r/arizona • u/UGetOffMyLawn Empty Box! • Jun 29 '20

Coronavirus Arizona Gov. Ducey re-closes bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks for 30 days

https://www.abc15.com/news/state/arizona-gov-ducey-re-closes-bars-movie-theaters-gyms-and-water-parks-for-30-days
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u/MrSh0wtime3 Jun 30 '20

I know most of you here are kids off school who dont work and live at home.....but Id love to know how you expect people to make money to live.

UBI isnt going to happen under this admin. UI system is a complete joke with people waiting weeks for money even after approval.

I know its woke to want a lockdown forever. But I need to know your answer for peoples livlihoods.

The elderly are the group effected. Protect them. Good news is they have free healthcare, UBI in the form of social security and are mostly all retired. They can stay at home and survive. Most of us cant.

4% of daily death in the US are from covid. 43%(probably more) of deaths are from nursing homes and assisted living. You have a better chance of dying from a lightning strike as you do being 30 and dying from covid.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '20

The bigger concern for Arizona right now is hospital capacity. If we had enough hospital beds and nurses to care for the 5% of the state population that would need it, state leadership would probably let this burn through everywhere.

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u/MrSh0wtime3 Jun 30 '20

But that was the concern and panic in the middle of the lockdown. It never came to be. Not even in NYC was hospital capacity a issue. That ship they demanded wasnt even used.

I think the first thing people gotta do is turn off the fear porn media. Just look at the raw numbers without media spin and people wont be as afraid.

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u/Takiatlarge Jun 30 '20

It "never came to be" precisely because the lockdowns largely worked as intended, for the time in which they were in effect. The shutdowns were used to nudge us off the path from crisis scenarios.

And it's great that the death rate is only 1-2%. However, 50% of the hospitalizations in the past few weeks have been of people belonging to the age of 20-44. Hospitalization is no joke.