2020 Election MEGAthread

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But yes though, it is worth it. Had we not the estimates are around 2 million americans, by trumps and the CDC count.

Also, the important thing about drastic measures for flu and why we dont do them is known: coronaviruses rarely infect humans and mutate slowly, so when they do you can quarantine them and they will die. Influenza you cannot do that, because of the way they mutates very quickly.

Covid: 1-2 years of hard work, save a lot of lives.
Flu: you would have to live like this forever to save lives every year, and that's asking too much.

It's not like I want to outlaw going outside because muggings happen, you know?

And as for the economy, trumps portion of the job was to make that work while the medical pro's do the medicine, but he got it backwards.

Well that seems at odds with what happened; it *did* infect the population of wuhan rapidly and it also mutated within a couple months. The sars-cov-2 infecting america and elsewhere has been identified as a european variant; it's much more transmissible than what took place in wuhan but also much less lethal. Viruses don't survive by killing their hosts.

And you still haven't really answered the economic question. If the goal is the preservation of human life, it's not at all clear that more human life has been saved by these measures compared to the effects of a disease with an overwhelmingly high survival rate. If this had occured under obama, I absolutely guarantee the left would not be saying "obama totally botched this!!". They'd be saying "he did everything he could, he's not a fortune teller, he can't see the future" which again brings up my main point; why is this so drastically politicized?? How can we change things so that in the future if a totally unforseen huge emergency happens, we don't all start blaming one another for what is basically an act of nature?