Posted on 05/11/2020 7:50:44 AM PDT by Zenyatta
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker defended Sunday his cautious economic reopening plan, which leaves schools and many businesses shuttered until the novel coronavirus is all but defeated, saying the state will be unable to return to normal until were able to eradicate it.
The truth is coronavirus is still out there. It hasnt gone anywhere, Mr. Pritzker said on CNNs State of the Union. So we all are going to have to change the way we do things until were able to eradicate it.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.washingtontimes.com ...
DNC and media wink.
Trying out fascism on the failed state. It’ll work there because apparently that is what they voted for.
You get the government you vote for.
Gonna be some riots this summer.
“Only eradication I think has happened is to small pox.”
I could very well be wrong — but I think I remember reading a few months back that there are still a few isolated cases of smallpox that crop up occasionally. If what I read was accurate, wouldn’t that mean that it hasn’t been totally eradicated?
A very scary thought is that some asinine terrorist may find a way to smuggle a vial out of the lab (IIRC, it’s only stored in one lab in the U.S. and one lab in Russia). If that were to ever happen, God help us.
ep. We kill over 250 children every year transporting them to and from school, yet we continue to do that.
And there is a reason for that.
Eradication? Oh, of the virus? Not what I was thinkin'...
Yep, the fat bastard is going to (completely) wreck the state under the delusion that Democrats will win the WH and hold Congress and then will bail it out.
Tyranny combined with clueless stupidity.
Plenty of folks in blue states...that didn't vote Blue.
So, shut down businesses, throw people out of work, destroy the economy of the country, and then build a Socialist Paradise on the ruins of a once-great country?
That IS their intention.
Like we stayed in mass isolation until we eradicated smallpox, polio, tuberculosis, and the flu? What a retard.
Blue states have been providing lavish retirement benefits to their public sector unions. Many workers end up with two or more pensions, as they hold multiple government jobs over the years. And the pensions pay basically full salary plus top tier medical, etc. The pension obligations they have are insurmountable. It is inevitable that these states will default on those obligations, it is not possible for them to tax enough to pay them.
And like a gift from God came china virus. Now they can (1) blame their crumbling economy on Trump and (2) demand that the fedgov bail them out. But not one dime of any federal relief will ever make it it a citizen. It will go to the unions after the politicians skim off their cut, of course.
But Trump isn't agreeing to give them anything. What to do, what to do? I know, make it worse, much worse. Crater the economy by refusing to ever open until the fedgov is compelled to step in. That's the plan.
Illinois will be an interesting prison planet soon.
Let’s watch.
Someone on my Facebook (yes, I know) feed admitted pretty much exactly that. Something to the effect of: “They don’t want to reopen to save the economy, because it’s already destroyed. They just want to save capitalism. They are afraid that when we reallocate resources to ensure our survival, we’ll never want to go back.”
Perhaps I’m an optimist, but I don’t think that strategy will ever work here. The vast majority of Americans want to get back to their lives, not sit at home in their jammies and live on government cheese.
“...the lock-down will continue in whole or large part...”
...until morale improves.
Yet another dipshit governor badly in need of a baseball bat - the business end of one, that is.
Chicago is the hotspot. If he wants to contain the virus he needs to seal off Chicago — no one in or out including the at the airport — and let the rest of the state live free.
Forever, or until Orangemanbad is out of office.
Almost...
You get the government you voted for from the choices given to you by the party bosses.
You need the option of selecting None of the Above to really get the government you voted for.
Any candidate who received less than None of the Above would be out.
If no candidate beats None of the above, it would go into a separate election with new candidates.
Yes, it would be a deluge at first but could work out within one or two cycles.
How about HIV?
How about West Nile Virus?
How about Lyme Disease?
How about Ebola??
This is a power move from an idiot.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.