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COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)/SARS-CoV-2 virus

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by tinman, Jan 22, 2020.

  1. KingCheetah

    KingCheetah Contributing Member

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    https://www.cdc.gov/
     
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    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-by-age-group?year=latest&country=~USA

    About 2.59 million people died in 2017 that were older than 50 years old.
    This happens to a lot of people who fixate on numbers. They miss the obvious.

    It’s like rockets and the 3s...sure numbers say one thing but..ahh nvm. I don’t have the energy.
     
  4. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    It's the first thing I thought of when I saw that number. No way 19,000,000 million people die annually in the USA, much less those over 55.
     
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    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    perhaps...


    Wish we could talk in person sometime Bob. I think we would actually agree a lot. However, I disagree with basically all of the negativity for basically all of the reasons I've laid out before.

    @KingCheetah made sure to have snide remarks of negativity without consideration of other options or avenues. I know it's cool to be dismissive with no solutions, but I've found other avenues for covid that seem to have been backed by "science" yet ignored by people who only want a certain reality to be true. I've been careful about how I've made my points but it doesn't really matter because people with certain perspectives only push want they want to see. What can I do about that? Nothing much other than to create arguments and discussions that use science to show other avenues that aren't just fear and shutting life down until a reliable vaccine happens to show up.

    I can keep going, but you get my point. I'll just live my life and push things to people that might be a little more receptive. Even if I'm wrong with all this then everything I've pushed is already an issue that needs to be addressed.
     
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    Oh cry me a river, poor you, so misunderstood, but if only we'd listen.

    After months of reading your stuff...you don't sound all that different from the 9/11 truthers, to be honest, taken in totality.
     
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    You pushed for herd immunity at 20% infection despite there being re-infections. Then argued that tests can produce false-positives as well as false-negatives as a reason why people show as re-infected when they actually have herd immunity. That opening up would be a good thing and wouldn't result in the hundreds of thousands of deaths we have so far and are projected to exceed by another 200,000 as early as January. Is this your idea of science backing your assertions that things are going about as well as can be? Really? I know you can live with this, but the dead sure weren't able to.
     
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    We went there often. To any who recall, Cindy Garza was a gorgeous reporter for Channel 2 back then. I mustered my confidence and went up to her, and I was shut down in 20-30 seconds.

    That's ok, though. Nothing ever wrong with trying.
     
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    You do realize that Coronavirus is just like the flu. Unless a miracle happens there will never be an actual cure.

    We've been through it. Time to move on. Unlike the 1918 Flu, which was 3 times this bad, we don't also have to deal with two world wars, great depression...
     
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    They aren't anomolies. They are examples of you not knowing how to process basic information. Here's another example of you railing about Harris County numbers - more numbers that you did not remotely understand:

    https://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.ph...ars-cov-2-virus.303386/page-414#post-12985580

    You have no idea how to read data, and yet you insist on your dumb interpretations of it. That makes you stupid.

    Thinking that 19 million elderly people in the US died in one year does make you incredibly stupid. The fact that you think you did some good math and thus its OK to come to that conclusion makes you even stupider because you don't even understand how stupid that is.
     
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  14. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    It's now Local Foods. The Premium Cigar Place next to it was where the actual fun was. Now it's a Soul Cycle.

    I miss that whole vibe. But of all the Tear downs in this area, I miss Cafe Adobe's Patio the most; especially during happy hour.
     
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    Covid deaths so far is 192,000 (and has declined drastically since April)
    People aged 55 and up in the US is 96,510,000
    92% of 192,000 is 176,640

    That means chances someone has died over 55 of this disease is still less than 1 in 2,000.
     
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    You jackass. This is where the data came from you moron.

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/351-400/db355_fig3.png

    [​IMG]
     
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    So if the Toyota Center (18,300 capacity) had all people ages 55 and older. 9 people would randomly die. This isnt concerning to you?
     
  18. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    Really? How many people have you known that got it?

    That should be the new thread.
     
  19. Outlier

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    I literally know two people who have gotten it. Ages are 27 and 32. You fool. The 27 year old currently has it and she is really sick. The 32 year old was bed ridden but recovered thankfully.
     
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    It's not like the flu, I've had the flu twice and got FDA approved medication (tamiflu) to lessen the symptoms and reduce the duration.
     
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