Some gold in the comment section, this is Jay word for word:
The coronavirus is a fairly contagious disease and until at least 60-80% of the population has immunity, it will continue to spread. That is true everywhere. We can slow the spread by practicing common sense social distancing, but the slower the spread, the longer the epidemic will be around.
A vaccine could change this but there is no guarantee that we will ever have one let alone have one in the next year. In the absence of a vaccine, insisting on draconian measures to stop the spread of the disease would be a national suicide pact. The challenge has never been about stopping the spread of the disease but in limiting its spread to those most vulnerable. If young people get the disease and recover quickly, that will in the long run slow the spread of the disease and reduce it to the problem of a typical flu season.
Finding treatments to shift the spectrum of severity has always been of paramount importance. Learning how to recognize and treat those cases that are most likely to lead to severe complications has already begun to reduce the mortality rate. Better prevention methods in long term care facilities could reduce the number of fatalities significantly. But in the end we are probably going to have to learn to live with the disease for a while and simply accept the risks that go along with living a normal life.
Another fantastic genius:
(2). KDW is very well aware that the US values individual liberty above nearly all else, in clear contrast to our Euro counterparts. If Americans have decided, through their state governors and legislatures, that they'd prefer to deal with the COVID risk by maintaining some semblance of public society during this time rather than mandating home-quarantine (as was done in Italy with minimal effect), then that's what we get by virtue of our model. I guess it might be cathartic for KDW to crap on American administration in general - see in particular the penultimate paragraph - but I fail to see the point.
Hahaha:
We have a large subset of our population that does not follow rules, does not believe in human decency, and will not comply with orders.
I imagine in that sense, Europe is better. IN many cases, they are much more homogeneous, also much more docile, and their police are much more free to imprison people.
You know it's a boomer when they sign the post like they would an email:
The US has 383 deaths per million. UK 637, Spain 606, Italy 574, France 456, Sweden 523, Belgium 830. This really the only number that matters. Most people totally recover and many never knew they had it.
Steve Speegle
Top conservative minds all around.
