Originally Posted by
texaspackerbacker
I respect you taking the middle ground here. Avoiding getting it, sure, is a consideration, especially for supposedly high risk people, and for that, the precautions are a good idea. Where I disagree with you, though, is the kill rate/risk of death among young people and/or healthy people of almost any age. Those kids should be playing basketball if they feel like it because even if they do catch it, it's not gonna do them any significant harm anyway. Ditto that for schools, stores, factories, and absolutely sports events - which never shoulda been shut down.
Cuomo - who has been a Dem with the closest thing to good sense that any of them have shown in this mess - says he thinks 40-80% of New Yorkers will catch corona. That's 8-16 million people. 1%+ death rate which they are pushing would be 80-160,000 deaths in that state alone. Now CMI might believe crap like that, but tell me you don't. Even if the rate getting the virus was that much, I wouldn't expect even 1% of the 1% the panic-mongers project (800-1,600). And who would those be? Same as other places, people who are already at death's doorstep now. Maybe a kid with a sick granny at home shouldn't be playing basketball and take it home to her, but anybody else? Go for it and do what you can to enjoy life. And even the case of the at-risk granny, it should be her quarantined, not the rest of her family.