I'm hoping this will get us back on a path where those who feel a need to shelter can continue to do so, and everyone else can ease back into society. The President's plan puts a lot of emphasis on ensuring that the hospitals are ready to handle whatever load they're going to get.
The point of the lockdown was never advertised as eliminating the disease, only ensuring that cases didn't hit so hard and so fast that we faced the intolerable image of hospitals turning people away, or parking them helplessly in the hallways or parking lots.
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The President's emotions are quite calm and stable.
Well, I'm in the protected class.
I object to being coddled. I aim to misbehave.
Eric Hines
Well, the *original* reason was to flatten the curve. It seems to have changed somehow to 'stopping the virus' as if that were even possible. It's amazing how many people think this is where we are now.
I'm ready. We may yet die of this damned thing, but at least we'll die fighting.
I'm pretty sure I remember there being talk of stopping the virus early on; getting R below 1 was the expression used, if I remember correctly. That changed to flattening the curve which actually made sense to me. I think the problem now and one reason we're seeing talk of stopping the virus is that government leaders are reluctant to say and people are reluctant to hear that any re-opening is going to result in more cases of the disease and more deaths. I'm not a big Marco Rubio fan but I appreciate him being willing to say this:
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1250465665301037057
Someone I read recently said that as Americans we tend to be convinced that there's always a way to fix anything and everything. With this virus, there isn't, not yet.
As for being coddled, well, I don't aim to misbehave but if other people are ready to do so, I don't see why they should be prevented from doing so on my account. :+)
Colorado's Gov. Polis is not on my top 100 favorites list, but he did a pretty good job interviewing this morning with NPR's Inskeep (whom I really really don't care for). Platitudes, to be sure, but I got the impression that he's got his gubernatorial wits about him.
However, as they should say (but always seem to mis-quote): the proof of the pudding is in the tasting.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/836741518/colorado-gov-hopes-downward-trend-of-covid-19-cases-continues
The market has rallied a bit, surprising on a Friday.
So for those that bought some stuff on Thursday as I suggested, if they got good deals, they could have sold Friday morning for a 5-8% increase. See, fear+ stock markets= free money!
With a continued rally, it is about decreasing fear. With a continued pre crash trigger, it's about more media driven fear. Or some other source of fear (oil, jobs).
Fiat currency is not going to be worth anything in the long run, but the game can be played until then at least.
I won't say, don't worry America. But I will say to America and humanity: stop being controlled by that fear, it isn't profitable except for the inside traders of gov.
We'll stay isolated for quite a long time, I think, but I see no reason to impose that path on others, now that the hospitals appear to be doing OK.
We'll stay isolated for quite a long time, I think, but I see no reason to impose that path on others, now that the hospitals appear to be doing OK.
Ditto - although I am truly amazed by my almost overwhelming desire to go to the grocery store, of all strange places to miss. Not a restaurant, not a movie, not a department store - the grocery store.
I'm not missing much. I just want to see people get their jobs back--and then of course it would be nice to see our retirement funds recover.
This plan.. is not the President's plan. It's Fauci/B's plan.
There are multiple factions and stuff going on here. The President/Q Anon stuff vs the Deep State/Fauci/Vaccine/WHO/CDC faction.
I have always enjoyed grocery stores. I love to cook, so it’s great to enjoy exploring possibilities and planning meals. But I mostly just want to see things get better for my countrymen.
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