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Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
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Originally Posted by
Darkoz
So you are arguing people living in abject poverty in third nation's are going to now be in... Hmm, more abject poverty?
They will survive because they are already in poverty. They may even find the one way to survive that would absolutely infuriate you.
They may immigrate to America for a better life.
That's probably what you really fear isn't?
You aren't concerned about workers making$3 and hour in Mexico. You are worried about them coming here and their ingenuity at survival.
Something Americans seem to be lacking lately
Another Darkoz strawman argument. You're as good as KJ with the strawmen. Don't misrepresent what others say. For years you could have been arguing for shutdowns to save 40K lives a year from common flu. For years you could have argued banning driving to save 40K lives a year. But you didn't. Now all of a sudden you want to "save lives." WTF?
I don't think we would be shut down if we were expecting 40,000 dead in a year from Covid-19.
We are currently at 90,000+ in 3 months.
And it wasn't thirty thousand a month evenly split. Clearly there has been an exponential growth in deaths
Where does it end? We don't know. We can do predictions and but we could also try to stop the contagion before we find out just how bad it is
Common flu? Yes, forty thousand dead a year is a tragedy. But because it's "common" we already know what we are dealing with. We take that gamble with the economy.
Car accidents? Same thing, except I am not too worried about contracting your car accident when I pass you in the road (assuming it's not me you are crashing into lol)
I have stated this from the beginning. This shutdown is to stop the spread, with eliminating the high death toll as the ancillary outcome.
Hell I probably will be traveling around taking my chances once we know for certain there will only be forty thousand dead a year.
We aren't there yet.