How COVID-19 Defeated America
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America is fine, and as always the people are doing the heavy lifting, while the politicians are acting like the clowns they always have been.
Anyone spouting off about how awful we are compared to the world is a dumbass and should be ignored. I don't understand that mentality other than to sell clicks through fear mongering.
If you enjoy a word salad of griping about poorly defined "problems" and generally spreading a feeling of malaise and helplessness, then you are absolutely correct.
Then why are so many on the right doing the very things that have led us to handle this so catastrophically, like not wearing masks and calling the virus a hoax, for example?
Closer to anyone to beating it than Sweden? New Zealand hasn’t had a positive test in 100 days.
What alternate reality are you living in?
New Zealand will have to stay locked down within their island until a vaccine or treatment. Tourism is 10% of the countries GDP (direct + flow-on effects) and tourism supports nearly 200k jobs in NZ, good for 8% of their total workforce.
If indefinite island lockdown is a balanced and reasonable outcome for them and their economy, then things look good for them. Being an island isn’t an option for many countries - but I’m not sure a long term closed island will have them thriving in the long run.
Australia was in a similar victory lap situation and cases blew up a bit.
You can't lockdown a virus away. You can obviously delay it, at a severe cost, but you can't stop it. You just have to pick your poison.
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4 cases. FOUR. After 100 days without one.
They're locking everyone in, shutting businesses, and schools. Count me as heavily against that.
They're locking everyone in, shutting businesses, and schools. Count me as heavily against that.
Not only is it just 4 people, but they are all from the same family!!!
PS: this means the virus was alive and well for 100 days without the NZ government being able to detect it. Low amount of spread likely - but also would have to point towards a low level of severity in cases for 100 days.
Lockdown.
Lockdown.
New Zealand just had positive cases... a virus will run through the population.
Our college kids going on spring break when they did is going to end up being a godsend. I'll bet 20% caught it and took it home or back to school and never knew it. As bad as the school shutdowns hurt us the spring break free for all helped us. I think there is a reason so many colleges are testing soooo low right now.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105753/cumulative-coronavirus-deaths-in-sweden/
Sweden is only having 1 or 2 deaths per day since July 20. They have still had people doing outpatient medical procedures so they won't see a huge spike in suicide, cancer, heart disease... etc etc. Their economy has already started improving and showed growth for the 1st quarter and are poised to rebound faster than most from the 2nd quarter.
Sweden is only having 1 or 2 deaths per day since July 20. They have still had people doing outpatient medical procedures so they won't see a huge spike in suicide, cancer, heart disease... etc etc. Their economy has already started improving and showed growth for the 1st quarter and are poised to rebound faster than most from the 2nd quarter.
Are you insane? When it comes to State and Federal Gov neither side wants the other to succeed. Both sides are more than happy to see American people suffer if it fits their agenda and stuffs their pockets.