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Our Choice By May 1st: 1) Return To Work; 2) Endless Trillions In Stimulus; 3) Societal Breakdown

TurtleDude said:
Some things that are so stupid, you have to question the IQ of the person who made these rules

1) banning someone from merely driving their car around to get out of their house. I wish I had done that, now I am charging my battery which has died

2) attending a drive up mass or church service where the parishioners stay in their own individual cars-at least a coupe yards away from another car

3) telling people they cannot travel from say a winter home to a summer home

4) telling anyone who travels outside their state they must self quarantine for 14 days.

5) telling people they cannot go boating, fishing, hunting or hiking by themselves or with someone they live with


I don't give the people who implemented stupid rules the benefit of the doubt. The burden should always be onerous and heavy on government when it starts screwing around with constitutional rights.
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I have already violated #5 on several occasions. When the stores ran out of chicken last month I went hunting and bagged 4 spruce grouse. I intend to do so again next weekend, and I may even take a few ptarmigan depending on how much snow remains.

During the Winter months, if I'm not intending to go anywhere for a few weeks, I'll take the battery out of my vehicle and bring it into the house. It keeps the security system from draining the battery. If I don't do that, then after 8 to 10 days of non-use the battery will be dead as a door-nail. It only takes about 5 minutes to put it back in again, and the battery is fully charged.

I fully intend to carry on with my normal routine. When the snow melts in another couple weeks I will be out foraging. The asparagus and fiddlehead ferns in particular can only be harvested in early Spring because by late Spring they will have become unfurled or woody and inedible. Nature doesn't give a damn about this irrational panic, and neither do I. My schedule is determined by nature, not politicians.
 
BlueTex said:
Texas has the most uninsured in the nation... Come on Governor Abbott, you suck at this game...
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and.......? Do you ever have a valid argument for anything?
 
vegas giants said:
Better in debt than dead
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The sick and dying are already nearly dead and the coronavirus simply pushes them over the edge. The coronavirus is not as big a threat to people who are young and healthy, but the shutdown is a huge threat to the young and poor.
 
ElChupacabra said:
Yeah, that's the dilemma; a tough decision either way. I just hope there will be some way of making the workspace a little safer.
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Without COVID-19 status (contagious, likely "immune", likely not "immune") testing that is rather difficult. If you mean allowing folks to remain "socially distanced" (aka 6 feet apart) then that is possible in some workplaces and impossible in others. If you mean having workers use PPE that is also possible.
 
So, according to the Loony Left, we have to be prisoners in our own homes for the next 5 or 6 years. Imagine how much damage to our already fragile economy would occur.
 
BlueTex said:
Those same American's who have "no idea" fought very hard for checks from the fed to help... Which party insisted on a "trickle down" approach with their first bill? Now, millions of Americans who have no savings will be getting checks (assuming the administration can actually handle that simple task) just like the check you get every month. They still won't have a government healthcare like yourself, but it's a start...

You needn't fret though, the bill just passed still included billions for those big companies that you seem to think you share some common bond...
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There is nothing as stupid as the lie that our lawmakers unfairly favor big business and bankers over working people. That is such a despicable lie and yet it always finds fertile reception among the slow and ignorant. I despise the socialist lie designed to help convert prosperous free America into an impoverished socialist slave state ruled by unfeeling communist despots.

What did the socialist Obama tell nuns when they asked to be freed from Obamacare requirements to contribute to abortion and contraceptive provisions? "No, you cannot be freed from that."
 
marke said:
There is nothing as stupid as the lie that our lawmakers unfairly favor big business and bankers over working people. That is such a despicable lie and yet it always finds fertile reception among the slow and ignorant. I despise the socialist lie designed to help convert prosperous free America into an impoverished socialist slave state ruled by unfeeling communist despots.

What did the socialist Obama tell nuns when they asked to be freed from Obamacare requirements to contribute to abortion and contraceptive provisions? "No, you cannot be freed from that."
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Lie? It's the truth... You can always tell when you are getting close to the uncomfortable truth by the voracity of the response... Please continue to enjoy those socialist social security and medicare benefits while railing against socialism.... It's amusing...
 
