I mean. it's not THAT difficult to answer those questions is it @
tridactyl481? Just starting from the top: 1. ) Wal Mart sells food, Kohls doesn't. We need food to live, I don't need discount shoes for my toddler. 2. ) Lots of mom and pops are open, specifically the ones that sell food. 3. ) A bit of a red herring here, but most abortions don't happen at hospitals and are time sensitive. You can get an elective surgery in a few months, in a few months an abortion is off the table. 4. ) Killing the virus on surfaces is different than killing the virus once you're infected. On top of that, you don't have to stay inside you just have to stay away from other people once you're outside. Outside places get closed down when people aren't staying away from each other. 5. ) This one just makes my head hurt, but most shelter in place orders are being enforced under the broad emergency powers granted by the state and federal government under federal law and state constitutions. An emergency declaration and response is not, in and of itself, the law. It is enacted under the law, which did go through the legislative process. 6. ) Nobody actually knows what the death rate is right now, because our ability to test is awful. The death rate on confirmed, closed cases is 17%. Say there are 10x more infections than we know about, that still makes the death rate 1. 7%. The fear comes from cities like New York and Madrid, which had their healthcare systems completely overwhelmed and refrigerated trailers brought in because the outbreak spiraled out of control. Imagine that, but everywhere (and worse, because all of the resources surged to NYC to fight the outbreak there won't be available). 7. ) That's their job. 8. ) Because that's going to be the best way to stop this thing once we have a vaccine. If you have a mass of people the most efficient way to vaccinate them is en masse. 9. ) People are not their jobs. Some jobs are simply more necessary for the day to day function of everyone else being alive than others. Though it's a fair question to ask of somebody who is pushing to have tens of thousands (at least) more people die. 10. ) Who are they? People spreading bullshit memes and inane lists of questions on the internet? Good question. Why have you decided to do this? 11. ) Objection your honor, relevance? 12. ) Because now we know more about how it spreads and that it's possible to spread the disease a-symptomatically. We didn't know that two months ago. N95 masks for everybody would be better, but we don't have enough of them so cloth masks will do. 13. ) A cloth mask doesn't restrict your oxygen more than a respiratory disease. No thinking person is going to put a mask on their child so tight and so restrictive that they suffocate. And if they do, I'd argue they aren't a thinking person. 14. ) I think it depends a lot on their parents. Kids with parents that don't believe everything they read on the internet are probably going to come out of this better than kids who's parents do. 15. ) Most other death rates have slowed because we're doing the thing that leads to them less. Less driving? Less car accidents. Less swimming? Less drowning. Etc. 16. ) Because China is one of the most prominent players on the geopolitical stage, and it was their turn to host whatever meeting you're talking about. 17. ) These are the leaders we elected doing their best to bring an out of control situation to heel. Remember earlier when you talked about a republic and not a democracy? Well we voted for these people to make decisions on our behalf (like they do in a republic, or probably better said in our case a representative democracy but let's not get too far in the weeds). That's what they're doing. If you don't like it, you should vote for a different one in a few months and do you best to convince others to do the same. Though I may suggest spreading disinformation like this isn't the best way to do it. 18. ) Hospitals aren't paid for deaths, they're paid for treatments. They get more money for COVID-19 cases because they're more expensive to treat than regular patients. 19. ) He didn't. 20. ) Because he's one of the smartest and richest people in the history of the world, and hasn't been a "computer geek" for a long time. If he wants 7 billion vaccines it's because there are 7 billion people in the world and the best way to wipe out the disease is to vaccinate everyone. 21. ) They are organizations someone started. 22. ) Because while pandemics happen with some regularity, nobody really knows when one is going to hit. They're a surprise. The odds that you're going to get hit with one over a 4 year period are high, the odds you're going to get hit with one over an 8 year period are a near certainty. He made the prediction and is now spearheading the response because he's one of the worlds foremost experts on communicable diseases and pandemics. 23. ) They aren't infringing on Christian religious freedoms anymore than they are Jewish, or Muslim, or Buddhist, or Wiccan, or Satanist religious freedoms. You're free to practice whatever religion you want, you just need to practice it by yourself for a little bit. Well, that ended up being all of them. Longer than I anticipated but I was on a conference call and had the time. You're welcome for clearing that all up Angela.