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SonoftheTerminator 67 points ago +67 / -0

I would love to see how this plays in the next couple months as it cools in Brazil. I read Israel’s approach was to quarantine the elderly and continue life. Heard immunity against a high survivability virus. That imperial college study which was the source of all this panic has already been revised.

At some point we all have to get back outside

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RedReddit 44 points ago +45 / -1

Because Nanny State power grab. I've never seen so many people be Un-American at one time. A town near me breaks up groups of more than 3 people. Ya know, like what you do when you are occupying a nation with your military.

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HockeyMom4Trump 5 points ago +5 / -0

Chicago isn't even letting people go to parks or walk around near the lake or anything.

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misterLahey 2 points ago +2 / -0

And people are accepting and rationalizing these overreaches. Even conservative leaning people. That's the scariest part.

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StunLikeAnAntelope 12 points ago +12 / -0

You have butt hurt liberals looking for any excuse, shielded by their usual bullshit moral superiority, to destroy anything successful about the Trump presidency.

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dakin116 11 points ago +13 / -2

Seems the most obvious solution, most older retirees just go to the doctor, store, and church anyway

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Gilliais -1 points ago +2 / -3

And visit the kids and grandkids. It’s not that simple, because if young people carry on like nothing’s happening, the virus will too. How long do you expect to keep elders locked up?

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trumpforthewin 6 points ago +9 / -3

Because the 60+ are in charge. If it was the other way round, <20 at risk, they would say quarantine yourselves we are going about our lives.

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forcedaspiration 5 points ago +5 / -0

Because that won't crater the economy. Duh

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HockeyMom4Trump 3 points ago +5 / -2

I can tell you right now: It is not justified

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StunLikeAnAntelope 4 points ago +5 / -1

This is backtracking, though. Fergy said 500k deaths if no isolation measures were taken. Isolation measures are said to take at least two weeks to make an impact.... two DAYS after UK imposes isolation measures, Fergy revises his numbers. Also, there are MORE infections than his initial prediction accounted for, meaning that the impact, according to his model, should be far greater than everything.

Either way, we need to put those fuckers who run the bagel shop down the street out of business just to be safe.

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lmao 4 points ago +5 / -1

I read Israel’s approach was to quarantine the elderly and continue life.

That was my idea as well

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T-Bear 9 points ago +9 / -0

That is what worked aboard the Diamond Princess. In fact, in was the ONLY thing available to that crew+passenger list of over 3,700.

What was the result, in cramped quarters, with a whole passenger manifest of 45-75+ age demographic...the ones most susceptible?

A 20% infection rate, ~97% asymptomatic/mild symptoms only, 3% severe cases, 1% death rate.

I wish every scenario would be like this, because this Covid-19 is looking more and more like just another addition to the endemic flu virus population...just like H1N1 Swine Flu has become.

Israel has it right on this one. So does Pres. Bolsonaro.

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HockeyMom4Trump 7 points ago +7 / -0

Yeah. The ramifications of shutting down entire businesses, raising the unemployment rate, more government give-aways (you can now make more on unemployment than you were working), keeping kids out of classrooms, loneliness and isolation...the unintended consequences of these choices are more damaging than the virus to most Americans.

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Sumarongi 3 points ago +3 / -0

Same with Sweden. They are doing fine