Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

BREAKING: The Daily Caller has learned that almost one-third of Americans are stupid.

 

Postmodernism turned 'round on us. When most traditional institutions were in the midst of being torn down, it was inevitable the trend would visit the doorstep of science. Refusing vaccines is complete foolishness. But that's where we've gotten. And it isn't just Trumpists, either, who'd refuse this.

 

Granny must die. And kids need to suffer. The economy demands sacrifice.

 

If the syndrome hitting children becomes widespread, which I sure hope not, those arguing "we must reopen the economy" will run a real chance of getting lynched if they do so in public.

 

Yesterday matched the worst COVID-19 day yet in Long Beach, CA. Three deaths. Let's look at the details:

The victims were in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Two of the latest victims were linked to long-term care facilities and had underlying health conditions. One death is currently under investigation, so it’s unclear if the person had an underlying health condition, officials said.
Officials report 3 new deaths linked to COVID-19 in Long Beach • Long Beach Post News

I know writing this will make me look like a Simpleton to some, but it really looks like we have a long-term care facility problem.

Oh, and @Spartan Squad , the article gives another detail we were looking for yesterday.
Officials noted that countywide, 92% of people who died had underlying health conditions.

 

We have closed the economy for two months, unemployment has smashed Depression-era levels, and Granny is dying anyways. So what now?

 

This is bullshit. You're telling me in all of the United States there wasn't a competent English-Spanish translator, or many, available to make sure these workers understood what was going on? That's where an overarching federal response with testing, testing, testing and tracing comes into play. One prong of that attack would be to safeguard the industries that we have to have to exist, like the food industry.

This isn't about the workers choosing not to wear masks, it's about the owners. The truth is, they're still not protecting the workers. It's about corporate America, which greedily sucks the life out of it's workers. This time, really.

Imagine, if you will, we would have taken tracing seriously from the beginning. Instead of a countrywide shutdown, we could have zeroed in on potential areas of concern with the testing and tracing. Rolling shutdowns in targeted areas. Then, instead of a $2 trillion slush fund widely dispersed with no oversight, we could have had a fund sitting and waiting. Gotta close S. Florida? OK, checks to people idled.

Until there is a vaccine, outbreaks are going to happen. You know what we're still not doing? Testing and tracing. The world is going to get a grip on this and the US is going to be isolated and shunned because this virus is going to keep circling us, because we have no national leadership.

 

We do have a long-term care facility problem, problems actually, and we had them before the virus began. They are where most of the oldest and unhealthiest people end up in our society living in close quarters. Naturally they have a high death toll. But to say that's the only cohort at risk of dying from coronavirus is just wrong. One hundred twenty one Metropolitan Transit Authority employees in New York City have died. They were all of working age.

Just to add, it wasn't government that shut down the economy, it was people. Stats from many states, including my own Massachusetts but especially Florida, show that people began altering their economic behavior BEFORE official shutdown policies were in place. And until a large majority of Americans feel safe, they are not going to patronize businesses in sufficient numbers to "restart" the economy no matter what their governments do.

 

Again, look at the president not doing his job. That is why we don't have the testing we should have. We really don't have good information regarding the spread of the virus. Getting proper testing in place is the biggest hurdle we have to opening things back up.

It really is amazing that everything you post lines up with the Republican, pro-Trump talking points.

 

More of the same in CA until the protests force Newsom's hand, I'd guess. He's politically wise to stay the course. It's a heavily progressive state and the wealthiest people there would be comfortable with a yearlong quarantine. Hell, even longer. They can travel where they like, when they like, and cheat the restrictions every which way they like without consequence. They're rich.

 

Fed Chairman Powell said in a speech this morning that 40 percent of households earning $40K or less lost one or both jobs in March! Forty percent. We've built an economy on low paying service jobs. Those jobs won't come back until the demand for those services do. Couple that with the share of our national wealth held by seniors, who really don't much else to spend on but services, and who're the most reluctant to go outside for damn good reasons, and it's hard to see a dramatic rebound.

 

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