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This is impressively shitty post. I should have expected this, but for some reason I thought you were going to be reasonable. If you could write a coherent post that is not scattershot, it would be easier to recognize what questions you want answers to. I'm not going to write you a novel, so I gave a general response. Your questions were asinine, so I thought they were rhetorical.
For example:
You mean like massive anti-smoking campaigns? Massive moves to improve nutritional guidelines and education? PE? Health classes? Massive funding for flu vaccinations, measles, chickenpox, etc? Massive research with funding in the billions for Cancer, Heart Disease, AIDS?
How the hell is somebody supposed to provide a thorough answer to such an exhaustive question? Lol. Yeah, we take enormous measures constantly that require enormous research funding and manpower. I support that. I'm not going to write you a novel on it.
Our taxes already go towards combating these issues, as evidenced by the $400 million project just signed off on to combat the Flu, and the trillions of dollars spent on various projects at the NIH. So yeah, I'm okay with tax money going to combat illnesses.
No, I would not okay with incarceration for leaving your house while sick. Great questions! Lol.
Proportionality. The more severe the issue, the more severe the response needs to be. Each situation needs to be measured individually to determine the options available and the risks involved. In the case of Covid, we knew there was the possibility for devastation, and there was an unpredictability due to it being a novel virus we were not all that familiar with. We were looking at hundreds of thousands of deaths without action, and we just crossed 100,000 even with the measures taken.
No, a permanently depressed economy is not necessary. Which is why we are already opening the economy across the country in steps. But a temporary effort to slow a pandemic while we learn more about the disease, how to combat the disease, our healthcare limits, how it affects different age groups, etc, is reasonable to me.
How have you and family been holding up in Maryland? Staying healthy?
