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Originally Posted by daca55
Did Governor Desantis do a good job handling the virus??? I think he did up till he decided it was time to reopen. I think he is moving a little to fast and it may come back to bite him and us. Everyday I get a news article which states the number of new cases and deaths. The numbers are still increasing every day. They are not increasing as bad as they did several weeks ago but they are increasing. I hope we have made the right decision about opening because if the governor was wrong and the numbers start to spike the next closings and lock down will be much harder than the one we just went through. Believe me as a former owner of a small business that employed 10 people I get what being closed does to a small business. I am all for trying to open but it should be slower than the pace we are at now until the number of cases and deaths are not going up as they are now.
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I know I have been singing a minority song Covid-19 started. Being an old dude, I remember 1968, even though I spent the year in Viet Nam.
Over 100,000 Americans and over one million worldwide, died from the Hong Kong flu. Like corona virus, it was a horrible thing and people died. We did what we could to stay safe and went on with our lives. Six months later we had 400,000 in the filth of Woodstock, with no ill effects.
I'm not minimizing, at all, the tragedy of death! I am lamenting that we became a socialistic, and in many ways cowardly country! We have already spent TRILLIONS of our kids dollars and destroyed this country's economy with a needless "lock-down" that will take MORE than a generation to recover. The bankruptcies and deaths caused by the lock down will dwarf the benefits.
A TINY example of the side effects: EVERY month 150,000 plus Americans get diagnosed with a form of cancer. We are at the point of medical expertise that early diagnosis of most cancers result in remission success and those folks can lead a full life. For the last two months virtually NO Americans were lucky enough to get that early diagnosis because of individual fear of going outside to the doctors or simply because hospitals, clinics etc. were closed for all but emergencies and corona virus treatment.