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Corona virus (more correctly, Wuhan virus)


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2020 Jan 24, 12:33pm   195,634 views  3,372 comments

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Anyone wants to risk a bet on the eventual number of sick people? Dead people?

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1131   marcus   2020 Mar 23, 8:28pm  

WookieMan says
Even when the POTUS makes the right decision or has a good idea, you will find a fault with it.


Wtf ? You think this was an argument ?

marcus says
Yeah, but the President and his friends, half of congress, and a majority of billionaires are 60+


It was meant more as an (half joking) explanation. A cynical or satirical comment. But also maybe something for you to work in to one of your obsessions Patrick. You shouldn't even be reacting to this comment. So STFU.

And by the way, I more of less complemented Trump as much as I can in a comment to TPB today.
1132   WookieMan   2020 Mar 23, 8:51pm  

marcus says
Wtf ? You think this was an argument ?

Do you? Where did I say it was an argument? Even when you "kind of" agree, there's a caveat to it 98% of the time. Sometimes a simple yes or no is easy enough. Not a yes, but..... response. That's your typical agreement or complement during the rare time it happens.

You don't like Trump, but you personally know he's handling this well enough. You know it's not Trump's job to run all the hospitals in the country. You wouldn't want that. At some point hospital leaders and state leaders need to up their game and stop pushing their failures up the chain. Get something done. By all metrics the Federal government is doing what it should

I haven't left the house in 8 fucking days. Doing my part because a bunch of older pieces of shit can't follow directions and have a death wish. Let them die. We need to move on from this bull shit. Anything Trump does you're at minimum 50% going to dislike it up to 100% (most of the time). Just don't comment on these threads anymore if you're just going to spew one sided BS that is all emotional and feelings. That is pointless with this topic.

I don't understand shutting down the country for fat fuck, diabetic, smokers that are old and likely at deaths door anyway. Good riddance people are retarded.
1133   Patrick   2020 Mar 23, 9:05pm  

marcus says
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Yeah, but the President and his friends, half of congress, and a majority of billionaires are 60+


Agreed. One reason for the draconian measures is that the people in power, usually pretty old people, are trying to protect themselves above all else.
1136   socal2   2020 Mar 24, 8:56am  

This aged well. Dude is a New York Public Health commissioner and now thinks he has the virus.
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1242185794250510344

Once again Liberals putting the country at risk due to political correctness.

1143   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Mar 24, 10:40am  

Check out #ReopenAmerica hashtag on Twitter. Bluechecks and Bernie bros are acting like reopening Sam's Diner and Bill's Bar and Midstate Office Supply is tantamount to murder.
1144   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Mar 24, 10:44am  

Dr. Gai Peleg told Israeli television that in northern Italy, the orders are not to allow those over 60 access to respiratory machines.

https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856

"The US is unprepared! We need Euro National Health Care! Death Panels aren't a thing!"
1145   Misc   2020 Mar 24, 10:45am  

If we don't reopen America, we may as well elect Bernie. We're gonna have to nationalize everything, and the State governors ain't gonna remove their restrictions.
1146   mell   2020 Mar 24, 11:47am  

NoCoupForYou says
Dr. Gai Peleg told Israeli television that in northern Italy, the orders are not to allow those over 60 access to respiratory machines.

https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856

"The US is unprepared! We need Euro National Health Care! Death Panels aren't a thing!"


Note that these decisions are made every day in countries like the UK - if you are too old you don't get a new kidney and eventually die in dialysis.
1147   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Mar 24, 12:17pm  

Bluechecks, Technocrats, Tranny Radicals, and BernieBros be like:

1148   RWSGFY   2020 Mar 24, 12:23pm  

Government: "Everybody must work from home!"
Chemistry teachers:

1149   Patrick   2020 Mar 24, 12:27pm  

socal2 says
This aged well. Dude is a New York Public Health commissioner and now thinks he has the virus.
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1242185794250510344

Once again Liberals putting the country at risk due to political correctness.



