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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeff look at South Korea and Germany

They aren't testing everyone

I disagree with you politically but you are a smart guy

Quit spreading fear/falsehoods[/quote]

They are testing way more than the US, and doing contact tracing, and started way earlier. The cat / virus is out of the bag in the US because of poor initial response from the Trump administration.

Had they responded properly in January, and not disbanded all the measures put in by multiple previous presidents from both parties, we could be at the stage Germany and South Korea are at right now. Now, in the US community spread is rampant and we have the choice of sacrificing the economy (temporarily) and giving enough aid to those who need it (instead of tax cuts for millionaires and 1200 total for everyone else who files taxes), or killing about 2-3% of the population (or more.)

We are left with a choice of 
(1) Open now and kill 600,000+ (based on 2% of 328 million people in the US in 2019). 
(2) Stay closed for a while longer and have than number be 100,000 or less

Just think. If you have 100 extended family members / friends / coworkers, and we open back up, at least 2 of those people will die. More if your family or coworkers are over 40 or have asthma, are overweight, have diabetes or an autoimmune condition. And you don't get to choose which 2+, it just depends on who the virus wants to take.[/quote]

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