Posted on 04/29/2020 7:42:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk
“Two things,” said Hume. “First the collateral damage from it is extraordinary.”
Hume explained that the initial reasons for the full lockdown was to “protect our medical system from being overwhelmed.” Except, he said, “hospitals are failing across the country.”
“The damage to our medical, our health care system it seems to me is something we really have to take into account here,” said the Fox News correspondent. “It’s very serious.”
Hume cited the “economic damage” and “budgetary harm” as other examples: “We are saddling our country and future generations with debt on a scale that was already high and now it is far, far worse. Not to mention the toll on businesses with which won’t reopen and so on. The unemployment.
The consequences for children being locked up at home and not being able to go to school with their friends and be outside, the mental health issues that arise from that, the domestic domestic violence … That’s part of it, the damage from it.”
The Fox News correspondent’s second reason centered around the fact that coronavirus “overwhelmingly affects elderly people and those with serious underlying medical conditions.”
“Everyone else is much less vulnerable, down to children who seem almost totally invulnerable to catching this disease,” he said, contending that it “can be addressed” by having the vulnerable quarantined.
“This is not in my view all about simply we are so good at the mitigation efforts,” Hume said after observing how the virus has failed to spread to places outside major metropolitan areas like New York City. “I think there’s reason to believe that this disease turned out, outside of certain populations, not to be not early as severe and dangerous as we thought and certainly the death rates I think will end up reflecting that.”
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Not only do NJ people unfortunately have an insane guy like murphy, NJ is also a ‘police state’!
It takes massive protests to get them to stop their brutality (i.e. arrest you because of not ‘staying in place’)
Unfortunately there are a lot more stupid people who are for tyranny!
Massive protests is but a dream.
I would do my part not to give them any money. Hope the fed does not give them any money to squash us.....
Watch them go bankrupt and throw them out next election
Bingo! And this is what virtue signaling is all about
I am so brave! I am fighting the horrible racists !! Or let’s see .....the horrible global warming deniers !!! Or the anti- vaxxers! or the horrible whatever - Republican - tag name - I can give them - today that works
Anyone that’s ever been to the Jersey shore in the summer knows that all those millions of people who are packed in like sardines with your little umbrellas playing their little games on the beach and drinking beer , will not be denied!!!!!!
As a big fan of Wildwood , New Jersey whose parents live in Cape May , New Jersey I can tell you one damn thing - we’re going to the beach every single day - governor Murphy or not
And what Hume advocates just makes too much sense. What is sadder is how the public is still so easily manipulated by the media.
“What is sadder is how the public is still so easily manipulated by the media.”
Most of us have commented on American’s lack of critical thinking skills. Here it is on display. The media reports it, people believe it.
In this case it isn’t the media is lying, per se, but lies of omission. So we see a headline with an exclamation mark 51 000 dead! But no perspective at all. How many die of the flu? Or heart disease? Or noting that we hit the peak now and deaths are starting to decline. Or that 80% of these deaths are in nursing homes, so closing schools saved precisely no lives at all. But social distancing probably helped. So don’t visit your old aunt in the nursing home, but taking your kids to sit in mcdonalds is OK.
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