The Coronavirus

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(04-30-2020, 01:38 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Just do not get the disease. If you die of it, then economic consequences will not matter. Recoveries are slow, and I see a ratio of about 30 recoveries to deaths. A 3% chance of death as opposed to recovery? Drunk driving looks safer, and I consider that too much a risk and an unconscionable risk to take.  

So far we have about a 3-1 ratio of recoveries to deaths. People are not recovering quickly. Long hospital stays are themselves extremely costly, especially if they involve people on public assistance. I am on public assistance for medical treatments, so I consider it my responsibility to not contract this horrible disease.  Maybe people who have severe complications will be sent off to nursing homes to replace as patients those who died of the epidemic, thus keeping those places alive and profitable. People have been sick from COVID-19 for over a month. 

COVID-19 will have costs analogous to a nasty war, and it will bloat the budget deficit. Maybe some of us get the time in which to do something that makes our lives better after the Plague of 2020 than before. Maybe we will find new interests worth sharing after this monstrous plague is over. This is a good time for expanding cultural experiences or taking on-line courses. But there is a catch: one must survive.  So it is with all Crisis eras. 

COVID-19 is more a natural disaster than anything else, but the response of our President has been execrable.

For all I know, I may have already had the disease and miraculously survived without any treatment. What if the death rate turns out to be much less than a percent or equal or less than the rate associated with the common flu or pneumonia? So, how many seniors are going to die due to loneliness caused by being separated and isolated from friends and loved ones for an extended period of time ( a year or so) that appears to have no end in sight?

Personally, I think Hilary would have hesitated longer than Trump with imposing strict travel bans and cutting off trade with China myself. To be fare, I think Jeb Bush would have been more hesitant than Trump too. I think both of them would have stuck the cozy blue/cozy red agreements that made them all rich. Now, why aren't you able to see that as clearly as me or any other middle American voter these days. Yes, Trump continued his campaign for as long as the competition continued theirs and Trump ignored the severity for as long as Democrat's ignored it too and downplayed its significance like everyone else was doing at the time too. Yes, a partisan hack would ignore those facts as if those facts weren't true and even call someone a liar or a racist for pointing them out or stating them in public during a public trial dedicated to removing Donald Trump. How many years have I given you and other liberals here the opportunity to change my opinion of liberals and my opinion of what liberals stand for these days? How many years have you failed and how much more have you dug yourself in deeper and hurt yourself further at this point?