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Find Sam the Cooking Guy on Youtube. You're welcome.

OMG the front porch has never felt so good

This gives me a sad.

Lunch Romanian cave aged cheese, toasted pita wedges, dry salami, and a big glass of chambourcin

And this, friends, is why the plan was deeply flawed. But, you know, narratives.

Testing, foreign supply lines, and leadership. Yup.

Yup. Flawed from the start. *pulls pin and throws*

The assumption is the additional waves result from the re-normalizing.

I think Cuomo mentioned today that projections in NYC are peak in 21 days. The rest of the country (minus Seattle) is well behind NYC.

I saw that recently. Can’t recall where.

Not I. Do explain....

Word starting to circulate online is that Rammstein’s front man is in ICU with the COVID 19 virus.

This is the same kind of thought process that brought us 8 years with no .22 ammo on store shelves because folks whipped themselves into an unjustified frenzy that Obama was going to take their guns.

When they legislate away freedom of association like they legislated away due process and probable cause I'll be standing right there with you. Emergency powers aren't even being utilized by our federal government.

Yeah, I’m sure the next time the government wants to encroach on our rights they’ll make the restaurants sell takeout again.

I need to shop at this grocery store. Do they sell booze too?

Freedom does require actually living. I think most folks are smart enough to understand that willingly giving some things up temporarily is necessity to preserve freedoms once this thing passes/

Worst case projections are ranging from 1.1 to 2.2M deaths, assuming minimal mitigation. What gets us to the well below 1M range is what we are doing today. So yes, it is a choice between financial and physical health. And there is still no reason you've mentioned as to why we wouldn't want to mitigate the outcomes of the resulting financial downturn that doesn't include "we don't want to pay for it". Frankly, I don't buy your thought that those efforts lack effectiveness when what they've really lacked in the past is the high level wherewithal to put serious efforts into it.

Numbers of deaths in the millions absolutely are the projections being made if we cannot flatten the curve. I’m honestly surprised you haven’t come across these numbers.

And you think that these societal consequences would be less after the loss of several million of our friends, children, spouses, and siblings?

And these also would require action to mitigate. What other reason would we choose not to do this other than it would cost us more money?

Cost benefit when the costs on one side is lives lost and the other side is economic health. Or prioritizing monetary health over physical health. The roots in that certainly lie in greed.

Sad truth. Too many people are prioritizing money over people. It’s been that way as long as trade has been around.

If there are any Alton Brown fans out there, he’s posted a couple of live streams on his Youtube channel of him cooking dinner with his wife while they are locked down. If you enjoy his weirdness, they are damned funny. I’m pretty sure he’s rather drunk in the first one. My wife and I had quite a few belly laughs watching them.

Then we both need one. My outlook is cynical.