Moral choices of the government (poll)

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Pekelo, Mar 24, 2020.

What should the government do?

  1. Take the 1-2% population hit mostly of the elderly and get back to normal as soon as possible.

    16 vote(s)
    43.2%
  2. Keep up the quarantine even if it takes months and even if the economy goes down, extended recession

    19 vote(s)
    51.4%
  3. I am not sure, but I am scared.

    2 vote(s)
    5.4%
  1. Specterx

    Specterx

    Well there you are. How many months or years are we going to keep half the country out of work until 200 million+ people have contracted the virus, and become immune?
     
    #51     Mar 24, 2020
  2. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    The more you lockdown and isolate the longer it'll take.

    The question is, how many have had it, most might not realise, there is a protein test see if you've had it, a large random test to find out, would be good.

    These things spread quickly, could find 1/2 your populations had it and didn't care already if so, then the shit show is nearly over already :)
     
    #52     Mar 24, 2020
  3. Amun Ra

    Amun Ra

    99% of the world rely on the economy to eat, have a place to live, and take care of their kids.

    Nobody is saying "human life" is not as important as the economy. We're saying the economy is more important than people getting infected with coronavirus. Don't conflate the two.

    Poverty is a great cause of death and mental and physical health. If you care about Human life, you have to weigh how many dead from Coronavirus vs how many die or become unhealthy because of poverty.

    In this case, the cure(quarantine) is going to kill more than the virus.
     
    #53     Mar 24, 2020
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  4. cafeole

    cafeole

    The US people have always accepted a large number of preventable deaths every year.

    An estimated 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women)
    die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading
    preventable cause of death in the United States. The first is tobacco,
    and the second is poor diet and physical inactivity.

    Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year

    So far, 16,000 people have died and 280,000 people have been hospitalized
    during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC.

    That is 584,000 preventable deaths EVERY YEAR.

    Give me a break!
     
    #54     Mar 24, 2020
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  5. Overnight

    Overnight

    I'm pretty darn sure Cuomo is going to have something juicy to say during his next briefing, about Trump's retort during his Rose Garden "Town Hall" thing where he went, "Cuomo had a chance to get 20,000 ventilators in 2015. He didn't want to buy them. He just didn't do it. He could have had them."

    Man, Trump really was grasping for straws to come up with that asstastic stat-line.
     
    #55     Mar 24, 2020
  6. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    They are finally sending 4000. Funny thing about Trump; he told the governors to go out and get stuff on the free market. When they did, Trump outbid them....
     
    #56     Mar 24, 2020
  7. Turveyd

    Turveyd


    Agreed 100%.

    But why all the scare media ?? why all the Bullshit and massaged numbers, there not lying but there confusing people into thinking it's 6% people can't do basic maths so easy, crippling the markets, closing stuff down, all to protect old people ( Millenials themselves really ) they don't care about old people, they lock them in homes and forget them.

    Trump doesn't seem to be in on it, he's confused as to what you all going on about.

    What are the worlds leaders hiding or trying to achieve?????? What's the point of all the choas??

    Anyone any sensible ish ideas??
     
    #57     Mar 24, 2020
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  8. Amun Ra

    Amun Ra

    Election year. Democrats and left wing media have been praying for a market crash in the hopes it will dethrone Trump because they know a senile old man like Biden can't win if the economy is good.
     
    #58     Mar 24, 2020
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  9. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    All this world wide madness just for this ?? got to be more!!

    Even if that's just the US reason and the UK has a different reason still ??

    Or are the media just bored and proving they can control everyone via fear ??

    People on Facebook, screaming your going to kill us all and having melt downs because people went to a damn BEACH ffs!! what is wrong with everyone.
     
    #59     Mar 24, 2020
  10. cafeole

    cafeole

    Bingo. Got to justify their existence.
     
    #60     Mar 24, 2020