Boston on Lockdown

Would this be any different than the Boston area shut down by a major snow storm?

archer wrote: Would this be any different than the Boston area shut down by a major snow storm?

None at all except that one is caused by Mother Nature and the other is caused by religious fanatics who want to kill us all.

archer wrote: Would this be any different than the Boston area shut down by a major snow storm?

One is caused by nature and the other is imposed by goverment. But if you don't see a difference...

My post was a response to the $335 million cost for the lock down, sorry i didn't make that clear. Would the cost be the same with a snow storm shutdown? How do they even figure a cost for this? I believe they did what they had to do and have no issue with the lock down.

I will bet all my worldly goods that each adult person, hiding within their house, searched for a crude weapon for self defense ( baseball bat, rake, hoe, fireplace poker, etc.). Wouldn't it be much wiser to have a sophisticated weapon, such as a handgun or AR-15?

I doubt the cost is really that high. If you needed milk, you will just buy it one day later.

The lockdown was a voluntary request to the populace. It was not martial law. It was not enforced by law or force.

Arlen wrote: The lockdown was a voluntary request to the populace. It was not martial law. It was not enforced by law or force.

No one claimed it was.

towermonkey wrote: I doubt the cost is really that high. If you needed milk, you will just buy it one day later.

People flying in for business? Amtrak shut down for the whole corridor? Mobilizing all those men and equipment. All the sales that are lost. I think the figures are accurate for a metro area of 2 million people. $250 per person makes sense. Imagine all those cabbies, day laborers, restaurant workers who didn't get paid that day? I work for a company that supplies dialysis clinics. Those patients have to get treated every two to three days. If we had been closed, how many orders wouldn't go out? Or would have to now ship overnight instead of ground?

Since we know that law-enforcement would not have prevented anyone from needed medical treatment...(or prevented any medically-necessary clinics from being able to open), yet one more "hypothetical red-herring" goes down the tubes...

Eeeeek!