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(09-24-2020 01:43 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(09-24-2020 01:25 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(09-24-2020 01:08 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  At some point we have to move on. Now is the time to get to that, and this nearly unaffected population is a great place to start.

The "time to . . . start" would have better been during the summer months.

But teachers and other public-sector workers were too precious to subject themselves to the risks expected of everyone else. Professional know-it-alls were having way too much fun lecturing the rest of us on how we should all be ashamed of our substandard mask-wearing, social-distancing practices - - all the while ignoring the ongoing "mostly peaceful" protests. And Marxist apologists were quietly salivating over the destruction of our economy, with a scheming eye toward imposing centralized socialist policies upon a hobbled nation.

But I suppose those are small prices to pay for the theoretical glory of being able to claim that we've saved the lives of dozens.

We are at 200,000 lives lost for the record. Without measures in place, the safe estimates were several hundred thousands into a million or more.

Claiming they have saved dozens of lives is absurd.

I must run around with a different crowd (with masks on, obviously). I know of no one that has had their economic livelihood shattered. (Im sure they are out there somewhere) I know of some that have had their physical lives shattered due to Covid.

On the economy; https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-b...2020-09-24

It is good that the world remains rosy for you, Giles. As I am sure that it does for many others - - particularly those who never missed a paycheck. Yet I know that you are smart enough to realize that this does not mean that it is rosy everywhere.

Students at all levels have been set back immeasurably. Retail bankruptcies are at an all-time high. Landlords have been blocked from taking action action to evict tenants, despite months of missed rents. My own business remains in place, and my employees are all still with me, but only only at the cost of my retirement plan. Locality tax revenues are severely down, meaning either serious belt-tightening on the municipal level or (much more likely) serious tax increases.

I have no idea how many lives were saved by our absurd actions over the past 7 months, and my "dozens" comment was something of a cheap shot. But neither do you. And, at the end of the day, I am not the one pretending to have all the answers.