Dumbass is one word, Doctor. You should know this and again if you were a better doctor and told your patients to eat better and exercise there would be fewer deaths.I never excused or defended violence or destruction of property, dumb ass.Irrelevant. If a physical business is destroyed, it can be rebuilt. No difference. It just costs money. Money is money. COVID prevents economic activity, therefore it costs money. The response to COVID was made necessary by the widespread pandemic. We could have avoided it but it would have meant hundreds of thousands more deaths, so either way we were screwed.Ah, so it's not about people, it's about money. Gotcha.Riots kill businesses as well as people. You’re comparing apples and oranges. And we discussed and disagreed on how many of the deaths are truly from COVID.Compared to a population of 330mil? Pittance.It’s the third leading cause of death. A pittance it’s not.200k is tragic but a pittance statistically.I don't need your warped opinion to tell me what Trump meant. His words are as clear as day.President Donald Trump claimed Monday at an Ohio campaign rally that the coronavirus poses little threat to young people and “affects virtually nobody,” as the number of Americans to have died from Covid-19 climbed toward 200,000 in the United States.
“It affects elderly people. Elderly people with heart problems and other problems. If they have other problems, that’s what it really affects,” Trump told supporters at an airport outside Toledo.
‘It affects virtually nobody’: Trump downplays virus threat to young people
The president previously told The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward in March that Covid-19 affects “plenty of young people.”www.politico.com
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What kind of sleaze says the death of 200,000 Americans is "nobody". You really dio have to be a heartless baastard. Of course sthis is the same person that called our fallen tropps losers and suckers and his own supporters disgusting.
This is who Trump is. A pathetic sad disgusting little loser.
Figures you twist his words. The meaning is that usually people infected don't die, and don't suffer severe symptoms. He isn't calling the dead "nobodies" and you know it.
How does it compare to those who have died in riots this summer?
Because the right wants us to believe that's a far greater threat.
Dying from COVID is tragic but not against the law. Rioting, burning buildings and killing people is against the law.
Lots more businesses were lost because of COVID than riots anyway.
This isn't apples and oranges. This is explaining clearly how the right uses fear as a means to drive their agenda.
The riot damages were far more preventable.
Once the initial ones were over aggressive policing and prosecutions would have ended them.
Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, COVID was far more preventable. Even a one percent decrease in COVID would have been greater than all the riots combined.
You don't know that. On the other hand we know aggressive policing would have stopped the riots cold.
With regards to damages, COVID, unless the owner died of the disease, leaves the capital and labor of the business intact, even if inactive. Riots lead to physical destruction of capital, and once a business is destroyed instead of just closed, I guarantee the labor will also be lost to other opportunities.
Sure we do. The economic damage from COVID is in the trillions upon trillions. Deaths are in the hundreds of thousands.
Economic damage from riots is in the tens of billions. Deaths are in the hundreds.
This is pretty simple arithmetic. No need to try to bend convoluted rationales into justifying something else.
Again, COVID doesn't destroy the actual physical plant of the businesses. Nor does it destroy a business owners faith in government to protect them from a preventable occurrence.
And it's not COVID destroying economic value, it's the response, a response you evidently want to be much much more stringent, and thus more economically damaging.
The damage from the rioting is due to a LACK of aggressive response.
Wow, talk about pathetic attempts to justify democratic cities allowing actual physical destruction of property.
It's money and time. Time where you can't make money because the physical plant of your business has been destroyed. COVID restrictions are a construct, once removed the business just has to resupply consumables and get their workers back. The plant is still there.
Money is never just money, it is an extension of worth, value, and ability to interact with society to both provide services/goods and receive services/goods.
I would LOVE for you to tell a person who's property was gutted by riots that "It's only money" you uncaring SJW cum sucker.
You're disgusting and irrational.
I would love for you to tell the family of a person who died from COVID that they were probably going to die anyway so no one really cares. What's really far more important is that a tire shop got burned down and that is so much worse than the loss of life.
The disease is a virus, it doesn't have the ability to know right from wrong, it just replicates. How we respond to it can be up for debate, but once this thing got out of China, it wasn't going to be contained, just slowed. How to slow it is the matter for debate.
Gutting someone's property is a conscious decision by human beings to destroy something. That's what makes it worse, and makes you a worthless sack of human scum for defending it.
And by excusing it, you are defending it you wanna be posuer revolutionary twat, so don't try to deny it.
Are you going to defend Trump downplaying coronavirus which ultimately resulted in far more death and destruction than any riots?
