{"id":8390,"date":"2020-10-28T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:53:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:53:46","slug":"linked-this-is-the-coronavirus-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/10\/28\/linked-this-is-the-coronavirus-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;This Is the Coronavirus Election&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1284,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/linked\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/28\\\/the-coronavirus-election&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250201205445\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/linked\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/28\\\/the-coronavirus-election&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 19:46:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-11 14:31:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-21 03:09:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01 02:51:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 03:35:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 20:37:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 11:00:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 19:08:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 19:08:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/10\/28\/the-coronavirus-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via DaringFireball (A politics &amp; tech blog):<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>We all miss so many people, and so many places. Real leadership can and will instill collective patience that many lack or are simply running short of individually. A sense that we\u2019re in this together, and that the quickest (if not only) way out is via short-term collective sacrifice. Wear masks, stay apart, don\u2019t gather. Find more patience.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing this administration and by-proxy, our leadership in Congress and Senate have failed to acknowledge is the fact that Donald Trump may have possibly won a re-election had we been in a place with COVID-19 that is equal to countries like Australia or New Zealand. If we had acted swiftly and with expedience in February and issued a full shutdown of everything, we would be living out our summer and fall in a much better place without a quarter of a million Americans dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stock market tanked in March anyway and the unemployment skyrocketed in Q2 anyway. There was nothing we could have done about that so we should have used that painful 3 month period to completely shut down and I think Trump would have been re-elected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I\u2019m not an economist so I have no idea what the impacts would have been to the markets in Q3 but what I do know is a lot more Americans would still be alive and you can\u2019t put a price on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via DaringFireball (A politics &amp; tech blog): We all miss so many people, and so many places. 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