HrMcL
ultimate FUDDER
#nevergofullchickenlittle
The US populace is not going to have an appetite for another shutdown, especially when this virus is not the killer they thought it was. It's more like .1% not 1%
Plus Hairy was taking 1.33% and multiplying it by the entire population, not the caseload, to get millions of deaths.
The toll of deaths will be maybe a hundred thousand or a couple of hundred thousand at most in the first year, and drop off drastically after that.
What's the rate of people dying by falling in the shower? Suicides? Workplace accidents?
We had the same logic in response to a few thousand deaths at the World Trade Center. The world must be forever after changed, with a security/surveillance state and non-stop wars for our lifetimes and maybe a few generations after us.
Now the state responds to the virus the same way. The public's being herded into pens and the economy slaughtered to keep us... safe.
Well, maybe not so safe. Just fucked.
And let's get this straight. The virus can't fuck up the world economy. That's up to us, and we're doing a bang-up job!
Even the Spanish Flu only had marginal effects on the economy, because people kept going to work.