The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(05-09-2020, 03:46 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-09-2020, 10:33 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-09-2020, 01:10 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't know if I have COVID19 or not or if I may have already had it in early JANUARY. If I did, I'm not aware of anyone who gotten severely sick or died. I could say that you fear dying from COVID19 and only seem to care about yourself and you don't seem to care about how much sacrifice is imposed and expected by others to keep you and others from getting it. As far as my grandma? My grandma passed away a long time ago. If she was alive today, she wouldn't expect me to do what you and others expect others to do to keep you alive. YOU ARE RIGHT, WE HAVE DIFFERENT VALUES AND I'VE PROVEN TIME AFTER TIME THAT MY VALUES ARE STRONGER AND HAVE A MUCH BROADER APPEAL THAN YOUR VALUES. The fact is that  FDR doubled down on what Hoover had already started and then resided over a sluggish economy until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Here's a hint: dying is a pretty big sacrifice to expect of anyone.!

Like I said, pick your poison. We have people out there every day of the week working to keep you fed, keep that social security system that you are tapping viable, keeping the roof over your head in your possession and so forth. Why are you here preaching to me? Should you be preaching to me? I'm not expecting you to die, whether you live or die, is up to you and I'm sure that you will take every precaution, do whatever it takes and pay whatever expense there is to keep yourself protected. I'm pretty sure that you can afford and wouldn't mind hunkering down for a couple of years as COVID19 gradually disappears and becomes a non issue as the rest of us go about our business and our lives so to speak.

Do you want to live out the rest of your life in China? I'm sure we can help make that happen. It isn't all that much different than the good old Soviet Union. I wonder how many COVID19 people are buried in mass graves within China? I wonder how many COVID19 people were rounded up and executed like sick cattle?

There is vast difference between essential services and ones that aren't. Sorry, but nail salons and gyms are luxuries, not necessities … but it's the economy, isn't it?   

So, where's the trade-off between life and profit?  I come down hard on the side of life, because focusing on the profit side above human life is immoral, in my opinion.  You seem to take the other tack, so tell me how this works if the number of cases rises again and open/close decisions need to be made? 

Then, take a few minutes to read how this should have been done from the git-go.