Question:
What will the consequences be of the US reopening and just pretending the Wuhan epidemic is over?
2020-05-09 16:54:06 UTC
What will the consequences be of the US reopening and just pretending the Wuhan epidemic is over?
Nine answers:
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2020-05-09 17:03:01 UTC
The consequence will be that our civilization does NOT collapse, the world will NOT end.



If we don't reopen the economy, the looming disaster will be far, far worse than anything the virus could ever cause. 

 

If we continue this quarantine, it will be the literal end of the world. The food supply chain will break down, leaving everyone living anywhere but farms or hunting cabins to starve. The pharmaceutical supply chain will break down meaning that people who need medication to stay healthy will not have any such medication.  

 

As the economic situation continues to collapse, people won't be able to pay their utilities. And that means that utility companies won't be able to make payroll or pay the costs of running their power plants (i.e. fuel and maintenance). Thus the power grid will fail. No power = no refrigeration, no heat in the winter, no air conditioning in the deep south in the summer where it is a matter of life and death for the elderly. 

 

No power also means water treatment facilities shut down, especially if people can't pay their water bills to defray the cost of treating the water. So, we run into a shortage of drinkable water.  

 

If the quarantine continues, the world-wide survivors of the apocalypse that is coming will number in millions, or maybe even just the thousands. If the quarantine continues, the resulting collapse WILL be TEOTWAWKI. (The End of The World as We Know it.) If you continue the quarantine, we're talking nearly the entire population of the United States dead by this time next year.
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2020-05-09 17:01:41 UTC
A return to freedom and the end of a experiment for power by some elected and un-elected officials
2020-05-09 16:58:22 UTC
Nothing, because that is not what is happening.  The reopening of the economy is being done with safety as the priority.  Nobody is pretending it is over.



There are all kinds of safety protocols being used to minimize the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus while resuscitating the economy from the damaging shut-downs.
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2020-05-09 16:57:30 UTC
There is nothing wrong with reopening the economy with precautions. Don't want to participate? Don't. That's your freedom. Allow others to exercise theirs.
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2020-05-09 16:57:19 UTC
Lots of unnecessary American deaths. Putin will be pleased
Strega
2020-05-09 16:56:13 UTC
Sorry you ca't see what is unfolding right before your very eyes. And the economy never closed, false dichotomy.
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2020-05-09 16:56:01 UTC
People will get it. Some will die. That happens with just about everything if you think about it. People get cars; some will die. People get electricity; some will die. People smoke; some will die. Should will outlaw cars and electricity? How about smoking? 
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2020-05-09 16:55:39 UTC
Well to be fair in Wuhan it is controlled enough to open up safely. Mainly because after a couple months the Chinese government managed to figure out that Trumpian cover-ups weren't working too good, what with them not being complete drooling idiot children and everything.
2020-05-09 16:55:00 UTC
The consequence will be more infections and more deaths.


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