I'm pretty sure they're only doing this because they're desperate for business as-is.
This.
Minor possibility. Games have been "crisis resistant" as a branch in the past.
If you've got a bunch of people self isolating for weeks on end, at least give them games. (Mental health perspective.) Not sure that anyone thinks that far though.
This "NEWS" here on gbatemp is mainly idiotic outrage bait. And 90% of people are falling for it.
If you, as a state are driving those measures, dont do them half assed, and rely on people making individual 'pseudo healthy' decisions.
If you want to curb the curve at one point strongly - you do it coordinated, and not with 'voluntary recommendations'.
So US currently is in 'lets prevent public revolt mode'.
Too early (or costly) to curb the curve significantly.
Let everyone that wants to buy into "aloe vera" solutions (feels good, but is BS) instead.
Because so many people are stupid, do something to prep up gastronomy and culture and, ... or they are gone.
People want to copy someones behavior so bad, you cant tell them not to. Feel free, do something. Blame someone. Join in with a gbatemp news item.
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Looking at predictions for the US, based on their current numbers (which might be off, because testing is so poor there), they are estimated at topping out at 2 million deaths - currently. Which is 0.6% of people.
Which will have the US want to do exactly nothing, for good reasons.
Virus got to them later. Summer, while not killing it - will slow down spread, by virtue of less people being in tight and confined spaces again.
By winter there is expected to be a vaccine for risk groups (badly tested, so you have to weigh both risks).
IF thats the case (we dont know, because their testing is so poor to tell as someone that cant extrapolate using more information) - the US lucked out.
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Now post BS allegations as news here and rally the collective unconscious...
People fundamentally dont understand how stupid they are, and even less how math works. Thats the main problem you are dealing with.
This is my assessment, which might be wrong.
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People still very confused, what the difference between soap opera (Trumpy Trump) and actual government. Because they only consumed soap opera for years, and thought it was government. This doesnt mean, that there is no gouverment (institutions) though. What Trump does, or thinks, doesnt matter jack. If a president is that dumb, institutions run the country. Plain and simple.
And they will give you the strong hand treatment you all would like to see currently so much, at the appropriate moment. Not when you would want to, because you saw other people behaving in other regions of the world in a certain way.
Only issue with this? The data you are making that decisions on has to be valid (which is where testing comes in).
Crisis is big enough for intelligent people to have noticed it. They then ask other intelligent people. That informs action. If not, institutions would turn to media and tell them "this is the problem - why we cant act, and that we want to have changed, by the public doing this". Currently you only have small local twitter politicians tweeting "this is outrageous" at whitehouse accounts. So still veil of stupidity, with no one - really - wanting real coordinated actions yet. People are preparing in the background to get the capability (laws being discussed).
To me it seems that very few inteligent people/institutions in the field, that should know what they are doing, in the US are freaking yet. Again, I might be wrong.
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Also, you can check for yourselves if government failed in a year, post facto. If, within a year, you see those situations were hospitals have to turn away people, or the military has to move bodies in bags, you will know, that your government failed.
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Reason for most people being seemingly calm in the US could simply be population density. So people in big cities (public transport, ..) freak and react differently than most of the country. Both with good reason. If lower population density over vast areas of your country acts as a natural shield against fast spreads. Government really needs to do - mostly nothing. Big IF statement, I dont know. People looking at that math (crisis action teams) - do (more or less).
