Moving Past the Quarantine
City Journal,
by
Arpit Gupta
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
3/24/2020 4:49:12 AM
Public-health experts largely agree that a period of nationwide slowdown—including school closings, remote work, social distancing, and shelter-in-place orders for 80 million Americans—is necessary to curb the spread of Covid-19. As cases have escalated and threaten to overload the health system, these suppression methods are essential to “flatten the curve” of rising hospitalizations to ensure that they do not exceed our hospital capacity.
Yet these efforts come at a frightening economic cost. As in-person contact becomes prohibitively difficult, entire industries—hospitality, restaurants, tourism, and more—have shut down almost completely. Millions of workers are set to lose their jobs. The stock market is in freefall, and bankruptcies loom for both households and corporations.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/24/2020 6:10:00 AM (No. 356010)
WE are resilient. I refuse to think like a Democrat or liberal. You can live the good life or live in His Good Way. Be of this earth or be of Him. My way or Thy way. However you want to look at it, I don't know, but I would rather be part of His lightness than their darkness. You have a chance to hit the "refresh" button. I suggest starting with opening your Bible! Life Application Bibles and Study Bibles assist with understanding.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/24/2020 7:18:51 AM (No. 356066)
I think there's been a big overaction but what do I know. I'm not a public health expert.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JJLizzie 3/24/2020 7:21:49 AM (No. 356070)
I wish there would be a discussion if this quarantine is helping at all. It doesn't appear to be. Italy has been shut down for a while and their numbers are still bad. Cuomo and Trump hinted yesterday at opening up. Why does a state like NE have to shut down? Leave it up to the governors.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GO3 3/24/2020 8:19:42 AM (No. 356141)
#3 is right. This is a one size fits all approach where it's not required. I like to look at things from a geographic and demographic perspective. Sorry I had link to the NYT, but it had the best map of cases by city/county:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
A few observations, some which we already knew.
- large blue cities are hardest hit especially NYC. Reporters are fond of stoking fear based upon events in the NE, particularly NYC. It's an "all roads lead to NYC" mentality I find offensive. Their cultural diversity may lead to their downfall.
- Most hard hit areas are port cities. A foreign shipment offloaded onto our shores is a good way to introduce a virus intentionally or not. I am familiar with two ports, one domestic and one foreign. It's impossible to screen for 100% contraband (although one port I'm familiar with does a very good job of screening) much less a few contaminated packages among thousands of containers on a daily basis.
- Weather - cool and humid. New Orleans is warm and humid and in a sinkhole. Seattle is dark and dank and if one does not keep up on cleaning, you end up with what we used to call mung growing up the walls of houses and into the walls themselves. Contrast with the fewer number of cases east of the Cascades, which is light and space.
So, if leadership were to analyze some basic factors, taking into account the medical and scientific aspects, a nationwide shutdown would seem to be silly and destructive. Don't have the rest of the nation kowtow to blue city mayors, while people in NE don't need these draconian measures.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/24/2020 8:22:03 AM (No. 356144)
It's the shortage of medical equipment and personnel that is causing the overload in the health system and that was caused by the ravages of Zerocare. Hospitals lost business because people lost insurance coverage and doctors quit by the hundreds due to the extra useless requirements in medical data recording. Temporary hospital space can be set up anywhere, hotels, stadiums, large tents, etc. if the essential elements were available
If not for the three years of the impeachment circus, the overpaid monkeys of the House could have been working on a new and workable healthcare system. It is a one hundred percent democrat failure.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
felixcat 3/24/2020 8:31:42 AM (No. 356155)
Quarantine those most affected by this ChiCom Corona virus - not the entire country. Every year, we are told that the elderly and those with underlying health issues should get a flu shot. EVERY year but no PSAs telling us to wash our hands, etc. Now I;m seeing PSAs featuring Dr. Fauci. How about that. He's finally enjoying his time in the limelight after forty years of downplaying every other nationwide flu, virus, etc crisis that has taken apace in this country an around the world.
