In my post that you're referring to, I said that Trump is most likely right with what he said from a purely technical perspective. This doesnt mean that it was smart to communicate this point the way he did, or to even communicate it at all.

and in your desperation to defend your emperor's moronic and dangerous statements, you just outright ignored the possibility that unregistered cases can obviously also result in death, and completely dismissed the possibility that the experts accounted for those factors to give a realistic estimate of the threat.

in short, you went full science-denial in order to make excuses for a clearly politically motivated statement concerning covid-19. i rest my case.

The fact that the virus is going to keep spreading is not an indictment of any political entity. No matter who the president is, the science just isn't there to combat/contain the virus effectively.

My former community college just closed down and is converting classes to online for the foreseeable future after declaring a state of emergency. Two employees were potentially exposed.

Wild!

Shutting down their most productive region for a whole month, considering their economy isn't exactly in the best shape, is far more damaging than letting this virus spread. Isolate the elderly, if anything... the rest should go on with their lives.

YEAH, it's so hard to explain this to all the stupids egoistics ignorants professors and politics (of different countries) who decided to contain the disease as early as possible to contain the exponential progression, even if it's about to provoke a reeee-session.


This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Mar 9 2020 03:00am

how do you define "more damaging"? economically? well, duh - but how would you weigh unnecessary loss of human life against that?

also, you make it sound like they shut down their complete industry in northern italy, which simply is not correct. they shut down schools, cultural events, and tourist venues, severly restricted public venues and sporting events, and put the region under quarantine - very severe and economically damaging measures for sure, but it's not like they just switched northern italy off. given the severity of the outbreak there, can you really not understand how that might be justified? i mean, your comparison with spain makes very little sense if you look at the actual numbers (that i provided in my previous post). you sound unusually cynical on this...

As soon as possible, yes, but now Italy is way past that. At this point it's far worse to try to contain it at the expense of economic growth, because the amount of production halted is way too high.

You can't drag your ass in a situation like this. This is a bitch of a virus that spreads like wildfire if you give it a chance hence the draconian measures taken in china. Their economic growth is the pride of the nation, is there anyone here who believes they'd put 60M people on lock down if there was another way to contain this outbreak?

All of those things create a lot of money... plus a bunch of other stuff like gyms, malls, etc... gone for a month.

The government should focus on isolating the most vulnerable people, not restricting the country's economy or the every day life of the general population, which for the most part will be ok if they contract the virus.

We all benefit from economic growth and production, and that's why we chose to build a capitalist (or at least mixed economy) society... deliberately causing a massive blow to the economy over a virus with such a low mortality rate, even if widespread, is unnecessary considering it will lead to harsh consequence for the overall population of the country for several years.