- Denial: In China: “Stop spreading panic! You’re under arrest!” Soon, in the U.S: “It’s just like the flu! You don’t panic over the flu! Get a flu shot!”
- Anger: “The government is incompetent!” “Democrats just want to use this to take down Trump!” “China did this to us!” “Trump is an idiot!” “You want to take away my liberties!”
- Bargaining: “If we can social distance and isolate, we can control this. We just have to give up things! We sacrifice an economy, but we’ll get life and survival.”
- Depression: “It’s not working. The death rate just keeps marching up. Our testing is not adequate. A vaccine is never coming. We’re looking at “Great Depression 2.0!” Even if we open up, people will be too afraid and the economy will just get worse!”
- Acceptance: As someone still in the bargaining and anger stages, I don’t know what this looks like….
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The biggest mistake I’ve ever seen made. How saddening is it that we’ve allowed ourselves to come to this? – A nation of cowards hiding under our desks hoping the government will keep mailing us money and snitching on our neighbors for having a barbecue. It’s embarrassing and pathetic.
And health care – including physicians, sadly – was the mechanism used to accomplish it.
I’m sorry. I sorta feel bad I haven’t had to suffer. I live in a county that’s only had 3 cases and the hospital is not inundated with ventilated patients. (Except the run-of-the-mill sick people.)
So much for being a “hick” out in the boondocks!
I’m sorry, I’m in Covid overload right now.
This madness should not have progressed beyond the anger stage.