Trying to Live in the New Normal in the USA

There is no going back and there is no normal

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With a one-size-fits-all broad stroke, the US has been shut down.

There are many opinions and explanations about this decision.

Since when did it become OK to destroy businesses and keep students out of the classrooms?

If the aged are the most vulnerable, why not give them guidelines of safety to follow and leave everyone else to make their own decisions?

People die every second of every day in the world. How many of these deaths in the U.S. were from other issues like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, or maybe from a surgery that had to be postponed?

The media reports the number of deaths, lumping it all together and inferring that the deaths were all caused from the virus. Is this true?

We should all check these reports and form our own opinions.

Checking on Google, I found that the CDC estimated that from April 12, 2009 thru April 10, 2010 there were 60.8 million H1N1 cases, also known as Swine Flu, with 274, 304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths.

I vaguely remember this, but I do believe that the U.S. was open for business and classrooms were active.