It's interesting that the doomsayers will start freaking out when you even imply that the restrictive lockdowns are the disproportionate to the effects of the virus. I know people both who have had the virus, and who have died from the virus, and yet I don't think the correct solution to the pandemic is to rob people of their livelihoods in exchange for some imagined safety from the virus. A vaccine isn't going to come down from on high and save us all before the unemployed lose their ability to take care of their families. Government isn't going to be able to dole out the checks fast enough.PartyOf5 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:36 amYou're right, EVERY single nurse in the world has nothing to do but make tik tok videos.TheReal_ND wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:23 amOverwhelmed with what? They are empty and the nurses are busy twerking
I now know people who have died from this. It's only a joke in some places because it hasn't hit them there yet.
Now go ahead and start claiming that I want the economy to die and everyone to be unemployed. Don't even bother to think about how we can start to open things up slowly and safely without doing a full-on opening of the flood gates and risk more New Yorks. I'm all for getting things up and running, but blind rhetoric is not helpful and only leads to the same entrenched bullshit we've had for the past how many years. For once we all have a common enemy and we still can't be civil with each other.
It seems like people who used to complain about government incompetence now expect them to act in a way that will make a sustained lockdown possible with only minor negative effects.
"Don't worry, we can go out of lockdown when a vaccine is developed. We can indefinitely stay in lockdown until the vaccine is developed because we can put a moratorium on debt, blah blah blah."
It's pie-in-the-sky optimism reframed. The best case scenario for our ability to continue functioning as a Union is to ease lockdown restrictions, and get back to work. The best case scenario for the United States as a whole is to do away with the idea that preserving the Union should even be a priority.
Also, civility in politics has been dead for over a century, sir.