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US cases pass the two million mark
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2020-06-11 at 7:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ Well there has to be a line somewhere. If the covid death rate was 19% you still wouldnt care. I'm trying to determine where the line is.
I've already mentioned it...take precautions = fine.
Closing the country/world economy down, constantly filling the news going over and over and over the same shit day in day out about it...not fine.
What's hard to understand? -
2020-06-11 at 7:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Using your own (incorrect) method of just pulling numbers and doing your own math
Houston has 848,340 households.
16,503 burglaries in 2019
That's a 0.019% chance of getting robbed. Less than your chances of dying from COVID, which again, the CDC puts at an average of 0.41% and the WHO puts at an average of 2.5%.
I've had people come into my home through an unlocked door (several times) uninvited...I've not died of covid once.
Not sure why you are citing burglaries..as if that's the only time people might come in your house...
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2020-06-11 at 7:45 PM UTCSo you don't take preventative measures and bad things happen to you?
WOW
I am so shocked. -
2020-06-11 at 7:45 PM UTCI've never had anyone break into my home. You know why? I lock my doors.
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2020-06-11 at 7:46 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 7:47 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson I've already mentioned it…take precautions = fine.
Closing the country/world economy down, constantly filling the news going over and over and over the same shit day in day out about it…not fine.
What's hard to understand?
We did take precautions.. what's so hard to understand? -
2020-06-11 at 7:47 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 7:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ We did take precautions.. what's so hard to understand?
The whole bit about going beyond precautions and into the realm of irrational fear behavior.
The country is "opening back up"..the threat is the same (if not greater)...doesn't make sense does it unless you agree closing down the country was an irrational and unnecessary move. Great so the people that would have died 3 months ago get to die now...at the expense of trillions of dollars.
Irrational. -
2020-06-11 at 7:48 PM UTCI guess CNN controls the entire fucking world. Liberals control the world. It's all a huge conspiracy. All these countries are shutting down because they are SJW CUCKS
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2020-06-11 at 7:49 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 7:51 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 7:57 PM UTCIf you had paid attention to history you would see that quarantines are really the only thing that work. There is a reason humans have been doing this for literally thousands of years whenever there is a plague. It's been a thing literally every time. The Spanish Flu could've been A LOT worse and it WAS a lot worse in cities that didn't quarantine. You can see that the cities which didn't, or opened early, suffered a lot more than those that acted swiftly.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/
This is why so much of Asia shut the fuck down and imposed masks ASAP. Mongolia stranded any citizen abroad from Jan until just last month. It has been incredibly effective for them. They had 194 cases and 0 deaths despite bordering China. This shit works.
If America had done the same, those 100,000 probably wouldn't be dead. That's a lot of lives to lose for absolutely no fucking reason. And it's not just about you either. You can cry all you want about how you aren't elderly, but every time you go out in a large crowd or don't wear a mask you are putting the lives of others at risk. Your actions very well could kill dozens or hundreds of people.
Maybe you don't care about killing strangers, but I do. I don't want any unnecessary deaths. Everybody is getting lax about this but this shit is not over and millions will die by the end of 2021. The second wave is historically multitudes worse than the first wave. -
2020-06-11 at 7:58 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 7:59 PM UTCNotice how I'm the only one posting studies and historical statistics, and all you have to back up your argument is conjecture and insults.
What are you basing your opinion on? "Not being a bitch"? Because I prefer to base my opinions on objective reality and the reality is that this is some dangerous shit.
You might not die from it yourself, but you go out in enough crowds and you'll end up like those 30 year old healthy doctors dying from the viral load. It's not just about getting infected or dying. It's about avoiding long term damage, keeping hospitals free and open for patients, and not being dumb enough to hang out in crowds which is mainly how healthy young people are dying from this. -
2020-06-11 at 7:59 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 8:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace Notice how I'm the only one posting studies and historical statistics
Where did you study...Messican tomato picking school?
Fucking lollllllllll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases -
2020-06-11 at 8:01 PM UTC
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2020-06-11 at 8:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson There is no problem at all in being cautious however the way the country (and the world), and media has reacted over covid goes beyond being cautious, the CONSTANT "news" and finger pointing is scaremongering…which a lot of dumb people buy into and MANY do live in fear.
It's an irrational fear/response to what is still pretty much still an unknown and ultimately not a serious threat to the VAST majority of the population (.035% death rate so far).
I'm not an irrational person. I'm also not a person who particularly worries about dying. I base all decisions on the reality of the situation as it's currently known…again 0.035%…and again when it gets to 20% or so then I'll maybe be a little more "concerned" about it or feel the news/media/political coverage of it is pertinent..which it isn't at the moment.
Shit happens.
I don't get the news. No TV, no radio. I'm saved from that bombardment I guess. Internet, I have a choice. I don't have time actually when it comes down to it.
I look at people as libraries of experience.... And the human heart and compassion. This is why they are valuable to me.
Priceless actually.
I've seen kids with cancer act like older, experienced adults, when facing incredible odds and certain death, and I've seen adults act abominable and childish in comparison...
I've seen people change with an event, for the better, so drastically, you'd never know they were the same person...
When you see it like this, numbers become irrelevant.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-06-11 at 8:04 PM UTCI mean, I just posted a source from National Geographic. I'm going to continue listening to the experts instead of Donald Trump. You know, the dudes who actually went to school and studied this shit, and do it for a living? Yeah. I trust those guys over some right wing propaganda. Your entire argument is "it's not that bad" and you don't even consider even for a second the thought of "What if it IS bad?"
So tell me, besides Wikipedia, where do you get your information?
Also that link is about the ERADICATION of diseases and not the preventative measures that have saved hundreds of millions of lives throughout human history.
But go ahead, type out your lol's again. Worked for Borris amirite? -
2020-06-11 at 8:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by Firekrochfatty I don't get the news. No TV, no radio. I'm saved from that bombardment I guess. Internet, I have a choice. I don't have time actually when it comes down to it.
I look at people as libraries of experience…. And the human heart and compassion. This is why they are valuable to me.
Priceless actually.
I've seen kids with cancer act like older, experienced adults, when facing incredible odds and certain death, and I've seen adults act abominable and childish in comparison…
I've seen people change with an event, for the better, so drastically, you'd never know they were the same person…
When you see it like this, numbers become irrelevant.
non sequitur.
