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They Can't Stop Us from Re-Opening America

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Posted by Frank G 2020-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Lord have mercy, I hope Kurt is right.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-21 00:33|| 2020-04-21 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 If Nancy is holding things up it says she's not worried about CV.

Posted by gorb 2020-04-21 02:10|| 2020-04-21 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 He's half right. There will have to be a reckoning with any politician in any executive role from either party who let the power go their head. I'm reasonably confident that will happen in time, at least in some places.

But unfortunately this doesn't look over yet. We shouldn't kid ourselves. The daily infection and death rate numbers may be flattened, but they haven't started going down. And the number of new cases and deaths *is* going up each day at consistent rate. Not exponentially, but consistently.

It doesn't look like hot weather affects the virus, or that it shows any sign of "burning out" on its own yet. Which leaves us all with some hard choices to consider, and no simple path forward.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-04-21 02:24|| 2020-04-21 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 HCQ and hard immunity to shield the vulnerable.

Posted by gorb 2020-04-21 04:10|| 2020-04-21 04:10|| Front Page Top

#5 And it will be necessary to be on the lookout for SAPHOS - Self Appointed Public Hygiene Officers - who will whine and moan about pretty much anything that doesn't look like permanent quarantine.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-21 08:11|| 2020-04-21 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Kurt's right. You cannot have 32% unemployment (recent prediction by a top economist at the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank) and still have a functioning democracy.

Either we end our democracy - let's hope it isn't violent but anyone with any grasp of history and social psychology knows that's unlikely - or the elites end the lockdown. Take your pick.

More likely outcome is that the lockdowns will collapse rapidly, as they've already started to do across the southern red states.

Probably will be triggered when researchers dig deep into the data to show that the COVID deaths were inconsistently and improperly coded; that other urgent care needs were neglected (thereby causing still more deaths); and that targeted restrictions would have saved almost as many lives without pushing us into insane levels of unemployment and mass impoverishment.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-21 08:46|| 2020-04-21 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm hopeful that reopening in some states (like SC) will have an influence.

However, brace yourselves for the news media shrieking like banshees about every last death in a state that reopens. I'm debating whether I even want to turn on the TV tonight.

Posted by Tom 2020-04-21 11:43|| 2020-04-21 11:43|| Front Page Top

#8 They can't stop us, but they are sure gonna give it their all. Already, we're seeing the overreach in this effort. Dems have already announced their plans. Noone should be surprised at what follows.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-04-21 11:44|| 2020-04-21 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 In SERE school the drew a line and said we cant cross it. No rule to enforce it. It took a while to learn that arbitrary is just that. Looks like we have found out its unenforceable. Time to just go back to work and let the dems scream and yell, to themselves.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-04-21 11:53|| 2020-04-21 11:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Nancy does not have immunity, COVID-19 has rejected her.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-21 17:10|| 2020-04-21 17:10|| Front Page Top

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