Would you support a hard shutdown option for two to four weeks to crush the virus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Won’t work...when it’s over, numbers will just go up again.

And I’d never support this...we were told two weeks the first time and it turned into 3 months.

I agree with this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

You really like authoritarianism don’t you?

No, I don't. I dislike it. But, we are killing people. Fact is, stupid people need dictatorships in situations like this. Stupidity kills. We are stupid. Every country is ruled by force, democracy just calls it choosing to have rules and the police to enforce it. How are we to open schools, when people can't even wear masks? What we are seeing is that people think science is fake, virus is fake, and are killing people with their actions. Is that liberty to you?

huh? Have you not read the news about the COVID death rate?

If you REALLY cared about people dying, you would outlaw junk food, fast food restaurants and have mandatory exercise sessions every day. COVID is a small blip in terms of death. You are simply drinking the media koolaid and don't know any better.

Oh dear! Media koolaid. You are the reason people are dying. Stop voting for oranges, start voting for masks. Open your eyes to the reality of states lying, firing people, shutting people up. Blip? This is why we can't open schools, because people believe in conspiracy theories and that media is selling koolaid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in NJ, I did a "hard shutdown" for 3 months. If the US decides that I need to shutdown again, I'm going to riot.

I did my job. The other states can do what they want, but they shouldn't make rules for me just because it took them a bit to get how serious this is.

Is it really that serious? The news on the low death rate doesn't make it seem that way. Same with the news of how many more people have had it than expected and the fact that almost 40% of cases are asymptomatic.

Anecdotally, a lot of people I know in the south currently have or have recently had COVID. People are taking it even less seriously now because so many people they know have had it and didn't even get that sick. It is only reinforcing the notion that this was overblown by the media.

Hey, no big deal, if you don't want to lockdown I don't blame you, I don't want to either. But as we approach September I think we're going to see more nonsense from panicked parents who think they have the right to enforce a nationwide lockdown because they're sick of their kids. I'm not cooping myself up again because Diane and Mike want their kids back in school. What were they doing when I was inside for 3 months?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

You really like authoritarianism don’t you?

No, I don't. I dislike it. But, we are killing people. Fact is, stupid people need dictatorships in situations like this. Stupidity kills. We are stupid. Every country is ruled by force, democracy just calls it choosing to have rules and the police to enforce it. How are we to open schools, when people can't even wear masks? What we are seeing is that people think science is fake, virus is fake, and are killing people with their actions. Is that liberty to you?

huh? Have you not read the news about the COVID death rate?

If you REALLY cared about people dying, you would outlaw junk food, fast food restaurants and have mandatory exercise sessions every day. COVID is a small blip in terms of death. You are simply drinking the media koolaid and don't know any better.

Oh dear! Media koolaid. You are the reason people are dying. Stop voting for oranges, start voting for masks. Open your eyes to the reality of states lying, firing people, shutting people up. Blip? This is why we can't open schools, because people believe in conspiracy theories and that media is selling koolaid.

Wait. How am I contributing to people dying? I obeyed the SIP order, wear a mask everywhere I go and am still social distancing.

I simply have a brain. It's extremely obvious if you perform some critical thinking that this virus doesn't have the death rate they expected. There is absolutely NO reason to do a multi-week shutdown of the US. Just because I don't agree with another shutdown doesn't mean I am "voting for oranges."

I know it is hard for you to accept, but heart disease is WAY more of a risk to the American public than COVID. I realize you are reading news article and news article about COVID, but it's simply the news topic of the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

100% this. Limited hours for grocery stores is such a dumb idea. Also I guess nurses and doctors can't get food if they're working between 8-12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

Stick up ahead of time and then you won’t need to go- give everyone a week to prepare before the shutdown or something. We can get rid of the virus guys! Just takes some will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

Well, there will be lines outside. Nobody will be allowed in with capacity rules. And it will make you stop running to get hot sauce very half a minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who are saying it didn't work, you're seriously missing the point.

It did work.

It brought the virus from rampant community spread down to isolated, traceable and treatable cases. Sure there were secondary outbreaks here and there, but nothing on the scale of what we face here. I mean Hong Kong is freaking out about a third wave now of about 1,000 cases in the last two weeks, but that's a DAILY total for Maryland, which has a smaller population. New Zealand had a couple of cases, but they are tracing and isolating and getting it back down under control.

There is no way to get 60,000 cases a day "under control". We can crush the virus back to the level of controllable with some more radical action than what is being done now.

If we have the will to try...

What are you having trouble understanding? Maybe we can explain it to you if you give specifics.
Yes it brought it down like that WHILE WE WERE SHUT DOWN. Open back up, back up up up the numbers go. There is no "crushing the virus" by just staying inside for a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

Stick up ahead of time and then you won’t need to go- give everyone a week to prepare before the shutdown or something. We can get rid of the virus guys! Just takes some will.

Shouts the privileged north arlington sahm

[Anonymous]

This is what would have happened in march. I would do it but you know thered be multiple idiots somewhere not following bc amerika. And then there's the question of essential personnel like police, fire, hospital staff. Do they all lockdown at their place of work for 2 weeks?

[Anonymous]

I would much prefer a “hard” nationwide mask order, with substantial fines for those who refuse to wear them. Maybe combine with a curfew if necessary. No bars or indoor dining.

Hopefully this would get us close enough to resume some normalcy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

Well, there will be lines outside. Nobody will be allowed in with capacity rules. And it will make you stop running to get hot sauce very half a minute.

Lol. I go shopping every 7 days at most but nice try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that we need masks. To make people wear masks, a hard shut down, where grocery store is open from 8 am till noon, with nothing else open will make people take it seriously.
Put police of every corner too. Only then will morons start wearing masks. This pandemic so easy to crush, the fact that we refuse to do so due to our own stupidity is telling, Once people can't leave the house for 2 weeks, they will accept masks. But, of course that means having POTUS that will enforce masks in the whole country. So, why talk about things that are impossible?

Yeah let's cram everyone into the grocery store during a 4 hour period so we're all standing around on top of each other for prolonged periods. No thanks.

100% this. Limited hours for grocery stores is such a dumb idea. Also I guess nurses and doctors can't get food if they're working between 8-12.

This just shows what snowflakes you are. You are aware that many countries do not have grocery stores open on Sunday? That in Norway you might have grocery stores closed for 3 days during Christmas? Are we that stupid that we can't buy enough groceries ahead of time? Apparently YES!

[Anonymous]

Freedumb and stupidity. China handled this with ease while we will be swimming in this mess for years