Hey Lefties That Are Favor Of Lockdowns; Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus (unemployment rate, suspect)
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Everyone is pissed off, depressed and gaining weight while sitting around doing nothing.
Not good for you physical or mental health.
The effects of which are likely to last longer than the pandemic.
A lot of us are pissed off because a sizeable proportion of our population doesn’t get that you can open everything up, but things will not be normal while thing continues to rage on. We are mad because we have decided that old people are expendable and should just sit alone in their homes to protect themselves while the rest of us just continue on with our lives like they don’t matter.
I’m mad because my parents and their friends have worked their whole lives and want to enjoy their last years traveling, socializing with friends, spending time with grandkids, and they have to make a conscious choice to either put themselves in serious danger to do those things, or waste away alone at home while the rest of the country acts like nothing is wrong...while our president continues to hold super spreader events to actively transmit the virus, prolonging all of this, and contributing to its exponential growth.
But you know, we have to go to Olive Garden so we can have our sh**** chain restaurant food, and go to the bar so we can have our crappy, watered-down Miller Lites and dance to cheesy music.
Edit: Also, I apologize for making it sound like I’m yelling at you, poster I quoted, specifically. It wasn’t my intention, and the anger is not directed toward you. I agree with you that this is not healthy at all for people in the long term.
I live in an area where mask compliance is high. The health dept. does random checks and it was said to be around 99% the last time I heard which was very recently. Restaurants are open with 50% capacity. Bars are also open at 50% capacity but must close early, like 10pm or 11pm, can’t remember the latest. Some schools are open for in person and others are not.
In spite of that, cases are up and so are hospitalizations. We just got a finger wagging from our Governor telling us to do better. Currently only allowed to have up to ten people in your own home and only from two households. Masks are now being required outdoors in Denver.
What this seems to be telling me is that even if we follow all of the instructions, it simply doesn’t work. We cannot hide from a virus.
Ny wife had to wait until September for an MRI that was scheduled for April.
Lots of people had to put off getting other medical issues addressed because of Covid-19
As a just retired doc, I know it from all sides. My wife and I had Covid in March. She almost died. She had a stem cell transplant 2018 that the virus turned off. She is still recovering. But since she had Covid it was very difficult getting her treatments for quite some time. Both due to the changes in hospitals due to the Pandemic, and the fact that her specialty clinics didn't want her there.
A lot of us are pissed off because a sizeable proportion of our population doesn’t get that you can open everything up, but things will not be normal while thing continues to rage on. We are mad because we have decided that old people are expendable and should just sit alone in their homes to protect themselves while the rest of us just continue on with our lives like they don’t matter.
I’m mad because my parents and their friends have worked their whole lives and want to enjoy their last years traveling, socializing with friends, spending time with grandkids, and they have to make a conscious choice to either put themselves in serious danger to do those things, or waste away alone at home while the rest of the country acts like nothing is wrong...while our president continues to hold super spreader events to actively transmit the virus, prolonging all of this, and contributing to its exponential growth.
But you know, we have to go to Olive Garden so we can have our sh**** chain restaurant food, and go to the bar so we can have our crappy, watered-down Miller Lites and dance to cheesy music.
Edit: Also, I apologize for making it sound like I’m yelling at you, poster I quoted, specifically. It wasn’t my intention, and the anger is not directed toward you. I agree with you that this is not healthy at all for people in the long term.
Directing your anger at the President and his rallys, which are mostly held outside and where many people ARE wearing masks (no, not all of them).....
While completely ignoring the months of protests and riots, sanctioned by the Left and where some people were and some people weren't wearing masks is a bit disingenuous to say the least.
There's been no evidence that I've seen that any of his rallys were "super spreader events".
That's little more than a catch phrase from the panic stricken, fear mongering Left.
I think the impact of living in isolation & feeling claustrophobic during lockdowns has been grossly underestimated. Suicides due to staying indoors is a no-brainer & is a phenomenon that has proven itself pre-covid as well.
& it's not just the US, even India witnessed a huge exodus in which atleast a few thousand died directly/indirectly due to the lockdown.
This is not about lives nor caring. It is about control and conditioning of the populace to willingly obey and accept life affecting changes that are detrimental to them and society.
But do you care...”NO” we need to destroy the economy to get rid of evil orange man...and if it requires human collateral damage so be it...because in the end we really are looking out for your best interest...trust us..
A lot of us have been saying this for a long time, it’s good to see an actual study done. We have an entire generation of children that will spend decades dealing with the psychological damage done to them over a disease that is not more risky to them than the common cold. We have destroyed young lives when we should have been isolating at-risk people.
Of course, there are GOP governors who are now belatedly instituting lockdowns. But in VA with our democratic governor, we never had a hard lockdown. Some businesses were for a time where there is close, almost intimate contact, but for the most part, stores large and small could stay open with restrictions, home repairs didn't stop, dry cleaners were open as were garden centers. Dental offices were shut for about a month until the ADA could come up with protocols. On the other hand, our neighbor to the north, MD has a GOP governor and the restrictions in MD were much more severe than they were here and they still are.
In the absence of a federal policy on such things as even wearing a mask - he and members of his entourage ignore the mask mandate which the HHS Sec. appears on TV with a big sign behind him saying to wear a mask - states have had to come up with their solutions. The president said we were at war with this and then left it up to each state to defend itself.
It is difficult and the side effects are significant, but complaints about the effect of this virus and the mitigation efforts taken should be made to the White House which has denied the virus - its a hoax, it will go away with the summer, it will go away after the election - and now not only just ignores the pain and suffering of the American people but is intent on spreading it by hosting super spreader events at the White House.
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