Tesla Buyers Aren't In To The Lockdown Sheep Mentality - Purchasing Cars Anyway

One of my good friends in Fort Lauderdale took delivery of his new Model Y last week, which he ordered about two months ago as a COVID impulse purchase.

I guess with the gigantic Tesla order backlog, someone must have bumped him to the top of the list!

There are many people who are sick of the lockdown that has NOT produced any positive results. It's time to open up, take off the masks, and get back to business. On 11-4, COVID will be cured.

you have two mentalities at play.

Lock everyone in and harbor no immunity of those locked down. No one gets sick and no goes anywhere. The world stops.

Or

Relax a bit, accept more cases and build an immunity factor and try to get back to normal.

Both are valid to a degree.

There are vetted sources that say that if we did not lock down there would be no difference in the number of deaths.

A high infection rate is a GOOD thing because (1) COVID is a nothing for 99.8% of people who get it and (2) those people are developing herd immunity. Masks, sheltering, and social distancing INCREASE the potential for the death rate to be higher because we are not developing immunity and viruses mutate.

The fact that the media has NOT shared is that the overall death count for all causes in 2020 is LOWER than at this point in 2019.

COVID is not an issue.

It is very important to note that COVID-19 deaths in the US could be the leading cause of death in the US in 2020. It should easily make the number 3 spot for sure.

So I'm not trying to minimize the death numbers

Bullshit!

Reality: If I have stage 4 cancer and am dying but I have the China virus, then I didn't die of cancer.

Reality: If I die in a car wreck but I have the China virus, then I didn't die of a car wreck.

Reality: If I commit suicide but I have the China virus, then I didn't die of self-inflicted harm.

Reality: If I'm killed by Antifa or Black Goons Matter but I have the China virus, then I didn't die from terrorists.

That is correct because you receive compensation from the fed if it is a COVID-19 death. COVID-19 is a way to get free $$$

I follow the stats every day. Sweden, which did nothing, now only has had 18% more deaths per capita than the US. It started out around 35% more death per capita, which was the penalty for doing nothing....... initially. With some level of herd immunity, they are now only having a handful of deaths a day and the overall penalty for doing absolutely nothing is 18% more death. Almost all regions that were hit the hardest, Italy, Spain, New York, are now trending to pretty much no death with a 0.2% death rate of the overall population seeming like the worst case scenario.

I'm trying to be objective here, I actually know a lot of people now that have gone through Covid and it isn't fun.

Either we wait another 6 months for a vaccine or we hurry up and get to the same level of immunity as Sweden, Spain, Italy. That 2nd strat involves letting those least at risk (kids, 20-30 year olds) take some risk if they are comfortable doing that. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head telling them to go outside. Everyone has the option of being a hermit and reducing their risk by 100%. Those that are low risk should have the freedom to live life knowing the probability that they could get sick and die based on their age and health conditions.

Psychopathy: "I follow the stats every day."

Such fixation is psychologically unhealthy.

Probably, and Sweden is now down to 17.5% more death per capita than the US

16.8%

The Anti-Mask people are now teaming up with the anti-vaccination people to send out a better message and appeal to the same crazy bunch who refute the science. What does this mean? Even when a vaccine does come out, there will will be looney people who won't get the shot for themselves or their kids.

If they USA had locked down hard from Jan-March, it would have very little in the way of COVID-19 cases and infections. Because it did not, and does not have a national strategy, the virus is running rampant across the USA with no end in sight.

@MD likes to say on 11/4 it will all be over. He is right. The current administration who does not have a plan and does not accept this pandemic will be out. The adults will return to the room and the pandemic will be addressed head on with a national strategy using the same playbook they handed over in 2016.

Um no, asshole. COVID is 100% a political hoax. Once the election is over--either way--COVID ceases to be a tool.

I do agree a full lock down would have cut numbers.. But then again no immunity at all is the price, so once the lock down ends the numbers rise and you lock down again. We are seeing this in Europe.

Actually the administration started making changes in the last days of January which is when the first case in the US was reported. Those measures were highly criticized, so i doubt a hard lock down would have been supported at that time, even though now we ask why we didn't.

In fact certain legislators (Pelosi) encouraged public gathering in late February for Chinese New Year's well into the beginning of the US lock down. So we are all to blame in hindsight.

@Agent009 - Fingers can be pointed in many directions when this is all over. But a hard lockdown even from Jan-March 2021 will be required in the USA as the pandemic is running wild. That coupled with the release of vaccines will be the 1-2 punch that knocks COVID-19 to its knees. Contact tracing and testing when it flares up again will help snuff it out whenever it may appear. There is a methodology to fighting it, but it only works if everyone pulls together.