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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, let’s say you magically were given the power to prevent all about  40,000 traffic related data lies a year simply by preventing the use of motorized transport (public and private). This will make people significantly less mobile and reduce economic output.

What do you do with your powers?[/quote]

I'm not interested in playing your "but you can ALSO die from THIS thing" games. I'm saying this whole attitude of "[b]heck, let's just YOLO our way through a fcking pandemic because WOO HOO[/b]" is deeply, deeply, disturbing. Especially coming from the folks famous for being pro-life, and being All Life Matters fanatics. Who now seem to be accepting - even welcoming - preventable deaths with what seems to be a big old sht eating grin.

As someone who loves life, and loves other people having the opportunity to live, I find it fcking disturbing. Chilling, in fact. Almost like you're ready to ship old people and the injured and disabled to the crematories before they have even succumbed to your blessed disease.[/quote]

That's a strawman position. I don't know anyone here who is arguing that we should not consider the risks or act in a responsible manner. We just don't think it is helpful to live on the constant edge of paranoia.

Some of us value our sanity even if you don't. [/quote]

Really? You don't know ANYONE?

How about this guy, who you elected president: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-trump-reopen-america.html

Orrrr how about this: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/older-americans-work-coronavirus-151240

Or this one: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/24/covid-19-texas-official-suggests-elderly-willing-die-economy/2905990001/

What about this? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/27/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-cuomo-new-york

It goes on and on and on and on and on. And I can't see how ANYONE feels they are going about a rational life while we have this nihilistic yahoo apparently wiping his butt and calling the smears official policy - we don't have adequate testing, we don't have adequate equipment, we don't have adequate hospital beds, we have almost zero plan or coordination, and we have this orange faced JOKER in the white house looking for all the world like an ACTUAL comic book villain who is telling people to go back to work, go back to school, go back to church.

The rational response is to hide out at home until you feel like the outside world is less hostile - and perhaps, maybe, someone who isn't a malicious criminal with the attention span of a gnat is helping guide the federal response to a PANDEMIC. A PANDEMIC. You can be in the stage of grief where you deny that this is a pandemic. I just saw a news story about a cruise ship with four dead elderly people and a couple hundred sick ones just floating around at sea because there's nowhere they can dock and get treatment for the people who are still alive.[/quote]
The Federalist has also been crazier than usual lately.

On Monday, Federalist writer Jonathan Ashbach published a column questioning whether social distancing measures implemented by U.S. officials to slow the spread of the coronavirus were worth their trouble. Ashbach engaged in a cost-benefit analysis of whether the United States “might be better off letting a few hundred thousand people die” from the coronavirus rather than endure business closures and event cancellations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200323165228/https:/thefederalist.com/2020/03/23/is-social-distancing-saving-lives-or-ruining-them/

Douglas Perednia, who Vice News identified as an unlicensed dermatologist and who The Federalist called “a physician in Portland, Oregon,” suggested that people “deliberately contract COVID-19 in a socially and medically responsible way so they become immune to the disease.” The suggestion that people voluntarily infect themselves with the coronavirus runs counter to the advice of medical professionals. Twitter locked The Federalist’s account after that.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/25/how-medical-chickenpox-parties-could-turn-the-tide-of-the-wuhan-virus/

They also published a column suggesting that gargling with salt water would be a proactive step towards killing the virus.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/27/how-grandmothers-gargling-remedy-could-help-abate-the-wuhan-virus/
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