The novel coronavirus in the U.S. During the 1957-58 virus season, more than 116,000 died of influenza. The 1960 US census placed the US population at 179,000,000 people. Today the population is about 331,000,000. The death rate today from Chi-Comm 19 is 0.000166. In 1958, the death rate from the flu was 0.000648. One of these numbers is far larger than the other, yet during 1957-58 we did not shut down the majority of the US economy because we had a problem with the more deadly Asian Flu. The governors decided to shut down their state economies out of fear; this has consequences. One of which has been every business large or small has appeared in Washington DC, hat in hand seeking a handout. So have millions of people. We already have unemployment compensation schemes and bankruptcy protection; why did we need more? And why are we bailing out businesses? The investors in these businesses took a risk that their investment might be lost if something bad happened. Chi-Comm 19 is bad, but the actions of the governors of many of the US states have been far worse. It is these people upon which the opprobrium should fall, not the taxpayers. We have lost our minds believing that the federal government can protect every investor, every wage earner, and every business from loss. We have mechanisms in place with which to sort through these issues and protect the vulnerable. We should use them. The governors of the states which took draconian actions closing their economies need to stand up in public and tell the voters why they took these actions without counsel from the state legislature or anyone else of note. It is possible that New York City, and perhaps other localities, needed to take draconian actions to protect the emergency health care system, but even that is not obvious. There is no evidence that people in most states needed to take these draconian actions to prevent a problem, which was only 26% a similar problem we survived 62 years earlier, without draconian action. The governors of the states are now marshaling for the largest bailout in human history. This bailout is an attempt to protect themselves from the consequences of their incompetence and destructive actions. We should not bail them out. We need to allow the voters of these states to assess these politicians' actions and take appropriate actions to hold these people to account. America today suffers from a massive problem of immaturity among our adult population. Most of the immaturity rests among the Baby Boomers who are now mostly in their 60s and 70s we think of them as mature but they are not. These are the same people who have decided that it is just fine to demand our governments spend massively while only agreeing to be taxed about 75% of the expenditure amounts. This is why the US has nearly $24 trillion in debt, hanging over the heads of our children and grandchildren. It is also these people who received massive infrastructures like our hydro dams, our electrification grid, and our Interstate Freeway system and who have failed to maintain these structures because they didn't want to pay those costs. The Boomers are immature, and they need a serious comeuppance. The Boomers have also failed to fund their pensions, old age medical, or retirements. We do not have the money to unwind these massive and ruinously costly mistakes. The idea that we are bailing out the Boomers businesses and can bail out all of the myriad other Boomer failures is laughable. What we need is a serious maturation of the Boomers, and we need it now. Stop the bailouts, stop larding the financial mistakes of the Boomers on the heads of the younger generations. It is time to tell the Boomers to grow up. The Trump Derangement Syndrom is a serious sickness, it has distorted the minds of the people infected with this mental virus to the point that they would sacrifice any number of people so long as Trump is removed from office. This is the same totalitarian mental illness which infected the Soviet Union and resulted in the murder of 12 million during the Holodomor, the Chinese Maoists and resulted in tens of millions of dead multiple times, the Khmer Rouge and resulted in the killing of nearly half of the Cambodians in the Killing Fields, and the Nazis and resulted in the murder of 10 million during the Holocaust. These people have been infected with a shocking mental illness which will justify any actions they wish to take, including the murder of any number of people in the goal of ridding the world of Trump. Sorry, this is not a difficult choice. Progressives have no moral center. At their core is a totalitarian vacuum, which allows them to sacrifice real lives on the alter of their political desires, just like the Maoist, the Soviets, the Nazis and so many others. If you want to know where this comes from watch Groundhog Day. Phil Connors is the at his core an amoral and selfish individual who is willing to sacrifice any and all for temporal personal gain, pleasure, or benefit. This is one of the thematically great films. The first video is the trailer. The second video is about the premise/theme of the film. The Boomers are the first generation in human history to be completely egocentric and self-centered. They have consumed everything and left nothing for their progeny. The only question is do we hold the Boomers accountable (no bailouts) or do we let them continue their destructive ways (bailout the Boomers)? I vote for the latter, what do you think?
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