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 was once a great state.
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- Insanity is not staying home and exposing yourself during a serious very contagious epidemic. Look at New York. Look at New York.
DallasSteve wrote:
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.
This is not about you or me. It is about slowing the spread so doctors do not have to decide who gets to be put on a ventilator and who gets to die. Yes, that happened in Italy.
People may choose to turn to alcohol or drugs and die. That is on them.
People can't choose to not get the virus. And the only way to slow the spread is to separate people.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?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.LanceRKeys wrote:
Yeah, I don’t get it. The whole purpose of me going to a state park is “social distancing”.
totally agree. i feel bad for the full-timers getting the boot. what about others who are just trying to get home? very, very shortsighted of the gov.- Yeah, I don’t get it. The whole purpose of me going to a state park is “social distancing”.
- 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?
