10-24-2020, 03:52 PM
(10-24-2020, 01:20 PM)teejers1 Wrote:(10-24-2020, 11:42 AM)chrisk Wrote: Ireland has imposed a 6-week soft lockdown. Police are enforcing a 3-mile limit on the distance people can travel from home.
Wales imposed a 17-day firebreak lockdown Friday. Very few exceptions for leaving your house and no inter-household mingling allowed.
The obituary for lockdowns has been prematurely written. It is not clear that Americans are responsible enough to avoid a strict lockdown. In China, people were “nudged” to do the right thing, but life got back to close to normal much more quickly than it is in the US.
With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, January could be the worst month on record.
The Senate is ostensibly in session today to debate the Supreme Court nomination, but in fact there is a lot of legislative maneuvering resulting in debates on COVID relief and health policy/pre-existing conditions.
Right now, Sen Brown is leading the charge for the Democrats and Sen Johnson is holding the line for the Republicans.
China again . . . what a shocker!
What a great country that is . . .
Taiwan did even better than China and used less force. Some Americans seem unwilling to accept their F grade in managing COVID.