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Times Have Changed

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    tiki god

    imagine being so anti-social that you don’t care about your neighbors at all.

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    MalcoveMagnesia

    Tiki, you know as good as anyone else that the virus primarily strikes people over 60, who are obese or have diabetes or other health issues, etc.

    People who are at high risk should be doing the shelter in place thing, and people who visit/help out with those vulnerable folks should be doing all the necessary precautions.

    People who are clearly at low risk of having massive complications from Covid-19 (e.g. anyone well under 60) shouldn’t be quarantined, unable to work, dependent on government handouts, etc. Let them socialize and go to bars/restaurants/barbers/etc. Let people have the freedom to go back to work.

    The original goal of all this quarantining was to flatten the curve and that was an overall success. Aside from some crowded hospitals in DeBlasio’s New York City, nowhere else got close to overwhelmed.

    What’s the new goal? I suspect it’s unfortunately political on both sides: either fully reopen the economy (apparently to help that evil bad horrible Orange Hitler™) or keep things locked down and trash the economy further (at least through election day).

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    mgoas

    Bullshit

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    tiki god

    You’ve missed two steps in there:

    People that are high risk should be doing the shelter in place “thing”.
    People that come in contact with high risk patients should also shelter in place.
    People that come in contact with service providers to high risk patients should shelter in place.

    That pretty much covers everyone in the country, because after all we’re all only like two steps away from Kevin Bacon, I can only imagine how close we are to people that are either high risk or provide services to the high risk population.

    We’re not even 1/4 of the way through “the cure”, that’ll end sometime in November from the last I saw. You say NYC was the only place that was overwhelmed, but I’m here to tell you that every major population center in the country has had issues. There’s nursing homes out west that have had 50+ deaths from the disease, per facility. Here in florida entire counties are still completely closed down because they couldn’t figure it out at the start of this shit show, and now our shit show governor is reopening everything like the shit show governor he is.

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    storminator

    These two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other… unless you’re a delusional right wing dumb ass.

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    Jac

    Unfortunately there is no shortage of delusional right wing dumb asses and no danger of them going extinct. DJT made it OK to be cruel loudmouth moron again.

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    Bolthorn

    I’ve seen this image before and trying to compare WWII with a pandemic in this fashion is fucking laughable. I mean, except for the part where America ignored both threats for longer than we probably should have. Actually, maybe it is a good comparison then. We waited far too long to do what we should have done in the first place. Now we have to play catch up because doing what was right wasn’t what was popular.

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    Jac

    Of course the Virus has killed more people than Vietnam, both Iraq wars, and the Afghanistan war, plus everyone that died on 9/11 and all the mass shootings in the last 40 years, in the space of 4 months… so there’s that.

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    Saborlas

    We’re losing more than 9/11 every day.

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    Saborlas

    Alaska is reporting a 78% recovery rate, fool. Look, the Epic Games Store just released Civ 6 for free if you claim it in the next week. Your bored ass now has something to do besides spreading dangerously false info.

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