Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Those are the choices: Save maximum number of lives, save the maximum about of money or something in between. I support teh "in between" since, at a certain point, the national economy becomes a national security issue.
Trump is a fucking moron, but he didn't cause COVID-19. The US and global economy would still be in the shitter if Queen Hillary had been elected.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
I agree.
I’d go a step farther and say not a whole lot would be different. Once a virus becomes sufficiently prevalent in a population it does its thing. One area the modelers were almost certainly wrong was in assuming the virus got here January. That almost can’t be true with the amount of immigration we had from China and even Italy while China was lying about human transmission.
But this is an election year and Trump exists in the WH, so yeah.
Saying the economy is ‘just about money’ is shallow. It’s about people’s lives and don’t kid yourself—Fauci’s recommendations has caused some needless deaths. For a month the vast majority of hospitals shut down elective procedures. How many cancer diagnoses have been missed? How many people with chronic gallbladder disease wound up in the ER with an acute gangrenous bladder and died of sepsis? How many people died of strokes because they feared going to the hospital?
Schools were shut down even though kids and young adults rarely get COVID.
How many people are going to lose their jobs and then their homes? It’s not about money—it’s about healthy people having their lives destroyed.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Hillary would have reacted faster and saved a few lives, but percentage wise, I agree; largely nothing would be different. Part of the problem has been occuring for years: the Federal government cuts revenue and preparedness, but ramps up debt. We've been digging ourselves into this hole for the entire 21st century. Now it's time to pay for our lack of imagination.
Blaming Fauci is even dumber than blaming Trump.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
I guess it's easy to say what 'would have been', but if Hillary were POTUS we would still have had staff in China when this thing was first brewing. The economy would have been shut down sooner if the virus got here, but having a 4 month head start might have made for a shut down of travel around the holidays, instead of in February.
The issue that causes national security, is having an incompetent ass in charge who still funnels money to cronies for snake oil remedies.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
christiefan915 (05-16-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Would we? Even if a Republican Congress limited her budget?
That's the point, she would have shut down the economy sooner, which would have saved lives, but we'd still be headed for a Depression. How could she open it back up again without a vaccine or cure?
The economy itself is the fuel of national security. Would Hillary have printed more or less money than Trump is doing?
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
No point in arguing your Hillary *speculation*.
I’ll agree that both global and domestic governments showed their usual incompetence. WHO dropped the ball. China lied. The CDC needs a hard look after this.
And WTF, with relying on CHINA for so much of our medical supplies?
Singling Trump out is partisan stuff. My only point is you can’t blame the economy on Trump when Trump was doing—what Hillary would have done, or Obama, or either Bush would have done under the same circumstances.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Althea (05-16-2020)
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
Actually, I’m trying to enlighten you lol.
COVID19–a respiratory virus, *triggers* the so called Cytokine Storm is a very small number of infections. People with autoimmune disorders learn about what ‘triggers’ their immune system to malfunction and are counseled to avoid them.
I don’t know the stats, but I’d wager a small number of deaths actually occurred from straight up COVID pneumonia. Probably happened quite a bit in nursing homes. These people can catch pneumonia at the drop of a hat. The younger individuals very likely died—at the hands of their own immune system, triggered, by the COVID virus.
Ironic, huh?
Probably why ‘COVID related deaths’ is such a large category.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Althea (05-16-2020)
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