https://video.foxnews.com/v/6155230391001#sp=show-clips

To enforcing "stay at home" orders. This is my boss. He was speaking to our county board of supervisors who voted to open sh*t up in our county today.

America... f--- yeah.

MACS wrote:

Ya know how I feel about some of the shutdown. Draconian. I wish the government would or could back off and people would act responsibly and do the right things. Neither will happen though because I’m shocked at folks inability to get their minds around this critter. I honestly gave the common joe too much credit.

The scariest part to me is some that don’t understand it think they do. I did what I rarely do. I went in Facebook yesterday to see what folks are saying. I guess the hospitals are lying, the counts are inflated and it’s a plot by some to destroy merica. Yea that’s logical lol.

A while back I mentioned that this wasn’t the first time something like this shut down had happened. At a local level health shutdowns like this (healthy and sick alike not just a sick quarantine) have happened more frequently than most are aware. The scale is the only difference to me.

Someone argued it had never happened before and I chose not to argue. I’d studied enough of them to know better but it didn’t matter. It turns out I was wrong. Not about it happening. It happened on a larger scale than I had realized.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-saw-the-deadly-1918-spanish-flu-epidemic-coming-shutting-down-the-city-saved/article_52e5e46d-1f30-5f31-a706-786785692bb5.html 

Interesting article that gives insight to the goal. Been reading a lot about Seattle’s efforts this time that may draw parallels.

My little towns restaurants and pubs have opened. The owners have always been dubious (Small town, well known) and will do little to protect the public. My daughter was invited to go to a sleepover last night. Stupid.

I want the government out of it too. But then it becomes up to you to protect yourselves and others if you are a decent person. Unfortunately you can’t control others and you don’t have total control on how they impact you. Remember some don’t believe this is happening or don’t fully understand it and they do impact you. The best you can do is try to mitigate it and pay attention to who is who.

And yes we need to open.

teedubbya wrote:

If we treated the numbers in context, rather than from the fear tactic being used by government and media, we'd learn that we need to do MORE to protect the elderly instead of this over reach killing us slowly.
I went to the official numbers from my state. Massachusetts has a bunch of deaths. Worst than most. So I read the numbers. From the Mass.gov website. And I learned that if you're under 30 the chances of dying from this are statistically zero.
Now, I'm no math expert, but that's pretty low.
Hell, the 50 to 59 demographics are 0.017% likely to die from it.
That's independent from pre-existing conditions.

The math isn't scary.
The individual numbers are.
Because they're not in context.
Yet they're the reason we've closed everything up tight.

It's pathetic.

tailgater wrote:

Freedom. Tell me what you know... recommend what we should and should not do... and let me be free to decide for myself.

MACS wrote:

I agree as long as your brand of freedom does not others.

rfenst wrote: