Ready to take my chances - Opinion

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So tired of all the Covid-19 coverage from the major media outlets. It is crazy how they are all over the place with hospitals are still overflowing, the death rates are still going up, states are opening back up and things are getting worse. If you just do a little research on the internet it tells another story. Things are not getting worse. I don’t know for sure I am not a doctor or scientist and don’t have all the numbers in front of me to know. What I believe is that this lockdown has gone on long enough and we have to try and get back to some kind of normal life. I guess for me it is a risk I am willing to take. Try and be smart about it but we have to get back to life. Here is the thing that I look at. There is a risk of getting it and dying but we take risks everyday and we don’t close down the country for it. Here are a couple things that I have thought about. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there were 36,560 deaths by auto accidents in the U.S. in 2018. According to the CDC – over 3,000 people die each year from food poisoning. According to the Home Safety Council there are nearly 6,000 deaths per year from home injuries. Most of us drive every day, most of use eat every day, and now most of us are stuck in our houses every day. Point I am making is that everyday we take our chances with things that could kill us, yet we don’t hide in our house for months on end. We get out there and live and hope for the best. Maybe it is just me, but I am ready to get out and take my chances that I will not catch something. I will be careful and take precautions just like I do with anything else.