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rdm says

Any way you slice it, so to speak, the meat plants seems to be hot spots for spread. Now the people that work there are typically relatively young as these are physically taxing jobs so the death rate should be pretty low except I would guess the general health is poor.

How is a meat plant job physically taxing?? Because you stand all day? Confused.

As fat as most Americans are, I'm not worried about anyone potentially starving.

jazz_music says

The news may cater to a group but they aren’t lying, they are trying for ratings is all.

They all exist to get ratings for ads to keep the lights on.... Call me confused. There is no difference between FOX and CNN beside the bias that you like best. Well actually the advertisers that want to buy air time. We all just get the content and can flow towards our bias. Hence why I don't watch TV at all for the most part.

Tim Aurora says

And you are comparing this with a President whose own agencies told him about the Virus in January

I posted a meme that documents the Media Underplaying Corona itself during and after the Impeachment. You found one of the articles, and quoted a section from later in the article that goes against the grain of the rest of the piece, including the lead, which I quoted.

The article begins by explaining WHY the CDC doesn't think Corona is as deserving of attention as the Flu. Indeed, it emphasizes it's lack of fatal outcomes and seems to find more issue with a sense of panic (which the WaPo was dutifully fighting, that is, before they embraced the panic and did a total 180, pumping it up in order to blame Trump).

ThreeBays says

Try seeing if herd immunity works if you get viruses in the food everybody eats.

And how many corona transmissions from eating packaged meat have been observed?

Krratz says

Unbelievable level of stupidity.

Look at the video carefully.

True, the level of stupidity required to equate what Trump said to "inject bleach!" is profound and incurable.

At this point, it's Democrats arguing over what the meaning of "is" is.

Watch the video, here, it's only a minute:

https://patrick.net/post/1331299?120#comment-1665251

I think that the number of deaths world-wide is even higher than the 60% (122k) deaths reported in the headline. China's numbers are just made up, Iran is guilty of serious under reporting, Saudi' s death rate based on the number of cases is suspicious (unless the Covid patients are beheaded before succumbing to the disease), based on the figures maybe Singapore treats those with symptoms right away with "Trump pills", nobody believes the figures Pakistan delivers, and Africa doesn't even know what we're talking about.

However, the overall death rate will come in at about that of a typical flu strain. If it is as the Doomers say at about 1%, we will definitely hear about them having massive, mass graves in Africa for the what 12 million deaths across the continent?

Years ago I had a young patient who told me that he drank bleach because he wanted to see what it tasted like. I was with him while the MD told him that he would never eat normally again, never be able to taste anything again. It was horrible.

Obviously, we are all doing what Trump wants, which is to be reactive and negative and nasty. He says shit like that because he's batshit crazy. His ego is such that anything that inserts him into the conversation is a "win."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder

Discuss.

elliemae says

doing what Trump wants, which is to be reactive and negative and nasty

Seems like it's the media and Democrats who are being 100% reactive, negative, and nasty.

They are so utterly consumed by hate for Trump that they have become unhinged from reality and quite willing to say that Trump told everyone to "inject bleach" when that's an obvious lie. Even a third grader watching that one minute of press conference would not say he was told to inject bleach:

https://patrick.net/post/1331299?120#comment-1665251

The media and Democrats have willfully reduced their own intelligence to below that of any third grader, and keep doubling down on the stupid when caught, lest the whole edifice of self-deception come crashing down.

At this point, it's religion with them. An unshakeable faith in their own hatred, reality be damned.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

All fake.

No one's been sick.

In fact, no one's died.

If they did, they died of Michelle Obama disemboweling them with her immense prehensile penis.

But MSM never reports on it.

I’d say it’s about as fake as your belief that sarcasm protects you from making bad arguments.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

sarcasm protects you from making bad arguments

Is that what he's doing ?

Or is it making fun of people that deserve to be made fun of.

ThreeBays says

@ThreeBays do you have the url for that graph? Can't find it on the ft.com site.

Old geezers dying of pneumonia is NOT a tragedy! It’s natural causes and the road ahead for all of us, should we survive that long.
If you’re old and vulnerable, the responsibility for your health rests with YOU! Change your own habits to protect yourself. Don’t demand that everyone else change to suit your needs, give up their livelihoods, live in miserable isolation, and homeschool their children to lower your risk of catching your inevitable and timely death!

Shaman says

Old geezers dying of pneumonia is NOT a tragedy! It’s natural causes and the road ahead for all of us, should we survive that long.
If you’re old and vulnerable, the responsibility for your health rests with YOU! Change your own habits to protect yourself. Don’t demand that everyone else change to suit your needs, give up their livelihoods, live in miserable isolation, and homeschool their children to lower your risk of catching your inevitable and timely death!

Until governor Cuomo moves Covid-19 patients into your nursing home.

It’s not like we’re recommending the Attestupa for the elderly!

www.youtube.com/embed/DwD7f5ZWhAk

ThreeBays says

Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 14 countries analysed by the FT.

