<story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oramit</author><text>What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.&lt;p&gt;Heres the thing: even if you believe people are being irrationally afraid, telling people they are stupid and should just suck it up isn&amp;#x27;t going to get people to cooperate. Do you want to be smugly right, or do you want things to actually get better?
People are scared, that&amp;#x27;s just a fact, and they need to feel confident that action is being taken in their best interest. Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it&amp;#x27;s all okay is telling people you don&amp;#x27;t care about them - they notice, they&amp;#x27;re not dumb.&lt;p&gt;We all know that this is an exceptional event and that there will be missteps. People will forgive mistakes and setbacks and take on more risk if they are confident that there is a plan - but so far there isn&amp;#x27;t one. We&amp;#x27;re almost six months into this and the messaging is still chaos. The lack of a national strategy is what is causing this pandemic to worsen. The rot really does start at the top.&lt;p&gt;The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn&amp;#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>“What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.“&lt;p&gt;That’s what happens when political parties and now the president and his administration are spreading misinformation as long it helps their short term needs. Nobody believes anything anymore. I am already worried about the election. No matter the result, a significant part of the population will most likely not trust the results.  I don’t  think a country can survive such distrust without significant damage to its institutions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oramit</author><text>What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.&lt;p&gt;Heres the thing: even if you believe people are being irrationally afraid, telling people they are stupid and should just suck it up isn&amp;#x27;t going to get people to cooperate. Do you want to be smugly right, or do you want things to actually get better?
People are scared, that&amp;#x27;s just a fact, and they need to feel confident that action is being taken in their best interest. Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it&amp;#x27;s all okay is telling people you don&amp;#x27;t care about them - they notice, they&amp;#x27;re not dumb.&lt;p&gt;We all know that this is an exceptional event and that there will be missteps. People will forgive mistakes and setbacks and take on more risk if they are confident that there is a plan - but so far there isn&amp;#x27;t one. We&amp;#x27;re almost six months into this and the messaging is still chaos. The lack of a national strategy is what is causing this pandemic to worsen. The rot really does start at the top.&lt;p&gt;The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn&amp;#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcell</author><text>&amp;gt; we didn&amp;#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus&lt;p&gt;This statement implies that there&amp;#x27;s a way to completely eradicate the virus, eg. if everyone in the world stays locked in their homes for 6 weeks, then the virus will be eradicated. That&amp;#x27;s not realistic, the level of coordination required to make that happen does not exist.&lt;p&gt;So eradicating the virus was never on the table, no matter how much we lock down.</text></comment>