I can’t believe folks like you somehow wanna take credit for the total shutdown of society in “saving lives”.
Pure, utter, BS.
We’ll very soon see that in states, counties, cities, countries that did little or nothing...have the same statistics as places that had draconian shut downs.
I really wonder what types of people that claim to be conservatives think that quarantining healthy people, without due cause have upstairs in their heads...
At not a single point in time did this societal shut down deserve merit from actual deaths.
What are you talking about? I was just making a point about the Coronavirus being more deadly than the common flu.
I used NYC because it is the largest sample we have for actual death rates. The death rate in NYC is without question already higher than the flu and will continue to rise.
I said nothing about the shutdown. Whether it saved lives or not or how many it saved is an open question. Nobody knows the answer to that. You don’t, I don’t and Dr Fauci doesn’t either.
But operationally you and I may not be far apart when it comes to the shutdown. I think it was way too broad. For small business, for example, where a few customers are in the store at one time and there are only 2 employees it is just stupid to define it as non-essential and order it closed while Walmart stays open.
There are many more examples that I’m sure you could cite. Hopefully the move back to normal life will happen faster than planned.
I hope so.
My only caution: The deaths will be higher than we are being told. But that is a price that has to be paid.