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Orange Man Bad Lockdown

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—While President Trump and some Republican governors are pushing to reopen the country soon, Democrats are much more cautious as they see a looming disaster if America ends the shutdown early: Trump getting credit for a growing economy.

“Right now, we have record joblessness, and GDP is certainly going to take a huge hit,” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “That’s exactly what you want in an election year when you’re running against an incumbent. If we reverse that too soon, we’re basically helping Trump’s reelection.”

“If we reopen now, it could be an absolute disaster,” added Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “We could have people in November saying, ‘Wow. Things are getting better. Trump is doing a great job.’ It’s hard to imagine anything worse than that.”

Pelosi and Schumer said that “out of an abundance of caution,” they need to wait to make sure things stay pretty bad until after the election, as that will be the only way to stave off another Trump term.

“Oh, and I guess if we reopen things too soon,” Schumer added as an afterthought, “it could also lead to a resurgence of people dying.”

Go here to read the rest.  It is becoming increasingly obvious that the lockdowns, that should never have been undertaken in the first place, have no scientific basis for remaining in place.  The economy is in Great Depression levels of unemployment, the States cannot pay their unemployment bills and our food supply chains are showing signs of beginning to break under the strain. People must go back to work immediately, before the small businesses that employ half of them become only memories.  Fortunately, more and more Americans are taking matters into their own hands.  Law requires both consent and force.  In a democracy, there is insufficient force to compel the majority of people to obey a law that they view as illegitimate.  The lockdown regimes are coming to an end, no matter what governors and mayors order.

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Tuesday, April 28, AD 2020 3:14am

The medical profession is getting their just deserves. When they should have stood up and told the truth about the virus and/or called for a real scientific investigation.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, April 28, AD 2020 10:57am

MD: I am convinced our heroic MD’s and nurses are doing no better at this than would naked, witch doctors with bones stuck through their noses shaking rattles at people’s comatose heads.

To be fair to witch doctors, you can’t do much with 90 year old men with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease that tested positive for the China Death Virus.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, April 28, AD 2020 11:42am

@Michael Dowd – my mother works in the health profession and to sum up my point, it is really a case of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). They do what they can but there’s a limit to their capabilities, especially if everything they’re being told from trusted sources is telling them it’s all about to overwhelm them.

And yeah, they could “just not believe the sources” but that’s going to have ramifications down the line as a lot of modern society relies upon communication lines and trust in each other.

As the saying goes: easy in theory, much harder in practice.

And as I’ve ranted about for awhile: Life is about trade-offs. A lot of this silliness is a consequence of people believing they don’t really have to pay (whether in time or actual money) for their choices.

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