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The COVID-19 Lockdown Was a Terrible Blunder
Money and Markets ^ | 05/03/2020 | Bonner and Partners

Posted on 05/03/2020 8:45:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/03/2020 8:45:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

yes but thelibs and others saw it for the tremendous opportunity it provided them and used it to maximum advantage


2 posted on 05/03/2020 8:48:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It wasn’t a blunder. It was a planned attack on our economy.


3 posted on 05/03/2020 8:49:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It appears the Trump/Fauci/Brix strategy was a failure. We shattered the economy and the Coronavirus spread anyway. We got the worst of both worlds.


4 posted on 05/03/2020 8:50:05 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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“It wasn’t a blunder. It was a planned attack on our economy.”

Or it was an experiment / dry run for them to assess how difficult or easy it would be to control the peons for something bigger later on. Turns out it was very easy.


5 posted on 05/03/2020 8:53:56 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But, but, but... in two weeks all of our ER’s and hospitals were going to be overwhelmed, and we would all be as bad off as Northern Italy!!!


6 posted on 05/03/2020 8:56:36 PM PDT by norcal joe
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Subject:: It was not about your health!

“When the State tells you it’s safe to go to Home Depot to buy a sponge but dangerous to go and buy a flower, it’s not about your health.

When the State shuts down millions of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it’s not about your health.

When the State bans dentists because its unsafe, but deems an abortion visit is safe, it’s not about your health.

When the State prevents you from buying cucumber seeds because it’s dangerous, but allows personal lottery ticket sales, it’s not about your health.

When the State tells you it’s dangerous to go golf alone, fish alone or be in a motor boat alone, but the Governor can get his stage make-up done, and hair done for 5 TV appearances a week, it’s not about your health.

When the state puts you IN a jail cell for walking in a park with your child because it’s too dangerous but lets criminals OUT of jail cells for their health- It’s not about YOUR health!

When the state tells you it’s too dangerous to get treated by a doctor for chiropractic or physical therapy treatments yet deems a liquor store essential- It’s not about your health!

When the State lets you go to the grocery store or hardware store but is demanding mail-in voting, ITS NOT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.

WAKE UP PEOPLE — If you think this is all about your health you’re mistaken! Please open your eyes! Stop being lead like blind sheep.”


7 posted on 05/03/2020 8:57:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs/PRC, ESPN of America's, fake news media/CNN, Democrats, the real Deep Staters?)
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Wow! Great list Grampa! Nailed it.


8 posted on 05/03/2020 9:04:02 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' virus came from Wuhan lab. So, letÂ’s see it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Thanks.

Please use it here and with your email lists and ?????!


9 posted on 05/03/2020 9:24:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs/PRC, ESPN of America's, fake news media/CNN, Democrats, the real Deep Staters?)
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Yes Sir, will do!


10 posted on 05/03/2020 9:25:55 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' virus came from Wuhan lab. So, let's see it.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Depressing but true.


11 posted on 05/03/2020 9:30:54 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To all the Monday morning quarterbacks:
When I voted for Trump I did it with the full knowledge that he might disappoint me down the road. I remember that betrayer named Bush. And his son. And the Florida Bush who backed Common Core.
But back to Trump - he has really impressed me with his ability to navigate each disaster that is sent his way.
I think he got the handling of the Covid-19 situation right. So go ahead and whine and moan about how those two dopey doctors outmaneuvered him. But I think Trump is smarter than you. (And I cannot even spell Q.)


12 posted on 05/03/2020 9:46:53 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: SeekAndFind

YES!!!


13 posted on 05/03/2020 10:34:27 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: norcal joe

Yes, I can remember when we were “just a week behind Italy.”


14 posted on 05/03/2020 10:36:08 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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"The shame of the lockdown policy is that it imposes the costs of trying to save every last old, fat, diabetic codger on everybody, including lean, young college students."

