The Coronavirus

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(07-11-2020, 11:50 AM)TnT Wrote:

(07-09-2020, 03:37 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-09-2020, 02:19 PM)TnT Wrote: USA - 4.5% of the world's population.

USA - 25+% of the world's COVID-19 cases.

QED

Even worse: it's unlikely to change.  We're in for a bumpy ride.  It's best to stay out of GOP-run states if you value your health.  Either that, or have a UV light inserted... never mind.

Here in New Mexico we now have the TX and AZ flare-ups leaking into our state.  Our governor took an aggressive approach to controlling the virus and it was working.  Now we have southeast NM (near Lubbock, TX) and El Paso on the south going out of control, and of course that brings the population centers like Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces back into the frying pan.

All while lunatic Republicans like Steve Pearce, the erstwhile U.S. Rep, prattle on about our constitutional "liberties."  They babble about the issue AS IF the economy and the pandemic are two disparate things that have no overlap.  The biology and the economics of it are that we GET the bad economic effects AND we GET the bad pandemic.  Only careful nuanced hard work and cooperation can optimize and minimize the badness on both hands.

Wearing a mask is about as much a hindrance to my life as is keeping a driver's license. What could be easier?

Human rights are meaningless for the dead. 

I live in one of the most redneck parts of Michigan. I try to go one way, and I wear a mask. Just take a look at the people not wearing masks, and I see all the more reason to wear one. You never know what viruses someone is having. It's like using a condom during the lethal heyday of AIDS.

We have arguably the worst President for meeting a Crisis. I know what rhetoric I would use if I were President... and it would be the language of war and sacrifice. I would be wearing a mask in public. Maybe I would have a microphone under the mask or I would have one that is clear around my mouth so that people who rely upon lip-reading to figure out what others are saying could do so. I wouldn't be staging rallies; I would revive the fireside chat. 

Instead I get to make such a comparison as "that is one 9/11 attack", "that is two sinkings of the RMS Titanic", "that is seventy careers of serial killers Ted Bundy or John Gacy", or "that is twenty incidences of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building". 

I hate that virus like I hate Osama bin Laden.