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Single handedly pissing off the world, one person at a time.
Single handedly pissing off the world, one person at a time. So, yah.... I was on lunch today listening to a coworker loudly ranting about how there are people out there that think this COVID-19 thing is being drastically blown out of proportion. I raised my hand. "You think that too?!" He pretty much yelled it at me. "Yep. I fully believe there is something to be worried about, and we should be doing what we can to remain healthy and safe, but I don't think we are going about this the right way." He was outraged, threw his arms up in the air, and started yelling. "Don't get all upset and mad at me, I'm not forcing my opinion on you. I'm just saying, it kind of feels to me like all this focus was meant to distract us from something else." I resonded to him in a soothing tone, not argumentative, and I was surprised to hear the three other coworkers who were in the breakroom with us agree with me. We all agreed that COVID-19 was something to be concerned about, but shutting down the United States of America wasn't going to eliminate the disease. I changed the conversation at that point, but he didn't stick around for long. On an unrelated side note: I'm listening to my downstairs neighbor complaining right now to another neighbor. She's apparently "had it" with the apartments and is planning on moving. Woo Hoo! Apparently whoever is filling in for apartment manager is getting on her case for her multitude of animals and smoking. |
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All that below being said the fact remains that a virus is unpredictable in some ways such as mutations that can turn it more or less deadly. There are more than just the elderly and health compromised that are dying, though in this case health compromised might be something as simple as having a blood type that is more susceptable to getting a more serious infection and poor outcome from the virus. There is the infected kids who are having complications that show up after the virus has been through their systems. All and all it may have been much less disruptive and less expensive to have isolated the ones most suseptable and let the virus pass through the general population unrestrained but it is unlikely that would have worked well. For proof I offer up the atrocious track record of the elderly homes in this pandemic so far. Vive La Difference
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What if the percentage were no different? No matter how many people were infected, carriers, recovered... and the percentage of deaths were still the same? My state spent millions of dollars building centers for the COVID-19 patients and they remain unused. Not a single patient. In my state the death rate is less than 1% according to the stats on the CDC website. Vive La Difference
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Just imagine what the death toll might be like if there had been no isolation with a highly contagious disease running wild through the population...kind of like the black plague or something only worse. I think it is a Republican plot to get rid of all the older generation who are on S.S. and the people who have health issues that are costing the health inurance industries lots of money to cover their healthcare and medications. That way they can cut the government costs and claim they are balancing the budget while making billions for the health insurance corporations that donate to them so they can give the wealthy even bigger tax breaks...
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i never knew there were so many epidemiologist out there keep on keepin on
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Just imagine what the death toll might be like if there had been no isolation with a highly contagious disease running wild through the population...kind of like the black plague or something only worse. I think it is a Republican plot to get rid of all the older generation who are on S.S. and the people who have health issues that are costing the health inurance industries lots of money to cover their healthcare and medications. That way they can cut the government costs and claim they are balancing the budget while making billions for the health insurance corporations that donate to them so they can give the wealthy even bigger tax breaks... Vive La Difference
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I think some of folks attitude is media driven and you have to do your own research to find truthful facts. I am fortunate to tlive in a state whose numbers are low but increasing. But I also live in one of 2 counties where the number of cases is raging AND where the majority of the bitching is about the Stay Home order. Massachusetts right next door is a major hell hole right now and they are coming here to "escape" Well what's going to happen to our numbers by August>>> yep Um, no.
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I think some of folks attitude is media driven and you have to do your own research to find truthful facts. I am fortunate to tlive in a state whose numbers are low but increasing. But I also live in one of 2 counties where the number of cases is raging AND where the majority of the bitching is about the Stay Home order. Massachusetts right next door is a major hell hole right now and they are coming here to "escape" Well what's going to happen to our numbers by August>>> yep (Virtual Symposium Group) use Virtual Symposium Group
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Thought you were talking about trump
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I agree... It is something to be taken seriously. But, we must be able to continue to live and work and pay our bills. Those that are at risk need to be sheltering at home. We should be taking measures to protect them... The rest of us need to be safe but keep things going.
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5/23/2020 3:05 am |
Thought you were talking about trump
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In a developed country in the 21st Century, 100,000 deaths is significant and- per some models- up to 50% more than would have occurred had the Federal government brought its *greatness* to bear just a couple of weeks earlier than it chose to. Perhaps more critically, had our lock-down (as inadequate as some insist it was) NOT been put in place, we would likely be discussing 200,000 deaths and a completely-collapsed heath care system, rather than one that has *merely* been stressed to its limits. Does anyone else see even a smattering of irony in grievances about being inconvenienced by a two-month *disruption* being aired on a web-based sex site? We are literally rewriting the "Theory of the Leisure Class".
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I agree with you! Definately a concern, but blown way out of proportion because all the stats are monitored and publicized. How many people have died of the regular flu in 2018 or 2019.... a lot! How about Pnemonia? A Lot! There is a strategy going on in the background and all this is meant to distract us from it. I see so many conflicting stats it's ridiculous. As for "justaguyinalaska", I think he has spent too much time in his igloo!!
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I'm thinking the virus and the dangers that go with it are real, but I think there's a hell of a lot they're not telling people about, either. Lots of things going on kind of in the background. As you said, something to distract us from something else.
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"one at a time".. that way you get to everyone at least once "distract us from something else" is probably the smartest thing said on this site. There has been a lot of that going on and while centrally connected in one way or another, they're not isolated or chance incidents.
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It seems strange to me, I don't know anybody who got sick.
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So... what topic didja change to? 🤔
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I would think 100,000 deaths and climbing ..in the USA, is a little more than just knee jerk and draconian...only the exhaulted leader is blowing....out his arse! I hope you are away from the flood zone.....stay safe.
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I agree with you! Definately a concern, but blown way out of proportion because all the stats are monitored and publicized. How many people have died of the regular flu in 2018 or 2019.... a lot! How about Pnemonia? A Lot! There is a strategy going on in the background and all this is meant to distract us from it. I see so many conflicting stats it's ridiculous. As for "justaguyinalaska", I think he has spent too much time in his igloo!!
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In a developed country in the 21st Century, 100,000 deaths is significant and- per some models- up to 50% more than would have occurred had the Federal government brought its *greatness* to bear just a couple of weeks earlier than it chose to. Perhaps more critically, had our lock-down (as inadequate as some insist it was) NOT been put in place, we would likely be discussing 200,000 deaths and a completely-collapsed heath care system, rather than one that has *merely* been stressed to its limits. Does anyone else see even a smattering of irony in grievances about being inconvenienced by a two-month *disruption* being aired on a web-based sex site? We are literally rewriting the "Theory of the Leisure Class".
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I'm thinking the virus and the dangers that go with it are real, but I think there's a hell of a lot they're not telling people about, either. Lots of things going on kind of in the background. As you said, something to distract us from something else.
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"one at a time".. that way you get to everyone at least once "distract us from something else" is probably the smartest thing said on this site. There has been a lot of that going on and while centrally connected in one way or another, they're not isolated or chance incidents.
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5/22/2020 5:48 pm |
It seems strange to me, I don't know anybody who got sick.
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So... what topic didja change to? 🤔 ... is there another way to look at it Going Too Fucking Far NEW Blog Features RevealeD O O A Foolproof Method Posted Over on that NEW site O O
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I would think 100,000 deaths and climbing ..in the USA, is a little more than just knee jerk and draconian...only the exhaulted leader is blowing....out his arse! I hope you are away from the flood zone.....stay safe.
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I have been pissing and ticking off people for decades. Practice makes perfect.
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