I have NEVER supported any kind of lockdowns or economic shutdowns. Sweden might well have chosen the best path, even with 3X the deaths (in the near term at least) compared to its neighbors.
But you flu-bros are so bound up in your invincible ignorance, that you choose to simply deny reality.
I live in Florida, I go where ever I want to go, by foot, bike or car. But I wear a mask in the grocery store and at the post office, which takes me about a total of an hour a week, total.
Hell, I just made this meme this morning:
And I made this meme a few weeks ago. Where I live, we can twist the mitigation dial all the way to MIN, and watch the economy needle soar, while just keeping an eye on the hospital needle.
But you flu-bros denying the actual spikes in deaths FROM ALL CAUSES all around the world during this pandemic just makes you look like ignorant yahoos.
And sure, if you take out New York's numbers we're doing great. That's why I totally support Gov. DeSantis opening up Florida.
But don't deny the reality of the spikes in deaths (mostly in urban areas) that have occurred.
It just makes you look stupid.
“But don’t deny the reality of the spikes in deaths (mostly in urban areas) that have occurred. It just makes you look stupid.”
I haven’t. I’ve frequently pointed out NYC has a unique problem (with a significant part probably rooted in poor sanitation) and that nursing homes are high risk and need serious attention paid to protect the elderly and frail.
My biggest objection is to the one size fits all approach. We’ve seen that in $1200 stimulus checks to everyone regardless of their job status. Masks for everyone even if a given area is seeing no problem.
I don’t know if my friend died from a plain heart attack or a coronavirus aided heart attack. No one will ever know. But a lot of places are NOT seeing lots of deaths and are not likely to, just because of how we live our lives daily regardless.
It isn’t “just the flu”. It also isn’t a death ray killing everyone it touches. It is genuinely worth putting serious attention and $$$$ into protecting the people in nursing homes...although I see no signs anyone in government is doing that. Too much of what is being done is being done to virtue-signal the media rather than protect the high-risk people.
THAT is what I object to! We should be funneling money and effort into protecting the high risk while the rest of the country gets out and makes the money that makes protecting the high risk possible!
BTW - I know three people with diseases that require them to take immune system suppressing drugs. THEY are also at high risk and people like that deserve our help, rather than spreading the help out like too thin butter to everyone.