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Shit, there goes my plan then!
This is pretty cool:
How Ford Is Using Seat Ventilation Fans to Build Thousands of Respirators
An ingenious solution to provide needed aid to frontline emergency workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.www.roadandtrack.com
how quickly China went from government mandated lockdown to everybody back to work with no masks needed
That's a terrible article. With respect, I don't think you or he have completely grasped the scale of what happens if we listen to the Grand Poobah and everyone just goes back to work. Are you paying attention to the numbers? Are you going to the sources and attempting to understand what we're facing? Or are you just basing your opinion off the soundbytes of an amateur politician and some ****ing weaboo wealth manager?
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This thing sucks, I get it. In the long run, I expect we're going to find that a balance must be struck between functioning economy and people not dying needlessly, but we don't know what that balance looks like yet. To suggest that we abandon our current efforts at slowing this thing down before we even know how effective they were strikes me as amazingly short sighted. The asshole that wrote that article asks "How much economic value are we willing to lose to save a human life?" My answer is all of it, if that's what it takes, but I don't think that's what it will take. We're a fantastically rich country. I think we have the resources to get through this without resorting to draconian social darwinism bullshit, and I don't think we need to listen to the bleatings of a bunch of rich Wall Street assholes who are suggesting that we kick grandma and grandpa off the boat so that they don't have to become slightly less rich. Let's save the "back to work" calls until we have actual hard data about the effect we're currently having on the virus and the economy, can we do that?
This not a statement coming from logic or reason, but rather emotion. Killing the economy will kill lots of people and cause lots of human suffering. That isn't the answer to resolving human suffering. Shifting the cause from COVID to economic ruin does no one a favor. No one on this board has the information to make concise sound decisions. All we can do is be as cautious as we can be and still be able to live."How much economic value are we willing to lose to save a human life?" My answer is all of it, if that's what it takes,
No, I didn't agree with your sentiment, and you walking your shit back doesn't change that.
I'm all about a civil discussion, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to call out reactionary crap when I see it, and that article that you agreed with is reactionary crap.
Some might even need to set aside their complete disdain for the president of the US as a person in order to achieve the common good I think we are all searching for.
Watching people argue about a virus on arock crawlingexploring forum is my favorite. Let's keep it up.
RME hasn't seen this much action/discussion on anything since other forms of social media came along.
Curious what the opinionated think about this piece....
Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: 'We're going to be fine'
A Nobel laureate predicted China's recovery weeks before it happened. Analyzing the numbers, he sees a much brighter global outcome than many experts.news.yahoo.com