re: Should I feel bad about having my in-laws over for Good Friday

People don’t understand the purpose of stay at home. The sole reasoning (I know you know this) has been to protect hospital capacity. Nothing more. But the message put out has been “Stay Home Save Lives!!!” And the Karens are constantly referring to death numbers and old people being very much at risk. So there’s this idea that we are staying away from family in order to save their lives. It sounds good and it makes people feel good. In other words, it’s a powerful message that gets people to comply and believe they are doing this to save grandma. And maybe they are... but for just a short while. Without a vaccine or way to stop spread, whoever is going to get this virus will get this virus eventually. That person, whether they get it today or in 2 months, will be treated the same and will either have issues and die or will live. So what did that person sacrifice to simply die two months later? Being locked away at home without seeing family. And it’s even worse in the icu where they get minimal interactions. That ending is way more tragic than being with family and holding your loved ones without being manipulated by fear.

And don’t get me totally wrong. We are limiting our interactions too. People have the right to choose their own fate especially our elders.

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the 1 argument that can be made for waiting till May or June is that we might have a clearly defined treatment schedule by then

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It’s a fair argument and basically the purpose of my other thread. There’s a possibility of a better, more widespread treatment available. But older people don’t have much they can do outside of quarantining which is why I focused on the obese people in that thread who would have an option to be proactive and take some control over their susceptibility to being hospitalized.