Let them gather

For the quoted drivel above to be true. The moron who wrote it would need to possess a time machine ( something which only Donald Trump Does) and have gone forward to the year 2003 which is about when the term "social distancing" was first coined.
You see it is PC type talk and whilst we understand it's meaning. Being PC terminology it has strong foundations in bullshit just like UnWiseSpastic who made the fictitious quote and meme.

They would have been wiser than they are, if they had left the original quoted part and added something about if we stop practicing social distancing we may risk a 2nd outbreak greater than the 1st similar to what happened with the Spanish Flu.

But anyway enough teaching today. And remember Boys and Girls, The left cant meme!

"The left cant meme!"

But it got YOUR attention.

And "cant" is spelled "can't". They teach that in 3rd grade.....

And there is zero proof that social distancing works. If there is a "2nd wave" it would likely be the direct result of social distancing. Once a majority of people have encountered seasonal viruses such as influenza and coronavirus, the annual flu and cold "epidemic" is over in a few weeks. By keeping everyone indoors and separated it flattens the curve, but also widens it. So many will inevitably encounter the virus later than usual. There's no getting around it.

Time will tell....

It's not a matter of time. The science on influenza and coronavirus is clear. Figures around the world coming in now show fatality rates have been below 0.2% all along.

We just moved up to 36,000 dead,..... and we're still in lockdown.

This is basic stuff kid. You are out of your league.

Coronavirus case and death counts in U.S. ridiculously low.

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center, as of April 13 at 7:02 a.m., reported 557,590 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the United States and 22,109 deaths due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.

The current population of the United States, according to WorldOMeters.info, is just over 330 million.

Do the math. That means 0.17 percent of America’s population has been infected by the coronavirus. That means 0.007 percent of America’s population has died from the coronavirus.

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Mind, right now we’re seeing a spike in cases because only now is testing becoming readily available in the U.S. due to a delay in the CDC developing its own assay. This availability is almost universally hailed as only good, but has at least two bad aspects.

First, we’re now picking up a lot more asymptomatic people who will be counted as “cases” just as much as people on death’s door. This will further contribute to hysteria. Second, many who test positive will suddenly develop “nocebo” symptoms; the opposite of placebo. As I observed long ago, nocebo symptoms come from the mind but can be very real. They definitely can mimic COVID-19 symptoms. It’s a good guess that hospitals are seeing their share of the “worried well,” people who were feeling pretty well before they tested positive and suddenly truly feel deathly ill. And they’re not the only ones suffering as a result. This adds to the burden on severely stressed hospital workers already overwhelmed with patients whose symptoms do result from COVID-19—or from the many other ailments and injuries that haven’t stopped afflicting people while our attention is focused on this particular virus.

On the positive side (no pun intended), the more you test, the lower the death rate becomes because the denominator grows faster than the numerator. Rather than the 3.4% rate the WHO put out, the current crude U.S. death rate is ABOUT 1.6% and will probably drop to less than half that as we’ve seen so far in South Korea at 0.6%. Then as testing continues, the rate will drop even further. For the Imperial College figure to be correct, U.S. deaths would have to be 0.66 percent and every American would need to be infected.

It's not over yet....

Experts Think The U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Will Hit 50,000 By The End Of April
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/experts-think-the-u-s-covid-19-death-toll-will-hit-50000-by-the-end-of-april/?yptr=yahoo

That's 12 days from now.

So what? Keep on fear-mongering. Every time you do is a golden opportunity for me to put the truth in perspective.

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But look, we could narrow in and focus on any health ailment, cover it ad nauseam in the media. We could do it, say, for the flu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that from Oct. 1, 2019, through April 4, 2020, there were between 39 million and 56 million of flu illnesses; between 18 million and 26 million medical visits due to flu; between 410,000 and 740,000 hospitalizations due to flu; and between 24,000 and 62,000 of deaths due to flu.

The CDC says it doesn’t know “the exact number of people who have been sick and affected by influenza because influenza is not a reportable disease in most areas of the U.S.” But if we go by coronavirus standards — so what? After all, the coronavirus models aren’t giving factual numbers. Neither, in some cases, are doctors and hospitals.

If 39 million Americans were sickened by the flu in the last few months, that’s nearly 12 percent of the population. If 18 million had to visit the doctor for the flu, that’s roughly 5.5 percent of the population. If 410,000 had to be hospitalized, that’s 0.12 percent. If 24,000 died from the flu during this time span, that’s 0.007 percent of all of America.

And that’s with a shot to prevent the flu. Now there’s a blaring story to report, in real, frightening death-count time, if ever there was one.

It's all about the denominator kid, and you obviously don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about.

EPIDEMICS ALWAYS FLATTEN AND DECLINE ON THEIR OWN

Fact is, the epidemic worldwide, far from “growing exponentially,” is slowing. And that was to be expected per what’s called “Farr’s Law,” which dictates that all epidemics tend to rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern or bell-shaped curve. AIDS, SARS, Ebola, Zika – all followed that pattern. So does seasonal flu each year. COVID-19 peaks have already been reported in China, South Korea, and Singapore.

Importantly, Farr’s Law has nothing to do with human interventions such as “social distancing” to “flatten the curve,” and indeed predates public health organizations. It occurs because communicable diseases nab the “low-hanging fruit” first (in this case the elderly with comorbid conditions), but then find subsequent fruit harder and harder to reach. Until more or less now, COVID-19 has been finding that fresh fruit in new countries, but it’s close to running out. So while many people assume that China contained its epidemic with draconian regulations, we actually have no evidence of that. Even the New York Times admitted South Korea recovered far more quickly with measures nowhere on the scale of China, although of course the Times still attributes that to human intervention, which assigning no role to Mother Nature.