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| NYT Reporter Calls Americans Who Want to Open Economy ‘Dumbest People' |
| 2020-05-04 |
| [Red State] There’s a basic false binary choice that some on the left have been laying out there. Perhaps no one put it out there more bluntly, and more falsely, than New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. When asked about people who wanted to be able to go back to work in order to be able to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads, Cuomo mocked them, saying then they should become "essential workers," that the choice was between staying in and death. That is just out and out wrong, not to mention not at all scientific. First, given that most virus cases are mild, even if you get it, no, it’s not logical or scientific to say the choice is "death." But secondly, and perhaps most importantly, there are ways of proceeding with caution, with attention to proper protection while letting people go back to work, letting those who are more at risk stay in, without quarantining the healthy. This is how states already are proceeding and starting to open. The purpose of the lockdowns or stay-at-home orders originally were to prevent overwhelming of the system, it was never to guarantee that everyone stay in doors until it could be guaranteed that not one person get sick. But it’s allowed some on the left who have no fear for their jobs to preen and act as though the folks concerned about the economy and our constitutional rights are somehow "bad" while they are "good" preventing the world from "dying." Example: Taylor Lorenz, who works for the New York Times style, writing about technology, memes, influencers, and online culture. Here’s Lorenz’s tweet which was later deleted. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 the best thing for the leftists is they can virtue signal to one another by literally doing nothing. as a bonus, they get to berate other people who chose to stop sitting around and get back to doing something |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-04 16:15 |
| #7 The absolute gall of the NY Slimes. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-04 16:14 |
| #6 Just over 30% of all COVID deaths [CDC] are in New. York. City. Makes some of us dumb people feel pretty good about living in flyover country. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-05-04 14:36 |
| #5 So, living in a high population density plague grounds, like NYNY, makes you Taylor what? An imbecile? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-05-04 14:24 |
| #4 Since those 'dumbest people' aren't dropping like flies unlike NYC, you might just want to look in the mirror. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-04 13:36 |
| #3 I don't think those "dumbest people" read the New York Slimes anyway. Oh, the irony! |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-04 12:25 |
| #2 How about the people who notice the CDC data shows total deaths are 97% of 'expected? Compared to 120% of 'expected' for w/e April 11? Or those who note influenza deaths are almost twice the number of COVID deaths? Are those the dumbest people, too? CDC Data Figures don't lie, but there are so many to choose from. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-05-04 11:33 |
| #1 When you've never had to work you don't realize that all that stuff you buy online comes from people who do. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-05-04 05:19 |