Posted by:
Lot's Wife
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Date: May 13, 2020 02:14AM
Here we go again. . .
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> That's a good question. How are we going to
> handle flu season from now on?
Red herring. As people have remarked multiple times, you cite numbers without substantiation. You make shit up.
But for the sake of argument, let's take your 30,000 per annum figure and think it through. So far the coronavirus has killed 82,000 in just over two months. That puts the COVID death toll at about 15 times the influenza number. Is it your contention that 30,000 is the same, for all intents and purposes, as 450,000?
Better yet, let's assume arguendo that the United States had followed your preferred strategy of no restrictions and the COVID death rate rose to the one million that was the low end of the epidemiological predictions. Are you trying to persuade us that 30,000 is the same as 1,000,000?
I'm having trouble, you see, with your logic. You seem to suggest that two death totals are equally bad regardless of magnitude and hence that the policy response should be identical. By that standard, the fact that one or two people a year die from hangnail infections implies that the US government should not do anything about murder, tuberculosis, automobile safety, terrorism, heart disease, or injury by drumstick at MGTOW rallies in the PNW wilderness. Is that your position?
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> How many must
> die before we shut down economies, and threaten
> 300 million with starvation?
Are you threatened with starvation? Or is this just another Rand Paul talking point?
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> Who decides?
That's the crux, isn't it? Most of us like living in a democracy, in which the people decide. Others, however, would like to live in a dictatorship in which the dictator determines a policy, the sheep stand up and cheer, and everyone lives happily--or not--ever after. Your side controls the White House. The big bad mainstream media is not in charge.
More generally, what would it take for you to come out from behind your political lectern and offer an alternative comment on any other topic? For your constant beating of this putrid equine corps seems pathological.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/2020 02:17AM by Lot's Wife.