Flog's the kind of guy who believes a Pop-Tart is a rare delicacy that not everyone is privileged enough to enjoy.
Well, if I claimed that CA was more densely populated, or as densely populated as MA or NJ, you’d have a strong point. I did not, I said it was densely populated. So... WTF is your point?Holy ****-a-moley...what is it with you and denying mathematical facts? 2+2 = 4 Hypoflog...."No it doesn't!"
You make a blanket statement that California is densely populated. For the state with the LARGEST POPULATION, to only rank 17th in population density speaks volumes you cannot comprehend about the sheer land mass involved as compared to the population.
Like any state, they have their urban centers. But the OVERWHELMING VAST majority of California is in green - <25 per square mile. The OVERWHELMING....VAST....MAJORITY.
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Compare to a state like Massachusetts, #5 in population density:
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Or compare to New Jersey, the #1 in population density:
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Population density refers to ALL of the land mass as compared to how closely people live together. People only densely live together in a few pockets in California. Even a monkey can see these differences Flog. The vast majority of California is sparsely populated compared to the square mileage of the state.
SMDH.
Well, if I claimed that CA was more densely populated, or as densely populated as MA or NJ, you’d have a strong point. I did not, I said it was densely populated. So... WTF is your point?
Again, CA is more densely populated than 2/3rds of all states. FACT. Making it... DENSELY populated. It’s certainly way more densely populated than Covid failure SD. We can agree upon that, right?
Carry on...
Flog is also the guy at the Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning wearing two masks, black socks with tennis shoes and a fanny pack, holding up the line at the waffle stand because he demands gluten-free.I have managed fantasy sports teams for years. Baseball and football. One of the most irritating aspects to being a manager of a team in one of those fantasy leagues is dealing with idiots who want to trade three of their **** guys for one of your good guys. They just keep making the same stupid ******* offer, no matter that I keep explaining why the offer is **** and that if I make the trade, I will have to cut two of the guys I get in return because they are literally not better than any two I already have on my team.
Flog is that guy.
I have a secret that will improve every team that I will manage. Easy. I trade all of my bad guys for all of their good guys.I have managed fantasy sports teams for years. Baseball and football. One of the most irritating aspects to being a manager of a team in one of those fantasy leagues is dealing with idiots who want to trade three of their **** guys for one of your good guys. They just keep making the same stupid ******* offer, no matter that I keep explaining why the offer is **** and that if I make the trade, I will have to cut two of the guys I get in return because they are literally not better than any two I already have on my team.
Flog is that guy.
Ted Nugent has contracted COVID-19, a virus he previously called “not a real pandemic”.
The controversial right-wing singer has attracted criticism for his views on the ongoing pandemic over the last year.
Now, in a Facebook Live stream posted yesterday (April 19), Nugent announced that he has tested positive for the virus. “Everybody told me that I should not announce this,” he said.
“I have had flu symptoms for the last ten days. I thought I was dying. Just a clusterfuck. “I was tested positive today. I got the Chinese ****. I’ve got a stuffed up head, body aches.
“My God, what a pain in the ***. I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days… So I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.”
A Norwegian conspiracy theorist has died from the coronavirus he insisted was no big deal.
Hans Kristian Gaarder had gained notoriety by claiming COVID-19 was no worse than a cold or mild case of the flu before dying from the virus on April 6, just days after hosting illegal gatherings March 26 and 27 at his barn, reported Metro.
The 60-year-old Gaarder had insisted the virus did not spread through person-to-person contact, but several guests at those gatherings have been infected and passed the virus to others, and police are trying to determine how many people attended those events.
Gaarder, who also questioned mitigation efforts against the 2009 swine flu pandemic, refused to be tested for the virus and allegedly hid his symptoms from others, but local officials confirmed he had died from COVID-19.
The Wuhan virus isn’t a hoax. The hoax part is that it is a world chilling plague that we must give up all our basic liberties and allow government functionaries to control us or we will all die.Don't be like these fools.
Ted Nugent, last week: COVID is a hoax.
Ted Nugent, this week: I have COVID
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Ted Nugent has caught COVID-19 after calling it "not a real pandemic"
After branding it as fake, Ted Nugent has contracted coronavirus. "I thought I was dying," the singer said of his symptoms.www.nme.com
Big Time COVID Conspiracy Nut from Norway Infects Others then Dies of COVID
and again - and again - and again - no one has said Covid is not real. Well, maybe Indy has just to **** with you, but ...Tim, you've been xtra busy these past few weeks (and months), furiously typing away - and doing what seems like endless hours of research - to downplay Covid & prove your claims that none of the mitigation efforts are worth squat.
I suggest you take a brief timeout to address the following. In this case, a timeout would mean not to immediately post multiple colorful charts & graphs and data points to prove some whimsical theory and make a 'gotcha' counter argument. We get that, we've seen it page after page. Just try to answer these rationally, without referencing something other than your own views. You don't even have to answer, just ask yourself these questions, honestly.
