Everyone SHOULD be in a state of panic right now.

I believe in not freaking out about issues until we know what's going on. I'd say 99% of the time we should all chill out and wait for the facts to come in. <br><br>This is the 1% we shouldn't. <br><br>If you are reading this, you are not a kid and it's been about half a year of this so I'm sure we can all believe it now - COVID is a joke. It's time to admit it.<br><br>I said it a few months ago, and I think it's even more true now - COVID 19 is a lot like if you had a family member who died from a gun shot wound. The kid was killed by a gun, but the kid wasn't killed by the gun. The kid was killed because of a series of choices made by multiple people over multiple days. The kid was killed because we have no background checks, because there's no licensing, because there are gun shows, because we have no waiting period, because there's no psychological tests, because there's no drug tests. Because it's absurdly easy to acquire a gun in the US. <br><br>COVID 19 is a lot like if you had a family member who died from a gun shot wound. The kid was killed by COVID, but the kid wasn't killed by COVID. The kid was killed because of a series of choices made by multiple people over multiple days. The kid was killed because we have no testing, because we have no contact tracing, because we have no social distancing laws, because we have no mask laws, because we have no travel restrictions. Because it's absurdly easy to acquire COVID in the US. <br><br>So many kids and teachers and students and nurses and doctors and police are about to die in the US for absolutely no reason at all. <br><br>This is the 1% we should all be freaking out about. This is the 1% we SHOULD be in a state of panic about. <br><br>If we open schools, a lot of kids and teachers and students and staff are going to die. <br><br>We have so few mitigable variables for COVID in the US, but for whatever reason a lot of people don't care. We have so few ways to combat this virus in the US, but we just aren't using any them. <br><br>We only need to care about 3 variables to combat COVID 19 - density, mobility, proximity. We have proof of this now. <br><br>The 3 ways to combat COVID are density, mobility, and proximity. We have proven this. <br><br>- Density refers to how many people are physically in a small area. The "how many people in a Walmart" variable. <br>- Mobility "how fast are new people from new places entering Walmart" <br>- Proximity "how physically close together are the people in Walmart"<br><br>With density, mobility, and proximity we can mathematically generate a percentage that determines how possible it is for an average person to encounter an infected person in an area. That math is in place right now in many countries. Here, not so much. <br><br>If we open schools, we will open an environment that is all three - density, mobility, proximity - and a TON of people are going to die because of it. <br><br>No social distancing in schools, so proximity is an issue. <br><br>No way to control who is in a school, so density is an issue. <br><br>Kids, parents, teachers, staff all coming and going, so mobility is an issue. <br><br>So we have a density issue, a mobility issue, and a proximity issue. <br><br>Opening schools is a seriously bad idea in the US.<br><br>Every country that doesn't have all 3 variables in place is having a lot of people die in schools. <br><br>Because of a series of choices made by multiple people over multiple days. <br><br>So many kids and teachers and students and staff are about to die in the US for absolutely no reason at all. <br><br>We don't have density under control, we don't have mobility under control, we don't have proximity under control. <br><br>We should be in a state of panic right now. <br><br>PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE OF A SERIES OF CHOICES MADE BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE OVER MULTIPLE DAYS. <br><br>We should be freaking out.