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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1220393)4/14/2020 2:37:57 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1579682
 
Mindmeld,
But I think the probability is very high we will all look back at the economic wreckage and we'll understand that it was not worth it.
That'll be an exercise in second-guessing that will never end.

For sure, it'll hinge on the number of deaths that we find to be "acceptable" in a free society like ours. Currently the death toll stands at 25,136. Who knows what could have been had we did nothing? Maybe we could have reached the 240K death toll estimate that Trump made two weeks ago (which of course the media hypocritically criticized as "OMG too high").

Would 240K deaths be acceptable in a population of 328M? Unlikely. We went to war with two nations because 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001. The total number of American deaths in Vietnam was 58,000. Even the total number of American deaths in WWII was "just" half a million.

As for the shredding of constitutional rights such as the right to privacy, well, I'll save that for another day.

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