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Originally Posted by Rachel976
You people are exhausting. I’m not ignoring it. It has been bad. But we rallied, got up to steam on ventilators and hospital beds, and now, as the curve has flattened and our hospitals are able to handle it, we can begin opening up in phases.
Seems like some liberals are moving the goal posts. The goal was to flatten the curve so that our hospitals weren’t overtaken by a steep curve up, and we did that. Thus, time to open in accordance with the phase-in stages Dr. Fauci has developed.
Social distancing is not a liberal stance. Even Donald Trump is supporting. Our governor of Texas is now opening up the economy slowly. A poll taken April 12 showed 72% of Republicans supported social distancing even if it was harmful to the economy.The same poll showed 81% of Americans in favor.
WE just have an extraordinary percentage of right wing tinfoil hat wearers in our midst. Most of the right is rational and not well represented in this forum.
Please then explain to me how the left and right in America affect other countries doing the same thing? Does Italy, Spain etc follow the footsteps of America? Or maybe there are evil agendas in those countries too. I gues liberals flew across the seas to guide those countries.
The fact that car crashes are not contagious is irrelevant. (Nice attempt at deflection.)
It is relevant and it is not a deflection, it is a recognition of your False Analogy.
Your refusal to admit it is a False Analogy is a deflection.
Car crashes do not cause hospitals to become overwhelmed to the point they are forced to triage for lack of resources.
COVID-19 causes hospitals to become overwhelmed to the point that medical staff are forced to triage.
You're focused solely on deaths, and not on the fact that people have it.
If you let COVID-19 run rampant, then 22% of your employees are in hospital. The fact that they don't die is not relevant, but the fact that they are not a work is.
Another 25% of your employees have COVID-19 and while they're not dying or in hospital, they aren't at work.
Half of your remaining employees are now afraid to come to work, because they don't want it and they don't want to spread it to their families, so they're calling off.
The end result is your business is shut down.
You still haven't told us how long immunity to COVID-19 lasts.
Lest you forget, Spanish Flu swept through the US in two separate distinct phases. It's possible COVID-19 could do the same.
The 2nd wave of Spanish Flu (which did not originate from Spain) was a mutated version (deadlier) of the 1st wave. It is possible C-19 will also mutate (it already has), but the change of it mutating into something more dangerous are slim, and we simply cannot stay in perpetual lock-down just in case it would happen.
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