And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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jdc1 wrote:wnjj wrote:DallasSteve wrote:jfkmk wrote:
Well over 300,000 cases with almost 12,000 deaths in the US, and you think Texas is wrong for trying to protect people who are too stupid to take common sense precautions on their own?
Stupid are the people who jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon without thinking about the secondary effects of their plan. There is going to be huge unemployment from this and some people will turn to alcohol and other drugs and some will die. But you don't care about them. You will trade their lives for the 1% who might die from this virus. And you think you are compassionate.
It's not even close to 1%. Even the totally pessimistic, constantly updating models from IMHE are only "predicting" 0.025% (less than 3 hundredths of 1 percent). All of the doom and gloom predictions of death rate have done nothing but go down and down with "better data".
The data is showing that even NY has passed its peak and on the decline. Texas is WAY too late, as were most every single state issuing these orders. There is literally no point in the action Texas took now.
In the end this whole thing will be a big waste of livelihood and economic health.
Guess which "recovered" country will come out far ahead in all of this after buying up our crashed stock market?
I guess you don't quite understand this "decline". It means, instead of 10,000 daily getting infected DAILY....only 9,000 are. Instead of 100 dying DAILY, only 90 are dying. That's still not good. That's still not a good enough reason to let YOU do whatever it is that satisfies YOU alone. There is a reason why these rules are put in place. That reason is to make it safe for YOU.
YOU can limit your exposure all YOU want to. YOU don’t need government approval or anyone’s permission. Go right ahead. Just stop with the hysteria that we’re all going kill each other. Texas is nothing like NYC in geography, cultural behavior, or climate. Some of us don’t believe one cure fits all. And the cure is already worse than the disease. Some fail to comprehend that an economic depression will destroy more lives than this virus ever will.
