I imagine they all just sort of average out to “turmeric and salt”.

You do, in fact, only live once.

Weeks have passed.

Wow, what would it even look like if everyone was getting sick at once?

So here’s the thing: What would it look like if self isolation was NOT working? Would, say, deaths be constantly rising?

Oh really? ‘Cause the current internet hotness is that China is lying about everything. 

Could possibly be that the market space of “video games of bouncing around and shooting people” is a tad saturated?

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.