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Biden is no steward of fiscal responsibility
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<blockquote data-quote="probinson" data-source="post: 76910487" data-attributes="member: 121249"><p>To answer that question, we must realize and admit that the vast majority of economic damage was not done by COVID-19, but by <em><u>the response to</u></em> COVID-19. Once you understand that, it becomes quite clear that we could have managed it better.</p><p></p><p>Let we believe this was unavoidable, Dr. John Ioannidis wrote an opinion piece in Stat News on March 17, 2020, right when all this was beginning, that stated this;</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/" target="_blank">A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data</a></em></p><p></p><p>If you read that cautionary piece today in hindsight, nearly every worry Dr. Ioannidis raised has been validated. The elephant jumped, and the social and financial consequences have been dire.</p><p></p><p>So it seems clear that if calm, rational thought would have prevailed over the political, frenzied panic, we could have avoided much of the economic damage inflicted by the response to COVID-19.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="probinson, post: 76910487, member: 121249"] To answer that question, we must realize and admit that the vast majority of economic damage was not done by COVID-19, but by [I][U]the response to[/U][/I] COVID-19. Once you understand that, it becomes quite clear that we could have managed it better. Let we believe this was unavoidable, Dr. John Ioannidis wrote an opinion piece in Stat News on March 17, 2020, right when all this was beginning, that stated this; [INDENT][I]If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies. [URL='https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/']A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data[/URL][/I][/INDENT] If you read that cautionary piece today in hindsight, nearly every worry Dr. Ioannidis raised has been validated. The elephant jumped, and the social and financial consequences have been dire. So it seems clear that if calm, rational thought would have prevailed over the political, frenzied panic, we could have avoided much of the economic damage inflicted by the response to COVID-19. [/QUOTE]
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