Let's try to focus on the big picture:
- if masks aren't effective in stopping - or at the minimum, slowing - the spread, why are there mask mandates in literally every country all over the world?
- if the benefits of social distancing are pure fiction, why have there been lockdowns of schools, bars, restaurants, concert halls, gyms all over the globe, including all of the Western, advanced nations?
- why do you insist on approaching covid strictly through the narrow prism of what's happening in your immediate viscinity, or even your State, or the US itself? Do you not understand this pandemic is worldwide, that literally all nations are dealing with the same thing? The same mitigation efforts, the same economic challenges caused by restrictions & lockdowns, the same loss of jobs, loss of revenues, loss of tourism? The same daunting task of needing massive vaccinations to be able to open up again? As always, there are a few outliers and some exceptions, but try to take a bird's eye view on this.
- what are you trying to achieve, by cherry-picking and amplifying data and relentlessly flooding this board with anti-mask, anti-restriction, anti-shutdown posts as you've done? Do you think Covid will magically go away? Or restrictions will suddenly be lifted, because some government health official catches a glimpse of your posts here at SN? What's the point? What's the end game here? Other than to sow distrust & confusion?
- do you really believe there's a global, worldwide conspiracy that has misled all the scientists, health experts and government officials on the planet? That's tricked them into mandating masks, implementing restrictions, needlessly shutting down the global economy, putting the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people at risk, unnecessarily? Large sections of the economy, particularly in retail, service & hospitality are in ruins ALL OVER THE GLOBE. You think this is a joke? You think this is Dr. Fauci and the CDC overstepping their bounds and just ******* with Americans for ***** and giggles?
- do you think it's remotely possible, that mask-wearing, social distancing, restrictions on businesses & indoor gatherings AND rolling out vaccinations is not a binary, either/or proposition? That these measures could very well overlap, work in unison, be applied and adjusted over time to gradually help us get through and end this pandemic?
- most importantly, do you at least agree with medical experts, scientists & health officials, that the way out of this mess, the one way to defeat Covid, is widespread vaccination of a large segment of the population? Or do you reject that as well?
- and finally, do you truly believe that if Covid itself wasn't a highly-contagious disease representing a significant, mortal danger to people everywhere, that any of this (see all of the above) would even be happening? If Covid was something akin to a seasonal flu, or some other known illness, you think nation states around the world would be reacting this way, with all the shutdowns, economic ruin and devastation that's already occured? Have you even considered that?
Please take a step back and ponder the above. Not just for our sakes, but for your own.
LOL! You’re kidding right? My (very well established and often repeated) argument is that SD (definitely NOT densely populated) should NOT have high case rates. Densely populated areas are naturally at a disadvantage in managing a CONTAGIOUS disease. Density and cases SHOULD go hand in hand. If sparsely populated areas (like SD) have comparatively higher case rates, they obviously did something wrong. Again, what can logically explain high case rates in rural, sparsely populated areas? Is it not counterintuitive?It's just how you roll Hypoflog. You make stupid statements like that. "California is densely populated" then try to walk it back and say "well not that densely populated."
Using your logic I can make bullshit claims like Nevada is densely populated....and when you retort no it's not I can say sure it is, it's more densely populated than Nebraska, Idaho, North & South Dakota, New Mexico...so see, it's densely populated.
My house is densely populated I guess too.
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You tried to make a claim about California's density (because you've made the argument that the more dense a place is, the more the virus must spread). You tried supporting that lockdowns work by saying "Well CA has low cases now AND they are densely populated so....."
But even that logic fails...density equals higher cases. The first map Floggy is the high density areas of California....you know, the Bay area, LA, San Diego. Those are the little RED areas on this first map. Got it???
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Now here is the COVID map by Counties. Keeping this simple....the RED areas are where COVID is the worst...ok??? Now both maps show county lines and if you know geography then you'll recognize where LA and SD and SF are right???
Again I think a monkey could look at this and see the following...some of the COVID hot spots ARE where the population density is....1/2 of the LA are is hard hit, the rest is not (Santa Barbara County is, Ventura is not). PART of the bay area is hard hit, the rest is not.
Yet what an amazing portion of GREEN california is RED from COVID cases.........look at all that area in unpopulated eastern CA that is red, or the upper northwest of CA, or the middle part of the state that is lightly populated.
Cases are NOT following a correlated pattern which is higher population = higher cases. In some areas yes, in others...NO.
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Your argument that density and cases seem to go hand in hand doesn't really go hand in hand.
Now, back to your follow on conjectures.
the response MANDATED by the governments around the world does not mesh with the science, if you follow it - as well as how detrimental to society these mandates are.
i'm going to type as slowly as I can and put this in the correct context frame for you to understand.Well then at least frame your argument in the proper context.
