Posted on 05/06/2020 5:46:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Social distancing is about destroying populism. People have to be alone in their thoughts, that way they can be fearful and trusting in government.
As long as it prevents people from hugging me without permission, I’m fine with it.
I think it’s created more contempt for government. That’s a very good thing.
Amen.
Back in the Olden Days, Solitary Confinement was used as the ultimate punishment only for prisoners who stepped out of line. Then, all of sudden...
It was also back in the Olden Days when self-isolation and compulsive hand-washing were indicators of neuroses. Then, all of sudden...
There is nothing moral or constitutional or conservative about spreading contagion. Not a goddamned thing and this preaching of suicide from the right has to come to an utter halt right now or the lockdown totalitarian running dogs of the CHICOMS will win.
There is a reasonable middle. Social distancing isn't lockdown. It's just appropriate measures to reduce the rate of spread of contagion. There is a simple measure. Is Rt less than one, the criteria for whether the disease will die out or whether it will spread through the rest of the US like it did in Wuhan and NYC.
BS Social distancing is not lock-down. Whitmer and her kith and kin should be strung up on lampposts, but reasonable social distancing is appropriate.
The lock downs might be a mixed bag, but there have clearly been some benefits.
I agree.
There were still over 24,000 coronavirus cases yesterday, in America.
That is still quite a large number.
Sorry.
Over 24,000 (new) coronavirus cases.
New cases.
Just yesterday.
I actually shook hands yesterday with a guy I hadn’t seen in a couple years.
Wow, it felt good.
The number of new cases is somewhat irrelevant.
50,000 people probably chipped a tooth yesterday too. So what.
What’s relevant is not really being reported.
How many hospitalizations yesterday?
How many released?
How many are sick but not hospitalized?
Minor cases of any disease are not really important.
“It gave us time to develop some vaccine candidates.”
Never happen. So we had three months to develop WuFlu vaccines. We had 40 years to develop some HIV vaccine candidates, and how did that work out for us? The yearly flu vaccines are more than 50% ineffective.
“We have the cleanest air in decades.”
Because we had no manufacturing happening, with millions out of work.
I’m happy to know that you don’t have an arthritic right thumb.
“Until it’s safe” means, “Never.” - Dennis Prager
That needed to be repeated in large letters.
You are a clueless idiot. Of course it is relevant. It is the whole thing because the trend in the 3 day average of daily new cases tells us whether we have this under control - which we presently do - or whether we are headed for an exponential crash of the entire US social fabric.
The other measures are relevant in determining whether a disease is something to be worried about. For instance, we don't worry about the common cold. We actually do worry about flu, but not as much as we should and a new normal would require those who are sick with flu to stay home so they don't spread it around. Health and economic productivity would be improved.
Well that's clearly an extreme and idiotic view. Why would you believe that?
Two weeks of tenfold increases means we would have 2.4 M new cases. Another week and we have 24 M cases. Now obviously at some point here you have infected very susceptible person and it stops. But you have also killed every vulnerable person.
And no, right now were are nowhere close to "herd immunity" which requires infecting at least 60% of the US population and probably more like 80-90%.
And no, totalitarian lockdown plays into the hands of the CHICOMS. Doing nothing plays into the hands of the blue state totalitarians. There is a reasoned middle.
While "desperately" seems a tad too strong, I am feeling like this. As free Americans, this is not the way we were intended to live.
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