To be fair, most places do not actually have police helicopters just cruising around. 

let them GO, and find them later.

These emergency rules are more frequently used than most people know. After every big disaster they issue them and they’re usually narrow enough so that they are not broadly used and abused. 

You went from 0-Domestic Violence in 3 secs flat. Impressive.

And if they hadn’t lifted restrictions I’m quite sure as many comments would be castigating them for not doing so.

It’s a heck of a lot easier for someone to book a hot-shot truck delivery across multiple states than it is to coordinate emergency rail shipping through existing, rigid freight schedules that are not set up for overturning regular rail traffic logistics.

Correct, it’s happened on a localized level many times over the years, with no drastic increase in crashes I’ve ever heard of (last time I can remember it happening close to me as a fertilizer shortage in SD. They waved the restrictions so guys could truck fertilizer in from other states).  While it might sound like…

While this is the first time HOS limits have been suspended nationwide since the limits were put in place, there has been removals on the state level in response to localized disasters such as hurricanes.

Bearing in mind that a 4WD Hilux is only $7K NZD more than this, you’d really have to want a vehicle in the style of a Jimny.

Except COVID-19 is not a statisitcal threat at all to healthy children and s not even a practical threat to them on any rate higher than a healthy adult.

Agreed.  Didn’t happen 11 years ago, shouldn’t this time.

Your numbers assume that the virus infects 100% of a nation’s populace.

Please reference the fact that ZERO children under the age of 9 have died from COVID and revise your statement.

There is no evidence to support the claims of asymptomatic spread. Less than 1% of the cases in China were reported as such, and the medical community of skeptical and still investigating the validity of those claims.

I’m thinking of this virus as if it were Ebola. Others should too

You do realize that the mortality rate is very much an estimate based on current numbers and is, in no way, indicative of the ACTUAL mortality rate of the the virus, right? And that that mortality rate has been dropping steadily as we’ve gotten more widespread and accurate testing online.

Even in the years when they get the vaccine wrong and it becomes essentially useless (2004-2005 for example), not everyone in the country contracts the flu. Basing the possible death rate on 100% of the population, as ForSweden did, is plain stupid.

That’s not really realistic. Not everyone can just hunker down and not go anywhere or do anything for a month or two. At that point everyone is going to be going to a grocery store for supplies, which there is really no way around. The whole world can’t just stop because of something like this.

Every one of Erik’s “Hot takes” are terrible.

I don’t see how this is all that different from the NBA canceling the season moments before one of their games tips off in which at least two of the people on the court already had the virus. I get that this is Jolopnik and not Deadspin so the focus is for motor sport but all this my-gawd-look-how-dumb-the-FIA/Formula…