The Coronavirus

[Classic-Xer]

(05-07-2020, 12:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-07-2020, 12:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-07-2020, 10:18 AM)David Horn Wrote: The best estimates -- those offered by real experts -- puts the Fall reemergence in the worse-than-original category.  Are you willing to die for the economy? If not, then assume it will be slammed shut yet again, with many additional avoidable deaths too boot.  If staying open is your best option, then the total number of dead may reach into the millions in the US alone -- and we will be alone in this.

And let's talk about cities and not-cities.  I doubt the residents of the cities will be willing cannon fodder in your economic war.  Since most of the economic activity in the country is driven from the cities, and the residents will not offer to die for you, then your guns are of little use.  Feel free to rally away, and wave those guns.  It may be your last act on earth, because the virus doesn't care.

Can you live without the American economy? Can you live without Social Security, Medicare, pension, your wife's job, food, electricity and everything else that's economically related? Shall we find out? Oh, that's right, you're not a blue city slicker anymore. You're an exurban these days. So, you have an unfair advantage over those who will be trapped in blue cities with incompetent leaders who don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves these days.

I can live with COVID19 and we've been doing it for a while now. The blue cities can remain in economic shut down for as long as their leaders want and their base feels it needs to at this point. The rest of America isn't going to care and will adjust life without them and their support like it's been doing for years and begin to even further separate itself from blue leadership and the blue cities and blues like yourself and others here. I mean, blue values seem to center on the blues themselves these days.

Hot spots in rural red areas are growing. Your area will not be immune if the virus spikes again.

My area isn't immune now and hasn't been immune the entire time. You see, the coastal Progressives/big city blues/big government people weren't prepared to stop the spread of a global pandemic that began way over in China. You better get ready for changes and you better get ready for the return/resurgence of the Tea Party and your cozy elites better be prepared to fully fund all their programs themselves that keep them in power or accept the consequences of not doing/ failing to do so these days too. I'm sure the rural areas aren't going to like you more after their ravaged by COVID19.