04-12-2020, 05:24 PM
(04-12-2020, 09:44 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-10-2020, 09:26 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN reports Lack of coronavirus testing may blunt Trump's planned economic revival
This agrees with my own belief that we will have to have good fast testing to restart the economy, and that those who want to save lives and those who want to restart the economy should be working together towards heavy isolation.
It's shameful to say, but many business types, especially those in the financial sector, are so detached from day-to-day life that they don't equate deaths with actual living people. It's just data, you know. Fortunately, actual living people don't have that problem, though economic pressure may overcome their fear of getting the illness. Does that create a huge backlash? It's hard to say among the Trump loyalists, but others may not have that limitation.
This said, at the least deaths mean that many loans do not get collected. Such is loss to a lender. I can't say whether Trump's "deplorable" voters would cheer if people not like them did the dying... or whether they see themselves at risk.
Quote:Let's see how the good people of Wisconsin react to the results of their clearly flawed election. If the vote strongly favors the GOP, as expected, then the degree to which the people are angry, rather than resigned, will tell us a lot. If it goes against the GOP, then assume this will be last attempt of its type.
The delayed count makes no sense. But much in current politics also makes no sense.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.