Enough already ..open up America !!

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  1. AKS

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    Exactly. If electing trump didn't prove this to you nothing will.
     
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    Good point.
     
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    I'm a libertarian leaning conservative on most issues but I do believe that American society is by and large a tragedy. We're expected to spend over 50% of our waking lives (over the range of years that matter most) working. Over half... My father, now in his late 60's, continues to work because his SS + AF retirement is not enough to comfortably survive. I'm no economist and I don't know how we can feasibly change any of this but it does suck. Aleksander makes a great point that we shouldn't need to put in early 19th century hours of work with today's technology.
     
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    Great. How do you propose not allowing non hot spots to become hot spots? Seems to me it's the entire goal of the lock down.
     
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    I care as much as I care about that business that gets wiped out by a hurricane or tornado. Or fire. Or drought. Or economic changes. Its the f***ing risk you take as a business owner. It sucks and at times is tragic. If only there were a way to minimize risk.
     
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    Well, convince my wife to order paint or wallpaper online. As for your comments about jamming up the stores, If I go to Walmart and I am free to buy a fishing lure, paint, bug spray, grass seed, jelly, and tuna fish, I am a hell of a lot safer than if I, along with dozens of other people, are all shoved into the grocery aisles.
     
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    No, the entire goal of the lock down was supposed to be about "flattening the curve" so the number of hospitalized didn't outrace our hospital beds. We've done that. Beds are empty.
     
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    Spoken like someone who's income and livelihood isn't affected at all, so **** everyone else.

    there is a way to open back up and protect the vulnerable while allowing people to run their businesses and industries to resume.
     
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    You didn't answer the question. I'm not about to get pedantic about a flattened curve being directly related to what ever you're considering to be a hot spot.
     
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    that's what too many are forgetting. We didn't shut things down to completely end the virus, just to slow the spread.
     
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    I said what I meant. I'm sorry if you can't understand it but I'm not able to express it in simpler terms for you.

    It's actually quite humorous to me that you can possibly come to the conclusion that not every. single. American would prefer the economy to open up sooner than later.
     
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    No one is saying everyone should agree. If they want to stay at home, they can even after we open up. No one will stop them.
     
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    Well your question was stupid. But since you really want a response to it, here goes: Eventually, the entire country is going to be a hot spot because there is no vaccine. You may think we can shut down for 18 months or so but I don't see that as in any way possible. We'll be starving by that point. Hot spots are a problem when they overrun the local medical capability. Which was my entire point. Broad areas of the country are not hotspots and are not going to immediately turn into one because people are allowed to work. We're not trying to prevent anyone ever from getting this virus. I'm not sure how you can think that.
     
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    Wow, how magnanimous of you! All they have to do for you to make a buck is shut themselves off completely from society.
     
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    Seriously?

    https://www.healthline.com/health-news/rural-america-hardest-hit-by-covid-19-outbreak

    https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/rural-communities-coronavirus-toll/

    https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/covid-19/news

    You really need to stop listening to Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al. Do your own homework and stop believing nonsense from anti-science pundits. How many Americans in all urban and rural areas have to die before the right stops trying to contradict the science? I know Trump doesn't care about our lives as much as he cares about how the crashing economy affects his re-election chances, but it looks more and more like his type of sociopathy, egoism, and ignorance is spreading faster than COVID-19.

    Sheesh. :no:
     
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    The only thing stupid is your conclusion. We can keep the entire country from becoming a hot spot without vaccine, in fact we are doing it now. You clearly don't understand what "flattening the curve" really accomplishes and I don't have the energy to spoon feed it to you. All I can say is do some research and use your friggin brain.
     
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    See comment #290.
     
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    I have never listed to any of those 3 and you should stop watching Soviet CNN and MSNBC
     
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    What is wrong with suggesting that is people want to stay home beyond the opening that they should. No one will force anyone to get out and do business. As for the rest of society that must work for incomes to support families, we will do that.
     
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    the rest of the country doesn't care what you think, many more states will be protesting very soon.
     
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    The only way your incredibly naive and selfish proposal could possibly work would be for the elderly, sick, and compromised citizens to completely shut themselves off from society. No visits from kids or grand kids, neighbors, friends. All so you can leech your pound of flesh at the expense of the medical workers and the stupid.
     
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    and they want us to end up like Japan? with a 2nd wave of the virus?

    wonderful
     
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    Isn't that happening already?
     
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    I know you think we can stay shut down for a year, it's not possible. We will find a way to open back up and do it as safely as possible. You can lock yourself inside for the next year, but the rest of us need to work and open our businesses back up.
     
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