Stand your ground generally applies to being in your home or being threatened with grave bodily injury. You can’t just murder some guy because he’s standing in your yard.  In other words there has to be a credible threat.

What was that fraction? 100, 1000? The thing is the more people out there the broader the circle of contacts gets and the greater potential for more infections and deaths. 

Untrue. You simply cannot say, I’m afraid for my life so I’m going to shoot you. If someone is threatening you, then yes, you can protect yourself.

And let’s be real here, you know that some of those people saying “I’m afraid to go to work” will be out on the beach or in the park or at someone’s house with their…

That’s true but at least we are identifying people that have a high potential to be sick, covid or otherwise. I mean, not taking temperatures because we won’t identify everyone is like saying since we can’t catch all speeders we should never have cops setting up with radar guns for speed enforcement. I believe it’s…

We’re using an FDA approved thermometer, just like my doctor uses in his office. Is it fool-proof and highly accurate? Probably not and we all know that you can be asymptomatic and not show a fever. But, we are doing what we can. Our staff know that if they feel ill they are to stay home. They all have paid sick leave…

I think Japan has done a reasonably good job of containing the virus and limiting the deaths. People seem overly focused on number of infections but really they should focus on number of deaths. If everyone was getting infected but no one was dying then no one would care. American Samoa also seems to have done a…

I take any broad-brush commentary as being lazy and uninformed. It is, for all intents and purposes, lumping all businesses and business owners in the same bucket. It it analogous to propagating stereotypes and can be misleading and factually incorrect.

In regards to one-size-fits-all, sure stop the spread, but how? Locking down and destroying the economy is one way, you bet. On the other hand we are seeing countries that didn’t do this and have fared much better than the US.  And by the way, how well did that lock down work for New York? I really don’t know what…

That’s kind of my point, it’s not because business was left to it’s own devices, it’s because the Government of Sweden didn’t do its job.

PS - I think you’re inflating the SK testing numbers. It’s hard to get exact numbers but from what I’ve been able to find via Statista they tested about 654K people which is about 1.2% of their population (51M). Statista reports about 8.3M tests in the US which is about 2.5% of the US population (328M). These numbers…

That’s fine but it doesn’t change the fact that businesses, for the most part, went on as normal. The point is that it wasn’t Sweden’s failure to close businesses that got them where they are, it was their lack of taking necessary precautions and doing testing and contact tracing. In other words, don’t blame…

Sweden’s approach aside, the country does serve as a good example for what happens when you just leave businesses to their own devices during a global pandemic.

Many employers seem fearful that their workers are making more money from staying at home than they would be paid while working, according to the Washington Post.

While this is good and businesses will take advantage it seems like Zoom will lose a large portion of the free-users to other products. That’s probably not a bad thing from a business standpoint but it could impact overall perceptions of the product and could hurt them in the long run.

These sorts of things can become…

I do understand the intent of the rule and I agree it’s a good rule to have. Experimenting on humans is a very touchy subject whether they are prisoners or not. I would think that the rewards for agreeing should be commensurate with the risks. Given that Covid can kill you I would think a free lunch might not be an…

I was unaware of the Common Rule and had to look it up. Interestingly I found this clause:

Best of luck to you. I really don’t see this as being any different than having sex with someone when you know you have HIV, for example. 

It’s hard to see the downside of being coerced into a chance at living. And when it comes to sentencing, isn’t it the jury that has to recommend the death penalty? As for “perverting the course of justice” we already have precedent for the Governor or even the President commuting someone’s sentence, generally for…

I don’t believe that is true, they are actually built for rough seas and their design is such that they likely wouldn’t roll over. Here’s a quote from an article about cruise ships.

Jesus Christ, can you actually put a readable sentence together? Your high school English teacher must want to scream at your inability to write something down in a way people don’t have to try and interpret what you’re saying.

No one is being forced to work anywhere. And you have yet to prove that he got sick at…