Have you ever worked in or visited Brazil? How do you find Urban/Suburban/Rural lifestyles different? My experience from working there is that there are many similarities.
I'll give you a little snapshot from my part of the world, not that it means much as we message board gurus are just having conversations. I live in Lake County Indiana, population about 500K. Basically it's a suburb of Chicago which is 20 to 45 minutes away depending on where one lives on the county. You could call it densely populated, very integrated through most of the county, heavy black and Hispanic north, more white as you go south until about lilly white in my neck of it. Today I went to visit a friend mid day and traffic was friggin bumper to bumper in all the usual spots. So much fot staying at home. Isn't anyone working, but they're not at home eithet which could lead one to believe the whole social distancing thing isn't playing as big of a role in curtailing the spread as we're being told. Who knows, that's conjecture but food for thought. I'd day I have well over 500 people I am aquainted with who I see regularly through work, play and socializing. All walks of life, all ages, all races, a very diverse crowd. This is so because of the many self help 12 step organizations I am affiliated with and have been for decades. Actually It's probably closer to a thousand people I am acquainted with on some level. So what's the point of all this? I know one, one person who has been infected with thr virus. One. A young women about 30 who is a nurse at one of the local hospitals near Chicago so no real surprise there. I know two other people who have people they know in other states. One has two business partners in NYC that died from it. The other has a daughter in Texas who had it and recovered with no hospitalization required. That is it. Just seems like I'd be seeing a hell of a lot more of these acquaintances telling stories of illnesses and death given what is being portrayed as near global extinction by our friends in the media. Just sayin is all, just sayin.
Visited, yes, several times. Worked, no. The country is greatly populated in urban life and no where near as developed suburban. The point is that it is an apples to oranges comparison. You can't just take Brazil and compare it to the United States for an accurate representation on how a virus would behave. Just like you can't take a country like Russia and compare it to the UK. Or France. Well, you can, but its not going to be accurate. And if it ends up being close, it'll be the old proverb about the two types of forecasters out there - the ones that are wrong, and the ones that are lucky. Still, was curious how many in your high school class died from Covid. Do you know the answer to that?
Really? So when mosquitoes start coming into your house, do you slowly and gradually close the doors and windows?
That is some stupid shit. They're thinking about doing something similar here in the province of Quebec, where I live. Sure, young kids appear to be more resilient to the effects of the virus, but what happens when those young kids come home and into contact with their parents and other close relatives?
I wouldn't close my windows at all for what would be the equivalent of one or two mosquitoes. Even if many we're suddenly coming In wouldn't burn down my house trying to get rid of them, and I certainly wouldn't demand all my neighbors burn down theirs because I had a mosquito problem, and I wouldn't order that all homes across the nation be burned downed or even have any concerns at all because of my mosquito issue.
Those two mosquitoes were very pregnant, and I have no doubt they appreciated your welcoming windows. Burning down houses? I think this analogy has gone astray.