President Trump

You stood by your original premise that science is a liberal agenda. So no, I don’t care to respond.

 

You and I know better than most, first hand, how f****d up this is for kids. We could go on and on about the mental health repercussions that are going to last for decades due to this years crop of kids exposed to trauma and added stress in their homes. I predict a surge in crime, drug use, and societal problems related to children and adolescents in the next 10-15 years.

That being said, although very few kids are dying from COVID, enough (not at the rate of adults) are requiring hospitalization for their symptoms. That’s traumatic and in some cases leaves lasting damage to the body. Furthermore, there’s a chance a surge of pediatric hospitalizations will overwhelm the hospital capacity. But the real problem is not even in the kids getting sick. The problem is the kids being asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic transmitters, putting teachers, school staff, and their parents/grandparents at risk. If 1 kid tests positive they’ll have to quarantine the whole class, including the teacher, then they go on virtual learning until all other kids test negative. This is going to happen every few weeks. It would be so disruptive.
Both options are terrible. I’m in 100% agreement with your concerns. I’ll bet I’m more concerned than you, actually.
The only answer is for everyone in America to wear a mask and limit large gatherings as much as possible and cooperate in contract tracing to slow down the spread until a vaccine arrives. We can have a semi functional economy is people started taking this seriously.

 

The problem with hypocrites are that they are hypocrites

 

This election choice .... same as 4 years ago. Good job American politics.

 

There are other choices, Libertarian or Green Party right?

 

Yeah, this thing is a clusterf***. It’s good that we’re moving slowly in the right direction. Even though we’re getting better at preventing deaths and it being unlikely to cause death in children, the problem is how contagious covid is and how many people will need hospitalization, even if they don’t die. Some have lasting or permanent damage.

If we lax restrictions (and enough people don’t wear masks) we’ll see complete overwhelm of the hospitals, resulting in fema like camps set up, freaking everyone out, resulting in self imposed panic quarantine. If our numbers blow up, even if deaths stay where they are, it’s projected to hurt the economy worse than the shutdown because a larger number of people won’t be working and spending.
If everyone wears a mask and acts responsibly about crowds (parties, bbqs, beaches) we can have far less restrictions and more normal lives until a vaccine or better treatment arrives. It’s our only option. I think it sucks too.

 

Aside from Trump's (agreed) cluster*** leadership and decision making with the pandemic there's this opinion today on Marketwatch and have to say it seems right on from my observations this 3 1/2 years.

Why China is rooting for Trump to win

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-china-is-rooting-for-trump-to-win-11596656684

Then in the car today, after watching Trump hilariously in the interview yesterday totally embarrass himself with his paper prop claiming the US was doing better than everyone with the pandemic and deaths, and as well bragging how he's excelling at these mental capacity tests (dementia tests?) ..... here's Joe Biden saying "hold my beer" and totally botching responses to a reporter asking him if he's being tested in that regard. Swear to god worse than Trump even.

American citizens this election .....

 

Yeah sunny ... shaky So Cal here

 

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Twitter's staff decisions are handing ammunition to Trump and the GOP.