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Comment · 6 years ago
You argue that allowing free commerce on the highways is okay with a relatively small percentage of the population being dangerous to others.

And yet you argue that allowing free commerce in America is not okay with a population that is dangerous to a relatively small percentage of the population.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
> You and your family should jump to the front line and help build this immunity. I’ll protect my 2 year-old and pregnant wife in our home.

This is exactly how the pandemic should have been handled. Personal risk should have been allowed to be determined by the individual, not the state, at the expense of personal rights.

Comment · 6 years ago
Faults in your argument:

Hospitals are mostly empty in the US.

Antibody testing is showing that herd immunity is rapidly growing.

Persons who could be severely infected by COVID are generally not in the workforce.

Comment · 6 years ago
Like herd immunity, the large stockpile of ventilators will help forestall future pandemic lockdowns.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just because Congress didn't make the gubernatorial orders doesn't excuse state governors from these constitutional rights violations.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
> He has several tweets that contributed to 25K deaths..

Cut his funding!

Comment · 6 years ago
> don't we need a centralized touchstone for these kinds of crises?

This is like saying the governors should be ceding control to the federal administration.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
> meanwhile, countries with universal healthcare, welfare, and support structures are breezing through this.

Name me a country with universal healthcare with a lower COVID-19 death rate per capita than the US.

Comment · 6 years ago
> We also basically have no treatment

Not so:

https://www.cancernetwork.com/news/clinical-trial-explores-a...

Edit: Besides, what if the cure already exists, and Big Pharma wants to make more money selling long-term treatment drugs and equipment?

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