The Coronavirus

[Classic-Xer]

(05-06-2020, 01:13 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Now, Classic X'er, do you recognize how insidious COVID-19 is? Organic damage is not to be treated flippantly.

This disease can bring about death in unexpected ways, and even if one recovers one may have crippling sequelae.  Such is in ways parallel to the influenza pandemic of a century ago; it shortened life in some who ended up dying unusually young of such consequences as kidney disease.

We have largely been discussing political and economic consequences.  You seem to recognize well the hazard of scrapping an economic paradigm to which you have gotten accustomed for personal safety from a dangerous disease.

Big Business is ahead of you. Business as usual can kill us.

I'm not saying it's not a threat or getting it would be fun. I'm saying it's not as big of a threat as you and others here are portraying it. Like I said, if your governor and other governors like her fuck up, you're going to pay dearly one way or another. I don't live in your state. I'm not reliant upon the generosity of your state, my state, any other blue states or any federal government programs associated with welfare. You do realize that they could all go down together along with most of Europe after this crisis. Hint: Big business doesn't employ as many people or have as much money as all of us combined. News flash, middle America could plant big business on its face anytime it wants these days. Do you remember the little crisis we had back in 2008?  The government stepped in before we decided to cut our losses and pull the plug and drain the swamp ourselves.