The same people who say we have to shut down the country based on nothing but guesses and “models” ...
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So, the 18,255 people who have died in the USA from the virus had nothing to do with it?
The folks being talked about here said 2.5 million would die.
“So, the 18,255 people who have died in the USA from the virus had nothing to do with it?”
How many of those didn’t really die from the virus?
Your post is revisionist history combined with moving the goal posts.
First, the shut downs were supposedly to prevent overloading the medical system based on apocalyptic models built on extremely flawed and incomplete data.
Second, the left is now proposing keeping the lockdowns in order to “save lives”, which is an illogical extension of their original purpose. Every death is tragic, but killing the livelihoods of the country is an irrational response - except (debatably) to prevent breakdown of the medical system.
There is no clear evidence that the models reflect any form of reality. Individual responsibility and social distancing (as originally defined, not as used now to mean lockdown) will be used to protect the vulnerable.
Abrogating the bill of rights is not the way to provide safety. Ben Franklin was right, after all.