The stupidity of Republicans and conservatives is their short-sightedness (well, among other things).
They are all worried about the “economy,” which has imploded, entirely (100%) due to the failure of Trump to utilize advance preparatory and prevention tools left to him by his predecesor, heed early warnings, and move early, aggressively and efficiently to IDENTIFY (testing), ISOLATE, do CONTACT TRACING and CONTAIN an infectious disease.
Now it is too late to take the early, aggressive action that could have prevented the need for a shutdown (as with South Korea and Iceland) — like closing the barn door after all the livestock have escaped — so the only way to achieve containment now is through enforced social distancing, including a general shutdown which early, aggressive intervention might have prevented.
Easing the strict social distancing prematurely will cause another explosion in needless deaths and suffering and, counter to what the short-sighted Republicans intend (or maybe it is EXACTLY what Putin wants to happen in the U.S.), the economy will further collapse with more corporate losses and massive stress on our unemployment safety net.
The stupidity of Republicans and conservatives is their short-sightedness (well, among other things).
They are all worried about the “economy,” which has imploded, entirely (100%) due to the failure of Trump to utilize advance preparatory and prevention tools left to him by his predecesor, heed early warnings, and move early, aggressively and efficiently to IDENTIFY (testing), ISOLATE, do CONTACT TRACING and CONTAIN an infectious disease.
Now it is too late to take the early, aggressive action that could have prevented the need for a shutdown (as with South Korea and Iceland) — like closing the barn door after all the livestock have escaped — so the only way to achieve containment now is through enforced social distancing, including a general shutdown which early, aggressive intervention might have prevented.
Easing the strict social distancing prematurely will cause another explosion in needless deaths and suffering and, counter to what the short-sighted Republicans intend (or maybe it is EXACTLY what Putin wants to happen in the U.S.), the economy will further collapse with more corporate losses and massive stress on our unemployment safety net.