After watching what the minuscule minority can do I would say there is
no "insignificant" population as long as they can get support from the
media and the majority is ignored.
Is that what you asked?
I suppose the point is the media is the leader and the politicians
only need to appeal to that narrow minority who run the 4 big media
companies to look like leaders but they are not really leading
anything.
In the case of this Covid, other than lockdowns, quarantines and
travel restrictions, there is really no effective strategy, proven so
far so they try to placate us with masks so we think we are doing
something. In the mean time our economy is circling the bowl and the
"leaders" are trying to take our minds off of it because they don't
have a plan for that either.
John points to the reopening guidelines but that just tells us why we
have to keep our knee on the neck of the economy. It is not a plan to
fix the economic problems. If the country was totally open tomorrow,
there is still trillions of dollars of damage done that may never be
recovered. I still think Sweden has the right idea. They may lose a
lot of people compared to Denmark but I think in the long run they
will be better off economically and physically.
I guess any number greater than 0 is a significant number. I dont understand
what point you were making.
Any strategy the administration employs will be picked apart by the
democrats and liberal media because that's what the do. A ton of money was
spent and decisions were made that slowed the economy and put people out of
work, in order to save lives. You say it would have been better to leave
things alone and hope herd imunity would be our savior. Would you be
critical of the administration if they had taken that path?
I think the path may have been overreaching. At a certain point
Sweden's idea may not turn out to be that horrible. If you are just
flattening the curve but dragging out the misery for 2 years and
ending up pretty much where you would have been if you took less
draconian measures, was that the right path?
Would a less draconian path had less impact on the economy?
We really won't know until this is over but at our present trajectory
that could be years. The question will be if there is an economy left
to reopen. I know business people who said they were prepared for a
rainy day but this is Noah's flood and if you remember that fable,
only 2 of every species survived. Every other living thing died.