04-28-2020, 03:48 AM
(04-27-2020, 11:38 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-27-2020, 07:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has released updated projections of when we can expect U.S. case numbers of COVID-19 infections to peak and decline, based on different levels of social distancing measures.
Of course, nobody is suggesting relaxing social distancing. What's being relaxed in places is regulatory shutdowns.
The problem is that social distancing is just too tough when people shop, work out, get groomed, get a tattoo, go to a bar or restaurant, etc. It would be nice if we can open up, but it needs to be done carefully. Unfortunately our federal administration under drumpface the gangster has done next-to-nothing to recruit our industries to make the kinds of tests, tracking and protective equipment that we need in order to reopen safely, while other nations seem to have no problem doing this.
It reveals the exceptional inadequacy of the libertarian-economic and deregulated approach to meeting the nation's needs when they are severe, and the error of not getting relief to those who need it even in spite of an act of congress.
And this administration and its party also don't recognize that our earth and climate are also in a time of crisis from which it may never recover, unless we make some drastic changes soon.
As I see it, the act of congress which provided enormous funds to help people deal with the crisis, although mishandled by the president, shows the way into a new era of greater-collective responsibility that will restart progress in the 2020s and end the rule of reaganomics.