Bassman said:
So, according to the Loony Left, we have to be prisoners in our own homes for the next 5 or 6 years. Imagine how much damage to our already fragile economy would occur.
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No one is saying any such thing except the loony right
 
Casper said:
No one is saying any such thing except the loony right
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So we lose the entire MLB season, no summer tourist season, no life, no nothing, and increasing unemployment. Sorry, but we need to go balls to the wall and open everything up NOW
 
hermit said:
If you look at the numbers, this is an infectious virus, but not a deadly one. Compare the number who have died to 7.8 billion people on the planet.

And no, money is not more important than lives, but in my view, economics IS our lives. It's our livelihood. People need to feel in control of their destiny. People need to get back to work. We sit inside our houses and cower in fear of the world ending. How healthy can that be?
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By those numbers, CORVID-19 has a 2-5% death rate of those infected. What's keeping the number of infected down is exactly the measures that you want to lift -- social distancing and business closures. Relax that, let the subways become crowded again, and there will be a spike in infected with a corresponding spike in deaths. It's just math.
 
Bassman said:
So we lose the entire MLB season, no summer tourist season, no life, no nothing, and increasing unemployment. Sorry, but we need to go balls to the wall and open everything up NOW
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Who cares about the lives at risk, we are a "pro-choice" nation after all. ;)
 
Bassman said:
So we lose the entire MLB season, no summer tourist season, no life, no nothing, and increasing unemployment. Sorry, but we need to go balls to the wall and open everything up NOW
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Thank you doctor. Lol
 
marke said:
The sick and dying are already nearly dead and the coronavirus simply pushes them over the edge. The coronavirus is not as big a threat to people who are young and healthy, but the shutdown is a huge threat to the young and poor.
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Wow....just wow.
 
vegas giants said:
Kill off the old and sick. The perfect gop plan
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We are destroying our childrens futures to save the weak. There will be no one to care for the weak if this goes on many more weeks.

My father in law, after the last time he got out of the hospital, signed a dnr and had Hospice come every few days or as needed. Any respiratory illness would kill him. He lived another 18 months in relative health. He was very careful and we were very careful around him plus for the first time he lived with the realization he was dying. He had severe COPD. He died of COPD. Prior to those last 18 months he had been in and out of hospitals and rehab months at a time.

There are many in the death statistics like my father in law......difference is we had a funeral for him. We were all were at his bed side when he died. Today people are dying alone for whatever killed them.

I had 2 friends die recently who lived and breathed the Boston Red Sox. One spent the winter in Florida, had box seats at Jet Blue Park and went to every game. He died 10 days after the season was shut down. Did Corona kill him too? He was 91. The other had a heat attack last week. He died counting down to opening day and died alone in a hospital (3 days), his wife off 60 years prohibited from visiting. Did the Corona kill him too?

We need to start living again May 1





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Eriech said:
We are destroying our childrens futures to save the weak. There will be no one to care for the weak if this goes on many more weeks.

My father in law, after the last time he got out of the hospital, signed a dnr and had Hospice come every few days or as needed. Any respiratory illness would kill him. He lived another 18 months in relative health. He was very careful and we were very careful around him plus for the first time he lived with the realization he was dying. He had severe COPD. He died of COPD. Prior to those last 18 months he had been in and out of hospitals and rehab months at a time.

There are many in the death statistics like my father in law......difference is we had a funeral for him. We were all were at his bed side when he died. Today people are dying alone for whatever killed them.

I had 2 friends die recently who lived and breathed the Boston Red Sox. One spent the winter in Florida, had box seats at Jet Blue Park and went to every game. He died 10 days after the season was shut down. Did Corona kill him too? He was 91. The other had a heat attack last week. He died counting down to opening day and died alone in a hospital (3 days), his wife off 60 years prohibited from visiting. Did the Corona kill him too?

We need to start living again May 1





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No. We should not kill off the elderly and weak because you want to go to a ball game. This is not destroying anyt8for our children.
 
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