When I read that, I instantly realized this was a piece entrenched in generational bigotry. We were once a nation that respected human life of all ages. We had a deep respect of the older generations for their great value to society. Evidentially, there is a mindset that believes the plague is a godsend that will weed out the older generation to make way for the younger population. They hope the pandemic spreads wide and hard so that it does its work thinning the herd. The herd immunity strategy gives them the incentive to make the virus spread. Human life is just another herd of animals. They will do their part with a fever, a cough and a little spit to make sure the fat old diabetic farts are eliminated. If anything, this should be a test of ones moral fitness, and God shall be the judge of that.

15 posted on 05/03/2020 10:36:25 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Trump was suspended over the abyss of a phony model showing 2 million deaths, and had to cave.

But the lockdown as a concept is fallacious with simple reasoning:

As By quarantining the healthy (first time in history?), you guarantee that there is no possibility of defining that point when it is safe for the healthy to emerge again. There is always a lingering chance the healthy will be infected, and what constitutes a “safe” level of risk has about 330 million opinions. Therefore the only answer is the bureaucratic “treat every person the same.” This, in turn, leads ultimately to paralysis, because the only way a bureaucrat can get into trouble is by saying “Yes.”


16 posted on 05/03/2020 10:47:44 PM PDT by Chaguito
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I think he got the handling of the Covid-19 situation right. So go ahead and whine and moan about how those two dopey doctors outmaneuvered him. But I think Trump is smarter than you. (And I cannot even spell Q.
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Darn Straight! POTUS did not “lockdown” anything. He issued some guidelines for individuals that would be helpful for any contagious disease—common sense in my opinion.

He also stopped the fights in from China-and how they screamed about that—and don’t tell me that what Pelosi, Cuomo, and Mayor of NY did was in any way better than POTUS actions.

Talk about a trio of trolls that are dumber than a box of rocks...

POTUS has been amazing - period.

He then let the governors demonstrate what totalitarian despots they are—or just how dumb they are or whatever you want to call the actions that many of the Governors and Mayors have decreed.


17 posted on 05/03/2020 11:04:19 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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As By quarantining the healthy (first time in history?), you guarantee that there is no possibility of defining that point when it is safe for the healthy to emerge again.

And there's another reason our strategy was a failure. Normally, during a pandemic (like the seasonal flu), the weaker strains of the virus dominate over the stronger ones, because the healthy are free to move about and spread the weaker asymptomatic forms of the virus, while the stronger forms incapacitate or even kill their hosts and become isolated. By quarantining everybody, you've give the stronger forms of the virus a fighting chance and it takes longer to achieve the so-called "herd immunity," which really isn't immunity, but the point at which the strong forms of the virus have been isolated to extinction.

18 posted on 05/03/2020 11:19:53 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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The only death our county has had was a young 20 year old female. But the deaths are really not the important measure—it is the hospital utilization that people should be tracking.

Even in a normal flu season, our area’s hospitals are often overwhelmed. People have sometimes had to wait in Emergency rooms in our rural areas for days before they can be transferred for surgery to a hospital due to lack of beds.

Our County’s Emergency Team, Health Department, and County Commissioners didn’t not “lock anything down” except what the governor decreed. They posted a request on face book asking for help to give them time to prepare.

All businesses that could operate with 6 ft. distancing, 10 people or the state guidelines for larger businesses were exempted from any closures in our county-no discussion of essential business(all businesses are essential to the people depending on them for their livelihood).

We have all done what we considered was common sense in our area-with little thought to what government said or did. The main impact was the switch to drive through, pick up, and delivery services for a lot of things.

This “shutdown” is on the governors, mayors, and local officials—NOT POTUS.

And it’s been a great big PSYOP by the media as a wedge issue to insert discord into the deplorables and stop the TRUMP TRAIN. Really sick of all the jabbering and arguing. It’s a bit early to know for sure what this virus is/will be—it could stay in the body and possibly pop up now and then or come back with a vengeance-like shingles for example.


19 posted on 05/03/2020 11:28:35 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes it was, and the continuing of it is making it worse!


20 posted on 05/03/2020 11:51:13 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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