Some Governors Are Getting Serious About The Cost Of Coronavirus Lockdowns. Some Aren’t

Y’know, this virus is showing us what life is really like. Men become construction workers even though they know they may die - and many do - on the job. But they need the money to LIVE the lifestyle they want and are willing to take this risk to do so.

And now states are facing that same conundrum - which is really what we’ve done since the dawn of man: Do we open up and risk people dying, to allow people to LIVE and enjoy the lifestyle they want - even though it means a tiny part of the population may die - or do we live in fear, hunkered down, risking even MORE lives.

For me, the choice has been obvious since the day this lockdown started. But then, I hold to the founding fathers view of life rather than the European viewpoint. So I’m getting banned or silenced on web sites all over the interwebs because I’m scaring the children.

In Pennsylvania, our RAT governor is trying his hardest to keep everyone under house arrest. His new scheme is to “allow” opening in several phases only when new cases are less than 50 per 100,000 over a 2 week period. It’s on a regional basis. My county is at 54 - just a bit too much to get any kind of relief from the despots.

So here’s my plan to drive the cases down - don’t get tested! If you wake up with a sniffle or fever, what good does a test do other than to ramp up the numbers? Even if you test positive, they’ll tell you to stay at home until you’re better and come to the hospital if you get a lot worse. Testing when you don’t need to be admitted to a hospital is just so that RATs can keep their boots on your neck.

Spread the word - don’t get tested and watch the numbers drop.

First, Trump should explain to these morons that revenues come from taxpayers. If they are not worki;g they are not paying taxes. Yes, there are governors who are clueless. Second, Trump should tell the governors, no bailouts.

BTW, whoever dreamed up “contact tracing” is a moron living in fantasy land. I defy anyone to trace an individual who just stepped off a New York City subway.

Common sense isn’t common anymore.

This is the biggest cluster phuque by government we've ever seen.

Thinking they're going to stop every potential death from this virus at the expense of destroying our economy, people's jobs and their livelihoods, closing businesses, disrupting supply chains, etc. is absolutely insane.

They're not going to prevent people from dying by telling them to stay home. The economic engine of this country which drives the world economies, is sputtering to a stop to satisfy some politicians and bureaucrats egos that they know what they're doing. They don't.

People die all the time in this country and the world from far worse things than this virus, which the media and politicians have made to sound like the boogie man for all mankind. It is not.

In the first 4 months of 2020, we've had 57,000 deaths in this country from the virus. But the numbers of deaths from the regular flu, auto accidents, suicides, HIV/AIDS, alcohol, smoking, cancer and abortion to name a few, are much higher. Where's the outcry for containing these killers?

Open the economy back up before we sound the death knell for the country and people's lives. Take precautions in work places. Follow some of the same protocols that we were told to follow in quarantine.

People can't go months and months without a paycheck to pay their bills and buy necessities, like food. This lockdown strategy will bankrupt individuals and businesses, as well as those entities in the country that rely of people participating and buying things from them. The risks of this virus are already known. More people will recover than die from it and that is promising.

But what is a certainty is that people will die a slow death of economic starvation before most of them will ever die from this virus.

Newsom’s decision about reopening the country’s most populous state, he said, would be driven by data and “behavior”—and the behavior he saw over the weekend, with crowds of people gathering at Ventura and Orange County beaches, is just the sort of thing that will delay reopening. “We can’t see the images like we saw, particularly on Saturday in Newport Beach and elsewhere, in the state of California.”

Go ahead Newsom, push for division among the states residents by blaming the coastal cities for your fascism. When people are finally pushed b past the brink here, and they are so very close, your recall will be assured and Aunt Nan won't be able to gather enough illegal votes to save your ass.

‘Indiana has a Republican Governor with no backbone. We have 92 counties in the state. There should only be about 3 counties on lockdown. Instead the RINO shut down the whole state.”

Same in Missouri with our accidental ‘Rep’ Gov - it made sense to lock down St. Louis, where it started here, a month ago; it made NO sense to lock down the whole state! But Comrade Parsons did, and is really enjoying his power .. the Mayor of Springfield is drunk on it and wants ‘more stringent restrictions’ on opening May 4th, in spite of our FEW cases and no new deaths since April 9th.

Red State my foot. Red for galloping Communism.

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