be honest are you worried about corona
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Second (third?) wave well underway here in USA. 120,000 cases per day, a million cases in TX. Reefer trucks being used as morgues in El Paso, TX.
"Just noticed my original bookmark for www.worldometers.info worldwide data...
"Coronavirus Update (Live): 73,438 Cases and 1,875 Deaths from COVID-19 Wuhan China Virus Outbreak - Worldometer"
Worldwide. How quaint. And here were told it would go away after November 3rd.
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@provels You just can't make this stuff up. The claims would almost be funny, in a willfully stupid kind of way, if it didn't represent dead people. Pence, chairman of the virus task force, was going to go on vacation. He canceled it. Not to attend to the virus but to attend to the farce election fraud claims. Still not laughing...
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Alec Baldwin is refusing to leave Saturday Night Live. Now laughing.
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@jwj
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And we're back to the serious side.
The Sweden Poster Child for "What? Me worry?"
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avoid gathering, it's not too scary
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I am, personally, more worried about authoritarian government overreach than I am about the 'rona.
But, admittedly, you could
s/the 'rona/pretty much anything/.This is just the latest boogeyman. "Never let a crisis go to waste."
That graph is meaningless without knowing how many tests were conducted to arrive at those numbers.
15 days to slow the spread.
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@Derelict said in be honest are you worried about corona:
That graph is meaningless without knowing how many tests were conducted to arrive at those numbers.
Positivity is around 10%, so about 10x.
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Around?
Positivity rates, hospitalization rates, death rates.
Number of cases is meaningless.
And everyone is going to get it one way or another. Might as well live life.
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Bets are open : will the Dragon capsule come back empty ? ;)
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@Gertjan
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here in Italy the main problem is not so much the virus but rather the fact that hospitals are unable to manage patients because there are too many. they are balancing the lock down to prevent the collapse of the health system.
now the problem is if people are to die for starving or for the corona
bitter truth.. people who commit suicide out of desperation cost less -
Well yes
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Based on World-O-Meter at the time of writing:
Deaths = 258333
US Population = 331765033% of population = 258333*100/331765033 = 0.077%
Unless I'm missing something, it seems to be absoulutely crazy to locker everythong down.
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@guardian The fact that over 250 000 people in the US alone died is not worthy of a lockdown you think?
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@Netboy1990 said in be honest are you worried about corona:
@guardian The fact that over 250 000 people in the US alone died is not worthy of a lockdown you think?
This is a multi-variable equations -- not just eliminate Corona Virus at all costs.
People are going to die... fact of life... sad fact of life, but fact of life. The actions of government may change who is going to die, and increase the number who are going to die, but people will die. My heart goes out to anyone who has suffered a loss regardless of the reason--Dead is dead and it's a loss regardless of the reason.
The majority of people who died are elderly and/or have serious underlying conditions. It would make sense to have a strategy to protect these people--a strategy being recommended by the experts who are saying "NO MORE LOCKDOWN". Care for those who need special care and let the others get on with life.
How many millions of people are now out of work and /or bankrupt as a result of lockdowns? Homelessness, malnutrition, dispair and poverty kill people-either directly or due to suicide/substance abuse. How many deaths occured/will occur due to inability to affort medical attention because people lost their health insurance or are afraid to go to the hospital? How many children will be scarred for life due to abuse or neglect that would have been prevented by an open/functioning school system and parents that have the financial resources to feed and care for them (because the still have a job).
How much of the chaos is being caused by censoring doctors and preventing them from using good medical judgement based on real time clinical observations and patient outcomes. Consider the crimianally fraudulent attempt to discredit/prevent the use of Hydroxichloroquine (HCQ)--[Fake data/dosage at levels that are known to be unsafe.] There have been serveral groups of doctors saying that they are getting good results with existing medications, but instead of carefully examining what they are doing and trying to improve on it, they are being censored.
Last summer I heard Faucci say (paraphrased) we can't use drugs experimentally (referring to HCQ-even though it has been used for over 60 years and has a well known risk profile), but it's OK to give a vaccine (rushed to market with NO LONG TERM SAFETY TESTING-it's band new, so nobody can know it's safe) to MILLIONS of Americans. Does anybody beside me see a problem with this?
How people are/were being treated by the medical system is driving a lot of the deaths--false reporting, putting people on ventilators unnecessairly, delaying treatement, etc.
Cases are climbing, but the death rate is dropping. The vulnerable are either dead or being protected, and treatement may be getting better as well.
Then look at the testing, which depending on what expert you listen to creates between 30-90% false positives. I'm so tired of hearing cases, cases, cases.... heathy people being exposed once they get better increases the base of immune people who will no longer be spreading the virus.
If we bankrupt the worlds economy, then the few at the top with all the money get to buy the rest of the world out for pennies on the dolloar. That's what happened in the hollacaust... impose sanctions, create ecconomic hardship, confiscate weath, put people in ghetos/camps, and finally exterminate.
Ask anybody in 1936 Germany if they would believe what is going to happen over the next few years and they wouldn't have believed it. History repeats if we let it.
Government propaganda and the lack of balance and objectivity in the mainstream media is deplorable.
So I'm sorry that people died, but I don't think it's worth of a lockdown.
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@guardian
Great post! Best perspective I've read yet, knowing what we now know about Covid. Hats off to you... -
@markn6262 Thanks... how about a thumbs up...
and even better how about everyone copying and forwarding asking their family/friends to think about it... and call their elected representatives.
I watched the way Anderson Cooper covered the Rudy Giuliani press conference--it wasn't journalism. All he did was insult Giuliani and show selectively chosen still images that made Giuliani look foolish.
I'm not going to comment on the election, or who won/should have won, is best for the country or anything like that... just on the democratic process.
The coverage was so unbalanced that I decided to watch it on YouTube (normally I could care less). If even half of the alligations that Giuliani made are true, there are a lot of people who should be in jail. If Giuliani is lying, then he belongs in jail.
Maybe it wouldn't change the outcome, but what I heard was worthy of a Russia, China or some other place where elections are purely cerimonial.
If they were a news organization, CNN, would be sending someone out to cover each of the court cases and objectively reporting on the details.
Fair elections should have no problem with representatives from each of the candidates inspecting everything to insure compliance. If the law says that observers are allowed to be present, and they are excluded, then either the votes in question should be excluded or that area should be made to revote.
If a county is reporting 150-200% voter turnout it's a clear indiacation that something is going on. This is one of the aligations, and if there is evidence then every American has cause for concern.
Truth will survive any amount of questioning, but lies and deception will fall apart if you did deep enough.
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@guardian I struggle to speak English, my native language is Portuguese, I'm from Brazil.
You are saying everything I would like to say, but I don't find the words to do it.Thanks for representing me in your last messages.