We may be resilient but we sure are quietly and easily submitting to this (now at the state level but we shall see if extended at national level) restrictions on our freedom of movement, etc. I don't see a good outcome out of this unless one is a Leftist Dem.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
felixcat 3/24/2020 8:33:28 AM (No. 356159)
I would also add that in previous crosses like SARS, Ebola, etc - not one word about hospitals being overwhelmed or lack of certain equipment until now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 3/24/2020 8:43:59 AM (No. 356168)
This has been a huge overreaction spun up by the media and deliberately exacerbated by their RAT masters. Other governors have had to get in line because nobody can afford to look like they did nothing, especially with an election coming up. Trump has been knifed in the back by that little clown Fauci. I am much more concerned about hypertension than the CCPF.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Alecto2 3/24/2020 9:40:20 AM (No. 356252)
History will show this to have been a complete, utter and unnecessary cluster**** of global proportions. A ginned up panic to be used by the extreme global left.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/24/2020 10:21:39 AM (No. 356297)
First pandemic that had Smartphones everywhere.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Foont 3/24/2020 10:45:05 AM (No. 356327)
For millennia our ancestors dealt with highly infectious diseases that were far more lethal than this thing and managed to muddle through. They had far less technical and medical know how but they kept things up and running. We can certainly do the same if we don't let mindless fear and idiotic political agendas sidetrack us or stampede us into taking unneeded drastic measures that cause more damage than they prevent. This thing is here and will be for approximately forever and we are just going to have to learn to live with it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Arby 3/24/2020 10:59:24 AM (No. 356346)
This is a scientific, medical and economic issue, but it is also a prudential one. We cannot destroy our economy in order to destroy the virus. As the president put it, we have thousands of automobile-related deaths every year but we cannot ban the driving of cars and trucks. I trust DJT to strike the right balance, particularly when he's surrounded by ideologues and heel-biters. All of life is a risk, but a risk worth taking.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
columba 3/24/2020 11:25:42 AM (No. 356386)
We WERE an exceptional nation.
But then:
Roe V Wad and legal baby killing
and
Legal "marriage" for perverts.
Change those two and maybe, just maybe, we will be spared.
Otherwise ....we will not.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/24/2020 11:37:20 AM (No. 356398)
Thanks for the perspective, #9. My mind totally agrees. My heart bids me listen to available medical authority. I fear you are correct about the ginned up cluster****.
Meanwhile a local Walgreen's pharmacy charged me $66 dollars for my $28 cough medicine. Price gouging in a crisis which will be reported to the Attorney General's Office -- when they reopen.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 3/24/2020 11:56:53 AM (No. 356420)
NYC is the virus epicenter due to our politically correct bureaucrats. Last night, Tucker Carlson showed several tweets from NYC officials in mid-February (when Trump had already closed down travel from China) urging citizens to go to the Chinese New Years parade and festivities in Chinatown in lower Manhattan. They said there was nothing to fear from the virus. Well guess what? NYC is the epicenter now. And who exactly is going to hold these officials responsible? Disgusting. That said, Trump is so right. The cure can't be worse than the virus. If we don't figure out a way to try to contain the virus and get this country back to work, there won't be any health facilities or anything else left as a depression far worse than 1929 is ushered in. We are the USA and as DJT says we can do two things at once. I think his plan from the beginning was saying to Fauci and Birx, I give you a two week shutdown to contain the virus, but after that we are going back to work and yes, we will figure out just how to do that. Thank God Trump is president. Can you imagine either PIAPS or Obola in charge? It's too awful to contemplate.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/24/2020 12:11:28 PM (No. 356439)
We've made it through the Bird flu quarantine, the AIDS quarantine, Swine Flu, Hong Kong Flu, and others.
Oh, wait!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 3/24/2020 2:23:32 PM (No. 356558)
I’m no reporter
But I’d like to report this:
Look what COMMUNIST CHINA did to our world!
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