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If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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I don't think this will happen, but the extreme suppression strategy seems best. If we could all quarantine for about 3 weeks--I mean really isolate--it would allow the virus to run its course in everyone that has it right now. Then, it would be gone, or close to it, and we could all go back to normal by tax day. Again, it won't happen, but that would be by far the most expedient solution. Much better to hunker down for 3 weeks than have to go back and forth shutting everything down for a year or more.
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Originally posted by GwynnInTheHall View PostWhy is the economy more important than any individual life?"Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"
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Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer View PostAnybody making money is not more important than any individual life. But if we have an extended economic downturn, that will result in loss of life, too. It's more indirect and perhaps easier to morally tolerate that way. I'd have a really tough time saying great grandma is just going to have to take her chances when we spin the Russian Roulette revolver for her, but I don't think that the real impacts to people from major economic downturns, including how more people die prematurely because of the stress and so forth, should be ignored. Hopefully we will see out of this crisis the need to take societal action to improve the safety net and reduce the impact that economic stress can have on people. But I don't think we'll ever be able to eliminate it.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Originally posted by Sour Masher View PostI don't think this will happen, but the extreme suppression strategy seems best. If we could all quarantine for about 3 weeks--I mean really isolate--it would allow the virus to run its course in everyone that has it right now. Then, it would be gone, or close to it, and we could all go back to normal by tax day. Again, it won't happen, but that would be by far the most expedient solution. Much better to hunker down for 3 weeks than have to go back and forth shutting everything down for a year or more.
the pace of cases should show slower increases, flatline, or decreases. from there, we figure out how much longer to isolate.
spikes will occur by the end of the month in places like Chicago, which went on its merry way in bars on St. Patrick's Day.
they'll wind up in isolation as well, but at least they'll get a hint of what happened in Washington and NYC as a guide to the extent of benefits of isolation.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
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Originally posted by GwynnInTheHall View PostWhy is the economy more important than any individual life?
All kidding aside. The economy has a huge impact on surviving. I am in the motor industry. Shut us down and we effect hospitals, Electricity, food growing, food processing, food transportation. Medicine manufacturing, clean water, dirty water, safety, fire pumps, Medical Ventilators, and yes even toilet paper production.
So is one life more important than shutting down the motor company? You would eventually doom many more lives.
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Originally posted by Gregg View Postsurvival of the fittest?
All kidding aside. The economy has a huge impact on surviving. I am in the motor industry. Shut us down and we effect hospitals, Electricity, food growing, food processing, food transportation. Medicine manufacturing, clean water, dirty water, safety, fire pumps, Medical Ventilators, and yes even toilet paper production.
So is one life more important than shutting down the motor company? You would eventually doom many more lives.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As for survival of the fittest--more like survival of the most heavily armed and best shot. Because that's what it'd come down to.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Originally posted by GwynnInTheHall View PostWouldn't one way to do both, prevent a total return to the Great Depression (or worse) AND save as many lives as possible, be changing our structure of Govt to a more socialist construct? Take everyone's wealth and re-distribute it towards a cure and containment and assure that everyone in the country have means to cope with a new reality? I know that's drastic, but to me (of course to me) it sounds far more humane than deciding who's gonna have to die to prevent my 401k from vanishing.
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Originally posted by Gregg View PostAnd just like that you understand why people do not want to give up their guns.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Are guns gonna get you on a respirator? It's yet another pitiful indictment of our country that we'd rather run out and buy guns then stay in to keep the pandemic from killing more people.If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
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Originally posted by Gregg View PostIt might just work if we start with Germany and Japan, then Russia. Maybe someone with extra oil.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Originally posted by DMT View PostAre guns gonna get you on a respirator? It's yet another pitiful indictment of our country that we'd rather run out and buy guns then stay in to keep the pandemic from killing more people.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Originally posted by GwynnInTheHall View PostAs for survival of the fittest--more like survival of the most heavily armed and best shot. Because that's what it'd come down to.
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You definitely missed the pointIf DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
- Terence McKenna
Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige
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