Bad news for the CoronaBros

DoogieMcDoogerson said:

Look, I know 2 people who've died from COVID - literally from COVID. My wife's best friend is still on O2 at night after "not dying." It's some sad shit.

I have earned the right to weigh in on this.

That said, we have to manage this and it ain't being managed right by the governors. Endless lockdowns are not helping and are causing huge collateral effects. They aren't locking down to avoid the deaths. For many governors, there is another motive.

Trump has the right plan. It is a balancing act between the economy and life for the elderly and at risk folks.

Balancing act is the way to go.

HH? How have you been impacted by this? Know anyone who's died? Know anyone who has lost their job and hasn't received unemployment benefits? Know anyone who's had their wife or children beaten? Know anyone who's child has contemplated suicide? Have any friends who have lost their business?

HH is hated by everyone. No friends. Maybe IC could move into HH's basement and they could spoon with appropriate masks and full body condoms.

DoogieMcDoogerson said:

Look, I know 2 people who've died from COVID - literally from COVID. My wife's best friend is still on O2 at night after "not dying." It's some sad shit.

I have earned the right to weigh in on this.

That said, we have to manage this and it ain't being managed right by the governors. Endless lockdowns are not helping and are causing huge collateral effects. They aren't locking down to avoid the deaths. For many governors, there is another motive.

Trump has the right plan. It is a balancing act between the economy and life for the elderly and at risk folks.

Balancing act is the way to go.

HH? How have you been impacted by this? Know anyone who's died? Know anyone who has lost their job and hasn't received unemployment benefits? Know anyone who's had their wife or children beaten? Know anyone who's child has contemplated suicide? Have any friends who have lost their business?

I agree with most of this, but I would argue very few leaders had a plan, let alone a good one, and everyone has made mistakes. Most have been driven by pure political decisions. Democrats wanted to lock things down to make things seem bad and point all of the blame at the executive branch, even when a few of them (Cuomo and DeBlasio in particular) made some egregious mistakes that led to the deaths of thousands. Republicans wanted to open things fully back up as fast as possible to make things seem normal, while a slower, more measured approach would have been better. Trump made some major missteps early on, and his style will always be poorly suited to a crisis situation like this.

That said, I think people forget that this was a virus/crisis that, ex-China, nobody knew anything about 8 months ago. Everyone had to go through a learning curve as to the best response for virus, and there was no way for any leader to have responded without some missteps. At this rate, we're going to have completely eradicated this thing in like 12 months which is pretty amazing.

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

But I doubt HHhusky reads this.

https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/07/second-wave-not-even-close/

“Why did politicians ever lockdown society in the first place? Can we all agree that the stated purpose was to “flatten the curve” so our hospital system could handle the inevitable COVID-19 patients who needed care? At that point, at least, back in early March, people were behaving rationally. They accepted that you can’t eradicate a virus, so let’s postpone things enough to handle it.

The fact is, we have done that, and so much more.

The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave.

The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs, and while I have filled this post with graphs to prove everything I just said, this is really the only graph you need to see, it’s the CDC’s data, over time, of deaths from COVID-19 here in the U.S., and the trend line is unmistakable”

But 18 days...

Now this is funny!

why?

RoadTrip said:

DoogieMcDoogerson said:

Look, I know 2 people who've died from COVID - literally from COVID. My wife's best friend is still on O2 at night after "not dying." It's some sad shit.

I have earned the right to weigh in on this.

That said, we have to manage this and it ain't being managed right by the governors. Endless lockdowns are not helping and are causing huge collateral effects. They aren't locking down to avoid the deaths. For many governors, there is another motive.

Trump has the right plan. It is a balancing act between the economy and life for the elderly and at risk folks.

Balancing act is the way to go.

HH? How have you been impacted by this? Know anyone who's died? Know anyone who has lost their job and hasn't received unemployment benefits? Know anyone who's had their wife or children beaten? Know anyone who's child has contemplated suicide? Have any friends who have lost their business?

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