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The Deadly Costs of Extended Shutdown Orders
American Greatness ^ | April 22, 2020 | Heather MacDonald

Posted on 04/23/2020 2:16:51 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

More than a dozen governors extended their economic shutdown orders recently into May and beyond. Those officials should have publicly addressed the following questions first:

How many coronavirus deaths do you expect to avert by the shut-down extension?

What will your state’s economy look like after another month of enforced stasis?

How many workers will have lost their jobs?

How many businesses will have closed for good?

How many of your state’s young residents, seeking employment for the first time, will be unable to find it?...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fascist; lockdown; shutdown
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I believe Rush discussed this essay today.
1 posted on 04/23/2020 2:16:51 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

He did. I had it on my list to read. Thanks for posting it.


2 posted on 04/23/2020 2:19:57 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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The Dem governors are keeping their states shut down only because they hate Trump. Trump said open and they are going to do the opposite no matter how many people they screw.


3 posted on 04/23/2020 2:24:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Fauci wants you to believe that you get covid-19 and you die. It's fear mongering at its worst.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
This video explains how the cure will likely kill more then the disease
Millions Are Being Murdered | The Killer Cure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-2C27YLCGE
4 posted on 04/23/2020 2:25:28 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: CheshireTheCat

Self-ping.


5 posted on 04/23/2020 2:26:42 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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After WW2 the Democrats wanted to keep rationing going, the GOP took over Congress and ended it-we had a boom! What produced the German miracle after WW2 wasn’t the Marshal Plan, it was the German’s removing wage and price controls over the weekend so the allies couldn’t stop them. Remove the obstacles that the government has in place, the initial crises is over. The USS Comfort has been sent home by NY! Half the deaths occurred in NY. people are going to continue to die from the virus that cannot be prevented, but the goal was that they could be treated, not that everyone could be cured.


6 posted on 04/23/2020 2:28:14 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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“The Dem governors are keeping their states shut down only because they hate Trump.”

It’s not just Dem governors. Here in Indiana, we have Republican governor, Holcomb, who is just a RINO. He doesn’t have the backbone to support our constitutional rights. I will be helping to remove this Chicken Little from office.


7 posted on 04/23/2020 2:35:16 PM PDT by caver
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The RINOs are keeping them closed because they are spineless cowards.


8 posted on 04/23/2020 2:44:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Fauci wants you to believe that you get covid-19 and you die. It's fear mongering at its worst.)
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To: caver

AOC says everyone should boycott work when things open up, because they don’t make enough hourly wage and have to work too many hours.


9 posted on 04/23/2020 2:48:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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Yea, I saw that yesterday. Talk about some convoluted logic.....


10 posted on 04/23/2020 2:53:30 PM PDT by caver
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For a purported economics major, AOC doesn’t seem to understand economics very well.


11 posted on 04/23/2020 5:37:02 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Deadly personal cost.

Furloughed, then illegally evicted

Now homeless with no chance to get new gainful employment.

Scary thought is I still have a $5 million life insurance policy good until the end of the month. At least my wife and kids will be provided for if something will happen. Been feeling awful lately with a painful dry cough. Maybe it’s from the thought of sleeping in my car, maybe it’s something else.


12 posted on 04/23/2020 5:54:04 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the parish country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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Go to an urgent care place doing testing


13 posted on 04/23/2020 6:00:04 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: Starcitizen

Danged, bro!


14 posted on 04/23/2020 6:02:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Fauci wants you to believe that you get covid-19 and you die. It's fear mongering at its worst.)
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To: goodnesswins

I don’t think you understand the post.


15 posted on 04/23/2020 6:04:44 PM PDT by eyedigress (I don't need Navy Commanders freaking out. Weak)
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The Dem governors are keeping their states shut down only because they hate Trump. Trump said open and they are going to do the opposite no matter how many people they screw.

That's right.

16 posted on 04/23/2020 6:05:25 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Starcitizen

This too will pass. Your wife and children need you. Your presence is priceless.


17 posted on 04/23/2020 6:07:07 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump)
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To: caver
It’s not just Dem governors. Here in Indiana, we have Republican governor, Holcomb, who is just a RINO. He doesn’t have the backbone to support our constitutional rights. I will be helping to remove this Chicken Little from office.

Same in Ohio. They have a creepy,little midget Power Hungry,POWER GRABBER. Loves the T.V. cameras and the limelight, and praise that he receives for going against President Trump.

18 posted on 04/23/2020 6:12:40 PM PDT by timestax
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It’s not just Dem governors. Here in Indiana, we have Republican governor, Holcomb, who is just a RINO. He doesn’t have the backbone to support our constitutional rights. I will be helping to remove this Chicken Little from office.

Same in Ohio. They have a creepy,little midget Power Hungry,POWER GRABBER. Loves the T.V. cameras and the limelight, and praise that he receives for going against President Trump.

19 posted on 04/23/2020 6:12:43 PM PDT by timestax
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And they sit in their offices or governor mansions, crossed arms, waiting until so many businesses have closed that the economy will never come back. Then, almost as one, they’ll come out screaming “Trump did it! Trump did it! We need someone else!”

Then after the election, when the scared, stupid sheep elect whoever the Dems put forward (it won’t be Biden), new Draconian laws will be passed with record speed. We will be a Socialist country, life will devolve into a dark, bleak existence, with the memory of freedom a distant, fading memory. The governors will be the new Commissars , running their little fiefdoms like the dictators they always wanted to be, deep down.

(Yeah, I’m feeling a bit morose.)


20 posted on 04/23/2020 6:15:45 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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