(03-18-2020 07:08 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (03-18-2020 07:16 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: (03-18-2020 06:18 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: I have a friend, like me a pragmatic libertarian, who has suggested, "Why don't we quarantine the people at risk and let others go about their business, just taking reasonable care?"
The question is how would we go about fully separating from those who are "at risk?" Like how many people who are in the low risk groups live with/are primary caregivers to at risk people? What's the plan for that? We gonna like round up all the old people and put them in designated old people containment units? Like I get the idea, but it would take massive levels of planning and coordination to actually fully quarantine the at risk populations. Not to mention with the incubation period being so long and you seemingly being contagious even before symptoms show this probably would have needed to be something we did ahead of time like a few weeks ago.
the overall point is, 'those that wanna play, roll the dice'....
it's pretty simple in scope...
the fear of people dying that will soon from another whatever-ism is beyond my ability to comprehend....
call me a cold-hearted bastage.....I don't care simply b/c it's going to happen regardless via whatever aqueduct....
#letTheGoonsChoose
Some people cant remove their heart from a problem to see the outcome clearly. No one wants old people to die, no one. Well old white men, maybe. Oprah, and a lot of those far left would love to see that.
I have tons of compassion but since early on I've been able to see problems for what they are. Then remove the emotion from it to find the best outcome.
If you are going to do what's best for everyone, you have to face that problem like someone with a heart of stone. Without that, it doesnt get fixed. Or if it does the outcome might be worse, long term, than the fix.
No politician wants to say what you said and what I've said. But if you took all the emotion out of it the simple answer would be....
the sick, the old and sick, that this virus is going to cause 99% of the deaths, maybe even as high as 99.5%. To address how as a country we make those people stay away from others for a few weeks. While the world went on and those that are going to catch this, do just that. Deal with it like the common cold that it will affect most people. The flu for all the others.
No need for anyone not in that risk group going to the hospital, unless they have trouble breathing or a very high fever.
By May this would be behind us and not 1/10 of the damage to clean up.
Maybe I'm heartless, dont think so because, things hurt me like those i'm around. But I'm also able to see things for what they are. Death is a part of life. Leave it up to the risk group if they want to remove themselves for a few weeks. Or if they see the risk and want to chance it.
I think we both have family that would be in that risk group and our self not far removed from it
