The only problem I have with these numbers, is that it is MASSIVELY skewed by ONE location (NY city and surrounding)
We are shutting down the ENTIRE country based on ORIGINAL projections from a guy that has ALREADT had to revise DOWN his doom by FIFTY TIMES. NY, is an OUTLIER.
While it is BAD there, and there should RIGHTLY be precautions, quarantines, etc. There simply is NO reason to believe the original projections on 99.99% of the rest of the country. Fauchi, is the one at FAULT in this, he and Birx have convinced Trump the original numbers are true, and are using (conveniently) the outlier to prove the point.
There is simply NO WAY that Italy, and china, who were “supposedly” 2 weeks, and a month ahead of us in the “curve” can be OVER their hum, but WE must wait an ADDIONAL 2 weeks, when WE outside NY, have NOT seen the numbers anywhere CLOSE to the “predicted”
Look, I understand CAUTION, I get it. But HERE is my problem.
MANY MORE people will have their lives DESTROYED by the total shutdown, than EVER will this virus. There was simply NO reason to do as we did. we went FULL tilt from the jump. We SHOULD have rightly quarantined the SICK and the ELDERLY, those MOST affected. and THEN adjusted UP as and IF necessary.
We did NOT, we gave POWER to little Napoleons, who are DAILY taking MORE freedoms. Mins just yesterday THREATENED JAIL TIME for ANYONE that traveled out of state, no matter WHERE, and THEN a MANDATORY quarantine upon RETURN, weather symptomatic or NOT.
I asked just HOW this little dictator was going to do it, and guess…via CELL PHONE ping.
Gee, how VERY Nazi of them. I guess the Gestapo will need to see my “papers” and will be checking them with the SS.
Do NOT laugh, do NOT downplay that, or think it is an overreaction. This USED to be a Constitution Republic. for 240 plus years. We USED to have rights as Americans. Those included, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There were ALSO protections AGAINST illegal searches, seizures, and those include UNLAWFUL sequester. That means we as Americans, have the RIGHT to be stupid, reckless, and even risk sickness and even DEATH, so long as it is NOT unlawful.
And THERE my friend is the RUB. What they are doing IS unlawful, and they are using a “health crisis” as the vehicle to do MORE and MORE. There is a VERY good f’n reason Trump issued GUIDELINES, and NOT LAWS. Because to try and do a LAW that limited freedoms, even IF reckless, stupid, or even immoral to OURSELVES, is UN CONSTITUTIONAL, and they DAMN WELL know it.
The PROBLEM they have created, in the name of “public health” is that they SHREEDED individuals rights and FREEDOM. They COULD do this IF one was SICK. BUT, if people are NOT sick, they have NO right to do what they are doing, and it is BLATANTLY unconstitutional. We have a RIGHT to assume our OWN risk, and they, by LAW, cannot stop it.
At least, not till NOW. They are TESTING each and EVERY one of us to SEE what we will WILLINGLY give up. They are talking out their ASSES, and using phrases like “we don’t want to HAVE to do X if you don’t COMPLY” And things like ” do it for the MOST vulnerable, and as you patriotic DUTY. My ASS.
They are doing this to SEE how FAR they can get BEFORE we the people say WAIT, what the actual FUCK, and PUSHBACK…HARD.
They ALREADY tried to outlaw gun sales, and THAT was a bridge too far, they were SUED, and relented.
My, point is this. They ALREADY should have been SUED to stop the ILLEGAL shuttering of PRIVATE businesses, not Government, NOT public, PRIVATE. Yet we sat there, and we SIT here, fiddling, while MANY more peoples lives will be FOREVER ruined, and NEVER get back what they lost.
The stimulus was not a stop gap, it was a BRIBE. A we are sorry we f’d you, take this piddly $3000, and this loan, and boom, everything is hunky dory. NO. It isn’t.
$3000 will pay exactly TWO of my employees for ONE check. They do not WANT unemployment, and that hassle, they want to WORK, as do I. I invest a great deal of MONEY and more importantly TIME and SWEAT equity in building my business, and our little Napoleon, with the stroke of a pen, SHUT IT. Did my UTILITIES stop? NO, did my RENT stop? NO, did MY CREDITORS stop? NO. Did my INSURANCE stop? NO. ALL these things CONTINUE, and GROW, while the till is closed. a LOAN is a BANDAID. It will NOT bring back the clientele, and it will NOT stop the bill collecting of my business NOR my personal life.
