Corona Virus

[luke262]

5 minutes ago, SheepWearMasks said:

How much do you hear commentators state the words "..you could not have scripted it any better.."

It is a script .. look no further to when Sammy Watkins told his wife the night before the AFC Championship that he would have 114 yards in the game .. and he ended up having 114 yards.

Shieeeeet! Did he? Were you there? 

[LinvilleGorge]

15 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Here's the thing though. More businesses here have been closed permanently than cases of covid-19. We have been interacting with other people all along, just no one wants to really admit it. 

After 5 months there has to be more than what's happened. People are over the fearmongering and the sky is falling. If they get sick, they get sick. They have accepted the risks and are willing to take them. They aren't going to exist cowered in their homes waiting for someone to say it's safe now. Covid-19 is not the boogeyman it was made out to be and people aren't scared of it anymore. Maybe they will be at some point, but it isn't right now. 

 

It's not about fear, it's about simple, basic, minimally intrusive precautions. The thing about outbreaks is that you usually don't realize you're in one until it's too late to do much about it. It's about being proactive, not reactive. Reactive isn't very effective.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Yeah there's no way we're going to have another set of lockdowns.  We're riding with this thing now.  Let's just hope people wash their hands and wear masks.

Also if you talk about this like there are two options for dealing with this, and they're "everything is open and everybody does whatever they want" and "cowering in your basement waiting for a vaccine", I strongly suspect you have an agenda.

[luke262]

And requires people to act as one for the benefit of others, but that's too difficult for a number of people apparently. Their freedom is more valuable than helping others stay alive 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

2 minutes ago, luke262 said:

And requires people to act as one for the benefit of others, but that's too difficult for a number of people apparently. Their freedom is more valuable than helping others stay alive 

What we're watching is boorish American exceptionalism and our dimwitted, banal notions of "individualism" as defined by late-stage capitalism colliding with reality in real time.

[Tbe]

2 minutes ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

What we're watching is boorish American exceptionalism and our dimwitted, banal notions of "individualism" as defined by late-stage capitalism colliding with reality in real time.

These people would have lost their sh!t in ww2. Look at the number of “ma’freedoms” that were taken away during that time. Those people back then understood the bigger picture. 

[panthers55]

1 hour ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Here's the thing though. More businesses here have been closed permanently than cases of covid-19. We have been interacting with other people all along, just no one wants to really admit it. 

After 5 months there has to be more than what's happened. People are over the fearmongering and the sky is falling. If they get sick, they get sick. They have accepted the risks and are willing to take them. They aren't going to exist cowered in their homes waiting for someone to say it's safe now. Covid-19 is not the boogeyman it was made out to be and people aren't scared of it anymore. Maybe they will be at some point, but it isn't right now. 

 

That is what people tell themselves to justify their behavior or make the risk more palatable to venture out as an essential worker often for low wages. There are more cases here than anywhere else because as a nation we are impulsive. We are ,risk takers who gets easily bored and have little patience. Truth is that it wouldn't be the inevitable result that you would get the virus if we had acted sooner in the beginning and with more patience before opening up.  In epidemiology terms days and weeks can make huge differences. It has never been about not opening up until there is a vaccine. That extreme argument is being spouted to justify the continued folly of errors that are made by the government daily. It has always been about opening responsibly based on scientific data instead of intuition and hope. Covid 19 has killed more folks than all of our wars in the last 40 years. And we are still in phase 1 which is the beginning not the end. You can think what you want but I know history will be on my side on this one and Covid 19 is no joke and it ain't the flu.

Edited June 26, 2020 by panthers55

[GoPanthers123]

The virus killed more Americans than Vietnam war and its only been several months.  So denying it’s danger is plain stupid and more like deliberate misinformation.

Edited June 27, 2020 by GoPanthers123

[LinvilleGorge]

My mom keeps trying to convince me that my hometown is a "young, thriving place". Based on the nearly devoid level of mask wearing I've observed over the last week, I had to agree that after this winter it might not be thriving but it'll probably be young.

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm sad to report the Burke County Sherriff Department will not be enforcing the mask mandate. The Sherriff is my cousin, but he's a cop, a politician, and a pussy (though I'm not sure there's much difference between the three). He's also a Democrat.

[Wes21]

23 hours ago, amcoolio said:

Trump is the president of the United States, not Pelosi. At the end of the day, it falls on Trump. You know, the president of the United States.

He should be a leader. He is the leader of America. 

Even hardcore conservatives have to agree that he hasn't been a leader. He's been garbage, only serving his immediate self interests and could care less about he American people. He directly shows this in every rally and every tweet.

I see you skirted what he said.  What a joke.

[Wes21]

2 hours ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

Also if you talk about this like there are two options for dealing with this, and they're "everything is open and everybody does whatever they want" and "cowering in your basement waiting for a vaccine", I strongly suspect you have an agenda.

Quoted for emphasis.  Well said.

[stirs]

Today was the first day I saw a deviation in the death trends downward in about 6 or more weeks

It could be turning back up, or a blip, we will see

Edited June 27, 2020 by stirs

[kungfoodude]

Here is some American exceptionalism for you, the US has roughly 4.3% of the world's population yet 25.7% of the Rona worldwide deaths and 25.8% of the worldwide Rona cases.