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It's no secret on here that I'm for opening everything up .
But I just don't understand other people who want to open things up but choose to not respect the social distancing recommendations.
It is possible to desire our country get back to work while also respecting how dangerous the virus is.
People finally get freedom and want to risk losing it again.
Texdawg, everything has become political in the US and there are many groups and sites saying this is just a big hoax. In my opinion, the right only approach sucks AND the left only approach sucks. Why can't we have common sense like opening up with masks and social distancing being the norm? I think your point about people risking their freedom is very well said. It's also putting at risk my and many people's economic well being.
If we all practiced social distancing, washed hands and wore masks, it would allow us to open up with much less risk of a second wave shutting everything down. But our nation won't take a shared left and right consensus approach, we only do an either/or approach depending on the the party in control of the nation/a state/a city, etc. So screwed up.
I couldn't agree more. Very well said
Its looking more and more like the Wu-Flu was infecting Americans long before experts thought.
Keep reading stories of millions of pounds of food rotting, milk being dumped, thousands of chickens being "depopulated" due to the way the "system" works. This while there are enormous lines at food banks and expected shortages in stores. Sure hope that when we get through this (and we will) things change in those industries. Based on my experience, don't have a great deal of confidence in that but one can hope.
Poor logistics. All the truck drivers are too busy hauling toilet paper and hand sanitizers to destinations that are in other galaxies because they sure haven't hit any shelf in this world.
In the mean time, farmers are throwing out produce and dairy products because we don't wipe our a$$ with them......
I guess the upside is if you don't eat, you need less toilet paper. Amazing how things just seem to work themselves out.
It was probably the plan the whole time. If so, it was the greatest, most beautiful plan of all time.
This whole thing is exposing a lot. And not much is good.
More govt please/s /s /s /s
Yeah, California produces a lot of food and I'm in one of the three regions that produces a lot of it, specifically dairy. What I hear from dairy farmers I know is that they have to pay to pasteurize the milk and transport it and the food banks don't pay them anything for it. So, it is cheaper to dump the milk. They just don't have the $$ to pasteurize it and transport it for free.
Other dairy farmers who supplied butter to the restaurant industry have the ability to put it in little packets, but you can't sell those in grocery stores and so it is a packaging issue.
Efficiency and flexibility are often opposite positives for business supply chains. We have one of the most highly efficient and specialized business supply chains of any country in the world. It also makes it less flexible.
The numbers you keep citing regarding number of cases have no merit. Antibodies tests are showing the true number of cases to be exponentially higher. People might get a different strain of the virus later this year, but they probably aren’t going to get the same one twice so soon. Even so, life MUST go on. People continue talking about “beating the virus.” Keeping society at a standstill is not my idea of winning. A guy named Darwin made a few valid points back in the day.
Day 1? This is a fallacy. We have been remodeling our bar during this time period, which has taken me to HD quite a few times. It has been hard to find a parking spot at any of those stores the entire time things have been “closed.” The grocery stores have the usual number of cars in the lot at all times. The idea that a hair salon with 6 people inside is going to be the reason for an outbreak is ludicrous.
Well, dairy is something that I can understand. Even meat to a degree. Less perishable things, not so much. Not going any farther with this. May cross over into territory I refuse to enter.
Yeah. Been hearing the whole big govt./small govt. debate for decades. Not going there but seems to me it doesn't matter without competence.
This is true. We saw the current POTUS effectively and appropriately provide the individual states with the leeway to manage their own situations, depending upon the 50 varying degrees of urgency. That’s the appropriate small govt response but it failed badly in the areas where local leadership lacked any competence. So far, the area with the largest outbreak horribly mismanaged on a local level.
Then that same locale screamed for weeks on end about their urgent need for thousands of machines that are proving to be a woefully ineffective treatment option.