Things That the Pro-Lockdown Extremists Think Are Selfish

Live in a pressurized bubble until the corona goes away, the rest of us will get on with living.

problem solved

 

That genie is already out of the bottle. The mask is here to stay. Every bit of commerce that involves large gatherings of people, any kind of shopping, any kind of entertainment, anything that involves food, in their current form are gone. 99% of purchases will be done electronically and picked up or delivered. Think about that for a minute. All restaurants, theaters, sports events, retail stores, theme parks, cruises, travel resorts, museums, casinos et al will have to evolve or disappear. Think about all of the related jobs that are also never coming back. What does that say about the future? It's really going to suck if we let it. This is the New Green Deal that the progressives/socialist democrats who by now are having orgasms over. The Corona virus is real but is it as bad as it's being made out to be or did these nuts just get an early Christmas? At first I thought this was an unfortunate accident and to some degree it probably was but the longer this goes on the more it seems it dawned on them that the opportunity they've been praying for fell into their laps. What makes it more interesting is how quickly they came up with the it's all Trump's fault narrative. It gets crazier every day, now they're tossing around the idea of another impeachment. Biden has no chance to make it to the finish line and they don't have anyone without sizable baggage to send in.The Russia/Mueller thing fell apart and three plus years of harassment got nowhere, the impeachment will be a punch line for years to come and the DOJ is about to uncork a devastating drama about Obama & Co, the Swamp, the CIA, the FBI and others. The only good thing is that when the book is closed on 2020 Donald Trump will still be president.

 

I don't know you, and for all I know you may be the brightest fella on this forum. But there are no way to express how utterly idiotic what you said was. I mean.... if we follow that "reasoning" (wow... even putting the word in quotes feels like... giving it too much credit), you could question checking people to see if they're carrying a gun before they board planes You could just argue "your desire to live in a world where there is no risk and no death is a dangerous fantasy" and let anybody who wants to carry an explosive device on board have at it!

I hope I never hear anything as absurd as this in my life again. Alas! I'm sure I will.

 

Yep! Certainly didn't live up to any of Trump's predictions. Not that the cases would be in single digits, or that it was under control or that it would be gone "by miracle", or that it would be gone by Easter, or soooo many predictions by Trump and his loyalists that it refuses to live up to....

You still don't explain what "normal" means to you. I didn't expect you to, of course...

 

Uhmmm How about every time?

 

What normal person would expect a seasonal flu to be single digit deaths. Hell what normal person would freak out at double or triple digit death associated with a new strain of flu? Holy hell, what normal person would think hiding from a flu would change any of those outcomes because some idiot reporter parrots speculators of what predictions might be

And I hope I never witness this sort of absurd reaction to a virus ever again! Alas! I'm sure from this time forward a common cold to the newly created 2020 hypochondriac's that will certainly send them "Ruuuuuun" for the house at the first sign of a sniffle every flu season now and until they succumb to old "God Willing" age or worry themselves to death

 

So you think living alongside viruses, which have always existed, is the same as bringing a bomb on a plane.

 

My plan is called Trump Administration's CDC Guidelines. Look them up! Use them! After all, they were elaborated by an administration that you support.

Or maybe you think they were created by the Deep State to kill us all and make the human species extinct or, worse yet... gasp!... help Biden win the elections!

 

Normal is what life looked like before the lockdowns.

So do you have a plan to return to that? If so, what is your plan? And what observable, measurable criteria will be used to ascertain the plan's progress?

So far, none of you have answered. Probably because none of you actually have a plan besides indefinite lockdowns.

 

What normal person would compare this to the seasonal flu?

 

No Golem, lets not exaggerate, well what was I thinking there lol I suspect I'm around your age and I can honestly say this is the more overplayed, hyperbolic flu season I have witnessed in my lifetime.. Although I cant speak for all the hypochondriac or how they have dealt with these lil hiccups in there fearful lives either

 

I do not support the Trump administration.

And those guidelines are not a plan for returning to normalcy.

I think they were created by self-important, myopic bureaucrats desperate to justify their own existence.

 

One that takes the numbers logically.. Then again if you are referring to the hypochondriac's, then I wouldn't really consider them normal either

Global death

Out of almost EIGHT BILLION HUMANS

 

60,000 people died from the flu last year.

If that did not warrant a major societal response, then why does this?

Is there some magic number of deaths that requires us to fundamentally change the way we live? If so, what is that magic number and why?

 

No! You do! Didn't you at least understand that?

 

Hell! Maybe we can get some kind of Gubmint back pay! We will call it "flu survivor reward"! At least a Tee Shirt saying I survived the last flu!

 

You're the one who compared them, not me.

 

I agree, but there is such a thing as taking the virus too seriously.

 

And that's coming from someone pointing out absurdities

 

What is interesting to me is the number of people worrying about all those people living paycheck to paycheck now, who never gave a rats ass about helping them get a better paycheck before, never cared if they worked safely enough to keep getting that paycheck, opposed effort after effort to provide an economic safety net when they lost jobs or income before, and right now are whining that those supplemental checks are too big to supply them with sufficient incentive to want to go back to work.

 

I have bad news for you: regardless of how we choose to deal with this virus, life may never return to "normal".

 

if you are elderly or have any pre-existing health condition, there is NO such thing as taking the virus too seriously.

unless you're one of those "Let's sacrifice the weak" kinda folks

 

Plus they always pretended that they, personally, could survive without income for at least three months, and anyone who didn't have that saved was a great big loser.

 

Too seriously? Hm. I think we can take it very seriously and still open back up. We're likely quite a ways away from amusement parks, Vegas, things like that from opening at full capacity, since full capacity to the park owners always means way, way, way too slammed in next to each other for guests. Side note - the governor has requested that the theme parks start submitting their re-opening plans. Safety measures, capacity planning; he even wants endorsement from the mayor of the city.

But, yeah, we're opening up Florida. I saw my dentist today. I waited in my car until they were ready for me. I had to wash my hands and gargle with peroxide, which is rather nasty. I expect measures to slow the spread will continue for quite some time. I've no issue with it.