Georgia leads to way on reopening - Thoughts?

About time. A small percentage of people are going to die from this regardless. Better to reduce the long term impacts that will be far more destructive.

Get outside.

The man hasn’t been dead for a week and here you are gloating over his death. He’s someone’s husband and someone’s father.

Disgusting.

joedirt wrote:

About time. A small percentage of people are going to die from this regardless. Better to reduce the long term impacts that will be far more destructive.

Having a great number of people go to the hospital all at once would have a long term destructive impact.

What is going on is that conservatives are trying to find a level of misery and danger that people are willing to accept so that rich people can get back to making money (all while staying holed up in their 6000 sq ft mansions and conducting all their business on Zoom). The hope is that a level of moderate social distancing will remain in effect (no big events, crowded bars, etc.) to keep the outbreak from exploding. But people will be ok with a dozen people dying every week from the virus as a new normal. Conservatives have already programmed people to believe that those who will die are expendables who have to take one for the team.

This is also probably a bit of a set up to make this crisis nearly unwinnable for an inevitable Trump loss at the polls in November. Letting the virus run rampant over the summer will just mean a very strong possibility that it will reemerge and mutate into something even worse in the fall. This will prompt Biden and Dems to do a nationwide lockdown and set up a BS conflict with Red states where Trump diehards stick with their leaders even as they all die from the virus.

fortuitousdummy wrote:

Why do the owners and moderators of this site let this forum get so damn political? This place is worse than most 4chan boards and subreddits with how saturated every single thread is with politics.

My guess is a small profit margin (everyone is browing with adblock) and they need all the clicks they can get. If someone's thread gets deleted, they go to reddit or 4chan for alt right trolls.

This ^

That said, it's quite a funny list of business Georgia is opening. There's really that many of those businesses? That's the driver of the entire Georgia economy?

Massage places, nail and hair places, tattoo parlors?

Rich people are not suffering. The middle class is suffering. Nice to know that you have money or a job but most of the middle class can't survive without money.

Kvothe wrote:

fortuitousdummy wrote:

Why do the owners and moderators of this site let this forum get so damn political? This place is worse than most 4chan boards and subreddits with how saturated every single thread is with politics.

My guess is a small profit margin (everyone is browing with adblock) and they need all the clicks they can get. If someone's thread gets deleted, they go to reddit or 4chan for alt right trolls.

The board stopped being about running a long time ago. Look up the old LR forums on internet archive.

Alan

Precious Roy wrote:

What is going on is that conservatives are trying to find a level of misery and danger that people are willing to accept so that rich people can get back to making money

Lol. The truly rich have been making money hand over fist all throughout this pandemic crisis. The middle class and small/family business owners, not so much.

God, we can only hope.

Precious Roy wrote:

...and set up a BS conflict with Red states where Trump diehards stick with their leaders even as they all die from the virus.

Summer better hurry up and get here.

I live in Cbus.

Sucks--we are 10-15 deg F below normal.

We are at a high of 50-55 and it should be 65 or so for late April.

And lots of rain.

So true. Same with YouTube.

I hate ads on YouTube. Thank God for AdBlock.

Why pay for stuff you don't need?

I don't know if it's rich conservatives.

Rich liberal media (ESPN, Spain & Company, Mike Golic, etc.) are advocating for SAH orders but they got their$ already.

Why doesn't jamin live in Georgia?

Disgusting wrote:

The man hasn’t been dead for a week and here you are gloating over his death. He’s someone’s husband and someone’s father.

Disgusting.

The lesson is to not post on social media. That is why I will NEVER NEVER NEVER register here and keep my actual name to an absolute minimum on the internet.

The town he is from had their prison explode with positive tests in the last couple days. 1950 inmates and 150 workers. That's near 20% of all the cases in a state of over 11 million people.

jecht wrote:

Summer better hurry up and get here.

I live in Cbus.

Sucks--we are 10-15 deg F below normal.

We are at a high of 50-55 and it should be 65 or so for late April.

And lots of rain.

Did you look at the forecast for today? I'm north of Columbus and it's 42° with wind gusts to 40 mph. Yesterday I was south of Columbus and it was 60s and sunny.

FFF wrote:

This ^

That said, it's quite a funny list of business Georgia is opening. There's really that many of those businesses? That's the driver of the entire Georgia economy?

Massage places, nail and hair places, tattoo parlors?

Movie theaters (to open Monday) seem to be the sort of business that should be among the last ones reopened, not one of the first ones.

Great. Some folks don't have the luxury of getting income while sitting at home. Let them work.