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But you can turn it over to engineers. We're very, very practical.
Tim (Only half kidding)
https://pjmedia.com/trending/heres-how-much-downstate-new-york-is-skewing-the-united-states-coronavirus-numbers/
The death rate is going to end up not much more than regular flu if that, but the damage is done. The government has learned that it can bind and hobble us, while we submissively oblige, as our jobs are taken, our life savings decimated, and our supply chains disrupted, as we cower in fear over a disease with a 99.5% survival rate. Fucking unbelievable.
They will use this from now on.
There’s a lot about this whole thing that’s stupid and illogical.
If a majority of people and businesses do it, what are they going to do? They can’t jail everyone. Declare martial law and start shooting citizens?
Agree, traffic is now near normal, lots of people out and about. If they don't open the country by May 1, people are going to be very antsy. I really think that is a key date, most can be patient until end of month, but if this spills over into next month, all bets are off.
Bob raises a good point. Testing resources are spread thin, and the virus does radically different things in different people. Saddest thing is we can't tell who's immune. Teach those folks some basic medicine and have them take care of COVID patients. They can't get it anymore.
Lots of uncertainty, though what little we do know is scary. Stay safe guys, any of us could get kacked by this one.
I have personal experience with this. I was defamed in a newspaper by an elected city official because I had a lawsuit against the city. We tried to go after the city official and the paper, but couldn’t because of the public nature of my lawsuit, I was considered a “public figure”. Threading the needle in these suits is extremely difficult, hence why the media has such disregard.
Reminds me of something I saw several years ago. I was at a gas station to fill up, and while I was standing there a Mercedes sports car pulls up and out steps a woman, who was absolutely drop dead beautiful. Imagine a super model, no kidding.
She starts to put gas in the car and out from the passenger seat comes an overweight, jeans and Tshirt "Bubba" wearing a baseball hat with his long hair flipped up around the hat (as if the hat never comes off). Unshaven, the kinda guy you picture working the lube rack at the 10 minute oil change place. As I finished and putting my hose away, it became obvious Bubba was the boyfriend.
So yea, some people make poor choices, and surprising ones.
You don’t put society into the hands of an academic just like you don’t put it in the hands of an economist.
You put it into the hands of a manager, who can assimilate various and often conflicting information, analyze it, and make a decision, which is often a life or death decision.
In this case the president will have to make the decision of when, not whether, society opens up. It is a heavy decision because it will involve life and death.
If it was up to Ezekiel Emmanuel, we would stay in our homes for 12-18 months. That surely will help keep us virus free. But Zeke doesn’t address the starvation deaths that will happen because our food doesn’t get planted, our livestock dies off, and societal norms are eliminated, resulting in total anarchy.
But go ahead with your snark. Some people find it entertaining.
But, are they real?
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