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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudging from the surge in Covid cases after many states reopened prematurely,
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imagine what the numbers would look like had we not gone into lockdown, flawed as it was, a couple months ago.
Had Murka remained open for business as usual in April & May, we'd be at multiples of the current number of daily cases & deaths.
Has even one of the troglodytes, Neanderthals, imbeciles, incompetents, mental defectives, low-IQ morans, greedy bastards, "freedom" lovers & sociopaths in DC, the media or the general pop. who vehemently opposed the lockdown come forward publicly & admitted they were wrong, BIG TIME?
Of course not. Silly question.
What Democrats, liberals, progressives, moderates, The Lincoln Project, Never-Trumpers, Rational Republicans (is that an oxymoron?) & anyone else acquainted with reality need to do is remind voters very loudly & constantly that Trump & his nest of vipers opposed the lockdown with every fiber of their miserable, twisted souls & that it was the governors & mayors -- Dems aggressively & 'Pubs reluctantly -- who brought things to a halt, saving tens of thousands of lives & preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of a sometimes deadly & often-disabling disease.
And also remind voters that it was overwhelmingly the Rethug governors who reopened prematurely, imperiling the lives of their constituents & of us all.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,417 posts)but weren't some states not even shut down all that much to begin with?
Voltaire2
(13,088 posts)And they've brainwashed a large segment of the population into thinking it is 'libtarded' to social distance and wear a mask.
What we did in April and May is quickly becoming irrelevant.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Through no effort of his own, the quick reaction of the state governments in New York, Washington, and California blunted the initial stages of the pandemic. Trump has claimed those efforts for himself to brag that he personally saved millions of lives during the time he was calling the pandemic a hoax and bending the medical community to parrot his see-no-evil approach.
RockRaven
(14,978 posts)Japan didn't close or lockdown anything like what America did, but their cases and deaths are miniscule by comparison to the US, and also compared to other no-lockdown countries like Sweden.
Why? Maybe because their mask-wearing rate was through the roof.
There are studies/papers out there which show that if 80% of Americans wore masks outside the home, the transmission rate would plummet even without an accompanying lockdown.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)were opening before they had peaked.
tanyev
(42,584 posts)I saw a local news story late May, maybe, listing off all the dates things were going to reopen and my jaw hit the floor. Wouldnt it make a million times more sense to wait enough time at each phase to see how well its working before moving on to the next phase?