Abel

Glad you corrected the statement. IMHO, a Democrat might be worth ten cents a hundred pounds. Now a RINO, or an Establishment Congress person, well I wouldn't waste my time, let alone my money. Republicans, of course, would vary in worth from ten cents a pound to a dollar a pound. President Trump and his loyal followers, priceless.

milamber

Auntie Dee

Bleeding hearts instead of Beating Hearts of our most innocent & helpless citizens!

maryjane

It is so easy to proclaim that even one life lost is too much, and certainly we should grieve every life lost. BUT, people, death is a normal part of life and death happens as the result if many things. I am a rational, logical person and I have a hard time understanding the view that there was no uproar, no closing down the nation any years because of bad flu, even if we lost 60,000 people, even when we have dealt with much more scary things like polio, which was terrifying especially those iron lungs, but our nation plugged ahead. While not minimizing this virus, I believe certain folks such as the media blew things all out of proportion and before we could actually grasp what was happening we were in the middle of the "most horrible thing ever to happen to mankind" which is utter nonsense. So many humans always seem ready to believe the worst possible outcome will happen.

Auntie Dee

You sound like one of the sane one's here! Unfortunately we are not the same nation as we were when Polio hit! I remember it well & have personally known some survivor's (my 1st husband, for instance)! With this current flock of snowflakes, it almost seems impossible to overcome their ignorance.

For instance, I had to go to a commercial lab recently for routine blood labs! They had signs on front door & everywhere that they DID NOT offer Covid-virus testing! There were very few people in the waiting room & everyone was aware of distancing. I am in the "older, more dangerous" category, yet I was not really concerned, our whole county of 400,000 in Calif no less, has had only 3 deaths & one was visiting from another state.

Anyway, in walks a rather obese young man, perhaps 20-25, jeans so tight you could see his butt-crack & tats on both arms, had on a face mask & gloves, even so, he availed himself twice in 10 minutes of the bottle of sanitizer on the front desk. Now, I must admit, perhaps he had a medical condition that required that level of protection, but I sort of doubt it, he looked otherwise perfectly healthy for a fat guy! Unfortunately I think he might have been infected instead with a bad case of the CNN/MSNBC/MSM flu!

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

Agreed. The fear mongering by some media and politicians has gone way beyond rational. The governed have too easily consented to relinquish their unalienable rights to effect their safety. Should this continue very long it could be very destructive and fundamentally and permanently transform America.

"The most horrible thing ever to happen to mankind" is, has and always will be man himself. The more power or influence an individual has been granted over others the more dangerous he becomes. No number of deaths will ever be caused by natural disasters or illnesses that can equal what a single person can do who believes in his heart that he knows what's best for everyone else.

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

I think I got my answer. The price of life is...

total cost
--------------------------------------------------------- = acceptable political value of each life.
total number of deaths x amount of fear generated