It is beyond all reasonable sensibility that somebody would call this a “hoax” at this point.
sadgator honestly didn’t want to get into the politics of it...for that you can go to the Lounge and Ghost will tell you how to think about it...
But the fact is...we weren’t ready for this (not pointing fingers)...and now we gotta deal with the price for that...
The people who ate beans during the Great Depression and the dudes who stormed Normandy would be weeping for us right now whining about the fact that we can’t sacrifice a season or two of college football and wear some freakin’ masks when we gather (protesters too!). It is shameful what a bunch of wussies we’re become...
you can shoot your enemies at Normandy.
you can go out and find work during the depression.
you can't shoot a virus we don't have a vaccine for and you can't go out and find work when they shut down a roaring economy in the name of saving life's.
It's never happened before.
point fingers? Point them at China. Do you have any idea how long it takes to make a vaccine? Especially against a virus like this? I'm close friends with a biologist and a chemist. There was no timeline to quickly do anything about this once China let it go unfettered.
conspiracy theories aside, this disease is only different than anything else because we DONT have a vaccine for it.
My God the numbers that normal things cause. Common influenza, car accidents, and, of all things, the one that is always high....suicide.
"you don't care about grandparents and small children."
Oh....you mean the same groups that are usually the most likely to die from the flue? Yeah....go figure. Weaker immune systems.
I assume, when you say "not pointing fingers" you mean that you don't want to say you're blaming Trump. Of course, Obama let 1000 people actually die before he declared action when....SARS? was an issue. And we never took action like this. In fact, we've never taken action like this ever. It's unprecedented. But Obama is heralded.
And which one of you said that "well the protesters area that testing for it?" ?
what asinine argument is that? I'm sure they're taking their time to get tests while their looting, pillaging, tearing down monuments, and crammed shoulder-to-shoulder to make a statement.
now on that point, We've increased the amount of tests available (been doing it the whole time) so yeah....imagine that....the more people you test, the more numbers will swing towards positive test results.
If 456 people test positive for COVID-19 and 3 of them die, you realize that's absurdly low, right?
And at least a week ago, 45% of all fatalities in the US were in nursing homes.
again, people that are of an age range that usually don't handle infection well are in close quarters and die.
there are always outliers to everything. But to try and pretend that this virus is so dangerous that "for the common good" we must shut down every aspect of normal life is bizarre to me.
place as much value on human life as you'd like, but when the money train in this country collapses, you'll see what happens to your social policies.
for any of you liberals that need a history reminder, all the socio-economic reforms that FDR pushes through in 1933-35 did basically nothing to fix (It was a stop-gap at best) the economy. The influx of Production needed to fund the Second World War brought us out of the Depression.
If you don't see the issue here, then I'm not sure what to tell you.
