Votto
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- Oct 31, 2012
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Why is it that when the nation is confronted by a threat, the press and government overreact?
So you get a virus with projections of 2 million dead and then proceed to close the entire economy. Obviously, this was an overreaction, especially considering that previous research points to about a million people dying because of various factors revolving around an economy with 20% unemployment, such as suicide and drug and alcohol abuse and heart disease, etc.
Then we have one rogue cop with a long history of abuse to various people, but he kills a black man on film and the entire country not only assumes it was based upon racism, it is assumed that looting city after city should be the standard reaction.
Now you have 70 year old barbers in Michigan being arrested for cutting hair and you have the state giving standing down orders as cities burn.
As an old saying goes, "If you are cruel to the nice you will be nice to the cruel"
No wiser words have been spoken.
So you get a virus with projections of 2 million dead and then proceed to close the entire economy. Obviously, this was an overreaction, especially considering that previous research points to about a million people dying because of various factors revolving around an economy with 20% unemployment, such as suicide and drug and alcohol abuse and heart disease, etc.
Then we have one rogue cop with a long history of abuse to various people, but he kills a black man on film and the entire country not only assumes it was based upon racism, it is assumed that looting city after city should be the standard reaction.
Now you have 70 year old barbers in Michigan being arrested for cutting hair and you have the state giving standing down orders as cities burn.
As an old saying goes, "If you are cruel to the nice you will be nice to the cruel"
No wiser words have been spoken.