4 weeks, even more, theres no way to know virus lives on us hiding as we could be carriers and reactivates multiple times without showing any symptoms. before my brother moved out and got married, he use to go out alot after work and he brought home cold/flu buncha times. for 2weeks of sneezing and coughing and by the time he got better my mom got sick. and when she was getting better i got sick. we were in a same household and it took me almost a month to get sick so its possible for corona to spread weeks or months apart at times, depending on who it infects and where it reaches. im not even saying this theory is true though. it only exists bc chinese govt tried to hide it possibly for weeks or for months until it got out of control. until we know more about this virus, im not counting this theory out yet 😛

I guess since I basically sleep my off days away and I'm stuck at work 10-12 hours a day I didn't notice too many April Fools pranks this year. I guess with the current times maybe people didn't feel is was appropriate. GW2's patch notes were pretty lame this go around, but the cats were funny. Azur Lane giving elite Universal Bulin a skin was probably my favorite. The cruelest was a Star Wars fan page posting about Original Cut Trilogy coming to Disney+. 😢 I actually fell for that one because all my days run together. I didn't even realize the Bulin skin event was a joke until I unlocked the skin and realized what day it was. X_X

I think people aren't taking it serious yet because of politics. (Beginning rant) Texas has alot of republican people. I mention it because alot of republican people watch Fox News.. and for the first 2-3 months of coronavirus Fox News basically told everyone it was either a hoax, a common cold, nothing to be taken seriously, etc (echoing what Trump's opinion of it at the time except more embellished). Only recently have they actually given a shit and reported the actual news and severity of it (because Trump did as well). And of course people say "the impeachment distracted Trump and the media from emphasizing how severe this is"... ah sure.. Trump was so distracted he still golfed like 20 days and had time to plan a superbowl party. And yes, all the cable news talked about nothing but the impeachment shit, but thats why people have to watch and read actual news. AP, Reuters & NPR and others have been reporting on this since day one. (End rant) I think the other thing is that theory about "we already had it in January"... I'm really starting to doubt that especially now since there is 300+ local cases and another person in my county died last night bringing it up to 3 and a second Centro bus driver and some farmers the next county over have now been diagnosed with it which means alot of people have already been exposed all over the area.. Thats alot of sick people simultaneously in roughly a 2-3 week span for something we all got back in January. And I've read where people say that face masks wont necessarily help you from catching it.. true.. buts its good at preventing others from catching it from you... well if thats the case, we should all wear face masks because we don't know who is asymptomatic or not. If we all have a mask on then the guy shopping at walmart near me who has it but not showing symptoms won't spread it to me.. or if I get it and don't know, I could help others by having a mask on. *puts on face mask* Oh, and Lady's dad is getting out of the nursing home this weekend, he had knee surgery and had to be in a nursing home for recovery. Hes a prime target for Covid19. If he gets this, theres a damn strong chance it'll kill him. He gets hospitalized by the flu or phenomena once a year, I don't see how he could survive this.