THE SHUT down is worse than the dreadful virus.... This virus is so bad, but I would take 2 million deaths a year over the shut down. We need to prepare better next time.Not that this dreadful virus will ever end.
The United States of America, a country that spends gazillions of dollars on a defense budget dreaming up possible scenarios and probes for inner weaknesses to be exploited by her enemies has an infection rate that is nearly SIX times worse than the second worst, Spain. Now, you could make the argument that the US is more populated but you could also make the argument that its not nearly densely populated than Spain is. And yet you can find Covid cases in nearly every single county in the United States.
The lack of preparation for an epidemic, let alone a pandemic, is astonishing to me. That ventilators, masks, gloves, and various supplies aren't stashed all throughout the country is laughable to me.
That airplanes are STILL, right now, flying, is astonishing to me. If we had done the right thing from the get-go, which is shut down the airspace and immediately contain, is why we are in a protracted misery that is definitely going to lead to a recession, millions of businesses closing forever, millions of unemployed into the foreseeable future, AND the fact that Covid-19 will now be with us forever.
Make no mistake, this another influenza. Stopping influenza is like trying to stop the wind. Its basically an impossible task. The best you can do is create a vaccine based on probability that X strain of the Flu virus will be the most prevalent during flu season. Covid will be no different.
Since we are so far behind the curve, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If you open the economy back up you can guarantee that cases will dramatically increase to the point where New York is basically everywhere in the country. At some point the healthcare system everywhere is overwhelmed, people start dying, people get very sick, the economy stops or slows down so substantially that what difference does it make at this point now that its "back open?"
The other problem is if we continue to wait indefinitely for the curve to flatten, you've now shut down a economy for 6 months or longer. How the fuck do you expect the entire planet to bounce back from that economically?
There's just no good answers.
But I know this much.... there are countries doing exceptionally well:
- Greece
- Taiwan
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
and possibly a few others. Because they did the opposite of what this retarded, supposedly superior nation did. They were aggressive, they took decisive action, and developed a strategy. The US's strategy is throwing their hands in the air and pointing fingers.
Let me tell you something, all of our enemies are now seriously considering a biological attack as a strategy for defeating the US because of how unbelievably unprepared they are to withstand that kind of an attack.
I am disgusted and amazed at the magnitude of incompetence. They should have treated this as seriously as a war invasion and as an existential threat.
And one last thing to consider.... can you imagine if this was Ebola that got out like this, which nearly did a few years ago? That thing has like an 85% kill rate. You can just expect a total reset of humanity back to the stone age. There would be about 500 million survivors on the entire planet and life would be altered beyond repair. Electrical grid? What's that? Planes? What are those? The computer I'm typing on, a paper weight. What's the internet?
If you don't think that can happen you are a damned fool.... and so is every country who is underprepared now.
This planet had better learn the lesson of a lifetime about how to deal with pandemics. We have had so much warning about this eventuality and we kicked the can down the road. Its inexcusable.
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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