Covfefe-19 Part 9: Shelter In Place is Temporary, but Wu-Tang is Forever

[rufus]

Re: Covfefe-19 Part 9: Shelter In Place is Temporary, but Wu-Tang is Forever

I still agree with all of those things I posted. My posts in response to Handy and slapshot discussed something I feel very strongly about. I think it is not helpful for people in government or some sort of official to make wild estimations of deaths or needs for ventilators or whatever, with no real factual basis. People were saying things like two million people might be infected in a month or two, and when anyone questioned that they’d say something like “what if it’s a million.” My objection was to making decisions based upon wild speculation. I still object to that.

I also still feel very strongly about people ignoring scale. Yes, it’s unfortunate and sad that 70,000+ have died so far in the US, and 250,000+ worldwide. But again, 2.7 million die every year in this country and 60 million worldwide, so no, I don’t think this qualifies as a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

Jesus, you're heartless. What part of 'didn't need to die' don't you understand?

"Since Ben got that he's a sociopath............."

[SJHovey]

Fair enough. Already obvious at this point, but we’ll agree to disagree on the last part, and leave it at that.

Not trying to pick fights or cause additional stress for anyone. I understand people are under significant pressure and stress related to family, finances, health and otherwise, and the last thing I want to do is add to it.

Peace

[SJHovey]

Jesus, you're heartless.

Only one thing to do then. Off to see the Wizard.

[rufus]

Re: Covfefe-19 Part 9: Shelter In Place is Temporary, but Wu-Tang is Forever

Only one thing to do then. Off to see the Wizard.

I'd settle for you taking care of your employees.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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What are we gonna learn from this?

I figure we're gonna learn that poor people are expendable, and if hundreds of thousands of them die, that's just the price of doing business, rich people can take advantage of national crises to corner even more of the market wealth for themselves, just as they did in 2008, and government's only responsibility is to see that those rich peoples' wealth isn't jeopardized, for any reason, just as we did in 2008.

We're a fvcking 3rd world country, a failed state. And poor people are absolutely expendable in 3rd world countries and/or failed states.

Autumn is gonna be fun. We're not going to take half the social distancing measures we could barely stomach for a month this time around. 3000 deaths a day is going to look like a walk in the park compared to October and November. On the plus side, a LOT more trump voters are going to be dying during the fall.

[aparch]

Fair enough. Already obvious at this point, but we’ll agree to disagree on the last part, and leave it at that.

Side note, this is why I enjoy reading (most the time skimming) this forum.

Even though sometimes it might feel like '90s Wings/Avs or '70s Flyers/Everyone on the Cafe topics, it's just words and we move on.

[UCBadger]

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You're a bit behind.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, pop. 74,262. Like it never existed. "One day, it'll just disappear........................."

Where are you getting your number from....tomorrow's papers?

Currently the "Official" count is 73,243 (UCBadger uses Washington Post numbers..... https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...-cases-deaths/ )

And I should have posted that one about 2:00 this afternoon....got busy doing other stuff.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Covfefe-19 Part 9: Shelter In Place is Temporary, but Wu-Tang is Forever

Where are you getting your number from....tomorrow's papers?

Currently the "Official" count is 73,243 (UCBadger uses Washington Post numbers..... https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...-cases-deaths/ )

And I should have posted that one about 2:00 this afternoon....got busy doing other stuff.

Worldometers has 74,799 currently

[UCBadger]

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Worldometers has 74,799 currently

Yeah.....its already tomorrow at that site.....lol!

[aparch]

Yeah.....its already tomorrow at that site.....lol!

[Kepler]

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The peak of Keanu's acting career.

[The Rube]

Re: Covfefe-19 Part 9: Shelter In Place is Temporary, but Wu-Tang is Forever

The peak of Keanu's acting career.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh no. He has quite a few roles better than that, although that performance was outstanding.

To The Bone, 47 Ronin was solid, A Scanner Darkly, Man Of Tai Chi, and let's not forget The Replacements (ok that last one is a guilty pleasure).

[Kepler]

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The Sex Pistols said it to the Brits 45 years ago. Time we learned it.

We're just another country.

They also said, "ever get the feeling you'd been cheated?"

[jerphisch]

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Hey, you know what? Ramsey County North Dakota has got it whipped too. No new cases. Everyone who had it is cured. That is some top notch pandemic whipping government for you right there.

I'll say this again, just one time. The United States is not Hong Kong. It is not South Korea. It is not New Zealand. It is not Sweden, or Norway, or Italy or Bahrain or any other place that you want to bring up as some sort of example or comparison, or whatever.

We are a huge country. We are densely populated in some areas, not so much in others. We send tens if not hundreds of thousands of people a week all around the globe on business or for pleasure. We are visited by tens if not hundreds of thousands of people monthly. We are literally the global crossroads, and that says nothing about the internal mobility we have in this country.

Just stop. It's silly.

You know what's silly? Your complete BS reply. You made the claim that social distancing cannot stop the spread of the virus, which is very simply wrong. Not one single point in your response has ANYTHING to do with your claim. You're not even moving the goalposts, your changing games. Try to defend your actual point, clown.

[leswp1]

Re: Covfefe-19 Part 9: Shelter In Place is Temporary, but Wu-Tang is Forever

You know what's silly? Your complete BS reply. You made the claim that social distancing cannot stop the spread of the virus, which is very simply wrong. Not one single point in your response has ANYTHING to do with your claim. You're not even moving the goalposts, your changing games. Try to defend your actual point, clown.

It is much easier to scroll by. People have made intelligent, logical arguments. The responses are tone deaf. It reminds me of talking to someone with diabetes when they expect you to say it will go away in a bit because they can't deal with having to do x.y,z. It isn't fair. (they end up in a coma. In this case people end up dead.)

Its sort of like listening to someone say they have to give the kid the candy at the check out line because they won't listen to no and will pitch a fit. Our culture has made it acceptable to not care for others. It has also made acceptable for people to be intellectually lazy and have very short attention spans. Not a good mix.