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The Coronavirus thread

Troglodyte said:
When I start seeing Tim’s point of view, something’s gotta give.

I think Americans are also to blame though. Many of them have only The Walking Dead as a frame of reference for this sort of thing, so you get people hoarding TP and bread.

We cannot shut down society and the economy indefinitely. And what’s the green light to opening things back up? Zero new cases? And zero new cases for how long? At some point, the shut down will be doing more damage just over a much longer period of time. We need to eventually shift our focus from isolating and shutting down everything to isolating the truly at risk population and providing services for them.
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And that is the end result of the D vs R polarization over the past few decades... the swinging pendulum has pushed people apart so far in both directions that they cannot see the common ground... everything is a narrative that fits their point of view... the news sources feed it, at both ends, the extreme takes makes things irrational

We needed to slow the spread down, fine... a two to three week timeframe should allow temp army hospitals to go up and a portion of the cases will already be past... then things get opened back up... mutually agreed upon between you dumbasses on the left and right so nobody politicized the aftermath and causes a second panic. Let those chips fall where they must...

Again this isn’t panic bad... its fear driven... worse case scenarios ate being quoted as the norm...just like with terrorism... you take a hardline, then go back to normal...
 
wig said:
And yes, I would have to agree that the fact that Spike is so obviously experiencing so much glee at the escalation of panic and mortality is disturbing.
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Im laughing at the herd sniffing each others ***** for signs of fear then blaming the shepard when they find it

Like a purity test
 
Spike said:
You ignorant gint, I have to laugh at the mind blowing stupidity of the "Its just the Flu Bros"

Today

Trump: THIS IS A WAR WE HAVE TO WIN

Tres Sec: THIS IS WORSE THAN 9/11

SN retards: "Its just the flu bro"



I am here to save your lives by injecting reality into your delusional conspiracy blinded dreams that this will all go away because its fake

YOU ARE THE ONES IN PANIC, because U know Im right
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No you are clearly disturbed. It's quite obvious you are taking joy in this. I find that rather sick.
 
Badcat said:
**** just got REAL. Pennsylvania Governor just shut down the liquor stores. For those of you out of state...there are no private liquor stores in PA, it's all State run.
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Yeah, i reported that pages and pages ago as important news, but the people that just come here to run their mouths pushed it back without even commenting on it
 
Spike said:
Yeah, i reported that pages and pages ago as important news, but the people that just come here to run their mouths pushed it back without even commenting on it
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such is the life, when one chooses to fear-monger
 
TRUMP : WE HAVE TO WIN THIS WAR AGAINST CORONAVIRUS



Scared straight, I feel I must take some credit for that, my accurate reporting is finally filtering through
 
Spike said:
Yeah, i reported that pages and pages ago as important news, but the people that just come here to run their mouths pushed it back without even commenting on it
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I can't even imagine what the State store looks like right now. I may have to stop over and snap a picture. ******* Zombieland I'm sure.
 
Troglodyte said:
Another thing: isn’t it terrible inconsistent that getting the flu and other vaccines is completely voluntary but we need to shut down society and economy indefinitely for COVID-19?
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this is precisely why a lot of us were warning against panicking.
 
Sarge said:
This isn't media driven hysteria. People are doing it to themselves at this point. Just go read twitter. It's pathetic. People are actually blaming Trump for not ordering more ventilators from a German manufacturer in spite of the fact that Trump has told the Governors of all 50 states not to wait for the federal government, order what they need and the federal government will support it.

If people are out actually living their lives, they are getting cancelled for "spreading the disease." Hell, Mark Cuban is encouraging people to over-react. No one needs the media or the government to feed this frenzy. People are creating their own narratives at this point.
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The fuel from that came from TV. I've never been on twitter. Facebook and Instagram are about all I can take. I do agree with you people are running off of the deep end with this, but they got that spark from someplace.
 
Again the real question is what is the aftereffects when this is done and the worse case scenario didn’t come close to happening

Blame Trump for overreacting?

Ignore the next outbreak?

Raise a generation of germaphobes?
 
Steelr4evr said:
The fuel from that came from TV. I've never been on twitter. Facebook and Instagram are about all I can take. I do agree with you people are running off of the deep end with this, but they got that spark from someplace.
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I try to refrain from the news media because they have proven themselves to not be trustworthy. That spark came from several places. The President and his team haven't been great on this. Their messaging has been nothing short of terrible. Trump is finally on board with the gravity of this situation, but the first two weeks of this, the messaging from him and his team contradicted one another. The news media is a small part of the problem, but there are many parts to it. As Tim said, there are a lot of agencies that have failed. Hell, had China just been forthright from the start I think this isn't half as bad as it is now. But where it started doesn't much matter anymore. People have made up their minds, and facts be damned, they are creating problems for all of us, starting with panic buying and hoarding to where there are empty grocery stores everywhere. Most places, you can't even get basic staples. We are a virus unto ourselves at this point. Who knows where it ends.
 
madinsomniac said:
Again the real question is what is the aftereffects when this is done and the worse case scenario didn’t come close to happening

Blame Trump for overreacting?

Ignore the next outbreak?

Raise a generation of germaphobes?
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We'll be a lot further along fixing broken/bloated processes and improving general preparedness. Also underlines our dependency on China for critical medicines, which I think will also be addressed as a result of this.

What this does show is how completely unprepared we are for biowarfare.
 
That should be played on every television in America for the next 3 weeks.
 
CharlesDavenport said:
We'll be a lot further along fixing broken/bloated processes and improving general preparedness. Also underlines our dependency on China for critical medicines, which I think will also be addressed as a result of this.

What this does show is how completely unprepared we are for biowarfare.
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This is what we hope for, but i fear it will just be politicized like everything else

With all the 60’s and 70’s era politicians running about, we have so few leaders with any clue about modern problems and threats... they only pay attention to the ones their base cry for, tgen when the others show up they don’t know what to do

I think we are getting lucky with this... if it stays the course... its a heads up before someone dumps captian tripps on us...
 
Badcat said:
I can't even imagine what the State store looks like right now. I may have to stop over and snap a picture. ******* Zombieland I'm sure.
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Yeah **** just got real here, ***** governor shut down all bars and restaurants, the ******* Moose is closing for a month!

I had to go collect a couple pounds of corned beef and cabbage to stock up and cash in all my bar chips.

Then i hit the Tom Thumb and c!eaned up on milk and bread n eggs and beer, before the big rush, big food stores are gonna be magnets for panicking FluBros


Beer will be the new TP shortage, you read it here first, Im never wrong

To the beach!

Its 80 degrees and sunshine and the Wu dont like the heat, right? Im safe, thx for asking
 
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Oh man. Spike needs those flushable wet wipes or something.
 
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