No one cares about Coronavirus anymore

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by stratego, Oct 13, 2020.

  1. stratego

    stratego Well-Known Member

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    One death is too many doesn't mean that we try to prevent one death at all cost. It means we recognize that lives are valuable, but also recognize that we are fallable and the fact that people die is tragic.

    One death is too many means that we are in the same boat as countries like Taiwan or Denmark who are considered quick responders but have also lost at least one life.
     
  2. Nightmare515

    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Here is seems to be about 50/50. We have a pretty active Facebook page for our community and whenever someone posts the recent COVID numbers for our area the hundreds of responses are usually equally split between "Come on wear your masks everyone and practice social distancing! If we just do that we will get through this together" and "Oh shut the hell up if you are scared of the virus then stay home yourself, the rest of us are going to live our lives".

    A Halloween event was recently announced for the town and the responses on the Facebook page followed that same split for the most part. "It's irresponsible for the city to hold an event like that! Don't go guys everyone stay home" and "Go pound sand I'm taking my children to get candy and play with other children like children are supposed to do. We've taken everything else from kids this year if you don't like it then sit at home".

    It's actually pretty entertaining to read through that page every morning and hear the two dueling sides fussing at one another over this whole thing lol.
     
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    ChiCowboy Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I stopped going to Facebook years ago, but I do remember it. Not very fondly, lol.

    I know a handful of people who politicize the guidelines but everybody else just takes it in stride. My area is 500,000 and we've had 177 deaths and 11,000 cases. We haven't had a single spike.
     
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    34 people in the White House got it from the Barret event.

    How many big gatherings have you been in?
     
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    There won't be lockdowns again for the simple fact that they didn't work. They didn't mathematically slow the spread of the virus, nor did it dissipate the virus. It's too far widespread at this point for any controlling contingency.
     
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    Melb_muser Well-Known Member Donor

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    Hate to say, but I agree. America needs a unique strategy - particularly with a tinpot peddling confusion and mayhem at the helm
     
  7. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Gladly, once you get it the doctors and hospitals will be happy to leave you strictly undisturbed, stay home and expire quietly if it comes to that. (Be sure to have someone call periodically though, a rotting human corpse is really a bitch to dispose of)

    Wear a mask in the meantime to protect those of us who are not the models of gallantry you present, and still fear an agonizing death.
     
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    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Taiwan and Denmark have lost hundreds of people. (S Korea hasn't hit 500 yet). We have lost 200,000 and counting. Their boats have crewmen giving brandy and are picking up other survivors as help arrives. We are sinking rapidly while eying the old and injured people for dinner since we have drifted out of sight long ago.

    Thank god it seems we are about to pitch our captain into the sea. Not only did he disguise himself as a woman to get aboard but has spent the entirety of the time since then going on about how the new "Waterpark" option on this voyage is the greatest idea in ocean voyages since Columbus and how his maneuvering to hit that Iceberg should get him a major award from the Line if we are ever rescued.
     
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    Maine is doing a good job at limiting the disease.

    But we're sane, mostly.
     
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    Meanwhile, the likes of you increase my risk of becoming infected.

    But, thank for displaying the "me, me me" attitude that seems so rampant in Trump land, without ANY care for fellow countrymen. MAGA.
     
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  11. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Should be wonderful when the first parents come on about how much fun it is to have their children die fighting for each painful breath while they can't even visit them. It won't be many but likely some.
     
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    Despite its overt political suggestions, your post is essentially accurate.

    The media, working for Big Pharma and other vested interests, will not let the "crisis" die in their programming. Indeed, they manufactured the "crisis", and sustain it daily with strong fear-mongering, now in its 10th month. That they bash Sweden for its peaceful successes make that point.

    Plandemic was a fabulous success for its planners and perpetrators, but like the virus it has fairly well run its course.
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    In all likelihood, the fear inside your head is causing you more harm than the virus would. Those with compromised immune systems are certainly entitled to their anxiety, but for the rest of us, fear is counterproductive to a healthy life.
     
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    A few hundred is still tragic. 500 is still too many.

    Denmark, Taiwan, and S Korea have lost too many as did the US.

    One death is too many, and every country has lost too many, not just the US.
     
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    I'd call it a healthy respect for the virus, which prompts one to make responsible decisions. In contrast, the anti-mask and anti-lockdown crowd generally promotes irresponsible and reckless behavior. That's surprising for a party that prides itself on personal responsibility.
     
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    And I believe this is where the apathy is coming from. The numbers just aren't dire enough to warrant these isolation policies in the eyes of many folks, especially the mortality rate among children. As it stands now only about 100 children have died of COVID in the US which is less than the 188 children (under 17) who died of the flu last winter. People are starting to look at this in realistic terms and say alright we don't act like this every winter during flu season. We don't cancel Halloween events, we don't cancel school, we don't cancel extracurricular activities for children, etc. In regards to children the flu really is more deadly than COVID based on raw data yet few people seem to have much of an issue carrying on with normal life during flu season every year.

    I don't have children so I can't speak on the mentality from the stance of a parent. But looking at data I can understand why many parents don't seem to have an issue with this.
     
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    You can only hope.
     
  18. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    Agendised stats notwithstanding Flu isn't NEARLY as deadly as COVID. We haven't yet started to deal with the strange maladies children are getting in much greater numbers. We aren't yet dealing with the effects of this that may last for years.

    Flu isn't nearly as virulent. NOTHING is this virulent to my knowledge

    Patience, a vaccine is coming, and therapies. What we don't want is to have a mutation giving us a REAL plague.
     
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    As the pandemic rages again It's your life that you apparently do not value???
     
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    You'd better hope that enough voters in all the states share your apathy about COVID-19, since your boy Trump does and it hasn't seemed to win him any friends he didn't already have.
     
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    Do you travel on US highways? I think we lose about 1000 a month to auto accidents.

    Nothing lasts forever, including lives.
     
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    Irresponsible and reckless behavior for not wearing a mask for a virus with an extremely low morbidity rate? Is it reckless and irresponsible to not wear a mask during flu season? A healthy respect for a virus comparable to the flu virus?

    Or will you henceforth advocate for mask mandates all year round?

    Who is being absurd here?
     

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