D&D Coronavirus thread

Idiot Trump keeps saying he inherited a system that was garbage. If that’s true, then he’s had more than three years to make improvements, but he’s done nothing. What a pathetic excuse for a president.

This isn’t a news conference to inform people about the virus. This is a cry baby whining about everything he can think of. Shameful.

 

When the threat of hitting the ground has passed, you take the parachute off. The threat we are guarding against with lockdown is the threat of overwhelming the hospital capacity. That threat has passed. At this stage, the virus poses a lower risk than many threats that we ignore daily. We have learned a lot about this virus, but we haven't adjusted policy to the new data. Blanket lockdown is no longer necessary. Targeted safeguarding of the vulnerable population is the logical way to go. 20 million people have lost their jobs in this country alone. 20 million families have lost their source of income. This should never have happened.

 

Not disagreeing with you.

I do think the "hammer" had to happen, now the "dance" has to happen with high regard for civil liberties. Locking people down forever is not an option. But I think in some states of the US, they are making a mistake by opening up too early.

 

Seriously these reopen ****ers need to get a "Do Not Ventilate" tattoo so that if it's their turn, it goes to someone else.

 

Bbbbbut the WHO website wasn't updated by then.

 

It doesn't matter. Trump wants briefings at half a page. He doesn't pay attention, can't understand, and doesn't care about most of what would occur in any briefing.

 

It really isn't healthy to watch his "news" conferences.

I'm sure if I measured my blood pressure before and during these daily political rallies I'd be forced to lie down until my heart calms down. So I keep them to a minimum and catch the wrapup of Trump's bull***t after.

Or seeing a headline on CNN about Matt Gasmask Gaetz tweeting something about the "Testing President" Trump or some such. When the opposite is true.

Orwell would have thrown away such chapters if they'd crept into "1984": "No, no, can't have that. Too far-fetched." Then he would have stared at the discarded bits of manuscript and thought, "Or is it?"

 

The wonderful thing about our country is that you are free to be an idiot if you choose to do so. Enjoy your freedom.

 

Very misleading. First you need to do this graph on a per capita basis to normalize for population size differences. Second, you need to evaluate the total deaths that result from suicides, stress and other mental impacts of the lockdown. Until you do that, this information is not helpful.

 

This looks horrible, but if they get herd immunity ... we may all be singing a different tune while we're still limping along later this year.

 

I saw Midsommar.

 

As long as Sweden does not overwhelm their hospitals, they may end up with the same CV death per capita as the rest of the Nordic countries.

Two years from now, we can pass final judgment on Sweden, when we all have reached herd immunity.

 

Now that's the best comment I have read in a long time! Maybe Trump should do the same.

 

God Bless You, Fish.

I mean, really, it's like our own Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick weeks ago saying it's okay for senior citizens like himself to basically take one on the chin for Ole Glory. Well, if Dan Patrick and all those MAGA-machine gun dudes standing outside the Lansing state courthouse want to Die Hard and Free from Covid-19, please, be my guest; but they'll very likely take down others with them.

Last summer after a family Father's Day get-together, my stepmom with norovirus....we all thought she had food poisoning, but everyone who entered that condo where she and Dad live, EVERYONE, got sick. You just had to breathe the air. Then everyone traveling back to their home states, sick as a dog. I went home from Iowa to Texas. Gave it to my wife here. She works with young adults with learning disabilities and thankfully managed to take sick days and not infect them.

Covid is highly contagious. Why the hell is it so difficult to figure out? You'll mainly get some holdouts in those rural areas painted FOX News red. But you just can't fix stupid.