You guys disagree with how governments all around the world have handled this, Germany, Italy, France, England Spain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Mexico and on and on.
You're suggesting all the researchers, medical experts and public health officials in all these countries collectively don't know their heads from their ***** and are just aimless;y shutting down their economies, instilling mask mandates, restricting travel, affecting hundreds of millions of people. Because they're just dumb as **** and have nothing better to do.
And on top of that, you also don't like what the US government has done, not under Trump, nor under Biden. The American CDC is just as dumb as all the other countries.
Namely, everyone around the world is dumb as ****, who's in a position of authority to address this pandemic.
But Larry, Curly and Moe on the SN messagboard have it all figured out. You guys simply outclass and outshine all the world's scientists, researchers, medical experts and public health officals. You've cracked this case a looong time ago, and are way ahead of the curve.
I think I'm beginning to understand the sentiment around here. Sorry it's taken me this long to wrap my head around it.
Tim, you've been xtra busy these past few weeks (and months), furiously typing away - and doing what seems like endless hours of research - to downplay Covid & prove your claims that none of the mitigation efforts are worth squat.
I suggest you take a brief timeout to address the following. In this case, a timeout would mean not to immediately post multiple colorful charts & graphs and data points to prove some whimsical theory and make a 'gotcha' counter argument. We get that, we've seen it page after page. Just try to answer these rationally, without referencing something other than your own views. You don't even have to answer, just ask yourself these questions, honestly.
Let's try to focus on the big picture:
- if masks aren't effective in stopping - or at the minimum, slowing - the spread, why are there mask mandates in literally every country all over the world?
- if the benefits of social distancing are pure fiction, why have there been lockdowns of schools, bars, restaurants, concert halls, gyms all over the globe, including all of the Western, advanced nations?
- why do you insist on approaching covid strictly through the narrow prism of what's happening in your immediate viscinity, or even your State, or the US itself? Do you not understand this pandemic is worldwide, that literally all nations are dealing with the same thing? The same mitigation efforts, the same economic challenges caused by restrictions & lockdowns, the same loss of jobs, loss of revenues, loss of tourism? The same daunting task of needing massive vaccinations to be able to open up again? As always, there are a few outliers and some exceptions, but try to take a bird's eye view on this.
- what are you trying to achieve, by cherry-picking and amplifying data and relentlessly flooding this board with anti-mask, anti-restriction, anti-shutdown posts as you've done? Do you think Covid will magically go away? Or restrictions will suddenly be lifted, because some government health official catches a glimpse of your posts here at SN? What's the point? What's the end game here? Other than to sow distrust & confusion?
- do you really believe there's a global, worldwide conspiracy that has misled all the scientists, health experts and government officials on the planet? That's tricked them into mandating masks, implementing restrictions, needlessly shutting down the global economy, putting the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people at risk, unnecessarily? Large sections of the economy, particularly in retail, service & hospitality are in ruins ALL OVER THE GLOBE. You think this is a joke? You think this is Dr. Fauci and the CDC overstepping their bounds and just ******* with Americans for ***** and giggles?
- do you think it's remotely possible, that mask-wearing, social distancing, restrictions on businesses & indoor gatherings AND rolling out vaccinations is not a binary, either/or proposition? That these measures could very well overlap, work in unison, be applied and adjusted over time to gradually help us get through and end this pandemic?
- most importantly, do you at least agree with medical experts, scientists & health officials, that the way out of this mess, the one way to defeat Covid, is widespread vaccination of a large segment of the population? Or do you reject that as well?
- and finally, do you truly believe that if Covid itself wasn't a highly-contagious disease representing a significant, mortal danger to people everywhere, that any of this (see all of the above) would even be happening? If Covid was something akin to a seasonal flu, or some other known illness, you think nation states around the world would be reacting this way, with all the shutdowns, economic ruin and devastation that's already occured? Have you even considered that?
Please take a step back and ponder the above. Not just for our sakes, but for your own.
You guys disagree with how governments all around the world have handled this, Germany, Italy, France, England Spain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Mexico and on and on.
Yet you come here asking for answers. I've answered yours.
Take the time to answer mine.
Hmmm?Don't be like these fools.
Ted Nugent, last week: COVID is a hoax.
Ted Nugent, this week: I have COVID
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Ted Nugent has caught COVID-19 after calling it "not a real pandemic"
After branding it as fake, Ted Nugent has contracted coronavirus. "I thought I was dying," the singer said of his symptoms.www.nme.com
Big Time COVID Conspiracy Nut from Norway Infects Others then Dies of COVID
Finally, I asked you simple questions a couple days ago, questions you have REFUSED to answer. Yet you come here asking for answers. I've answered yours. Take the time to answer mine.
Why are states with no lockdowns and no mask mandates faring better than or equal to states here in the US with them?
(please answer. Fauci struggles mightily with this one too)
Lol, you didn't answer a single question I posed in earnest, but no worries, I didn't expect you to.