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To: ifinnegan

It will be known in history as The Year Of Living Stupid. Subtitled My Life Among The Idiots.


5 posted on 05/28/2020 10:25:58 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

The number of really dumb people who have created blogs so they can post their bad ideas seems to be limitless. Lockdowns have been the standard approach to epidemics for thousands of years. People with typhus are quarantined. Ships arriving in the US from Ireland during the potato famine were quarantined. Cholera and tuberclulosis outbreaks have resulted in quarantines.
“The practice is first recorded in the Old Testament where several verses mandate isolation for those with leprosy”
https://www.sciencealert.com/quarantines-have-been-used-to-try-keep-diseases-at-bay-for-thousands-of-years
And they seem to work. Sweden’s experiment is brave but seems to be tragically misguided.
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-death-rate-144650769.html


7 posted on 05/28/2020 10:53:52 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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