I'm sorry but WHAT THE FUCK?  Seriously.  Wow.  Jesus Christ, that's awful.  Yeah, and you can own that position, Steve.  Fuck.

Who are those people, really Steve and who should actually be quarantined?  Are you going to keep everyone who is, say, 65 and older home?  Are you then going to quarantine those with diabetes and high blood pressure, people known to be more affected with this disease?  How do you test for that?  How do you even fucking treat for that?

Your assumption is absurd on its face.  We have populations of people that are aged cared for by the young that, in your scenario, are devoid of any protections because, well, they're old.  All to just "get on with their lives".  Wow, Steve.  Seriously.  That's what you believe.

Unbelievable.

Trump and many others are willing to kill people for the economy. What Trump fails to realise is that unless he follows Fauci's advice, and supresses the virus, it will never go away or reduce. 

The United States will become the epicentre for this virus given Trump's current trajectory.

And, I'm sorry, I have elderly relatives 70+. Their lives are not a lottery. Everyone means something.

The sooner this evil in the White House and all who follow his beliefs are gone, the better our world will be.

Just bastards.

For those who may think that the virus is only deadly to the elderly, a Detroit Police Dispatcher died Monday from COVID. He was 38 years old with no known health issues.

Letting the "young" open up the country and return to commingling is not an option!

Marc

The world should quarantine until the virus presents a slower infection curve and the medical systems can deal with it. 

If nothing else, if the virus has no host body it can't go anywhere. In a month if everyone followed advice, there would be a drop in new cases.

That's what you believe.

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Matt, profanity and obvious anger aside, I don't think it would be super productive for us to sit and caricature each other.  You apparently think I want all old people to die and don't care.  I could respond by accusing you of not caring about hungry children of millions of parents who are already unemployed and whose jobs won't be coming back.  We could have ourselves a downright compassion Olympics here/  Maybe you'd win.

Or, if we went past the lines in my earliest posts in this thread that clearly triggered you, we could try to understand each other's positions and have a discussion.

There are not only two options here.  It is not a choice between doing absolutely nothing to protect the at-risk population or doing absolutely nothing to prevent an economic depression.  As I have said repeatedly in this thread, we have to find the right balance in the middle which harms the fewest number of people.

I am not a government official.  I do not have all the data.  It is not my job to sift through all of that data and try to come up with a balanced proposal.  We're not going to do that collectively in this internet message board thread either.  All I've tried to point to on this thread is that there is, legitimately, a second area of compassion and concern for human life and well-being that has to be balanced against the medical one.  Being concerned about one does not necessarily make you unconcerned about the other.

And yeah, though this may set you off again, I'm sorry, but we have a lot of extremely wealthy members of the older generation in this country who could very clearly care less about anyone's well-being other than their own.  If you think any of the major government figures working on this, from either party, care in the least about the health or economic well-being of poor and working people, you're deluding yourself.

Best news I heard all day!