United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
Assuming no reinfections, we just passed one in ten people having tested positive for COVID :amerikkka-clap:
I have to agree with the Comrade. Ultimately, it's the fault of the government for not having a nationwide lockdown to squash the virus. Leaving the matter up to individual responsibility lays all of the deaths at the feet of those in power. There will always be people who make the wrong decision in any given situation, given a large enough sample population.
Nah. I would not call what any of the states had anything resembling a lockdown. Folks were still leaving their houses, getting groceries and shit. That's why it did jack all. It wasn't a lockdown. Folks needed to be confined to their homes for a month with supplies hand delivered to everyone at their door for a successful lockdown. The government wasn't willing to do this. Thus the deaths lay at their feet.
Yeah, exactly, the lockdown required enforcement, and it required that businesses close, which was also not enforced, and more importantly, there needed to be some provision made for people to have their bills paid while not working. None of this happened, so no, there was no lockdown.
And leaving it entirely to the govt excuses the rank apathy and idiocy that individuals did to spread it.
Apathy and selfishness are downstream effects of capitalist hegemony. I just don't see the point of arguing with other communists about them when we understand that the USA (especially white America) is a factory for manufacturing atomized neoliberal sociopaths from cradle to grave.
barring arresting ever single person who stepped foot outside their house and sending supplies to every house.
I have to agree with the Comrade. Ultimately, it's the fault of the government for not having a nationwide lockdown to squash the virus. Leaving the matter up to individual responsibility lays all of the deaths at the feet of those in power. There will always be people who make the wrong decision in any given situation, given a large enough sample population.
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Nah. I would not call what any of the states had anything resembling a lockdown. Folks were still leaving their houses, getting groceries and shit. That's why it did jack all. It wasn't a lockdown. Folks needed to be confined to their homes for a month with supplies hand delivered to everyone at their door for a successful lockdown. The government wasn't willing to do this. Thus the deaths lay at their feet.
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Yeah, exactly, the lockdown required enforcement, and it required that businesses close, which was also not enforced, and more importantly, there needed to be some provision made for people to have their bills paid while not working. None of this happened, so no, there was no lockdown.
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To prevent 600,000 deaths? Yes.
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You put them under house arrest instead of taking them to jail.
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Apathy and selfishness are downstream effects of capitalist hegemony. I just don't see the point of arguing with other communists about them when we understand that the USA (especially white America) is a factory for manufacturing atomized neoliberal sociopaths from cradle to grave.
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