Posted on 04/16/2020 4:21:50 AM PDT by impimp
I am not seeing the paranoia divided by gender in my little community, but am noticing political divide.
The conservatives have peace and the libs are hysterical.
The largest variable is who they depend on for news.
What if instead of the elderly and weak being the primary one’s who die from this virus, it was children under 15?
What would our actions to stop this look like if the stories every day were about children dying? And families not getting to mourn their loss. We care about life in the womb but don’t seem to place the same priority on life at the other end of the spectrum.
One company, Abbott labs has shipped 566,000 rapid testing machines to all 50 states.
We watched a video yesterday of GM transforming to make ventilators...
...that we don’t need.
GM instead should also be making these machines as well as any capable company. Actually they should have been making them weeks ago and instead of 566,000 go to 50 states, it could be 5,000,000. 10,000,000 by the end of May.
Spend the absurd ‘stimulus money’ on enough machines and the personnel, etc. to run them.
Make enough so that private sports franchises, mall owners, etc. can buy them and make entry requisite on a negative test. Sports could start up tomorrow.
Yesterday’s number of new cases were UP! I have no idea how they were talking with optimism at the press conference. We have been holed up AND numbers are RISING!
I think eventually machines and testing, because of asymptomatic spreaders, are the only answer. And the longer Trump waits to multiply Abbott labs the more danger that Biden and the democrats start pushing this narrative and take more votes in November.
One thing to finish with. I think a lot of arguments here begin because posters live in different states with different levels of infection. For at least the sake of my post let’s presume we all have substantial amounts of infection in our states.
7% death rate - oh no! I am no longer a Flubro!
Wait...I have a brain and 7% is a lie. Still a flubro.
Oh please. The death rate is no where near 7%. More bullsh***t from a Fearper who want Uncle Sam to give her everything.
Here is what you do. For the true current death rare take deaths and divide by ALL cases. Thst gives you the ACTual Currenr death rate.
You are a Fearper. Subclassification data manipulator ... may be heading toward DHB (despicable human being) designation
If you are going to take cheap shots at posters who, God forbid, have different viewpoints than you, at least have the character to also address them in your post.
This morning here in Pennsyltucky:
Fewer than 700 virus deaths statewide
Fully HALF of those have been in nursing homes
Yet Tommie the Commie is ratcheting-up his dictatorship.
This is about politics, not health.
Go find Tucker Carlson’s interview last night with the NJ
Governor if you aren’t convinced.
Jenny Jenny!
Not a single cheap shot taken. It has become that the truth is cheap shots. How Orwellian of you. I answered a question. He can defend himself if her wishes.
Only 66? Where do you get your numbers? Last I heard, it was 4,765 times more deadly. Or perhaps it was 4,765,000 times more deadly. I'll have some more coffee and get back to you.
1. Look at the curve. It is flat. The daily minimal increases and decreases are noise. It has plateaued
2. Classic reframe is the issue is disingenuous. What if this were killing kids under 15. It’s not. This is a red herring
3. I will choose to not be tested as a condition if my freedom. That is my right as an American
4. If you can’t see the slippery slope we are 3/4 of the way down with your proposals you meet the definition of Fearper. Subclassificatiion lemming.
:: I’d prefer not to have it spreading uncontrolled through the population. ::
So...everyone BUT you is contagious?
Power corrupts. You know the rest of it.
So...everyone around you is contagious?
So she prefers the government to have the power to control the population. Ding ding ding ding. Promoted to despicable human being Fearper. Anti liberty fearper. Bow down to your government overseers
No disrespect to the Flubras...but are females more psycho with CV paranoia than males?
I suspect they are. Ive noticed a lot of embarrassed silence in many otherwise right thinking, strongly Trump supporting women when I offered an off hand remark about the pointlessness of this shutdown over the last 2 weeks. They go quiet and try to let it pass. Took a long time to notice. It happened maybe 10 times before the sameness of the response weighed in on me.
:: What if instead of the elderly and weak being the primary one’s who die from this virus, it was children under 15? ::
Hypothetical and strawman.
Typical fascist propaganda; “Why do you want children to die? You must be a monster!”
Aaaaand, there it is.
Fascists seize power by dehumanizing those that disagree with them and cowing those that question them by threatening dehumanization.
Once you are dehumanized, you live and move according to the fear of death (at the hands of the fascists).
Bramps, stop being a useful idiot.
Fortunately, we already know the answer to that. H1N1 killed a young at a greater rate than older people, “experts” seem to think older people had an immunity to it due to a previous pandemic. We didn’t destroy the economy, we didn’t grovel like bunch of cowards looking only to the government to protect us, we didn’t imprison people who weren’t sick, and we got through it.
I am curious to see the percentages of WuhanVirus deaths compared between The Stay-At-Homes vs Essentials (The ones who have had to continue working through all of this)
I have seen similar stats saying deaths are down or the same. Where do you find more/good death stats from all causes combined to convince the Fearpers to relax?
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