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Old 05-13-2020, 12:27 PM
 
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If we locked down for health reasons, we should open up for health reasons.

What we are doing is like evacuating because of hurricane and returning because it is Tuesday.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:27 PM
 
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Things need to open up next month.

Enough of this lockdown.
Where do you live?
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:28 PM
 
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If we locked down for health reasons, we should open up for health reasons.

What we are doing is like evacuating because of hurricane and returning because it is Tuesday.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:29 PM
 
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Lockdowns can stop but individual consumers do NOT have to risk their health or lives to go to a restaurant or movie theater. Stopping a lockdown may not save many of these businesses anyway. Charles Darwin said survival depends on being able to adapt and change with one's environment. These businesses need to do just that - adapt and change, or die out.

In particular I am sick of restaurants telling, shaming and guilting the public to "save them" by coming to their restaurant. My life is worth soooooo much more than your restaurant business. I can cook at home!
I love my community. Some restaurants will have dining in, many have added or expanded patios and most have really great take-out optioins.

There are mainly independent owned restaurants, so their staff is like family.

If you feel guilt because a business markets a concept to you based one motion -- oh dear -- you have bigger problems.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:30 PM
 
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You can walk into any urgent care center in America today and get a test.

And the tests that have now been developed can give you results very quickly. Within about an hour.
Not true.

And not everywhere has the rapid response testing.

It is getting better but it is not everywhere.

I know some people -- Trump included think because he has access everyone must have...but it doesn't work that way.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:32 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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Why are colleges the announcing they won’t be reopening? this makes no sense. The 18-24 demo is the least likely demo to die from the virus(1 in a million die) they are much better off getting the virus to develop antibodies. These teachers want to get paid to not do anything. This is BS.
Many colleges are in the "orange man bad" school of "thought." They are afraid that if life returns to normal it will somehow help Trump.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:34 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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Where do you live?
In Maryland near DC.

But most of the country needs to open up in June or it's going to reach the tipping point.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:35 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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They still want you to convey that line?

Heck, even NY is opening this week.
If you call "opening" a few very rural counties. Down here in a suburb of New York only singles tennis is reopening. That's it.
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:48 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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Wuhan is going to test all 11million people in 10 days because of a recent spike in cases. If they can do that, why can't we test aggressively and contact trace?
If you believe that I have a bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan to sell you. And contact tracing? Means if your app comes close to another person's app and they test positive you are imprisoned for 14 days. Really?
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Old 05-13-2020, 12:54 PM
 
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Rush is absolutely correct. The communist democrats and the never Trump RInos will do everything in their power to save the swamp. And if the American people are collateral damage so be it!

It will be a war between good people like me versus evil power hungry liberal progressives. With the help of God hopefully good will triumph over evil!

There is a war, but it's not between "good" people like you and "evil" progressives. It's a war between the United States of America and Covid-19 virus. In a war it is important that we all work together towards the common goal.

There are some people (even some who consider themselves "good") who don't want to follow the directives of their elected leaders, because they feel they have been asked to sacrifice too much. They don't like being told to stay home, or avoid crowds or wear a mask. I understand.

But we didn't win WWII by refusing to sacrifice. We didn't win WWII by disregarding government directives. We didn't win WWII by everybody doing their own thing. Americans put up with rationing, curfews, blackouts etc. If it's too much to ask Americans to wear a silly little mask, there is no hope for us to win this war.
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