More proof of the law of karma.

Good find!

Whatever happened to the guy promoting "hug a Chinese" in Italy?
1150   mell   2020 Mar 24, 12:33pm  

Patrick says
socal2 says
This aged well. Dude is a New York Public Health commissioner and now thinks he has the virus.
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1242185794250510344

Once again Liberals putting the country at risk due to political correctness.



More proof of the law of karma.

Good find!

Whatever happened to the guy promoting "hug a Chinese" in Italy?


Really it wouldn't have escalated like this if they just had canceled large gatherings immediately instead of being such woke imbeciles. The we may not have needed radical shelter in place orders.
1151   WookieMan   2020 Mar 24, 12:40pm  

mell says
Really it wouldn't have escalated like this if they just had canceled large gatherings immediately instead of being such woke imbeciles.

I may have missed if other orgs did the same, but the NBA was actually pretty front line on this. Cancelling the regular season and all that. That's when I started kind of taking this more seriously. At least as much as I can considering I'm statistically more likely to die from many other things before CV-19. When billionaires shut down their ATM, you take notice.
1152   mell   2020 Mar 24, 12:44pm  

WookieMan says
mell says
Really it wouldn't have escalated like this if they just had canceled large gatherings immediately instead of being such woke imbeciles.

I may have missed if other orgs did the same, but the NBA was actually pretty front line on this. Cancelling the regular season and all that. That's when I started kind of taking this more seriously. At least as much as I can considering I'm statistically more likely to die from many other things before CV-19. When billionaires shut down their ATM, you take notice.


Considering we ramped up testing the numbers seem to be stagnating around steady growth for now - but the social distancing / shelter in place is necessary now. States that implemented that are starting to slow down. NY/NJ is still raging. It's not deadly enough for the elite to panic. This is not Ebola. Still they might continue to try to get dibs on testing and meds. In a way it has been affecting them more since thy travel more, so a lot of celebs and rich people got it. The rednecks are fine so far.
1153   Patrick   2020 Mar 24, 12:45pm  

WookieMan says
When billionaires shut down their ATM, you take notice.


Yes. Billionaires for once have an interest similar to the people they get their money from.

Even more so, because billionaires are generally elderly.
1157   EBGuy   2020 Mar 24, 5:34pm  

US Mint issues commemorative coronavirus coin.
1158   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Mar 24, 5:38pm  

Complete Democrat flipout on Twitter and Facebook about reopening things.

One lady on my wife's facebook - I block facebooks in hosts files - asserted than young people were dying, which is complete bullshit, and that anybody who wanted to reopen offices and businesses and factories was a "Mass Murderer" (ie OrangeManBad).
1159   Ceffer   2020 Mar 24, 5:42pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Complete Democrat flipout on Twitter and Facebook about reopening things.

One lady on my wife's facebook - I block facebooks in hosts files - asserted than young people were dying, which is complete bullshit, and that anybody who wanted to reopen offices and businesses and factories was a "Mass Murderer" (ie OrangeManBad).


Yeah, back to the face pawing, open mouth psycho screamers! So many LibbyFucks, so few insane asylums.
1160   Reality   2020 Mar 24, 5:45pm  

The high rate of "positives" among celebrities is indicating that either whatever the test is actually testing is a conventional seasonal Corona-virus that has been spreading among the general population since late 2019 (and not causing much more than the usual Flu / Cold for the winter season) or the test itself generates a lot of false-positives.
1161   marcus   2020 Mar 24, 5:46pm  

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NoCoupForYou says
anybody who wanted to reopen offices and businesses and factories was a "Mass Murderer" (ie OrangeManBad).


Sounds a little like some of the hyperbole we here around here. Both types of TDS are making people sick out there.
1162   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Mar 24, 5:48pm  

GlobalRoamer says
Well, since the world's richest nation failed to gear up for the pandemic (we had PLENTY of warning) - people have had to come up with their own ways to survive.


