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03-26-2020, 11:17 AM | #11641 |
"Think BOOM!"
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03-26-2020, 11:19 AM | #11642 |
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JFC, you could find doom and gloom in winning the lottery. I am fully convinced of that right now.
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03-26-2020, 11:20 AM | #11643 |
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03-26-2020, 11:21 AM | #11644 | |
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Ok, I get it, even though it was clear what I was referring to which is deaths per 1MM total population, clearly showed Italy is 40x higher, you couldn't make the simple connection and when I explained it you couldn't just say Oh I see. And then when I clarified you just had get snarky about it. I got it. |
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03-26-2020, 11:21 AM | #11645 | |
THE RED MENACE
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To me this is pretty simple shit. We are already spending a ton of money to ride this out. You simply can't take out the pack for 1% of the population. My guess is the numbers in the end are going to be significantly less than that, WAY less. Even if I had to die being I am in the at risk category I would rather have that than plunge our country into a great depression. We need to get set as good as we reasonably can and get back to work ASAP. |
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03-26-2020, 11:23 AM | #11646 | |
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Again - this isn't about 'acceptable' deaths. It's about inevitable ones. It's a brand new damn disease unleashed on a population of 350 million people. A lot of people are going to die. That's what a curve does, guys. It goes up. It goes way up at times. The 'flatten the curve' idea doesn't mean maintain a straight line. It recognizes the inevitability of deaths because of this and simply looks for ways to reduce how steep that curve is. And in exchange for reducing how steep it is, it makes the hump wider. But in all instances, there ARE deaths and likely quite a few of them. ****ing pandemics suck and I just don't know what else to say about that. If the US manages to stay below 100,000 over a prolonged period of time it will be a statistical anomaly. And maybe that's why I've seen this a bit differently than many. Perhaps there's a level of fatalism baked into my cake that others just don't have. Simply put - this is a disease that can kill people and WILL kill people. The idea that we were going to be able to take steps to yield fatality figures that wouldn't shock the conscious is simply unrealistic. That's GOING to happen. I just hope we aren't doing things that will only prolong the inevitable and in the end make outcomes for everyone, infected or otherwise, as bad or worse. |
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03-26-2020, 11:25 AM | #11647 |
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03-26-2020, 11:25 AM | #11648 | |
I'll be back.
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03-26-2020, 11:26 AM | #11649 |
THE RED MENACE
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We are supposed to have 5 Wuhan's going by now. How can the skies be filled with the smoke and stench of all the burning bodies if we don't at least have that many? We can't really get into the 3.3M deaths needed to meet that minimum 1% threshold unless we really get this ball rolling.
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03-26-2020, 11:27 AM | #11650 | |
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But whatever the case may be, it does appear there are loads of people who got this and showed very little. The question becomes at that point whether they have developed sufficient antibodies to actually come out of the carrier pool. And those antibody tests are still a ways behind in terms of volume, speed and efficacy. |
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The PPE shortage is an American nationwide problem. Why would I not use the term that it shouldn’t be happening in America? Quote:
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03-26-2020, 11:27 AM | #11652 | |
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As for "getting back to work," the reality is that that alone isn't going to save the economy. People aren't going to keep productivity up if their grandparents are dying or when our ice hockey rinks are being used as morgues. All I know is that all the experts in this have essentially agreed that the only way to deal with this thing is to lock everything down and that not doing so would be catastrophic. |
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03-26-2020, 11:28 AM | #11653 | |
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03-26-2020, 11:28 AM | #11654 |
THE RED MENACE
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03-26-2020, 11:29 AM | #11655 | |
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