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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1223474)4/29/2020 3:18:07 PM
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I know everyone will do their best to pin this on Trump. What I see is that this was a systemic lack of preparedness. And the truth is that I can understand lack of preparedness, because none of us have seen anything like this in our lifetimes. The truth is that no President would have been better prepared, so it was always going to boil down to reaction speed and the quality of the response. Trump has done well on both of those scores. However, what I cannot forgive that every agency involved lacked brainpower and an ability to get organized, to think logically, and to fashion proportionate responses. They didn't put the right statistics together to make unbiased decisions. They didn't stop to question when people engaged in scare tactics and apocalyptic scenario peddling to get extreme measures in place. They were not nuanced and not focused on what was really needed.

The lockdown was a sledgehammer to push a pin into a drywall. 99.5% of the population will survive with no longer term problems if they get infected. The ultimate death rate on this will likely be close to the flu, somewhere between 0.1% to 0.5%. The lockdown has put 26 million people into poverty and we'll experience the Greatest Depression as a result of it. The costs are greater than the benefit.

What we should have done is quarantine the vulnerable and ask them to separate from their family and friends likely to infect them. For everyone else, the government should never have engaged in the overreach of incarcerating them in their homes and ordering them to close their businesses. Not only was it not Constitutional, but it was immoral, wrong, and will ultimately be ineffective, as Sweden and Taiwan have proven. They had a more nuanced and thoughtful response and it is working without destroying their economy and without impoverishing their people.

All we have done is to hasten the day that the US will no longer be a force in the world, which conversely hastens the day when we will all have to bow to the will of the Chinese Communists.
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