Democrats spent last 4 years changing bathroom signs to include trannies, deciding n gender choices, calling everyone a bigot, and promoting gay shit wherever possible... because priorities.
1163   Ceffer   2020 Mar 24, 5:49pm  

Reality says
The high rate of "positives" among celebrities is indicating that either whatever the test is actually testing is a conventional seasonal Corona-virus that has been spreading among the general population since late 2019 (and not causing much more than the usual Flu / Cold for the winter season) or the test itself generates a lot of false-positives.


Why do you keep trying to ruin a perfectly good pandemic?
1164   marcus   2020 Mar 24, 5:50pm  

Reality says
or the test itself generates a lot of false-positives.


The other possibility, which some people have asserted to be the case, is that a lot of people (A LOT) have no symptoms or mild symptoms with this. This would mean that a lot more people out there have it than we know. Also meaning the fatality rate is actually as low as it is for the flu. This would be great if true, becasue it would also mean herd immunity comes sooner.

I read so much about this, I forget which "expert" was saying that there might be as much as 6 times as many people out there with the virus as we think.
1165   Reality   2020 Mar 24, 5:52pm  

marcus says
The other possibility, which some people have asserted to be the case, is that a lot of people (A LOT) have no symptoms or mild symptoms with this. This would mean that a lot more people out there have it than we know. Also meaning the fatality rate is actually as low as it is for the flu. This would be great if true, becasue it would also mean herd immunity comes sooner.


Yes, that is the first possibility mentioned in my post: "a conventional seasonal Corona-virus that has been spreading among the general population since late 2019 (and not causing much more than the usual Flu / Cold for the winter season)" That also means a large cross-section of the population is already immune . . . which was hinted by the testing result on Diamond Princess: the infection rate should have been much higher than 20% after people had been locked in that environment for 3 weeks (with the first week fully mingling!) if nobody onboard had any immunity (i.e. had already been exposed previously before getting on the ship and fully recovered or recovered from no symptom at all).
1166   marcus   2020 Mar 24, 5:55pm  

Reality says
Yes, that is the first possibility mentioned in my post: "a conventional seasonal Corona-virus that has been spreading among the general population since late 2019 (and not causing much more than the usual Flu / Cold for the winter season)"


No that's different.

I was adding the possibility that it's still new, and very deadly for older people, but that we don't know how many people have it, possibly way way way more than we think.

I guess Korea's numbers after testing well makes that possibility, less likely.
1167   Patrick   2020 Mar 24, 5:57pm  

NoCoupForYou says
One lady on my wife's facebook - I block facebooks in hosts files - asserted than young people were dying, which is complete bullshit, and that anybody who wanted to reopen offices and businesses and factories was a "Mass Murderer" (ie OrangeManBad).


Yes, there was an almost comical spate of PANICKED articles about young people dying in large numbers after someone gave the order: "Publish this, now!"

It was hard not to laugh, given how obviously orchestrated it was. And how contrary to fact.

Yes, young people may be carrying it and infecting the elderly, but it's still very rare for anyone under 30 to die from this.

Media credibility has fallen from zero to less than zero and is now digging into the basement floor.
1168   Reality   2020 Mar 24, 5:58pm  

marcus says
I was adding the possibility that it's still new, and very deadly for older people, but that we don't know how many people have it, possibly way way way more than we think.

I guess Korea's numbers after testing well makes that possibility, less likely.


Flu and Cold can be very deadly to the elderly and infirm. 55k people die of Flu every year in the US alone, mostly the elderly and infirm, according to CDC.
1169   Patrick   2020 Mar 24, 5:59pm  

Dying of the flu is a pretty normal way to go for the elderly.
1170   Patrick   2020 Mar 24, 8:12pm  

Milan turns out to be very polluted, probably contributing to the death rate there.

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