Poll: are you for or against a national lock down?

Against.

My body. My choice.

Against. It won't do anything now. We had our chance back in March/April and failed miserably.

Trump wrote:

Against.

My body. My choice.

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Milethon wrote:

Against. It won't do anything now. We had our chance back in March/April and failed miserably.

That doesn't make sense. If a lockdown would have worked in March or April, it would work equally well now.

Luckliy Faucci’s vote counts the most.

Against. Leave it up to the individual states.

Trump can say ANYTHING and his supporters will buy it wrote:

Luckliy Faucci’s vote counts the most.

I hope.

I mean, its incredible. The opinion of an orange moron who (according to his relatives) paid a guy to take his SATs is valued over that of learned, selfless public health workers and leaders. Africa JUST TODAY beat another ebola outbreak using not Trump ignorance but basic tried and true epidemiology and public health principles. Coronavirus is not magic, its just a viral pathogen. It could be brought under complete control without a vaccine.

We simply lack the will.

And we'll pay the price.

Dan Kahneman wrote:

Who is talking about a national lockdown? Silly question.

We need mask mandates. We need group size limits in areas with high infection rates.

We need alternate ways of business and schooling in areas with high dangerous infection rates.

What did you mean by national lockdown?

That would be like asking, "who is in favor of no mandated safety measures? You had a skewed question designed.

My state of PA disagrees with you, in a week or two everything will be locked down per the governor's orders. You will also be facing a $1200 fine for not wearing a mask in your own house if you have guests over.

Gallupizindahouse wrote:

for or against?

Definitely against!

Lockdown today, lockdown tomorrow, lockdown until the virus is gone

The question needs to be re-framed from the abstraction of "lockdown" to the reality of everyday lives.

Seems there are plenty of people around here who are completely divorced from the realities of the vast majority of everyday people.

Those of you who support lockdowns in real terms support the following- you are accomplices to murder- nothing less:

Of adults surveyed, 10.7% had thoughts of suicide compared to 4.3% in 2018.

Of individuals aged 18-24, 25.5% considered suicide.

Between April and October, the portion of emergency visits related to mental health for children (5-11) increased by 24% and 31% for 12-17 year olds compared to 2019.

More than 40 states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality.

In March alone, food banks gave out 20 percent more food than in an average month.

Rate of food insecurity from 2018 to mid-2020 has more than doubled (14% to 32%) for households with children.

Unemployment rate increased to 14.7% in April 2020. This is the highest rate of increase (10.3%) and largest month over month increase in history of available data (since 1948).

Mothers of children aged 12 and younger lost 2.2 million jobs between February and August (12% drop), while fathers of small children lost 870,000 jobs (4% drop).

About 24 million children may drop out of school next year as a result of the lockdown’s economic impact.

Diagnosis for 6 cancers (breast, colorectal, lung, pancreatic, gastric, and esophageal) has declined 46.4% compared to 2018.

Pancreatic cancer diagnosis has dropped 24.7% compared to 2018.

Breast cancer diagnosis has dropped 51.8% compared to 2018.

Pre-Covid, Medical University of South Carolina dropped from 20 stroke-related calls daily (or 550 per month) to about nine in mid-April.

38% decrease in STEMI treatments in 9 major hospitals across the US.

In Italy, cardiological diagnostic procedures decreased 56%, PCI 48%, structural interventions 81% and PCI in STEMI 40%.

Admissions for chemotherapy decreased 45-66% while urgent referrals for early cancer diagnosis decreased 70-89%.

During the first six months of 2020 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses increased 14.8%, and aggravated assault offenses were up 4.6%.

Between June and August 2020 homicides increased 53% and aggravated assaults increased 14% compared to the same period in 2019.

https://www.aier.org/article/cost-of-us-lockdowns-a-preliminary-report/

Everyone for a lock DOWN should be locked UP. They are criminals engaged in a nonstop assault on the rights of their fellow citizens.

I'm not kidding. You want to stay indoors and be isolated, no contact with anyone? That can be arranged easily in prison.

against only because it would be completely un-enforcable. Local dip-wad sheriffs would not comply because being stupid and dangerous gets them votes. Some area have so few people it would be needed.

basically the mouth-breather deniers wouldn't do it anyway. Haven't 20-30% of the population willing to infect people and kill their parents to own the libs would not yield results. As usual, the responsible people have to do what they can to counter-act the idiots.

the problem is dip-wads like you say the virus isn't real. So it's all or nothing. Lockdowns with good policy and financial help and funded healthcare would alleviate most of those ills.

But you don't roll that way. You complain about lockdowns, complain about gummit spending, campaign against healthcare for people .

In other word, the lockdowns aren't the problem. They system is. All that stuff you cited was rampant without a single lockdown. But you don't want to acknowledge that. Instead, you found a scapegoat

eff you

Bad Wigins wrote:

Everyone for a lock DOWN should be locked UP. They are criminals engaged in a nonstop assault on the rights of their fellow citizens.

I'm not kidding. You want to stay indoors and be isolated, no contact with anyone? That can be arranged easily in prison.

come get me, big man.

Had Enough wrote:

the problem is dip-wads like you say the virus isn't real. So it's all or nothing. Lockdowns with good policy and financial help and funded healthcare would alleviate most of those ills.

But you don't roll that way. You complain about lockdowns, complain about gummit spending, campaign against healthcare for people .

In other word, the lockdowns aren't the problem. They system is. All that stuff you cited was rampant without a single lockdown. But you don't want to acknowledge that. Instead, you found a scapegoat

eff you

Actually as I am a socialist everything you just stated is inaccurate- but you had your two minute rant.

Lockdowns and isolation are crimes that result in mass death. You don't get one without the other.

If you are too dense to understand this too bad. But you support all of what I listed and much worse if you support lockdowns.

Also I am certain you are ignorant of the history of how pandemics are manufactured and for what purposes.

Against.

At this point in the pandemic I know 9 people who have had Covid and 2 people who have been hospitalized as a result of Covid and Covid policy.

1 hospitalization was a 93 year old distant relative who was in a nursing home. He had Covid and he died, sadly

The other hospitalization was my neighbor’s 13 year old daughter, hospitalized for suicidal thoughts during the first “lockdown”. Now in outpatient program and on meds.

Anecdotal, but it illustrates the demographics of who is *primarily* bearing the brunt of Covid and who is primarily bearing the brunt of the lockdowns. Children are the future of this country. Even if the lockdowns work, it’s a high price.

I don’t deny Covid. And I know younger people can die or have serious complications too. I just don’t think lockdowns are the answer

Trump can say ANYTHING and his supporters will buy it wrote:

Luckliy Faucci’s vote counts the most.

Seriously? Do you know the Rat's history at NIH ?