PeterS wrote:
The comparison was a shutdown vs 'other voluntary preventative measures'. So what were the voluntary measures...the article never did say. Is it wearing a mask, social distancing, etc? If so, conservatives have already rejected those measures so if half your population won't do anything voluntarily what other choice is there but to shut down the economy? After all the do-nothing approach has delivered the largest number of c***d cases and deaths in the entire world...
"conservatives have already rejected those measures": Not all - but you like to make gross generalizations.
"After all the do-nothing approach has delivered the largest number of c***d cases and deaths in the entire world": Also a completely false statement.
And, the US is 12th in deaths per million population. You conveniently omitted that since it doesn't seem to fit your agenda.