RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
April 18, 2020 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2020 at 8:11 pm by Athene.)
(April 18, 2020 at 4:54 pm)SUNGULA Wrote:(April 18, 2020 at 4:41 pm)Athene Wrote: The effects of long-term isolation and people being unable to work and feed their families will lead to tremendous devastation as well.No
IMO, maintaining stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders for 12-18 months--or potentially even much, much longer--would be unreasonable considering that most people infected with COVID-19 will have mild symptoms and not become critically ill as a result of the virus. Additionally, everyone is not going to be lining up to take a new, barely-tested vaccine--mandate or not, regardless of what Bill Gates says.
At some point, much of the onus of prevention may have to fall on those who are at highest risk and/or those who provide care for them.
1. It doesn't matter how much it economically hurts .It's how this has to go
2. Vaccine or no this is how it has to go
3. And no the onus is on everyone till this ends
It does matter how much it hurts economically--especially to those living on the margins and who were already living paycheck to paycheck. The ability to earn an income in not simply a matter indulging in luxury and treats for millions of Americans; it's a matter of life and death.
There are more than enough Americans who will not stand idly by for 1-2 years being locked down like inmates, lose everything they've ever worked for, and/or risk being unable to feed their families until the virus "disappears"--Not when there are other conceivable ways to mitigate the mortality rate while waiting on a vaccine.
The virus is not ending anytime soon. There's also a possibility that a vaccine will never come to fruition, and the virus will become endemic and never ever go away.
(April 18, 2020 at 5:40 pm)SUNGULA Wrote:(April 18, 2020 at 5:35 pm)Athene Wrote: You can call slippery-slope fallacy if you like, but to my mind, this isn't about debate decorum. It's about drawing a fucking line in the sand.1. I call i so because it is .And worst still it's an arbitrary one
Truth of the matter is, governments DO use crises such as these to incrementally implement fuckshit they wouldn't dare under normal circumstances, because ordinarily people would have no problem recognizing it as tyranny.
So in such cases, yeah--I think it's a good idea for such overreach to be confronted before it gets out of hand.
2.Yes but that's not freaking happening .So put away your Alex Jones brand tinfoil hat .
3.Accept it's not overreach and your kind aren't confronting it .Half of you are just sulking .The other half are waving around guns .
What's "my kind", Tiz?
Do tell.