perhaps a little early...

I have no class. 

Again, never leave the safety of your car or home to confront something.  Call 911 and have them send the police and/or animal control.  I used to go up to my friend's cabin in the middle of nowhere.  Coyotes and feral dogs everywhere.  When I walked my dog at night, I carried a Colt M4 (AR-15 LE6920) with the appropriate magazine.  When I'd shine the flashlight into the woods it seemed like a thousand eyes were peering back.  Never had a problem.  My point is, don't put yourself in unnecessary danger. 

In the last week we've eaten in at Longhorns, IHOP and Texas Roadhouse. My wife got a pedicure Tuesday and her hair cut yesterday.

Sounds like America while the rest of us are behind the Iron Curtain.  I've heard Radio Free Europe has started to broadcast again and the are rebuilding the Berlin Wall. 

At what point to we destroy the economy and essentially stop living normal lives out of FEAR from a virus? 

The one death in our county was an 80 something year old lady. The closest I know of anyone who has it is my husband’s boss has a cousin in Detroit who got it and went to a family gathering where he gave it to everyone else there, about 8 people, so it does appear to be highly contagious, but they all recovered. And another coworker of my husband’s has a niece who lives in another county who was a student in high school, her teacher got it and actually died, but as far as I know the students haven’t gotten sick and my husband’s coworker hasn’t even seen that niece recently.

It’s possible things could change, but so far, for us and for >90% of the land mass of the U.S. this is a big nothing burger.  Yet we are acting like an asteroid is about to hit our planet. Nothing less than that should justify the destruction we’re inflicting on ourselves.

The Media and Government have scared many people into thinking the Zombie Apocalypse is upon us simultaneous to an Alien Invasion, and the Andromeda Strain has been released with Zombie Hitler leading the way.  It is beyond stupid and ridiculous and shows us how bad a shape our society is right now.  Pathetic LEMMINGS.

The same study that shows Walmart is safe but the small local retail places are not.

Ironic isn't it?  This entire shutdown is a FARCE.

Well, an argument can be made and supported that lower taxes creates a better environment for business and individuals to have more to spend and invest, and use to GROW THE ECONOMY.  A growing, larger economy generates MORE overall Tax Revenue even at lower Tax Rates. 

The implications of this are terrifying. That we shut down the entire nation when the majority of cases were in only a handful of cities and when such a reaction would never have occurred to us ever in the whole history of mankind should tell us that something has gone very wrong in our society. Too much information spread too fast before it was completely understood led to mass fear and hysteria, the birth of the internet and mass online shopping enabled the shutdown, and a powerful government bureaucracy to “study” diseases with nothing to do but think up social engineering experiments to “control” a pandemic without even considering whether we should. Humans and pathogens coexist and always have; the great majority of germs are actually good for us, and when we confront the bad ones, we evolve defenses against them.

We have exchanged naturally dealing with a disease for authoritarian control over our every move without even any proof that it’s if any benefit and clear overwhelming evidence of destructive consequences, and yet there is every indication that this could become the norm. It’s unsustainable. How much damage before we wake up and realize what a colossal mistake this was?

Worst of all that went wrong in our society that this could happen is complacency: a couple of generations so far removed from real hardship and so mal-educated that they can’t grasp the concept of losing constitutional liberties, and so mislead by a biased media that they eagerly follow the pied Piper all the way into Hell, and won’t realize what they’ve done until the food stops arriving at their doorstep.

Spot ON!!!