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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thing is a disgrace.  All the models have been completely wrong.  To call them "science" is laughable.  They are nothing more than spitballs.  To blow up families' livelihoods over these guesses is shameful.  We need to get back to work.[/quote]

Disgrace!  You know whose favorite word that is![/quote]

I'm no Trumper.  I went door to door for Obama endlessly thanks.  Calling anyone a Trumper who has a different take on information is not helpful to our society right now.  It is disgraceful to destroy livelihoods based on numbers that are just totally random guesses (the "models").  If you owned a restaurant, your family would be losing everything right now.  I don't own a restaurant, but I'm a compassionate person capable of empathy, unlike you, I guess.[/quote]

You can't possibly not understand that the models and the blowing up families livelihoods are the REASON the curve looks the way it does now, right?  The models weren't wrong, they got us to do what we needed to do to arrive at the model we're in now, which is flatter, but still not flat enough.

We are close.

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Yes, I agree.  We should continue waiting two weeks until all that is left of our society is charred rubble.  I'm sure you are a government employee enjoying the downtime.  For others, this is a terrifying end to their families livlihoods.  [/quote]

“Don’t speculate what I am!” [Stamps foot.] “But I can speculate what YOU are!”

Hypocrite.

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Np. I'd like to see what your opinion would be if you were one of those whose livelihood has been affected. Dh and I have both had pay cuts and he's an essential worker who still has to risk his (and our family's) health every day. Assuming the pay cuts are the worst financial blow and we don't get sick, we can continue to pay our bills for maybe 6 months. There is no way we can do this much longer.
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It's not like the choice is between social distancing and a robust economy.  If we "open up" too early, the drastic increase in illness and deaths will have an even WORSE effect on the economy.  And consumers aren't going to go out to spend money at restaurants/bowling alleys if they don't have confidence in our public health systems -- that means a strong national testing/tracing infrastructure, hospitals with the capacity to treat all the patients as necessary, and data that shows a sustained decline in spread.  We don't have any of those yet.  Focus your energy on getting that in place, if you really want to speed things up.

So there *is* currently no option that allows us to restart the economy.  Anyone telling you different is lying.[/quote]

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