@Leadfoot,
Quote:I’m hoping we get to check on the wisdom of that approach. Last I heard, Sweden is taking the approach of isolating elderly and other vulnerable people but otherwise, business as usual. Trump may just have run out of nerve in the face of the media ridicule.
Sweden is a different case in many respects (and Walter filled in the part of that but let's also note they have universal health care). But it isn't as if it is only the elderly who are dying now. And we are not lacking in research on pandemics and how to mitigate them, none of which points to that debated proposal. The push for such a proposal is coming from the extreme libertarian crowd and from those who have a huge financial interest in maintaining existing structures of wealth and power. Moral considerations are missing in both camps.
Trump's phrasing in that quote is an indicator of that absent moral sense
Quote:maybe we should not do anything, just ride it. Ride it like a cowboy. Ride that sucker right through
Your child or grandchild is dying from terminal cancer but the family is going to ride it like a cowboy, just ride the sucker right through. Giddyup!
