Posted on 03/20/2020 5:58:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
We should have been like Taiwan and not trusted the CHICOMs from the outset. But our sell-outs sold out long ago.
Our problem is not the enemy, but our traitors within.
“if, in diverse cities, minority communities come out for block parties in summer, are we going to have the police march them back into their homes?”
My guess is that it will be enforced against churches and any conservative gatherings.
Will Americans suffer in social isolation, inside their own homes for months, while a state-induced Great Depression washes over the land?
My guess is that many will rebel.
Do ya think,Pat? Whatta genius. /S
As our Revolution proved, and thank God for it.
Return of the dark ages.??
Give it 2 weeks and this paranoia will be a hard sell to a majority of ‘mericans. Our way of life overturned for 4 digit deaths in a country of 350 million will be a hard sell after a period of time as a real PANDEMIC.
Don’t be surprised when those numbers skyrocket.
What??
Our 15 days is almost over!
Money is a powerful powerful thing. They have money to throw around that almost all individuals simply cannot resist.
I had my suspicions about member of government as well as the MSM being bought off before, but I am now much more convinced that it’s true. There is absolutely no reason to apologize for China unless you are in their pocket. Even if all this started completely by accident (which I tend to believe is more likely), you are revealing yourself to act like you think they should be above heavy criticism for all this.
Exactly,after a while the sheeple will get tired and bored of the orchestrated panic.
In my circle of family and friends it’s the exact opposite. The oldest ones are pretty much ignoring anything they hear from the government. The explanation for this is simple: They’re wise enough to remember that they’ve been living through stupid media-fanned hysterics and public hoaxes for decades.
So how many dead would be enough for you? How many dead would there be without these containment efforts?
How many dead are there *really* in Wuhan? I bet Trump knows.
That is what people are not understanding. We are currently trying to arrest the spread, which would overwhelm the system if allowed. Short term pain for long term gain.
Don’t be surprised when those numbers skyrocket.
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They will.
I have only anecdotal evidence, but it appears that from the top all the way down to medical attendants and public safety staff, every effort is being made right now to keep positive tests/cases out of the public reporting, as well as (this part most people already know) in most places, they are not testing people unless they absolutely have to.
Yep.
They don’t seem to understand that at all, and they don’t want to understand it either.
If that crap steamrolls us, we’re done.
I’ve been in the record here in my prediction that large numbers of people will begin openly defying any restrictive orders after two weeks at most. For small businesses facing financial ruin, probably even less time than that.
I think part of this is a philosophical question —
Is it better to shut down society, trash the economy and dodge this bullet right now? What happens if comes back next year? Do we do this all over again next year?
Or is it better to live pretty normally, get some herd immunity, and accept the fact that some people die of disease. That’s been true throughout history. It’s only very recently that people have decided that it is unacceptable to experience disease like that.
Everyone has an opinion and most find their own opinion very “obvious” and the other opinion pretty repugnant.
Hell no. I’ve had enough already. Disclaimer, I’m only an observer, and not a very good one at that, since I stayed in the market and watched my 401k burn to a cinder.
That out of the way, I think this is over reaction in an epic scale. It’s often noted that the world seems to have collectively lost it’s mind. Now, a disease comes along, and we act like it’s the black plague times 1 million. An official in Italy said it’s the “end of a generation” after about 4000 deaths in a country of 60 million. Most of those deaths were very old individuals.
This is BS, and I am ashamed of what’s become of humanity. We are stupid, we are selfish, and most of all, we are easily led. Look, precautions are fine, but this nuking the economy and locking everyone down is beyond stupid.
Ok, I’m done ranting, for now. :)
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