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kiwidan said:
So in my country.

The government banned and took away everyone's semi-autos and high powered rifles a few months ago. (Well not really because most people handed in other rifles and acturally kept there semi autos.)

The government just said they are from the government and here to protect us.

The government just banned all freedom of assembly.

Does anyone get it yet or just me?
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There are those drunk with power who will use catastrophic events to seize even more power.
 
You know it's a really good thing that you can't catch the disease over the internet. Otherwise that would be shutting down as well.
 
kiwidan said:
Why not a Mac-11, or a .38, or maybe a couple of 9's.

Oh that's right I forgot, guns are bad and evil. The government said so.
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I've owned a .380, 9mm, .38, .357 sig, .40, .45.............one of my 9mms was a Mac-11. Pistols are too easy to inadvertently point in the wrong direction. A long gun is easier to maintain muzzle discipline.
 
Michael74 said:
Additional weeks means additional people infected, and additional weeks of entire cities being locked down. The amount of resources needed to build tests is dwarfed by the resources lockdown results in.
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Maintaining supply chain critical.
 
I'm wondering what the situation is. My vehicle safety cert expires on Thursday and I was booked in to get something specific done as it needs to be done to pass and they had to cancel my booking due to everything shutting down.

The police cannot give me a ticket right?. I still got go work and buy food.
 
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If the country is in lockdown and everyone must distance themselves how is law enforcement suppose to do there job?. Do they have to social distance?
 
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Maintaining supply chain critical.
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The difficulty is that there may be a lot of people that will not have the financial resources to manage a multiple week lock down. Unemployment rates hit a high of about 25% during the great depression but there were still some jobs available beyond just those deemed necessary. Wonder what the unemployment rate will become if the entire country locks down and how long can we sustain a lock down while only keeping necessary industries functioning before people either start to starve or more likely riot and steal.
 
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It's being stuck between a rock and a hard place. If we don't lock down and just rely on social distancing, the hospitals will be overrun with critically ill for a couple weeks and the result is that many will die. If we lock down for more than a couple weeks we could end up with another great depression even worse than the last one with higher unemployment and that death toll from that could potentially be as bad or maybe worse than the virus. I do not envy the task that is before our elected leaders.
 
WIP said:
It's being stuck between a rock and a hard place. If we don't lock down and just rely on social distancing, the hospitals will be overrun with critically ill for a couple weeks and the result is that many will die.
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Longer than a couple of weeks. 20% of people infected need hospitalization to help them through it. Don't even ask how 20% of 330 million people descending on hospitals over the next few months would play out.

66 million people, with maybe 6 million getting treatment. 60 million Americans zapped is just not acceptable to most. Many Americans won't go back to work when the hospitals start turning people away. They will try to find some safe haven elsewhere to take their families. We'll have a Great Depression anyway.

The best solution is to build some tests already, and find out exactly who is infected. Import the tests from China if they have to. Then quarantine the few percent who are infected, and the rest of the country can go back to work.
 
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WIP said:
It's being stuck between a rock and a hard place. If we don't lock down and just rely on social distancing, the hospitals will be overrun with critically ill for a couple weeks and the result is that many will die. If we lock down for more than a couple weeks we could end up with another great depression even worse than the last one with higher unemployment and that death toll from that could potentially be as bad or maybe worse than the virus. I do not envy the task that is before our elected leaders.
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We are being locked down for 4 weeks, that's a month, but who knows, it could be a long time before this thing goes, not everyone abides by the rules, and also there is still contact, someone touches a trolley handle while shopping and then the next person touches it. Just an example, unless everything is sanitized after each use, like ATM machines, EFTPOS, whatever. People are still in public space touching things you don't know where thee hands have been or if they just coughed or sneezes onto it.
 
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