dhodo
Well-Known Member
This is how I've been feeling. This is why it is so upsetting to me that our government is still fumbling around with testing with no real chance of large scale testing happening for a few weeks at least. If we had the data, we could not only accurately focus the quarantines, but we could also gauge just how much we should be freaking out.And having said all of that, a) I know I'm in a good starting position with everybody home and a good supply of food, and I don't mean to imply that my situation is at all any more dire than anybody else's. Just spewing up some anxiety. And b) I told my wife last night that as of this week I feel like I've sort of lost touch with reality. I don't know what an appropriate reaction is to anything anymore. Am I over-preparing? Under-preparing? Are my fears grounded or am I spinning out of control? It'd be great if I could just say I know that I'm overreacting, but I keep looking at people around me and thinking "YOU GUYS ARE NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY." Is it still cool to order our regular Friday night pizza? Probably? Maybe? I don't especially trust my own instincts right now and don't feel completely tethered to rational thinking at the moment, and that scares me the most.
Anyone who says it's no big deal is talking out of their ass with no data. Until we get that, it's hard to see how anyone can confidently assume we're going to be better off than Italy.
Hopefully we can start the large scale testing before hospitals start filling up, but it's hard for me to be optimistic about that at the moment.