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(07-05-2020 03:31 PM)Big4Blue Wrote:  

(07-05-2020 02:13 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(07-05-2020 01:41 PM)BigBlueMonarch Wrote:  Yes, but the overwhelming majority of those other things are not contagious and won't infect and possibly kill that young persons, parents, grandparents, and next door neighbor. It is all well and good that you feel that young people have a low mortality rate, but those young people are the drives of most of the infections at this point in time becasue of thier fluid and vast social circles.

This is most certainly an important distinction. And if the highly contagious nature of this gift from Red China were the only differential, then you would have the better of this argument, BBM.

But it plainly is not.

Thanks to the lockdown of our economy, the near-total suspension of all education, sports, culture, elective healthcare/mental care, deferred justice in the courts, severely limited summer job/internship opportunities, and so on, we have created an enormous amount of secondary damage to our nation. We are only just seeing the beginnings of it - - in the form of small-business closures, increased crime rates, increased suicides, decreased tax revenues for our communities and (at least I believe) the strife that is flaring up in so many of our larger cities.

And for what? Except for the first two weeks, when Americans were mostly compliant, these mission-creep shutdown attempts at closing down our entire nation were destined to fail. Our politicians got to pretend to be God, but without the moral judgment nor the righteous power to back it up. Dabigblue’s visit to a very crowded Norfolk beach should not have come as any kind of surprise to anyone.

I fully agree, the WuFlu is highly contagious. And I further agree that it is very dangerous, and potentially lethal, to a meaningful portion of our population. But we are long past the point for scoldings and futile gestures. Time to open back up and deal with the actual disease that has been unleashed upon us by the lying Chinese, and stop creating yet more problems for ourselves for no good purpose.

Given the climbing numbers of infection rates in areas that have opened/reopened too fast, as well as the poor behavior of so many citizens (many motivated by macho political statements that salute selfishness), it looks like doctors’ warnings and government actions were appropriate.

Care and caution are still more important than convenience.

BTW... Don’t put this all on the Chinese. Yes, they withheld information, But our ‘deep state’ intelligence professionals knew early and sounded the alarm. We talk a good game in this country about self responsibility...past time our society practiced some...

This is nonsense. Those places that "opened too fast" opened fully 2 months before the recent increase in positives. Further, places like California that did not open at all are seeing similar increases in cases to those places you claim "opened too fast", and there are places throughout the country that never closed, and never saw any significant number of cases.