You are assuming I even support the riots, I don't. Btw, most protesters aren't even rioters.
Link I also don't support any crowds that forgo all safety precautions during a pandemic nor do I support anyone who has and still continues to not take this virus seriously. Especially the ones that have the most power in this country right now. Who are in fact actively making things worse.
The only people who are playing games, are the people coming in here with off-topic nonsense and spamming the word socialism and communism any chance they can.
Yes, sorry for that assumption. I'm well aware there is a difference between peaceful protesting and rioting, which is why I outlined there is a difference in my last reply. A lot of the people who support the peaceful protesting with tens of thousands of people gathering do so freely, but then condemn Trump supporters for gathering in the tens of thousands. Heck, there's a lot of people on the Left that view the riots as justified. When questioned, they cite that it's a right to protest and important that they do so as it's for a worthy cause. That same logic applies to Trump rallies or any other large gathering as the
right to assembly is an actual right and the one is
just as important to others as it may be to you.
I take COVID seriously as it's a virus with a
99.8% survival rate that we now know that
you don't need to be tested unless you're showing symptoms as most asymptomatic people don't have enough of the virus in them to be contagious. That explains the need to take samples from deep within the nasal passage to accurately gauge if people are infected or not. I also take the yearly flu seriously, take hepatitis seriously, pneumococcal pneumonia and shingles seriously. That's why I'll be willing to get a vaccine for COVID, but
I refuse to over react as others have. I don't think masks are necessary, but if you own an establishment and require masks that is your right as you own the place and to do business together you should be able to set the rules as you own the place. Luckily we're not under socialist rule so every single person or business owner is free to make up their own mind. I brought up socialism because lots of people on the Left are advocating we tear up the US Constitution and replace our way of government with some old proven to fail time and time again system. The Left's actions are highly tied to that desire so it's more than appropriate to mention.
The seriousness of the virus is way over blown though. I actually agreed with the
Democrats back when
all they wanted to do was impeach Trump and were ignoring the virus (I didn't agree with the impeachment though). I didn't agree that Trump was racist for acting to protect us when the Democrats refused to lift a finger, but the entire "don't be afraid to go outdoors" message the Democrats were sending is something I agreed and still agree with.
The virus is serious, but only to a certain extent. When compared to other things in life it's not that deadly. I've more of a chance getting in a car accident and dying on my way to get tested for COVID 19 then I do of actually getting it and getting sick.
To address Trump's response, I believe that downplaying it was a dishonest move with good intentions.
You don't want a panic so that's the normal way to deal with emergencies, the same way people do with any major disaster. Sure, it doesn't make it right as a lie is a lie, but it's better than having everyone freak out as that causes more harm then good. I do however dislike the dishonesty coming from the Left that Trump didn't act soon enough. His response starting late last year and when he started to close borders, stop flights, refuse Cruise Ships port of entry and take some CDC and WHO guidelines that actually made sense seriously all the Democrats did was call him "racist". So you can see how now when the Democratic Left claim he didn't act soon enough is simply
untrue.
For other responses, it seems Trump is taking the advice of experts, but it's just a shame that these experts change their position on a weekly basis. I know that we learn new things, but
we should wait until we're confident until we make policy or give out guidelines. You see that what we knew some weeks ago is now proved to be inaccurate, meaning we were wrong. So what makes what we know now not wrong? There's an inherit flaw in the entire process that costs people time, money and in some cases their health or lives.
We should wait until we know enough to issue guidance on these sorts of things as flip flopping creates nothing but distrust for the institutions that apparently can't make up their minds about certain issues. Of course, the CDC who started off with the "masks don't work" intentional lie didn't help things, nor does that CDC's constant fight with Trump. Lastly, if the
CDC wouldn't have spent years meddling in things that had nothing to do with infectious diseases maybe we could have reacted better. In the end we're all human and we all make mistakes throughout each and every day so we should probably give on another a break. The real bad guy here is China, it originated in their country and they knew about the virus long before anyone else did and choose to hide it from the World.
China is not good people.