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Gorsuch has a point though. “It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques,” Justice Gorsuch wrote.
And the churches, etc. are not singled out, because of any religious grounds. It was made explicitly clear that the restrictions were placed based on a scientific risk of spread.
There is no data suggesting liquor stores ..... are high-spread risks, so no similar restrictions.
This news headline caught my attention:https://www.foxnews.com/world/more-people-died-of-suicide-in-japan-in-one-month-than-the-entire-coronavirus-pandemicBut reading it jostled some brain cells that Japan generally has a high suicide rate:https://www.statista.com/statistics/622065/japan-suicide-number/So certainly they will likely have a slightly higher suicide number than last year, and1) it's prudent for the government to take action to help those in need2) But mostly, damn, they're doing great controlling Covid!
just wait until all the numbers start coming out here-suicides, drug overdoses, increases in drug and alcohol usages and relapse, deaths due to neglect(purposeful or not) of all other medical issues.
I actually agree with you, rocket.If the government would have done more to contain the virus and individuals would have done more to avoid spreading the virus, we would have had lower positivity rates and less hospitalizations and therefore more resources to fight all the things that you list. I'm sure you agree with that, right?
jesmu, as this virus was so new in many different ways coupled with the fact that the chinese did not play nice and it was an election year, no one really knew how to go about attacking this virus. there was NO CONTAINING this virus. what we did with this pandemic is monumental. the speed at which our bio sciences are coming up with antidotes, vaccines, anti-virals, antibodies, etc. is a testament to our dedicated research. in the past, the average time to get a vaccine out was multiples of years, not months. but you are wrong about "containing" it. this virus is not going to go away until most everyone gets it in some form or another, herd immunity is developed and/or the vaccines are effective and distributed in an efficient way. everyone's body handles it differently, but very few (if any) were immune to it.
jesmu, as this virus was so new in many different ways coupled with the fact that the chinese did not play nice and it was an election year, no one really knew how to go about attacking this virus. there was NO CONTAINING this virus.
Was there absolutely 100% containing it? No. But stop kidding yourself, the United States has done an awful job.Look at countries like Australia. They had eight new cases yesterday. Their positivity rate since January is 0.3%. They have had 924 total deaths. And this is after they had a mini-outbreak during their winter that they managed well. And their unemployment rate is about the same as the United States' and they now have packed sports stadiums and restaurants that are fully open. While we are sliding backwards.That's what a competent national response looks like.
And it’s an island country in the far South Pacific. Islands off Australia’s coast didn’t have their first COVID case until a couple weeks ago.
Remember the narrative we should be following Europe’s response? https://fortune.com/2020/08/05/covid-coronavirus-deaths-us-europe/amp/And then now:https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/25/europe/europe-coronavirus-deaths-holidays-intl/index.html
There is a path to containing the virus and it’s been proven in many developed countries. You won’t eradicate it until there is mass vaccination. That is actually on the horizon and ups the payoff for containment. ‘There is nothing we can do’ is one of the biggest falsehood of the pandemic.
And yet, they are still doing better than us. Despite having a much higher population density, Europes per capita cases in the current spike is still lower than in the US.
Fauci expecting 'a surge superimposed on the surge we are already in' due to Thanksgiving travel:Fauci says Christmas and New Year’s restrictions will be necessary due to holiday coronavirus wavehttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/29/coronavirus-fauci-says-christmas-and-new-years-restrictions-will-be-necessary.htmlDr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Sunday that the U.S. is heading into a difficult period of the coronavirus pandemic and said current restrictions and travel advisories will be necessary for the Christmas holiday season.“What we expect, unfortunately, as we go for the next couple of weeks into December, is that we might see a surge superimposed on the surge we are already in,” Fauci said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “I don’t want to frighten people, except to say it is not too late to do something about this.”
so they've done well with covid, but worse with the suicides...a death is a death is a death. i wouldn't be so quick to pat anyone on the back about any of this.