FarmerDan
5 year old buck +
I like this thread...and I don't. There's a whole theme to develop based on that sentence. One thing's for sure. If anybody want's honest insight into a range of thoughts on the subject this is the place. I've tried to keep an open mind and have been reading different sources as I try to decide my course of action. I'll share some random thoughts you'll like ... or not.
1. My two sons are 30 and 31. Personal situations aside, they have never faced a society-wide adversity; an inconvenience, maybe, but not adversity. Regardless if this qualifies or not, this must be what it feels like. I'll soon enough be 70. Looking back on my time, I see there were a couple of possibles. I didn't know it because I was too dumb or too young.
My dad, born in 1915, lived thru a pandemic or two, WWI, WWII and the Great Depression. He knew what it was like to face adversity.
You should learn from this because there will be other bad mojo moments.
2. I've learned that one person can infect from 1.5 to 3.5 other people. Like with all other population growth- think whitetail deer if it helps - growth isn't a straight line. It's geometric. It's not 1+ 1 = 2. If one infects 3, then the next day there are 9. The next day there are 81. Do that over a couple hundred days....
3. If your deer herd were to increase at that rate, well, do the math, whatever math you want to do. Soon, you have more deer than your habitat will support. What do you do? You're gleeful! Meat for the freezer. You start shooting and killing, but you can't keep up. You start to have so many deer piling up you can't butcher fast enough. You yell for help, but help gets increasing expensive because there aren't enough people to help you and they have to come from far away...but you pay. Your freezers get full. You buy more but it takes time. If there were only some way to slow it down - both the increasing deer numbers and the number you have to kill and butcher. If you can slow it down, then you might have a chance to do what you need to do to get things back in balance.
Perhaps a bad analogy. I thought I'd give it a try.
So far as businesses are concerned, its a no win situation. Do nothing and you customers get sick. Some die, and the whole attitude about how we live changes. If we setup walls and limits, we suffer now, but perhaps face a better future. The strong will survive and the weak won't.
If the strategy of isolation works, you'll look back and ask what was the big deal? You'll be no smarter than before and that's the great tragedy.
1. My two sons are 30 and 31. Personal situations aside, they have never faced a society-wide adversity; an inconvenience, maybe, but not adversity. Regardless if this qualifies or not, this must be what it feels like. I'll soon enough be 70. Looking back on my time, I see there were a couple of possibles. I didn't know it because I was too dumb or too young.
My dad, born in 1915, lived thru a pandemic or two, WWI, WWII and the Great Depression. He knew what it was like to face adversity.
You should learn from this because there will be other bad mojo moments.
2. I've learned that one person can infect from 1.5 to 3.5 other people. Like with all other population growth- think whitetail deer if it helps - growth isn't a straight line. It's geometric. It's not 1+ 1 = 2. If one infects 3, then the next day there are 9. The next day there are 81. Do that over a couple hundred days....
3. If your deer herd were to increase at that rate, well, do the math, whatever math you want to do. Soon, you have more deer than your habitat will support. What do you do? You're gleeful! Meat for the freezer. You start shooting and killing, but you can't keep up. You start to have so many deer piling up you can't butcher fast enough. You yell for help, but help gets increasing expensive because there aren't enough people to help you and they have to come from far away...but you pay. Your freezers get full. You buy more but it takes time. If there were only some way to slow it down - both the increasing deer numbers and the number you have to kill and butcher. If you can slow it down, then you might have a chance to do what you need to do to get things back in balance.
Perhaps a bad analogy. I thought I'd give it a try.
So far as businesses are concerned, its a no win situation. Do nothing and you customers get sick. Some die, and the whole attitude about how we live changes. If we setup walls and limits, we suffer now, but perhaps face a better future. The strong will survive and the weak won't.
If the strategy of isolation works, you'll look back and ask what was the big deal? You'll be no smarter than before and that's the great tragedy.
