Instead of the WE ARE GOING TO DIE fearmongering, I would have like to see a rational discussion about reducing demand on our medical resources. 

I, for one, am not going to pointing fingers and playing the blame-game wrt how well prepared people were.  (Howedver, I will piss on those scum that hoarded essential supplies, may they rot in Hell... yes, very unchristian of me).

We have finite medical resources, we needed to avoid the high demand.  We could have avoided some of the demand if people weren't panicked.  We could have avoided some of the panicked with rational discussion of the severity of illness.  Some people willl be infected and show zero symptoms, some people will be infected and show mild symptoms, some people will be infected and show serious symptoms, some people will be infected and get so sick that they require hospitalization, and, sadly, some people will die.

Instead of rational discussion, we get WE ARE GOING TO DIE fearmongering.

The reality is that a large portion of our population is going to get infected... (kind of like the seasonal flu).  Social distancing will only delay the spread, not eliminate it.  The number of people that will die depends on our ability to handle the surge of serious cases (kind of like the seasonal flu).

Instead of rational discussion, we get WE ARE GOING TO DIE fearmongering.

Maybe people might want to go after the delinquent tax(non)payers before grabbing more money from people who actually obey the law.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/the-tax-gap

"The Internal Revenue Service periodically estimates the tax gap to gauge historical overall compliance of all types of taxpayers with their federal tax obligations. The estimates take into account federal taxes due as well as refundable and non-refundable tax credits."

"The average gross tax gap was estimated at $441 billion per year based on data from those three years. After late payments and enforcement efforts were factored in, the net tax gap was estimated at $381 billion."

Suggesting any support for President Trump?

Suggesting that the world's response to COVID-19 is an overreaction?

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/03/thinking-critically-about-coronavirus-news-and-information

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/perspectives/stimulus-checks-undocumented-taxpayers/index.html

Apparently the stimulus package provides for checks to people with a social security number and not for people with an ITIN.

"Since 1996, ITINs have been issued by the IRS to individuals ineligible for a Social Security Number -- mostly (though not exclusively) because they are immigrants who are undocumented. "


It didn't take long for the whining to begin.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/coronavirus-nobel-laureate-says-us-will-have-quicker-covid-19-recovery/AWJN4WAM6VC7NPTBZLDC3JWGUU/

"A Nobel laureate at Stanford University says he sees signs that the United States may get through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic well before many health experts have predicted."

"“What we need is to control the panic,” Levitt, who won a Noble Prize in chemistry in 2013, told the Times. “… We’re going to be fine,” he said."



btw - Worldometer is showing total US recovered cases exceeding total deaths for the first time  (I wonder if they only recently have been collecting that data)

Life is not risk-free.

Being afraid of everything is no way to live.