As more research comes out and it turns out that the death rate of the virus is closer and closer to just another seasonal flu.......as anti-body testing is showing in the first attempts at getting the actual number of infected people.....
Was the democrat party forced lockdown of the economy really necessary?
www.dailywire.com
But in either case, the lockdown is rendered pointless. If we can successfully stave off a cataclysmic outbreak while opening the economy, then we could have staved it off without ever shutting it down in the first place. If we can’t, then the uncontrolled outbreak was always inevitable, and all we accomplished with the shutdown was a temporary delay of the bloodbath, which we bought at the price of an economic collapse.
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It will be argued that the shutdown “flattened the curve” and saved us from overwhelming the hospitals. But if there is a strategy to open the economy now while avoiding that scenario, we could have utilized that strategy from the beginning. If a shutdown is the only way to flatten the curve, the curve will become curved again whenever the shutdown ends. If the curve stays flat after the shutdown, that would seem to indicate that we could have flattened it without a shutdown.
If Trump had acted in January, you're right, the lockdown probably wouldn't have been (largely) necessary.
Last I looked, there were Republican governors as well as Democrat governors that shut their states down.
In fact, governors, mayors and business leaders took the initiative in taking action. You have them to thank for the lower death toll.