Best wishes on a full recovery for your sister
Danc, I am assuming that you can recognize that there is potentially a difference between what is the greatest good for humanity and what is in your own best interest.
I decided you're not worth engaging in intelligent conversation some time ago.
Homeschool...After that was released everyone is talking about home schooling. I would never, ever, put any of my kids through that bullshit!
I spoke with someone today who is close to Coach Allen. Coach says it’s 50-50 as of today we have football.
That does not surprise me, in fact that's verbatim my thoughts about it, "50/50 shot". In another 9 days(or so), that % could change as well. & probably will.
Using a model involves assumptions, like assuming how many healthy people a sick one will infect on average. Maybe we act smart and that number is actually significantly less than we originally put into the model. So not as many die as were predicted. That's good. Unless we then say models are pointless and a lot of people start acting stupid. Then deaths will go up. That's bad.
I don't have a problem with the shutdown, per se. My issue has always been the fact that it has been open-ended and, once the 'curve' was flattened, which was the goal, local governments were/are loathe to lift the quaratines.
Oh, I wasn't saying any of that to stake out a position really. I'm just thinking through the fact that I had a trip booked to be in Tampa for March Madness, hundreds of thousands of more would be packed into bars, and people travel all over the country for Opening Day. So whatever has been would have been worse if some of our biggest spring time events occurred as scheduled.
Or how unlucky we are that someone dawdled away weeks reassuring the stock market when he should have been ramping up our preparedness.
It's almost like the CDC isnt the end all be all. Basically, they are morons.
Oh, really? do tell. What was the other side saying? So sick of you dolts. morons. the lot of ya.
The other side? PLEASE! I'm so friggin' sick to death of BOTH sides. "left" & "right". More like "shit" & "show". My entire life it's been a political train wreck that only runs faster off the rails every election. Neither side has room to talk abut a DAMN thing. I don't understand how people support either one with a straight face. We need a new political party in this country SO badly.
In the history of this country, we have never quarantined healthy people. We have not eliminated the first amendment rights of assembly and religion. Nowhere in the United States constitution, and specifically the 14th Amendment which guarantees those rights to all citizens regardless of what state they live in, are those rights sacrificed for a "pandemic." So far, Covid -19 looks like a repeat in terms of severity, of the 1957-58 Asian Flu when the nations economy was NOT shut down. Nor in the much, much, worse Spanish Flu of 1917-18 was the economy shut down. I think we have forgotten that there is a risk in living and, eventually we will all die of something. If someone is so fearful of this virus, then they can self quarantine, wear their mask or whatever. But the rest of us should have the opportunity to go on with our lives. Since when do we live in a nanny state that guarantees life? There should be college football this fall and people should be allowed to attend games if they want. Other folks that feel threatened should stat home.
If you're afraid, then don't go out. The death rate for this, unless you're very old and compromised with other problems is very, very small (0.0025%). Oh, and by the way, you don't have a right to take away my personal freedoms for a virus which is rapidly going away.to protect you from your own irrational fears. Even if there are 100,000 deaths, we have a population of 320,000,000, do the math.
You realize that what you just said is completely false. Who would have done better - democrats saying what was done was xenophobia and uncalled for? You also realize that the first line responsibility for public health is local? You also realize that many, many deaths were attributed to orders such as the New York State Public Health Department requiring nursing homes to take Covid-19 patients in effect murdering the most vulnerable?
Your argument would actually be a bit stronger if you were actually being quarantined. You are being inconvenienced.
Congrats. I've rarely seen such a brainless post on here.
Yep. That was supposed to response to your Braveheart “you can’t take away our freedom” post.
Sure. Sure you were.
Poor snowflake, adults said you should do some things for the good of us all that inconvenienced you. They didn’t take any rights away from you but in the spirit of not yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater they required us to act wisely for a while.
But a million won't die of it. You're letting your fears, and political persuasion, get the better of you.
It’s on track to be easily the US third cause of death and the only one that could have been cut to a half or third if our president had done his job. And now his supporters are making it worse by pretending it doesn’t matter. If it were a Democrat in office you’d be howling like stuck pigs no matter how good a job he’d done of preparation. Our bad luck to have one who hardly prepared at all.
