I don't like Trump

[Montegriffo]

Exactly. It is a success, if not an unqualified one, if you ask me.

Thanks to sacrificing the economy to save lives.

says the guy with zero skin in the game. Provided he can get a loan to keep his cell service alive, that is. Dafuq?????

We've all got a skin in the game. My industry will be one of the hardest hit and the last to re-open.
Chances are it could be next year before I work again but if that's what it takes to save thousands of lives then so be it.

[Montegriffo]

It is all about sticking the landing.

Cowering in fear indefinitely will not get the job done.

Who is talking about indefinitely?
Sounds like a strawman to me.
As long as it takes is a better way to look at it.

"As long is it takes" could be stated more succinctly as "indefinitely," if I am not mistaken.

Either way it is better than being in a dangerous hurry.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Egalitarians want the world to crash, and Capitalism specifically.

I don't know if that is true. I consider myself egalitarian, and I love capitalism almost as much as I love the bureaucratic state... which is quite a lot.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Who is talking about indefinitely?
Sounds like a strawman to me.
As long as it takes is a better way to look at it.

"As long is it takes" could be stated more succinctly as "indefinitely," if I am not mistaken.

Either way it is better than being in a dangerous hurry.

Is it, though? The long term fallout from being too slow could be many times worse than the absolute worse COVID predictions... but we don't need to re-litigate that disagreement.

[Montegriffo]

Egalitarians want the world to crash, and Capitalism specifically.

Now who's being sanctimonious?

[Montegriffo]

Egalitarians want the world to crash, and Capitalism specifically.

I don't know if that is true. I consider myself egalitarian, and I love capitalism almost as much as I love the bureaucratic state... which is quite a lot.

Of course it's not true. It's just Hash's way of avoiding the issue. He'll be calling me a TDS suffering Marxist next.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Egalitarians want the world to crash, and Capitalism specifically.

I don't know if that is true. I consider myself egalitarian, and I love capitalism almost as much as I love the bureaucratic state... which is quite a lot.

Of course it's not true. It's just Hash's way of avoiding the issue. He'll be calling me a TDS suffering Marxist next.

From what I hear, you are a TDS suffering Marxist. Devil! Don't talk to me!

[Martin Hash]

Egalitarians want the world to crash, and Capitalism specifically.

I don't know if that is true. I consider myself egalitarian, and I love capitalism almost as much as I love the bureaucratic state... which is quite a lot.

Of course it's not true. It's just Hash's way of avoiding the issue. He'll be calling me a TDS suffering Marxist next.

It could be TDS? You do hate Trump so much that you would quit breathing if he thought it a good idea, but I’ll wait until you mention him.

[pineapplemike]

It was fun times until nearly 50,000 Americans died and we became poised to far exceed any other nation in pandemic deaths. Then not so much.

nope, still fun times. especially when people were projecting millions of deaths only a few short weeks ago. RIP to the 50k victims of the trump virus

LOL

That number is still on the table, genius. You just need to end isolation measures for the entire country before you have a vaccine or achieved immunity the slow way (assuming we can even have immunity after recovering, which we still don't know for sure).

as far as predictions go, my money is on the 50k coming back to life as corona zombies. but that's just me

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Returning, briefly to the OP, I agree that TDS is an unhelpful term.