Posted on 03/20/2020 5:58:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Y2K (we're domed)
As Prohibition proved, Americans are a rule-breaking people.
Ah no, Americans break STUPID rules.
I agree.
The thing is all around us.
Pat, as always, makes excellent points about the American spirit and its indomitable will, but I think he is failing to take account of the epidemic’s timetable.
Prediction. In two weeks, when CV victims are dying in makeshift medical tents, not many people are going to be planning their trip to the beach.
If this hysteria triggers a Great Depression, many of will not have homes in which to isolate ourselves.
Both Hitler and Hirohito thought the American People incapable of fighting a prolonged war.
“As our Revolution proved, and thank God for it.”
We are nothing like our founding fathers. They would have went to war over the income tax.
“So how many dead would be enough for you? How many dead would there be without these containment efforts?”
The flu has already killed about 40,000 in this country this season alone. Why nothing from you about that?? This virus has only killed 10,000 world wide when the WHO estimates between 250,000 and 500,000 die worldwide from the flu.
You are sheeple: Easily gaslighted into believing this crap and will accept any and all draconian communist measures.
Clinton, Bush and Obama. And if I see another political tweet from Hillary I'll need to be restrained from my keyboard.
Wait until the Soros-Clinton-NWO cabal manages to shut down the internet. Then all hell will break loose. Thats the only thing that’s keeping this together now for the secular world.
Buchannan has a way of commenting on how things are without taking a stand or offering solutions. What do you really think, Pat? If you think we need to be more obedient sheep — going into war mode and relying on the politicians and who they choose as experts — you need to come out and say so.
Again, the flu is endemic. it can’t be contained, only mitigated.
The Wuhanic Plague was containable, but China blew it and now containment efforts will only slow it down for a while, hopefully buying us time for countermeasures.
How many would be dead without those containment efforts?
You guys that think soon we’ll be a full blown communist dictatorship after this is over are the real sheeple. These restrictions are temporary and only an idiot thinks they will last very long, even if the virus does its worst. Gaslighting each other and denying math and science. Foolish.
How many people do you think will now work from home permanently? How many people do you think will finally pull the trigger on homeschooling? How many people will now go for their job of choice rather than the one they were stuck in? The result of this is going to be to clear a lot of dead wood from the lane. Yeah, there is and will be turmoil, and too many dead, but you should embrace it and move the things that support Conservatism forward instead of whining about it.
Wuhanic Plague - I like that!
I’ve noticed the 15 days is always 15 days, every day. LOL. What was the first day again? I’ve been inside since Sat, only walking my dog. No shopping, no driving.
So I’m in the Bay Area with the “shelter in place” early order. My pool servicing guy already announced to me that he is “essential” because if algae were to grow in pools then there would be an even “greater health problem.: :)
Never mind that I have chlorine tablets I could throw in my pool myself. I told him OK. He is in the backyard only anyway.
Still, yes I see lots of open rebellion from small businesses like that. Why are dry cleaners and marijuana clubs “essential”? I’ve never been to either in my life.
“South Korea appears to have “flattened the curve.””
Yes, because they found out that the vast majority of the actual viruses they recorded were NOT the Novel Corona Virus.
Town Hall need to do their homework.
In the USA? This will be stopped. It will not be a long battle.
Thank you. Too scary for some, but it is what it is.
Turn OFF the TV.
Solved problem.
Meanwhile, the RATs are only for short-term gain...
Chuck Schumer: ‘This Administration Took Far Too Long to Wake Up to This Global Crisis’
“These restrictions are temporary”
No, they are permanent powers now. Before all this, no one in their right mind would allow the government to selectively close businesses due to the flu.
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