Fah Kiew Tu
Curmudgeon, First Rank
That's me, sunshine - I'm a grandfather. I already live in the country. Good luck with your plan around these parts.Why wait for a disease? Especially one that doesn't take much to overwhelm our healthcare systems - which is the big problem - hospital full then everything non covid is going to fight for the right to get treated. Heart Attack and it takes a half hour for EMS to arrive? It's already happened in NYC. Need surgery? Better hope you don't get infected as a bonus.
So a better solution would be to build some camps and ovens and be efficient. National Slogan "Gramps went to live on that farm in the country".
What I find surprising is just how many of you are in such denial that you'll attack gissie for stating basically the bleeding obvious. It makes me wonder just where your heads are because you're waaaay closer to that nutcase Mikey than you might feel comfortable being.
Unless & until we have fast, cheap *and* reliable testing any relaxation of movement restrictions is *going* to cause further outbreaks, which will result in sick people and the older sick people will more likely die than the younger ones. Sure - hopefully, in a better world, we'll stamp on the outbreaks a lot faster, but given the incubation period, it'll still be stamping out small brushfires to prevent a major raging conflagration. And people will die that otherwise wouldn't for some indeterminate longer time.
OTOH the cost of keeping movements heavily restricted also isn't zero so - shrug. You pays your money and you takes your choices. We can argue about the merits, likely death rates and costs, sure, but attacking gissie and attributing to him a position he hasn't articulated just makes you part of the problem (and a fucking idiot) in my book. Just like Mikey.
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