Originally Posted by
dneal
People stupid enough not to realise that "Me" equals "Most people" in the above = You and some other nuts...
Where you differ from sane opinion is that your definition of "seriously" isn't that of anyone who has actually considered reality. The US has already hit 50,000 deaths with lockdown measures in place most states. It's probably going to hit a total of 250,000. Without a lockdown, things would have been much, much worse - not least because as deaths among medical personnel climbed, care would have broken down. At which point you'd be looking at something like the early stages of the epidemic in Wuhan, where the death rate was about 3 times higher than when proper care was provided through the expansion of medical facilities.
The other reason sane people have contempt for you is that you're fantasizing about an authoritarian state on the grounds that - teh horrors! - public health legislation is being enforced during a pandemic. Just as it has been before during US history -eg 1918. But the same nuts have been fine while President Bleach's lawyers claimed the constitution no longer applied to him-
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/16/p...-19/index.html
This week, he said he had "total" authority over states to determine when businesses, schools and other entities reopen across the country and, separately, threatened to invoke never-before-used or tested authority to shut down Congress so he could push through his appointees without a Senate vote.
Obviously, you're ridiculous.
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