Chris Christie Says U.S. Needs to Reopen and Accept More Deaths

[rocktivity]

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The Daily Beast: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie..who now works as an ABC News contributor... said...that the American economy needs to reopen quickly...(though) tens of thousands...may die from the novel coronavirus...

“Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can—but the question is, towards what end, ultimately?” Christie said. “Are there ways that we can thread the middle here to allow that there are going to be deaths, and there are going to be deaths no matter what?

“...(T)he American people have gone through significant death before...We sent our young men during World War II over to Europe, out to the Pacific, knowing, knowing that many of them would not come home alive...And we decided to make that sacrifice because what we were standing up for was the American way of life. (It's) the very same way now...”

But when we sent those Americans off to war, we sent them with ways to mitigate their deaths -- by supplying them with armor, weaponry, training, a battle plan, an exit strategy, and most important, credible and trustworthy leadership. The real problem is that the way to mitigate this war is literally under our noses, and it's not being taken.

Now that we know that the virus is spreading via people who don't know they're infected, the battle plan should be to detect and properly quarantine them so the uninfected can not only resume the American way of life, but build up the herd immunity. Front-end mass testing has worked in other countries, and a mass testing protocol based on saliva rather than blood or mucus sampling is available. Irony alert -- it was developed in New Jersey, so you'd think that Christie would be screaming for it to be mass produced! But then again, I didn't nickname him "Governor Soprano" for nothing.


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[mzmolly]

1. Does he realize he's high risk?

[Newest Reality]

2. He can go right ahead and get out there and mingle!

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Proceed, Chris.

What is it the good doctor called them? Moribund cases?

Christi is just stretching the track for Trump. Giving him the opportunity to backtrack on his original death rate numbers.

[JenniferJuniper]

3. "towards what end, ultimately?"

Towards not dying, you worthless piece of crap.

My 70 year old neighbor died yesterday from the virus. Grandfather of 10, most of whom who could be seen nearly every weekend visiting their papa.

Why him and not the likes of Christie?

[greenjar_01]

4. It's likely that a person with Christie's co-morbidities would not survive the NY/NJ strain

of this thing.

Honestly, that's not snark. He's smack dab in the middle of the health status for which this thing is deadly as can be.

[Walleye]

5. In other words:

“Many poor, black, and older people will die. But I’m willing to make that sacrifice.”

[dhill926]

16. yup...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Okay Thanos

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. He and others

seem to think that we all signed up for something we obviously didn't sign up for. If we were actually signing up for the military to go fight a war, then he might have a point, but that doesn't apply for the vast majority of the American public. Nobody is signing up to be cannon fodder for Trump's re-election.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. How about yours, Chris?

[jberryhill]

9. Hey, he knows all about closing things in order to cause harm

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Only if it's his

[stopbush]

11. There's always been a monetary death benefit for the families of service members killed in battle.

In WWII, it was $10,000, or $158,352 in 2020 dollars.

Let's see, at 70,000 Americans dead from tRump's botched response, that's $11,084,640,000. Is Christie advocating we pay that to surviving family members?

[Wellstone ruled]

12. This whole open up the economy is being driven

by a hand full of Billionaire Libertarians who talk daily with Trump.

yahoo news is reporting that Mercer and company are bending Trumps ear daily.

[yellowcanine]

14. Aw go block a bridge somewhere, Crispy.

Crispy can't stand it that he is not a news maker anymore.

[Celerity]

15. your link is broken, here is the correct one

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-christie-pushes-for-reopening-says-americans-have-to-accept-more-coronavirus-deaths

here is what yours goes to

[rocktivity]

24. Fixed, thanks /eom

rocknation

[Celerity]

25. yw

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. He can get a job a a cashier

somewhere. No barrier between him and the customers. Oh, and he can't wear a mask either.

[abakan]

18. Well ok

him first I will gladly accept his death. He is a large waste of good oxygen.

[Laxman]

19. The Man Who Closes Bridges Out Of Spite......

and closes beaches except for himself wants to open up the country. I suppose there's some irony in there somewhere....maybe Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni can help him.

[jpak]

20. He and his family needs to get out there and show us how it's done

yup

[tinrobot]

21. Are you volunteering, governor?

[cry baby]

22. He wants us to sacrifice lives rather than time and money.

Pro life my arse.

[maxrandb]

23. Sure Chris! Stopping Nazi from murdering 10's of millions and destroying global Democracy

is just exactly the same as getting a manicure and having your bangs frosted

We need to die for the My Pillow guy??????

Dear Chris, go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition Hard Cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit!