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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
coppice:
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--- Quote from: tom66 on July 01, 2020, 04:53:39 pm ---Somehow I don't think the framers of the constitution considered a global pandemic in a world with affordable mass transit in cars/buses/trains, and aircraft to spread any infection, when they were writing it.
There's an obsession with the constitution in the USA. No doubt it is important, having the right to free speech so emphasised in law is clearly useful and prevents many authoritarian behaviours from the government (e.g. banning flag burning.) But in the case of a pandemic, norms don't apply any more.
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I admire the American constitution, but I don't understand why such an old document is not being kept up-to-date as time goes and society changes - surely America has moved on in 200 odd years...
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Two issues there. One is they have changed it numerous times. That's what all the amendments do. The second is the whole point of a constitution is to be a framework that is damned hard to change. If it were easier it would just be some laws, and provide no framework at all.
DrG:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 01, 2020, 07:16:27 pm ---/--/
I admire the American constitution, but I don't understand why such an old document is not being kept up-to-date as time goes and society changes - surely America has moved on in 200 odd years...
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See the 27 amendments to the US C over the years https://www.insider.com/what-are-all-the-amendments-us-constitution-meaning-history-2018-11#the-fifth-amendment-is-the-source-of-the-common-phrase-i-plead-the-fifth-5 and, of course, the many interpretations by the Judicial branch.
james_s:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 01, 2020, 07:32:51 pm ---Two issues there. One is they have changed it numerous times. That's what all the amendments do. The second is the whole point of a constitution is to be a framework that is damned hard to change. If it were easier it would just be some laws, and provide no framework at all.
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Yes, it should not be completely immutable but it needs to be extremely difficult to change. Constitutional amendments should be given a great deal of thought and crafted very carefully. They should never be the product of emotion and never written in haste. It is the fundamental foundation on which all of our other laws are based, it cannot be in a constant state of flux.
DrG:
Never, EVER, taunt a virus.
20-May-2020, Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantos, boasts about how well Florida was doing with Corona Virus and how the partisan media was going on and on about how Florida would be a hot spot opening up...
02-July-2020 Florida reports OVER 10,000 new cases today and 5,000-10,000 new cases every day for the last seven days.
Now, one could take some pride in how a State is doing, knocking on wood, calling for vigilance, telling everyone to keep it up and that things will get better eventually, but we are not out of the woods and we have to keep our guard up, you know, all that rational, non-partisan stuff....but Noooooooooooooooo.
More complete news conference viewable below in case it is too hard to believe...you can't make this stuff up and it is sad.
james_s:
--- Quote from: DrG on July 02, 2020, 08:18:54 pm ---20-May-2020, Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantos, boasts about how well Florida was doing with Corona Virus and how the partisan media was going on and on about how Florida would be a hot spot opening up...
02-July-2020 Florida reports OVER 10,000 new cases today and 5,000-10,000 new cases every day for the last seven days.
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This illustrates what I've been trying to tell people for months now. I live in what was the epicenter for Covid infection in the entire US, it happened here first and then the same thing has gone on to happen throughout other parts of the country. Covid is no big deal, only a few infections, nothing to see here, then suddenly the shit hits the fan and the infection rate goes almost vertical, by the time you realize anything is wrong it's way too late to stop. We've seen this over and over again, I don't know what makes people think their area will somehow be different.
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