I work in an essential service. My wife is a nurse. We know exactly what's going on, and our opinion hasn't changed nor is it likely to change as the facts and stats have no reason to cause a change. Also I don't get offended easily because opinions vary.
This COVID hysteria has no basis for the reaction and hysteria it has caused - I blame social media where some are causing FUD and others are causing the young to spread it further.
Let's talk facts.
FACT: The yearly seasonal flu kills more people than COVID has by a large margin, yet they're going nuts over it with one official calling it the "killer virus of the century" - talk about exaggeration. Why didn't they do this for the 2017 flu season which was a bad one with slightly higher mortality rates than normal. Or H1N1 in 2009 which killed over 151,00 - why wasn't the country shut down then? Same reason, it's normal. COVID-19 is just another flu - it's not more deadly, it's not to be feared by the healthy. It's transmissible more easily than a typical flu, hence the reason it has spread so far so fast. But has it caused any worse conditions than the season flu? Nope...just the economy coming to a halt.
FACT: From the CDC website:
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CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza"
FACT: These US-only numbers are 35x higher than current stats of COVID-19
world wide at only 1,258,198 infections. That means it's a lot less of a transmission issue than the previous years' flu season, and it's not spreading as fast as the hysteria suggests which is a good thing.
FACT: The number of US infections as of today for COVID-19 is 328,662 which is 1/10th of last years seasonal flu for the US.
FACT: Reported US deaths as of today is 9,365 which is 1/4 of last years seasonal flu for the US.
If you treat COVID-19 like you do any other cold or flu with the same precautions, it'll eventually die off just like every seasonal flu does year after year. When people get the flu, do you go visit them or do you stay away? Same thing applies here, but too many are simply not treating it like a flu and are continuing to spread it to those who are vulnerable, like the elderly and those with weakened immune systems. Note that my wife and I typically don't catch colds or the flu because we take the logical precautions every flu season. Many don't take precautions and they catch something, that's normal as evidenced by the fact that we get a seasonal flu.
I predict this will go on for weeks to come - not because it's any worse than seasonal flu, but because people are not protecting themselves from this and continue to spread it. Until the spread slows or stops, we'll be stuck in this lockdown and watch the economy continue to crumble.
Those are the facts which you can check yourself online.
If you don't agree with the facts, that's your choice.
Opinions vary.
Now getting back on topic - as long as we can get our newly ordered boat without much hassle, we will continue with the purchase. No reason to change our plans.