Everyone get tested
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Mar 29, 2020 14:58:55 #
Certain people may say that the lower than expected death rate shows they were right in saying that this p******c was not a serious issue. Those who pushed for isolation and testing keeps the number down, not those who said "nothing to it."
Mar 29, 2020 15:03:17 #
Someone always has to turn a bad situation political. The v***s doesn't differentiate between democrats or republicans or any other political party.
Mar 29, 2020 15:04:20 #
That is just sick. Shows the mental condition of some Hoggers.
Mar 29, 2020 15:25:48 #
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Mar 30, 2020 17:18:59 #
Reminds me of the folks that filled their old Amazon boxes with dog poop and left them on their porch for the "package thieves" to steal.
Mar 31, 2020 01:22:19 #
revhen wrote:
Certain people may say that the lower than expected death rate shows they were right in saying that this p******c was not a serious issue. Those who pushed for isolation and testing keeps the number down, not those who said "nothing to it."
You do know that the the "slow the spread" initiative is designed to SLOW the spread? There is only a very remote hope that we reduce the infection totals overall. The hope is to extend the time frame and hopefully not overwhelm hospitals. We are most likely NOT keeping the numbers of infections 'down' but rather just slowing the rate at which we acquire those numbers. If the spread is slowed, we could have substantially fewer deaths. COULD.
To my analysis though, even assuming the best lessening of deaths, is that we cripple the greatest economy ever seen on the earth to save, maybe 20% of the deaths that would have occurred without these massively intrusive moves. so lets go with today's upper end numbers, 200 000 deaths. Working in reverse, the lives saved would be 50 000. That is a number that looks BAD, but it represents 0.016% of the population, the majority older and/or already battling illness, at the cost of maybe 30 000 000 jobs (25%) and 15% of our GDP. It's unsavory, but we have to analyze ALL costs.
WWII saw 417 000 die out of 212 million, or .19% of the US population at the time, and these were young healthy people. This number is over 10 times the percentage we are discussing now. Remember, too, these losses of young healthy people were voluntarily taken with far less threat to the continental US.
It has to be true that previous US choices to risk life in favor of economic and cultural outcomes was wrong in the past or that NOT risking lives in favor of economic and cultural outcomes now is wrong now. It's not a comfortable thought, but it is a valid one. I just feel we are 1) being trained to be controlled, and 2) ceding liberty in vast measure in a cause that has exceptionally little utility.
Mar 31, 2020 03:25:57 #
From tasteless joke to incomprehensible ramble...
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