This is getting ridiculous.
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A month since Georgia took some of the earliest and most extensive steps to reopen parts of its economy.
At the time the media ran headlines like "Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” and "‘Very reckless path': Atlanta Mayor warns residents”.
Since then, Covid-19 cases have largely flattened in the state. There has been no "second wave" or "boomerang".
All states need to follow their lead and completely open back up. It's that simple.
So what you’re saying is that 99.97% of the US population has not died from the Covid virus. There is no cure for this. Even if everyone stays inside it is just slowing the spread of the disease over a longer period of time. But it will spread so we might as well open everything back up and try for herd immunity.
The math is not incorrect on any of the posts. 100,000/330,000,000=.0003 or if expressed as a percentage is .03%. I think one of the posts just forgot the decimal point on .03%. This would in no way round even close to 1% so the posts are not wrong.
@dljn You seriously think letting people self-regulate in the U.S. would be the same as in Sweden? After all the displays we've seen in the past several weeks? Majority of people actually have to care for somebody else other than themselves for that to work, which - as demonstrated - is certainly not the case here.
Also, I never said Sweden was not bad, it is worse than 90 percent of all the countries with COVID-19 cases in term of death percentages. Is that really what you want to strive for? I specifically said it would have been even worse if they didn't self-regulate, since their government decided to listen to one contrarian epidemiologist who has since started to reexamine his position.
You're both wrong, 100,000 is .03% of 330,000,000.
Your math is a little off, it's actually 03% but I think your point still stands, it's a very small amount of deaths in the grand scheme of things. Obviously each individual death is sad, I had a person in my family die from it, I don't mean to minimize death, I'm just talking statistics.
Bottom line is .0003 of the US population has died from Covid. That doesn’t even round up to 1%. That is 100,000 divided by 330,000,000 people in the US. One third of these deaths were in nursing homes. The liberal media is trying to unnecessarily put fear in everyone so the economy can tank even further and they can blame the President. The liberal Clinton lovers can stay inside with their masks on. I actually prefer that. The rest of us will be out enjoying the summer.
@dksa+14XCUp9C. So let me get this straight, you're saying the reason Sweden, who went about business as usual, isn't a "total, UK or US level disaster" (both countries who had nearly nationwide stay at home lockdowns) is because people are "self-regulated".
Would you then agree that the best course of action would have been to go about business as usual and allow individuals to self-regulate based on their individual situations. Or do you prefer the current course of action that's lead to our current "total level disaster"?
@dcpo How do you think people staying at home are getting the virus? Who do you think brings it to them? Could it be those asymptomatic essential workers who HAVE to work? Who put their lives at risk and should have much better PPE but don't and have to deal with inconsiderate a***s who won't bother to put on a mask to protect them?
And Sweden has by far the highest percent of COVID-19 deaths compared to the rest of Scandinavia, so you really shouldn't be waving that as an "aha!" flag. Even Swedes realize they screwed up and are tightening their measures right now, especially in Stockholm which has been decimated. The only thing that saved them from a total, UK or US level disaster, is that - unlike here - people there self-regulated.
@dorq+14XCUp9C suggesting that millions of people would have died from Coronavirus without lockdowns ignores the basic facts of the matter.
66% of New York state coronavirus hospitalizations are people staying at home. This is a much higher number than people who are out working "essential jobs" like nurses or supermarket employees, so in fact, staying home in some sort of self imposed isolation actually increases your likelihood of being hospitalized.
Sweden didn't lockdown at all and they haven't had millions of deaths.
@1xjc You do realize millions didn't die BECAUSE of the measures that were implemented? Right? That it's not that the virus is not as dangerous as it was implied (which it is,) but that the measures taken worked and prevented an all-out spread? And if you take away those measures too soon, the chances are it will come back and worse than ever, because fewer people will actually bother with implementing any kind of recommended measures. Is that really that hard to understand?
isn't nearly as bad
March, we were one nation, protecting the public, stay home for your loved ones. We were told millions might die, hospitals overwhelmed, body bags in the street.
Now it's May and we realized this virus is nearly as bad as we feared, and yet the lock downs continue like they did in May. And apparently will continue for another 3 months.
Bro, it's only May.
In March, we were one nation, protecting the public, stay home for your loved ones. June.... it’s political. July, Too much power for one person.
Good, I am glad I don’t have to go into the office anytime soon. That place was more depressing than the Covid virus.