You’re a good man and I respect you a lot, but if this post makes sense to you, you must be smoking something.
A few of you are trying way too hard to make something significant into nothing.
And it doesn’t look good on you...
It's the other post that doesn't make sense to me. That post and the hundreds of others just like it that sensationalize this whole situation. We hear that celebrities like Kevin Durant or Tom Hanks are infected. or in this case two unnamed Lakers, as if just the fact that they play for the Lakers is supposed to make this such important news.
But here's what we don't hear. We don't hear about how Tom Hanks or Kevin Durant are living life on life's terms as they move towards recovery. Is Tom Hanks lying in some private-room hospital bed clutching at death while on a ventilator? Or is he kicking back playing X-Box and ordering Thai takeout food? It would be nice to hear some positive stories for a change instead of this incessant onslaught of negativity.
So yes, anyone testing negative for this virus is good news. And I would much rather hear that, even if it was some celebrities that got access to scarce test resources because of their celebrity status. For me, it is a choice. You may find my comment insensitive. But I will not kowtow to fear. We are going to beat this despite the bombardment of bad news that is being posted on this board by a select few. As Andy Dufresne once said, "Either get busy living, or get busy dying". I choose life.
So to hell with all this "oh no, two Lakers test positive", or "oh no, 42,000 people in Italy died in the last 10 minutes", or "oh no, someone who's sick with the virus took Advil". Just asking for something positive, which a sizeable number of posters here have been doing. So cut us a break.
Death rate in this country remains low. Over 80% of those infected have no symptoms or symptoms that are very minor. Drugs that have been around a long time are proving effective at fighting this. And infection transmissions are ceasing in the point of origin. Let's meditate on these things. Stop destroying Hope.