Ask a serious question and you’ll get the answer it deserves.
Perhaps you should review your posts in this thread since it seems you’ve lost the plot again.
Not mostly, I think you mean disproportionally.
Japan achieved its results through imposing a degree of political and social control that would never have been accepted in the United Statess.
The economic toll of the coronavirus will probably be terrible and with us for many years. I don’t know any more than you do what the right answer is, but as we meat processing plants in the midwest shuttering one after another because of huge virus outbreaks, that suggests that not imposing shelter-in-place would very likely have had the same impact on the economy as shelter-in-place, only with more illness and death.
The potential challenge of deaths from homelessness, poverty and hunger will be a challenge that we have the means to address – if we have the political will to do so. We remain a country with great wealth – the question is how we chose to use that wealth.
good ole rural texas thinking they are safe.
lamar county went from having 1 case to having to have test kits brought in by special courier after their so called safety proved to be an illusion and cases soared…
Not sure what political and social control your referring to, I might not be caught up all I saw Japan do was ban incoming air travel and cancel school for the semester? I am talking Japan not China.
Japan declared a national state of emergency.
Yes they already had that in place they are extending but there’s nothing in it.
“The state of emergency allows prefectural leaders to ask residents to stay home. They can also request closures of schools, some child and senior care or community centers, and stores and businesses that are considered nonessential. They can advise organizers to cancel or postpone events. The governors can also request use of private property to build hospitals and other medical facilities.”
That sounds tame compared to what we are doing.
Rural Texans are great actually. Of such are the backbone of this country.
Except, as anyone familiar with Japanese culture could tell you… those requests have the affect of law.
No one is Japan is grabbing rifles to storm statehouses to demand their liberty.
I know Japan better than most here, I lived and worked there for six months doing a back to back internship out of college in 2005.
They are not like China. It’s all about productivity there they wear face masks because it is a pain in the ass to get a dr’s excuse for work. You actually have to go back to the doctor each day then work to turn in your excuse sick, and everyday get a new excuse so you try to stay healthy, I even started wearing the mask after the first month. They are not going to stop work there it’s embedded in their culture plus their debt to GDP hovering at 200% has leveled off over the last few years and they probably know it would explode if they started shutting down businesses.
No I mean mostly. Adjust the numbers for population.
I’m a weenie compared to some of my ancestors. 
I have a great grandfather who once took one in the back and one in the chest leading a posse.
He died fifty years later of lung cancer.
None of the three outlaws lived to make it back for trial for some reason but he survived a better than sixty mile ride back home.
Tough bastard.
They don’t have any.
They come in at 164 for the highest firearms rates in the world.
It takes almost five full years to even earn the “right” to apply for a rifle or shotgun and hundreds of hours of classroom time to complete the process.
Our history of armed peaceful protest goes back before even the founding.
They are also a monoculture with no real concept of individual rights, the collective is everything to them.
They are probably the most disciplined culture left of the planet.
Because of all the EQ’s they have a civilian CD force that is heavily militarized and pretty much everyone physically capable must participate.
Interesting people.
This basically was the point I was making – comparing government actions in Japan and the US without considering the cultural differences was meaningless.
Ok. I’m not sure that word means what you think it means but it’s your post.
I have a sister who lives in a rural TX area. I visit from time to time. The folks i have run into down there are really fine people for the most part.
What part of the State? I grew up in the far western PH right on the state line and have spent most of my life north and west of a line from I-20 From EP to FW then west of I 35 north to The river.
West Texans are the true "salt of the earth Westerners of lore.
There were basically no white settlements on the Llano north and west other than on the few rivers until the windmill was perfected. Just too dry.
Once the WM came along ranching became possible but farming on a large scale was impossible until the invention of big electric, gas/diesel engines for irrigation because of the depth of water.
Shallow deposits, just enough for stock and a few homes are plentiful but those aquifers are very narrow and you can’t get more than a few gallons a minute for a short period before they shut down so you might only get 3,000-5,000 gal pr/mo and on a dry year they could dry up quickly.
The last water well we drilled out west went to 850’ with the pump setting at 685 and we were lucky to get a 300gpm well out of it. To irrigate a full section you’d need 4-6 300-800gpm pumps.
It’s very hard county.
Title searches were easy when you bought/sold land there through because there were only two owners of any of it before about 1920, The XIT and Comanches.