Unless you own a POS (point of service) business, I own TWO, and BOTH are shut, you have NO idea the DAMAGE done. I will most likely have to SHUTTER one of the 2 PERMANENTLY, all for a PROJECTION, and MY OWN ASSSUMED risk, that the Government thinks I am too stupid to assume.
IF they want to impress me, let THEM go from x amount to ZERO per day week, and month. I bet THEN this would end so fast it would make your head spin. This INCLUDES Trump. I have been his BIGGEST proponent, and fan, but he was SNOWED, and went AGAINST his gut, which was to open by Easter. He is listening to Fauchi, who ADMITTEDLY, is NOT using FACTS on the ground, but based his recommendations on the Imperial college projections.
Now, I will END my rant on these points. WHO is going to PAY for all the damage done, PERMANENT damage? Do they THINK that they can NANNY state this away? Say, sorry, but we were being cautious for YOUR own good. They DON’T get to decide what is OUR own good, WE do, or DID in America. What happens NEXT time? Do they THINK they can do this EVERY time a new and unknow virus kills people? We will NEVER be allowed out again, we CANNOT live in FEAR., that is NOT living, and it sure is HELL is not the American way. We did not ASK for them to do this, they simply DID it. and they went FULL tilt from the start.
Told me ALL I needed to know. This is a TEST, and the dem and MSM reactions, political plays, and attacks PROVE IT. We are FAILING it. They WILL do this again my friends. They WILL keep you in FEAR, CONSTANT FEAR, to get what they want. Don’t believe me? WAIT FOR IT.
Trump may not abuse this process, I really think he was and IS mislead. But WHAT happens when HE is GONE? They have their precedent, we are SCREWED.
The ONLY question is WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS\, now and in the FUTURE, and I do NOT mean the virus. Viruses com, and viruses GO, they happen ALL the time, and people get sick, and yes sometimes they DIE. But we cannot let them open the Pandora’s box they have cracked open, it will NEVER end. Go ahead, KID yourself, call me a kook, but watch, I see the premise, I see the GLEE and the LUST that these Governors, MSM, and health officials have, they are POWER DRUNK, and if you watch you to will SEE IT.
How do we put the toothpaste BACK in the tube. THAT is what ALL of us should be MORE worried about than this virus. There is MORE to life than FEAR. Fear of death is WOSE than death itself. We as Americans have NEVER been afraid like they made us NOW. NEVER, not in 1776, not in 1789, not in 1918, not in 1934-44. Why are we NOW?
Prospective time. More Americans die EACH day from automobile accidents, do we OUTLAW cars? More Americans DIED in 2 HOURS on Sept 11 2001 than now. More Americans die from smoking, heart diseases, and slips trips and falls. Do we OUTLAW liquor? do we OUTLAW tobacco? Do we OUTLAW fatty foods? Do we OUTLAW clumsiness? WHERE does it end.
Think of this. They accomplished MORE in destroying the Constitution and America in THREE weeks than Hitler did in WW2, MORE than the USSR did in fifty years of cold war, and MORE than Barack Obama did in 8 years of tyranny.
You all go on living in FEAR, keep letting them take and take, more of your freedoms. Keep watching their fear tote board, looking at projections, and watching the fearmongers FEAR PORN you 24/7. I am going to REOPEN my businesses the day after Easter. People can come or not, and they can TRY and arrest me, take my license or whatever else. They can lock me down, but I am NOT going to let fear dictate me anymore.
I will be cautious and take precautions, and if it is God’s will I get it and die, then that was his WILL. But I am NOT going to go down in FEAR, lose everything I worked for so hard, and SACRIFICED so much for, because of FEAR. I am going to LIVE my life, and I am going to live as an AMEROICAN, bold and UNAFRAID. IF they arrest me, I will fight them, I will SUE their ASSES of, someone has to. If I lose, at least I TRIED.
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