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Ya I can tell by that touching touche you left 4 pages back that their welfare is of your utmost concern.Nice attempt at spin.They certainy wouldn't stoop to ask for your sympathy

Their plight frustrates me and I don't understand their reaction to it.  And why is that the emotion I feel?  Because I don't care?  Because I hate them?  You're so far removed from the reality of my part of the discussion that you don't really warrant response. 

I'm not being pissy here, just realizing how skewed this post is.  This whole thing started because I give a damn about people I'll never meet.  No, that doesn't make me any different from any of you, but you think I'm some decietful, elitist asshole.

So sorry to disappoint you.

Yes, I know.  I was asking for what it is. 

You can't know the balance unless you know a hell of a lot more than we did about this virus. Heck, we STILL don't know enough to find the balance.

The flu doesn't cause us to shut everything down. Resurgence of something as fatal as the 1918 Spanish Flu? It absolutely would.

We could save thousands and thousands of lives by mandating a 20 mph speed limit nationwide. We don't do that because it would be asinine. We accept a certain level of automobile deaths because we can't live our lives at 20 mph. 

I still don't know whether we overreacted to this. We won't until we can study this in hindsight.

Or the other alternate?

Back on-topic, GA and SC are rip-roaring to get back to making that money. 
You know, the intellectual pillars of our Union. 

Without starting another forest fire, would it be fair to say republican-leaning states want to open sooner and democratic-leaning states are okay with opening later and ask the Government for a handout  
Oh wait, shouldn't the statistics dictate that?  And not politics? 

FIFY

I knew flat out that the guy I voted for wasn't going to get more than a percent or two of the vote, so I felt safe excluding him.

My vote didn't matter here in Illinois either. 

Generally, R states are more rural and D states are more urban. Closer proximity to other people [as in cities] tends to lead to easier spread of a virus.

Politics are undoubtedly involved, because a certain politician at the head of our government is pushing heavily for re-opening. But if the alternative politician was elected in 2016 and was in favor of stay-at-home orders, my guess is that the folks in rural R-leaning America would be protesting TWICE as heavily as they are against stay-at-home orders.

This would be ... a lot. 

I read two cats have tested positive for the virus in NTC

Now who in the world would give a cat a virus test

No wonder NYC is in trouble

LOL