Now, 40,000 Americans are dead with the death rate rising every day. The non-essential economy is shut down and will need to remain so for months
Keeping the nation shut down as one big internment camp is just compounding misery and is probably the stupidest thing we could possibly do. Thankfully no one of any responsible standing is advocating what you
are. Tell some family with children to feed and trying to keep a roof over their heads they must stay penniless
because you hate Trump.
You are full of crap and influenza killed over 60,000 according to the CDC in the 2017/18 flu season.
Keeping people prisoners in their own homes will only make things worse, not that you give a shit.
Seasonal flu has a vaccine you can take that protects you, coronavirus at this time does not. Most people who die from seasonal flu die because they did not get the vaccine which is offered every year. Plus, flu season is 6 months. 60,000 deaths over 6 months is 10,000 every thirty days. In Just the last 13 days we have had 30,000 people die from coronavirus and that is with all the mitigation efforts. You let all these people go back to work or if you had not shut down in the first place, you would kill 2.4 MILLION Americans by August.
Anyone that can't feed their family can go to the nearest food pantry or homeless shelter to get food. This is about survival, not business as usual. This is a global and national emergency.
Trying to reopen the economy when its not safe will just lead to more lockdowns and more death. The best thing for the economy and public health is to remain shutdown until the pathogen has been defeated to the point that it can be managed by healthcare workers without putting the American public at risks.
The overwhelming majority of Americans support the shutdown. Only 22% support opening the country up.
You are assuming the rate of death will remain constant, which it will not and even now we see the
death rate coming down.
And telling millions of people who are unemployed to just go to a food bank
or homeless shelter is also no answer since the vast amount of people out of work will absolutely swamp
any support system and send it out of commission too.
There is only one solution and that is to tackle the problem on two tracks....one is to continue to get input from experts and scientists learning all we can as we go on although you will not like what you see in many cases.
Did the COVID-19 virus infect between 48,000 and 81,000 residents of Santa Clara County? Not so quick, say statisticians, citing what they call deep flaws in a Stanford study.
www.mercurynews.com
And the other is to let healthy young people (fifty-five and below) go back to work, open businesses back up
as other nations are now doing, and it sounds like you won't like that either.
We cannot wait out the corona virus and unfortunately there is no perfect solution here.
Your solution certainly isn't and it's like choking yourself while someone else pounds in your face.
Half of the people in ICU beds in Hospitals are UNDER age 50.
Plus even if the young are not infected, they can carry the pathogen and spread it which keeps the pathogen alive and killing people throughout the country.
There is only one way to defeat the Pandemic. The country has to stay in lockdown until the number of cases drops to the point that those cases can be tracked and those they come into contact with tracked and then isolated. That is the only solution.
This is a pathogen that needs human hosts to spread. The only way you defeat the pathogen is through isolation of as many people as possible. When people isolate, the pathogen cannot spread.
As for the economy, 37% of the labor force can work from home. At least another 20% of the labor force is engaged in essential services and are on the job in Health Care, Food production, food distribution, The Armed Forces, Police force, first responders. So 60% of the labor force is still working, if not more. Much of the other 40% will be receiving 2 Trillion dollars in aid from the government. Only a fraction of that will rely on food banks and homeless shelters.
The United States has a net worth of over 90 Trillion. It has more than enough capacity to wait out the pathogen for 18 months, 3 years or even 5 years. The United States is only 5% of the world population but can produce enough food to feed 50% of the world population. Everyone in the United States can be provided for in a lockdown, even if it last for several years. Most of the labor force that can't work from home tend to be low wage workers. These workers can be compensated for easily given the countries massive wealth and resources.
