So now that tRump has completely embarrassed the reThuglican party.....

[TigressDem]

13. I don't necessarily want "big government" either.

I don't want them telling me what I can and can't do with my own body, for instance.

BUT I think making businesses or individuals responsible for cleaning up their own messes is a common sense way to address "regulations"

SURE it really is about regulating business etc... to prevent people from getting sick and/or dying for someone else's profit margin, but when you put it in simpler terms, look the people who make the mess own it, clean it up. Then it is about personal accountability, personal responsibility and that is a cornerstone of their long time party platform. So they can't stand on that virtue and argue about people and/or businesses cleaning up their own messes.

This COVID thing is insane though, isn't it? I was in line at a juice bar for lunch and this guy was ranting and raving about how shutting everything down for a illness that has a 99% survival rate is stupid.

Well if we had car accidents at the rate of COVID, and stopped taking precautions like stopping at red lights or stop signs or driving 90mph in residential zones, our cars might give us a high survival rate, but how many more deaths in general would there be? How full would hospitals be of "survivors" still in recovery for months? Is that any way to live either?

They just don't get the extremely HIGH rate of infection STILL makes those numbers insanely scary.