“President for Life… We really need to try that here.”
— Donald J Trump (on Twitter, regarding Chinese President Xi)

what “principal” are you claiming is the same?

Which is why I said “I know it’s not the flu; the principal is the same”.

One report suggested covid-19 could cause stroke like symptom and other neurological impairment.

Here’s the details from MedCram:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Bn8jsGI54

P.S. Wondering Eagle referred to this video in one of his posts today (4/30/220) on junk science and COVID:

https://wonderingeagle.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/wooded-hills-church-in-the-milwaukee-area-junk-science-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Anyone remember Tide Pods?

We had to tell people NOT to eat laundry detergent because Social Media said to.

Not sure that line drawing works here, mainly because the mitigation measures taken by the different states and counties have more loopholes than Trump’s tax returns. The same is true for the orders to open back up.

When protestors arrived at state capitals in groups, mostly maskless and without physical distances observed, nobody was arrested, jailed or even threatened as far as know. I know of one pastor who was arrested after multiple warnings to keep his large church closed. Many of the mitigation efforts depended on voluntary cooperation from the public and considering how fast they were adopted, it’s a tough call to say the government legislated life priorities over the well being of the economy.

Compare the actions of the government for mitigation to the types of laws that the anti-abortion crowd is looking to legislate and hard code into our justice system, starting with personal autonomy offenses against women that aren’t recommended by any scientific expert.

We aren’t talking about the same line being drawn in a different place here.

Not sure that line drawing works here, mainly because the mitigation measures taken by the different states and counties have more loopholes than Trump’s tax returns. The same is true for the orders to open back up.

When protestors arrived at state capitals in groups, mostly maskless and without physical distances observed, nobody was arrested, jailed or even threatened as far as know. I know of one pastor who was arrested after multiple warnings to keep his large church closed. Many of the mitigation efforts depended on voluntary cooperation from the public and considering how fast they were adopted, it’s a tough call to say the government legislated life priorities over the well being of the economy.

Compare the actions of the government for mitigation to the types of laws that the anti-abortion crowd is looking to legislate and hard code into our justice system, starting with personal autonomy offenses against women that aren’t recommended by any scientific expert.

We aren’t talking about the same line being drawn in a different place here.

If you insist on comparing it to the flu, then you should be comparing it to the Spanish flu, not the seasonal one.

Lets assume covid and the flu have the same infection rate (although, data indicates covid is much more infectious than the flu). Further assume that everyone who contracts either virus, will spread it to just 2 other people, and those people will each transmit it to 2 other people in turn. That is an exponential growth rate (2^n). However, if just one of those 2 other people has been vaccinated (as with the seasonal flu), then you go from an exponential growth rate, to a linear one. And that is a HUGE difference in the spread of a disease. Enough to distinguish between an outbreak and an epidemic or in the case of covid even worse, a pandemic.

Further, aside from the infection rate, there are other concerns about the effects and treatment of the disease. Seasonal flu is a well-known illness with well-known treatment plans. Covid-19 is a new disease. While it has aspects similar to the flu, the full long-term effects of this disease are still unknown.

Perhaps we are fortunate that the sort of “Christian” you refer to is a lot less than 31% of the population, or we might have president* Plump for li(f)e.