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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View PostEvery now and again a thread gets started that is so absurd it just doesn't deserve the attention it inevitably gets.
This is such a thread."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Watermelon View Post
We only locked down places that had outbreaks. Why would you lockdown areas where there are none? Who did that?
Sydney had a two week lockdown back in April and that pretty much killed the outbreak and things have been pretty normal since then.
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Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
Is it? What life was saved by this?"Obama is not a brown-skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You are thinking of Jesus." Episcopal Bishop of Arizona
I remember WinAce. Gone but not forgotten.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostThis decision was made basically because the government has learned over the course of this pandemic that people can't be trusted to do what's asked of them with regard to self-isolating
Remember this is happening against a background of zero cases in the country and people living their lives as normal. Your choice then becomes do you (a) let a few infected people infect the rest and have thousands of people die? or (b) quarantine the handful of infected people, and give them a cushy taxpayer funded hotel room and food for a couple of weeks?
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Originally posted by kiwimac View Post
Well, at least 200+ in the US would have been saved if some care had been taken.
I'm not sure how you tell the numbers that would decrease despite having done all this. I'm not sure how you have lost track of the this number of people dying from being deprived of living life for 7 months, who have suffered increased depression, suicide, treatable disease, child abuse ... But I guess all these people are the expendables.Last edited by mikewhitney; 10-29-2020, 11:27 AM.
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Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
Wow. This means the that 180k+ who died of other causes would not have died. it also means that the masks and quarantines did nothing. That means the shutdown of most international travel meant nothing.
I'm not sure how you tell the numbers that would decrease despite having done all this. I'm not sure how you have lost track of the this number of people dying from being deprived of living life for 7 months, who have suffered increased depression, suicide, treatable disease, child abuse ... But I guess all these people are the expendables.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Watermelon View Post
Look at deaths in NZ compared to deaths in USA.
You will find the answer.
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Originally posted by Watermelon View Post
No it doesn’t go against the rights of men or common law.... it’s necessary to save lives.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
This is a cryptic remark. Are you suggesting that basic rights and common law can be suspended in the interest of saving lives? Or are you saying that the measures taken (i.e. forcible imprisonment) don't violate basic rights and common law and are necessary to save lives?
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