re: JP Morgan study on how pointless the lockdown is/was

Rocket, what’s your take on shutdowns continuing ?

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The more I think about it, the more I keep going back to the time of all of this. There was a report about this on what? December 31, 2019.. As January went on, there was more and more talk about this shite. By what? Mid February the talk about it coming to the US started to increase.. Maybe before that, but by mid February, we were aware that it was going to impact the US. Mid march shite started to lock down.

I have no evidence of this so I don't know for sure, but I think this virus was here before it was being reported.

Louisiana shut down in mid march.. And it is said Mardi Gras is the reason there were so many cases in and around New Orleans. So if people who had it came here and spread it around. If they were from the US, how long did they have it for?

In the US, out of all the people who tested positive 6% died from it and most of them were older. Now I am not saying it shouldn't matter just because they are old. Not at all. We are talking about people's loved ones, but from the beginning we were told older people and people with pre-existing conditions were at risk.

Looking back and I know its easy to say "they should have done this" after the fact, but maybe the way to do this was to start off by protecting our elders and people with health issues without having to shut shite down.

With that said, I refuse to get into the party blame game. Its an election year and you have no idea who is doing what. This situation might have been used to make it political. One side might do one thing then say something else to make it look as if the other party is the one responsible for this or that.

This is just my opinion, but if it wasn't an election year I think this would have been handled a lot different.

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Government will never admit that they overreacted.

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Media forced Big Orange's hand. He was in a no win situation.

There are many valid arguments to be made that lock downs in many areas were a lot more severe than needed.

However, I have no idea how looking at R0 after the lockdowns have already finished really proves anything?

Wasn't the entire logic of the lockdowns to slow the spread -- and that limited testing at the time of the lockdowns really left everyone guessing as to how widespread infections were?

Seems like you would need examples of places with similar % of initial cases and demographics that were never locked down to prove that the lockdowns are not the reason that the R0 is now staying level.

I wish there was some kind of quarantine safe house we could put the Karens and kevins that are afraid of the virus so that they would be safe


Maybe like a gulag

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This will anger the board’s liberals

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Liberals stare common sense and logic right in the face, and do just the opposite.

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There really hasnt been conclusive proof that this shutdown has done anything besides destroy many small businesses.

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I really would be interested to see what the legit impact of the lockdown actually was as far as the spread and everything goes.

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Anyone not a Democrat could have told you this from the beginning.

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Were these the same people saying it’s just the flu? Let’s face it, a lot of people patting themselves on the back right now made all kinds of predictions that turned out false - like we’ll have less than 60,000 dead in the US. Say what you want about exaggerated death counts, but we’ve passed 60k for sure.

We needed the lockdown to flatten the curve and get the attention of Americans. Some states never should have locked down, because they are rural; some locked down too soon, like California; and most stayed locked down too long. But a short lockdown was a good thing.