Now THERE is a deadly criticism of both the prequel and sequel trilogy: In the correct, original trilogy, Luke essentially fails but the day is saved by Ewoks and two droids (plus an assist from Smokey and the Bandit Han and Chewie). All these stupid angsty Space Wizards, and in the end the day is saved by the…

DAMMIT, *I* wanted to make this joke!

with the first chunk more or less turning Florida into a mess of swamp and dust

Yes. That’s the moral of Star Trek 3; that the needs of the few or the one DO sometimes outweigh the needs of the many.

No. None of this is working.

I’m 40.

You can do just about anything if it means staying alive.

I don’t see any slowing down anywhere for any reason.

Guesswork and computer models.

We’re all dying every day. Some of us prefer to live first.

The death rates are astronomically high NOW. Nothing about this isolation is working or helping. NO curve is flattening. 

So why not drop isolation now then, since it won’t matter?

I’d rather go out now and die than wait 2 years ever, maybe, perhaps do anything again.

Is your idea based on internet shit? ‘Cause that won’t do. People want to do REAL things.

Caitlin Rivers, PhD:

It’s not working. Deaths are not coming down. We were edging toward doubling every 4 days. Now it’s back toward every 2 days.

K. Well take it up with the people ALL OVER Kinja engaged in Competitive Pessimist Laddering. Someone will say, “Well two months” and someone wanting to be more badass says, “Nah, a yeah” and someone one-ups that to “Nah, 18 months” and so forth. Whoever’s right:

I want to go out. I want to talk to people. I want to hear live music. I want to drink beer at a bar.

The death toll will be at least an order of magnitude higher if people start going out.

Old people deserve to die from trumpAIDS. But we young people don’t deserve to die from guns. It’s different.