So that absolutely didn't happen, sorry. We have this thing called posse comitatus in the U.S., the U.S. Army isn't allowed to do domestic law enforcement...period. And the most certainly didn't exercise it during the Boston bombing nor did they or would they point machine guns at people answering doors. That's all absurd on a bunch of levels! Did someone hack your account here, this doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd post?
We just witnessed the Biggest Drop in History
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Ok, that might be what police looks like in the US, to me it looks like army. You can jump to 2'00 for the action I was relating from 6 a years old memory (my impression is still the same, the guy on top on the truck doesn´t seem to be pointing his automatic weapon to the stars )
Spain did bring soldiers in to help with quarantine btw, but they´ve already been a common sight in neighboring France for many years.
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So we definitely should have shut down the media after 9/11. Hell, fewer than 3,000 people died there, twice as many people die every day in the U.S. alone! Better that no-one even know it happened per your logic, right? And all the mass shootings, heck many of them only kill a couple dozen people, why the hell should we have any right to know about that? We'd barely even notice if the media didn't tell us. Veterans committing suicide at a higher rate than the population after coming back from wars? Screw them right, it's only 20 a day, who would even notice if that evil media didn't tell us. Three Mile Island and Fukushima, did anyone even die in those? No need for anyone to know.
If you don't see the absolute absurdity of your position by now......
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Correct.
That and the much higher fatality rate. Typical flu 0.1%, this one at least 1.0% or 10 times higher.
Suppose the death toll rises exponentially over the next 6 months to like millions of people. Would you not feel more secure having known 6 months ago about the outbreak? We hardly know anything about this virus, let alone what will happen in 6 months (and we have no vaccine). It's definitely better to err on the side of caution.
Why bother with nominal numbers the way the media would. Only the relative drop is important.
Yes carry on like normal. That worked for measles, smallpox, the spanish flu, SARS, and thousands of other highly infectious disease.
Those people with typhoid felt relaxed when the guy told them "relax the civil war killed more people!" Or those people who died in coal mines - "no big deal, lots more people died in WW1!" Imagine the clarity of mind the people suffering from black lung must've suddenly felt. How about the people who watched their loved ones literally melt into a puddle of blood because of Ebola Zaire? How relaxed they must've been knowing dengue was certainly more deadly by the numbers.
Do you understand how stupid this line of reasoning is. It doesn't even follow logic. It's affirming the disjunct. Let's walk through it:
Car crashes are bad, or coronavirus is bad. Therefore coronavirus is not bad.
Does this make any logical sense?? You're defining coronavirus as not bad because you can point to something that is bad, so therefore the other thing can't be as bad. Your justification is defeatist - "everyone dies". The kind of people that say these things are always the first to cower to mommy when it comes to get them.
https://law.stackexchange.com/quest...litary-be-used-as-a-police-force-domestically
It's not unconstitutional it's just "against the rules". Since it's not unconstitutional in a dire emergency it wouldn't be beyond the powers of the government to undo the posse comitatus act. Not likely, but to be totally correct posse comitatus is just a rule.
Congress would have to authorize it. But we have the national guard so that is very unlikely.
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Anyone going to retire this year should not have had their portfolio in stocks. In fact, someone retiring this year would have had their portfolio all in fixed income and would have had a huge capital gain in Notes and Bonds across the board.
Anyone who is within 5 years of retiring and took major losses has an ass for a portfolio or retirement manager.