Back to the actual subject:
President Trump needs to strike a balance now, between the risk of the virus and the need of the country to move forward....
Italy. New York City.
Back to the actual subject:
President Trump needs to strike a balance now, between the risk of the virus and the need of the country to move forward....
Italy. New York City.
I stand corrected.
The US has been good to it's Jews. Much more than Christian Europe has generally been. And I am very very thankful for the US support of Israel. Which is why I want the US to remain strong, and not make mistakes due to hubris or lack of leadership. I am very concerned about what is happening in the US.
I don't even want to really talk to you anymore.
The best commentary I have heard on what to do next was from... ...me. :chuckle: I posted it in another thread and decided to give it its own thread.
I applied my thoughts to this last night for a while, and I came up with what I believe to be the correct answer on how to move forward.
President Trump needs to strike a balance now, between the risk of the virus and the need of the country to move forward. That is where we are at now. Continued isolation will destroy the economy, the country, and many lives, especially of lower income families. We are now at a point where we must accept the risk and move on with life. Allow me to give you an example:
Regarding motor vehicles: In 2010 in the USA, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, 30,296 deadly, killing 32,999, and injuring 2,239,000. About 2,000 children under 16 die every year in traffic collisions. Records indicate that there were 3,613,732 motor vehicle fatalities in the United States from 1899 to 2013.
As a country we now accept that we must have so many deaths a year using automobiles. Now certainly we could stop all automobile deaths by ordering no more automobiles to be allowed on the road. If we focus narrowly on that one single goal then we could achieve it by just not allowing any more motor vehicles to run. But of course that would destroy the economy and the country. Therefore as a nation we have come to accept the fact that the risk of vehicle deaths is outweighed the need of the country to deliver goods and the need of people to get to work.
This virus situation is no different. We are now at a point where the danger to the people from The Cure is worse than the danger from the virus! We are now at a point where America must get back to work and accept the risks of the virus the same way we accept the risks from all other diseases, or car accidents, or plane accidents, slipping in the shower, and any number of risks that we take every day just by living life.
This is what President Trump is faced with. He must make a decision and I am sure he will make the right one. Sadly there are millions of little worms and pieces of garbage on the sidelines waiting to take him down and attack him for whatever decision he makes. And of course if he makes no decision they will attack him for that too as well as attack him for the resulting destroyed economy.
Speaking for myself I am ready to take the risk that comes with the existence of the virus and move on with life. I take a risk everyday getting in my car, I take a risk everyday getting in the shower, I take a risk everyday that I could catch any number of diseases. It's time to get back to work and let the medical community continue its good work to lessen and lesson the deaths caused by this as they do the deaths caused by all other diseases.
And that is my comment, the smartest one people will hear by the way.
[h=1]NOT BUILT TO SHUT DOWN: President Trump Says AMERICANS Want LIFE BACK[/h]
The word "Nazi" never crossed my lips you fraud.
The Brits like all Europeans were and still are highly antisemitic.
The United States benevolence is the only reason that Israel even still exists. Instead of acting like a tool maybe you should just say Thank You.
Some are, the vast majority aren't
most Americans aren't moronic white nationalists
Oh, and Chair is not acting like a "tool"
Unlike you, he's acting rational and making sense.
Says you, and what you say has a reputation of being wrong more often than not.
Well, since "white nationalist" is a made up fake phrase, that makes sense.
Someone who defends the people who sided with Nazi sympathizers to oppress their own people, is pretty much a tool by making the defense.
As usual, you call the rational irrational, and the sensible not sensible. That's because you're another leftist on the wrong side of history.
Ho hum.
Well, who doesn't want life back as to how it was before this pandemic? I'd like to be able to go down my local pub and socialise with friends, to be able to go out more than once a day for essential purposes only etc. I also don't want hospitals being overrun and more and more people getting sick and dying because measures are lifted that allow this virus to spread unchecked. As soon as it's tenable for regulations to be relaxed then great, couldn't come soon enough but only when the situation is under control, otherwise it's just irresponsible.
Italy has had 113 deaths per million people, in the past month or so. The US has a population of 327 million. So, at the same death rate as Italy (a bad scenario), the US could have 37,000 deaths a month. A) Would 30,000 a month be acceptable? B) Italians are still dying, about 700 every day. It's far from over, though it seems to be leveling off. C) The Italian death rate was "achieved" even though they instituted social distancing- though they started late.
An Italian government virologist came out the other day and said that almost all of Italy's deaths attributed to the coronavirus were due to underlying health issues, and almost all of the people who died were in their 80s. What's that tell us? That heart disease, obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disease, etc... were the underlying cause of death in almost all of the people who died from the coronavirus. Italy got hit hard because it's population is older, and older people have more of the underlying causes of death than the general population has.
The government virologist said they only had a small percentage of the paper work from the hospitals at that time, but of the paperwork they did have only 2% of the deaths were actually caused by the coronavirus. So, when that is taken into consideration the number of deaths in Italy due to coronavirus are very low. The reported deaths due to coronavirus in Italy is 8125. Multiplying that by .02 gives us 164 deaths by coronavirus without underlying health issues.
Fortunately obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are very uncommon in the US...
I am aghast at what is happening in NYC.
I'm just wondering if Trump Girl has any updates for us. Maybe She's changed her mind a bit?
I'm just wondering if Trump Girl has any updates for us. Maybe She's changed her mind a bit?
She's practicing social distancing.