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'My mother is not expendable': As Trump itches to get U.S. back to work, experts warn of deaths, economic calamity
NBC "News" ^ | March 24, 2020 | By Allan Smith and Shannon Pettypiece

Posted on 03/25/2020 4:28:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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21 posted on 03/25/2020 4:44:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Junk Silver

“liberty”

Each of the 50 states has the ultimate power to drag quarantine breakers off Chinese style.


22 posted on 03/25/2020 4:45:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Go back to work even if people die.,this attack on freedom must be confronted.


23 posted on 03/25/2020 4:47:56 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Ymani Cricket

In the last week my former neighbor had over ten people working renovating a house for his mom.


24 posted on 03/25/2020 4:48:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
Each of the 50 states has the ultimate power to drag quarantine breakers off Chinese style.

Fear Republic is nothing but an old folks home for the feeble, scared and stupid.

25 posted on 03/25/2020 4:49:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

EXPERTS WARN!!!!!! lets see the list


26 posted on 03/25/2020 4:49:51 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: grobdriver

Source? I don’t recall seeing anyone say that.


27 posted on 03/25/2020 4:50:03 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People in densely-populated Singapore and Hong Kong (we’re talking NYC-dense here), where white collar workers are squashed into tiny cubicles, are managing to go back to work without significant new infections. The secret is face masks. Given the toll imposed by infections, whether in terms of suffering or potential death, I’d say it makes sense to charge anyone not wearing a mask with aggravated assault. Minimum 6 months in prison and a felony record. After a few highly-publicized convictions, combined with the media’s klieg lights on the scofflaws, everyone will wear a mask.


28 posted on 03/25/2020 4:50:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: JudyinCanada

Traffic fatalities have never in the past all occurred during one week. If that were the case Henry Ford would not be a. Household name. You might recall the reason the US developed roads and cars was because train wrecks killed 100 people at once.


29 posted on 03/25/2020 4:51:52 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you pat yourself on the back for paying employees $12/hour, I’ll pat you on the back for living on $24,000/year if you show up at my place next year.


30 posted on 03/25/2020 4:52:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: a fool in paradise

I would be careful. One could make the case that “Pro Lifers” who want to put grandma on an ice flow because of their 401k weren’t very committed after all. I would never say such a thing myself.


31 posted on 03/25/2020 4:53:41 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One of DiFi’s former staffers is writing the same in the Sacramento Bee as an editorial. Looks like the Soros-DNC talking point of the day!


32 posted on 03/25/2020 4:56:29 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Alberta's Child

In a war soldiers are expendable.

We are in a war with the virus and the elderly are soldiers on the front lines.

Some casualties will be expected.

The question for politicians is “Do we advance while taking some casualties or do we retreat trying to save everybody?”

With the wide spread use of hydroxychloroquine the death rate should be dropping by this weekend.


33 posted on 03/25/2020 4:56:50 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: goldstategop

“Guaranteed Basic Income”

Is that the same Uncle Sam that has the Federal Reserve shaft bank depositors year after year?

I won’t even get $200 in interest income this year.


34 posted on 03/25/2020 4:57:08 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

“Each of the 50 states has the ultimate power to drag quarantine breakers off Chinese style.”

In that case shouldn’t we be distributing copies of the Constitution to serve as emergency replacements until the nation’s toilet paper shortage is alleviated?


35 posted on 03/25/2020 4:59:48 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“My mother is not expendable.” That’s so typical of Cuomo and his personal based arrogance. You can probably imagine that his mother lives somewhere where the transmission of this infection is certainly not that kind of a grave concern.

Reminds me of some remark he made to the NRA following some incident involving a deranged kid running amok with a firearm at a school (not the Parkland tragedy). This time, he invoked his own kids and their safety in that comment when we all here know that very well likely where he and other pompous and liberal wealthy New Yorkers send their kids to school that their safety from these uncontrolled deviants again is among their least likely concerns.


36 posted on 03/25/2020 5:01:31 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Easter is a bit too soon. I suggest gradually starting to get back to work the 1st or 2nd week of May.


37 posted on 03/25/2020 5:01:48 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shannon Pettypiece has helped write a petty piece, that’s for sure. 8>)


38 posted on 03/25/2020 5:02:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: VastRWCon

The same “experts” said as recently as 2 weeks ago, that the virus threat remains VERY LOW for human to human transmission. How wrong they were. Still waiting for a public apology for them getting it so wrong.


39 posted on 03/25/2020 5:03:38 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Zhang Fei

Face masks might be capable of being sterilized in say a 225 degree oven and reused day after day.

They might be held on by rubber bands.


40 posted on 03/25/2020 5:04:06 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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