Looks like they are not counting it right.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/04/28/they-arent-excess-deaths-fact-filled-thread-takes-dashboard-covid-death-data-reporting-aka-panic-porn-apart/

Misc says

Until governor Cuomo moves Covid-19 patients into your nursing home.

If I’m in a nursing home with months left to live in ignominy and squalor, I’d prefer a bullet but would settle for a fast acting virus. No ventilator please.

ThreeBays says

PeopleUnited says

Yawn. Because it primarily affects the old and infirm, you know people with shorter life expectancy, it just means that over the next 2-3 years it will even out as there are a few less deaths per year after the virus has provided the overwhelming majority of people who will become infected and survive the virus with beautiful immunity. It is called natural selection, you may have herd of it? (pun intended)

PeopleUnited's obituary: "One less we have to bury later".

It doesn't mean people are not aware and uneasy about a new very viral cold/flu. It means that they are selfless enough to not bring a (mostly younger) majority to the brink of economic destruction (leading to deaths, violence, drug use and suicides) to save a (mostly older) minority dying from natural causes.

It only matter if the dead are transgender homosexuals of color.

Won’t pass, they are back to idiotic priorities. Didn’t take long for stupid to return.

People are trying to survive, politicians are trying to change signature because assholes, instead of focusing on needs of the people.

Assholes

Well, someone did send out the weaponized Ames-strain Anthrax after 9-11; those weapons-grade Anthrax only existed in government biological warfare storage, and regardless what you think of the feasibility of bringing down 3 giant buildings with 2 aircrafts or how fire from such plane could melt down the steel structural support of such buildings but not burn up the alleged hijackers' paper passports . . . nobody has made a case that those magical passports also carried weapons-grade Anthrax and made a visit to the local post-office before landing on the streets.

So a domestic terrorist attack (including deliberate delivery of deadly virus / bacteria) against governors daring to open up the economy, or just against the population in general, is a real possibility. Measures to prevent and prosecute such dastardly criminal acts are very much warranted.

The checks are already out. I saw one with my own eyes. There is no Trump's signature on them but there is Trump's name there.

Here is what they’re afraid of:

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

Howard Stern

Is a successful idiot. He's worth more than I will ever be, but I've never gotten his schtick. He's simply not funny or entertaining. He's an unfunny, ugly, windbag that should just die at this point. Harsh I know, but whatever.

There’s a reason he gets paid less every year. It’s because he’s not funny and he’s stupid and mean.
Only people who are also stupid and mean bother to listen to him.

Best memory I have of HS, is when he was talking on some show stupid shit about black people. So some black dude in audience got up told him off. And HS looked like his dick fell off scared. It was funny.

Otherwise he’s just trying always to say stupid shit for attention.

So?

Science would never lie...

It will be interesting to see what "excess deaths" ultimately looks like for the year. Bear in mind around 2.8+million people die per year in the US. Over half the males entering a nursing home only make it 3 months.
BTW, any of our local interlocutors want to comment on "It's Always Sunny in Guayaquil, Ecuador"?

It's funny Trump has a whole treasure trove of dumb shit Liberals have said and done, he's had their number since day one. Now all the Democrats have is Trump's synonymous use of "Disinfectant" when "ASKING" a "Doctor" of something exists, that would act like a "Disinfectant" that "Doctors" could locally apply to affected tissue to get rid of the corona virus.

Every Liberal scumbag from here to Timbuktu is going to harp and squawk about Trump saying drink bleach from now until November. While Trump keeps out classing them in every way and delivering.

Are you still pushing the Russian collusion narrative?

People should be for something instead of against Trump and America.

ps: Nancy is losing it.

:
Perhaps this is what Pence not wearing the mask was supposed to distract us from ?

Sorry Mike, nobody can dominate a news cycle the way your boss can.

I agree with the senate committee that the intelligence community was correct that Russia was trying to influence our election in favor of Trump

I agree with Trump that the intelligence community was scum. Primarily by not having a single member of that community mention anything about the millions upon millions of illegals trying to influence our election in favor of Hillary.

I disagree with Pelosi that there is some sort of Trump/Russian collusion. Mueller and 40 full time FBI agents over the course of two years proved there was no collusion.

Best thing is to have Mueller explain it to Wiki

jazz_music says

source is wikipedia

So you got nothing. There was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

If you want Russian collusion go look into the Clinton foundation and find out why the Russians donated millions and paid Bill exorbitant speaking fees while Hillary was secretary of state.

People are suffering, please don't mix with fake.

on a positive note, finally some Christians are growing some fucking balls to stand up for what they believe, and not just weeping in the corner whining about everything.

A new model? You are joking, no doubt.

ABC Evening News had a blurb about Remdesivir as well. At the end of the report talking about the positive effects of patients using Remdesivir, they added "when combined with Hydroxychloroquine."