pearl clutchers should take heed
I have been using a new tagline for about a week, now.
Totally agree. Or instead, why not kill the economy, force people into bankruptcy and despair (a man jumped out of his window in NY today over the stress, and I doubt he’ll be the only one) for a hypothetical. And not even that disastrous a scenario, either. If we lost 100,000 people, which the overheated Fauci claimed at the start, we’d be better able to recover than from what we’re doing now. And nobody seriously thinks it would be anywhere near that.
Also, there’s already a treatment that has proved 100% effective in France and Japan and of which millions of doses are being made available here. And there will be a vaccine by the end of the summer (when the next flu season starts up on the fall).
Good article. But an important factor is voluntary vs involuntary/mandatory.
GA and TX suggest and recommend voluntary social distance.
NY, CA and WA mandate it.
My wife wanted to go to the bank on Friday. The branch manager made the choice to only let 2 customers in the bank at a time. There was a long line outside. Their choice was to stand very close to each other in line. My wife made the choice to stay in the car. Maybe the line would be shorter Saturday.
Knowing the line would be long Saturday I drove to a branch farther out in the boonies. There were a large number of cars in the parking lot People were walking in and out of the bank normally. It was obvious there were many customers inside. That branch manager had chosen to not have a line outside but to allow customers to choose to come in if they wanted.
My wife did not get out of the car. Maybe there will be less people Monday. Meanwhile I’m trying to convince my daughters to get my wife comfortable with online banking.
The point is it is all free choice.
6 months and a year from now we will look back and say:
There is an upside and a downside to everything.
Was the downside of freedom to choose so bad?
Was the downside of WA, CA and NY authoritarian behavior so bad?
The author is somewhat typical; don’t disrupt my jollies just for a silly disease.
Disgusting piece of crap! Same garbage as the “draft somebody else” crowd when we have a war to fight.
People are dying and will die - and a lot more if we don’t do our part. You don’t care? Great - go lick a door knob - but keep you imbecilities to yourself.
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Offered for a perspective:
In the United States … “CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.”
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Worldwide …. currently a total 14,376 people have died from COVID-19.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Key words: shelter in place, scaremongering, panic buying, coronavirus, Chinese virus, COVID-19, deep state pandemic
Thanks for posting that.
We live remotely and rural - we don’t have much daily interaction with others. Not much has changed for our ‘lifestyle.’ We haven’t had ANY cases in our County.
But Geeze Louise! From my perch, it looks like the whole country has gone mad!
This is the first time in my lifetime that measures like these have been taken! Why weren’t we doing this last year when 60K people died of the flu? It makes a hulluvalot more sense to isolate those that have a chance of being killed by this, than shutting down our economy, ruining small business owners and just generally panicking people when it’s not necessary. Of course, the Enemy Media is greatly to blame, as always. Jackals.
I pray that President Trump puts a quick end to this and makes some changes. Like this coming week.
I’m not even the least little bit inconvenienced, and I’ve had enough already!
Thanks for a thread to vent on. These decisions are 90% political. Hardly based on reality. This virus is being treated like an alien invasion from space. They figure if the aliens can’t see us (stay in the house) they cannot shoot us. Destroying our economy over insanity!!!!!!!!!!!
The next two weeks (months/years)are going to be a nightmare. There,,, let me exaggerate too just a small/tiny bit. Wait, I was stationed for 2 years in a far remote compound in northern Japan. About all we could do there was socialize to keep our sanity. Now were not allowed to.
For all intents and purposes there is no end in sight.
We’re only a week into this - and there’s not one article that’s been written it hasn’t been written 10 times already
Yes we do need to do this for a period of time. Case in point is all those kids down in Florida on Spring Break. Some are now confirmed corona virus positive. I assure you there are many multiple more that are positive and now carries of the disease and do not even now it. As they are young their risk is low. They can carry the infection to the public and their own family with those at high risk and then kill them with the disease. It is really that simple.
I have a good friend of many years that is my neighbor. We eat lunch together 2 or 3 times a week and drinks and good conversation. He is 15 years younger than I. We still meet for a drink and conversation but not food, food can be a vector. We no longer go into each others homes. I am given a sterile glass and the whiskey is sterile. The ice cubes as such. It is all outside at a discreet distance. As he is younger than I with a superior immune system he is actually protecting me. He is a very dear friend. I most enjoyed shaking hands with he and his wife and hugging both. This will not longer happen until this is over.
Attempted objectivity and perspective tend to be censored by myopic alarmists.