Guys, I'm always willing to play Devil's Advocate so here's your chance to flame-war me. Just one counter-thought. I live in Lafayette, CO: a reasonably populated small city in the Midwest. Great place. They're canceling some sports activities but school's still open and they plan to stay that way. No big deal here.
But even our most densely populated areas are TINY compared to other places our Nation. At this moment I'm sitting in an airport lounge in Baltimore. I've just gotten out of a meeting with the Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and they've told me we were their LAST meeting, they almost cancelled us. They're shutting down ALL outside visits and sending employees home for 2 weeks or more. There's something like 80,000 people just working in that FACILITY, let alone living in Aberdeen, let alone Baltimore, let alone DC. People are wearing gloves on the bus and staying 3' apart here and no, I don't think it's "just another flu".
Personally I think it's pretty offensive to so easily drop slurs like blaming "Jewish Democrats" for things, but that's between you and your priest or however you lead your life. But when our nation's military takes something this seriously, I do too. And I think unless you spend some time in a REAL city (where things like this actually do spread and cause big problems, and those people are Americans too) it's really easy to write this all off as "somebody else's problem."
I believe America is strong because its people are strong. All of them. And I think they all matter. But then again, what do I know.
