“Remember these numbers are under mitigation, which means if we did nothing, our numbers will be even higher and we would have had a peak which would have collapsed our health care system and our economy.”
They would not have collapsed our health care systems except may be in a the Democratic hell holes like NYC, Detroit. As it is we collapsed our economy anyway and the toll of doing so may well exceed the virus.
You make a false dichotomy. The choice is not about “do nothing” or “tyrannical shutdowns”. Well known pandemic/epidemic measures could be taken such as isolation and quarantine of the vulnerable and sick.
More of the “we did not know” bs. That is true of almost every scary boogeyman invented by the left. The “unknown” is infinitesimal.
The virus is still there it hasn’t left. It waits for everyone until we achieve mass immunity. The lives saved by slowing the spread is far outweighed by the repression of our liberties.
Our response was among the worst. A free people can be trusted to make their own decisions. Most of the lockdown decisions were arbitrary and capricious and have actually cost lives. The death toll has been amplified by idiotic descison making that was based on “what we do not know”.
So screw everyone else because you got yours?
Sorry, I am not in that mindset
I don’t want to see mass death anywhere, NYC, Detroit, SanFran, LA, Miami, Houston, etc this is nuts even thinking that would have been a viable option. Even a rural hospital could be “shut down” if it was designed for 200 patients get 4000 patients.
Glad you agree with me that the economy was screwed either way, the only way to preserve the economy was to prevent it from landing here in the first place. Some say it was already here in December or early January.
However I will give Trump credit, he did everything as right as he could. All the shutdowns were done by governors or mayors, not President Trump. I and others on here have no problem with states opening back up and lifting whatever bans in place, sooner the better in my opinion. However I will NOT say it was for nothing, I am not saying just because enough people didn’t die that this wasn’t necessary. Actually it proved the opposite in my opinion, this was absolutely necessary. Now lets start opening this country back up
President Trump and his task force did create a guide for slowing the spread and we all followed them and it worked.
This could have been a lot worse if we had the wrong leader in charge, thank God for President Trump.