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Myrddin Wild: you have said a lot of misguided stuff, but to ignore that, can you answer: what should government do to address the pandemic, and what should businesses do, and what should individuals do? Or, in the case of your biggest fear, the hunger issues for international kids, what can we do to prevent and mitigate that?
Taking into account real likely human reactions and approaches.
First off, you can blow me for saying my well thought out & well presented pov WITH LINKS... is mis-guided without telling me why you think that.
Second, you couldn't even manage to tag me properly, so you're probably not smart enough to understand it even if I did explain it to you.
Third... The CDC & the WHO are both saying they don't agree with shutdowns just like I am, so I'm assuming you think they are misguided as well? Who teh fook are you?
& finally, to answer your question. A certain level of caution such as the CDC & WHO are recommending can work fine for something like this. You don't have to close down Disney World... you just tell the high risk people not to go there. This is half a percent here with rona "assisted" deaths. The percentage of deaths just from Rona are many times over less than that. Don't quote me but I think it's something like 0.003%.
So if you're high risk, then do your precautions, & we'll all wear the fooking masks if that's what we have to do, but to tell a buisiness to shut down is ridiculous, & it's ruined the lives of 100x more people than have died from Rona... many of which will also die as a result of the hardship & poverty they were put under, which includes more kids than Rona kills.
The high risk people don't need to go into bars & resturants or cruises & fooking movie theaters. The grocery stores remained open, so all good. If you're high risk, then stay home. You don't even gotta go to the grocery store... they fookin' deliver it ffs. The consequences from shutting down are too great to justify this. Had it turned out to be worse, then okay... but not for this.
For high risk people there are better options for protection that someone could sneeze right on them & they wouldn't' get it. There are masks that seal tightly to the whole face. For the 9 Trillion we spent on shutdowns, we could've outfitted every single high risk person with one of those for a massive fraction in cost less... & then all the healthy people could continue to live their lives & a 130 million people wouldn't have been pushed into poverty & the brink of starvation.
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