1) COVID with only one side. I guess you're splitting hairs here, but yes there are many factors in COVID from the death, to the economy, to the lasting effects and damage of the body to the survivors. I don't thing the person who said "two sides" was ignoring that fact. I believe it was more referencing people who like to say COVID is a hoax. But whatever, if that is your take your both correct. I don't see how this is confrontational.
2) The rest of the country except NY and CA? There is a reason why the Governors closed down states, and it's not the federal government. This disease is beginning to impact places in the southeast and midwest it bigger ways and it's going to get worse in the next few weeks as it's already doing so in GA and AL. COVID-19 is extremely transmissible in closed environments. All it takes is going to church with one person who has it, one flight, one traveler staying locally and going to bar for it to spread throughout the community. It's incredibly dangerous.
Look at the Native American reservations in the southwest, which has been reported nearly on every news platform, they are incredibly devastated.
3) CNN routinely reports on the devastating economic impact that this pandemic is going to cause. I won't go in to what news sources people use, because I assume people get sensitive about being labelled something because of what they watch. Again "the one side" comment is mostly aimed at two end of the extremes. "Everything is fine" and "This is really bad". I think you and the person who said that originally can agree to that.
4) If we didn't socially distances and shut down places, the 100,000 dead people would have been 10x+ because of overwhelmed health services and people dying at home. I don't know how many dead people are worth how many jobs. Is 1000 people worth 10,000 jobs? We went to war for over a decade because someone killed several thousand people on 9/11. How many deaths is worth a job?
5) I'm not sure you know how bad it was in NY/NYC and in NJ. These governors acted (mostly too late if you ask me) in the best interest in their states and saved lives and helped steer the area out of this mess. I'm from NJ by the way. No one here perceives this as dictatorship. These stay at home orders are NECESSARY. CNN was "supporting" (weird word) Cuomo because he was leading a state hardest hit in the country and was contrasting his news conferences to our President who was telling people to inject cleaner in to their bodies.
6) "The mask debate" is only dividing stupid people and not stupid people. And yes you can rubber band cloth to your face. That is what the CDC and other doctors are asking you to do. Before I had a mask, that's what I did (I used rubber bands just like the US Surgeon General did in a
youtube video). Do we really need to review why we wear masks? It drastically decreases the chances of spreading the virus. No one is saying it prevents it or makes you 100% safe. The only people who thinks it's political are people huffing on some perverse sense of American Freedom.
And by the way, I'm not calling you stupid unless you think it's ok to go out in public without a mask right now. If you are, you're being stupid. I don't know who your family members are but... maybe the are misinformed and I'll leave it at that.
7) Hugely botched infection numbers. I don't want to accuse anyone of being crazy, but is there some conspiracy theory you're buying in to? I don't understand what you're saying with this. People's modeling was wrong because Americans, by and large, stayed home and "bent the curve" so the models are being corrected. Modeling and predictions are only as accurate as the data provided them. With the rate of infections and deaths with a virus that is R1.5 to 3.0, modelling was scary if we didn't do anything. If that happened deaths and illness would have been even worse. But most Americans were sensible and stayed home. Modeling and trends are updated as more data is fed in to them.
That's how modeling works.
Fouci isn't hiding. He just did a townhall segment on CNN last week (thursday I think?). He publicly testified before congress 10 days ago. I mean you going after Fouci is just weird. That man's only agenda is keeping Americans healthy. He has decades upon decades of a public track record to back that up. I've seen plenty of news outlets talking about how we can't stay home forever, I've heard Fouci say that in multiple places and multiple times over the last few weeks. I've seen him talking about going out, enjoying the holiday weekend but wear a mask and stay 6 feet apart.
Go watch the Governor of North Dakota the other day talking about masks if need a political contrast of R vs. D. News flash, they both say wear a mask.
It just seems like you're trying to build a narrative here for some reason. If you want to point your finger at me saying I'm doing it as well, fine, but here is my agenda:
1) Keep Americans out of the hospital.
2) Wear a mask
3) Practice social distancing
4) Don't open the economy too soon. Opening it too fast will force us not to open it up more in the long term.
5) Don't drink weird chemicals.
With all the "opening" we're seeing in some places, just watch the news around father's day (2-3 weeks from now) you may see a spike in cases because of this weekend. Hopefully everyone is staying safe out there.
Love you all, red or blue, farmers or city slickers alike.
