COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (10 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

It was only a matter of time before someone started drinking bleach.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure people have been drinking bleach for years. That's not really new. Heh.

 

[bclemms]

Ridiculous, and a lot of people are gonna die from thinking like this...

'What are we doing this for?': Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs

"I left work and I felt so deflated," one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook. "I let it get to me."

www.nbcnews.com

Look at the bright side, society is about to get smarter.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The fact that we are even having a discussion about how bad the far end of each political group (cult) has gone over the edge in a thread about a global pandemic... tells you that... Yes... both sides need to be burned to the ground, and are equally insane.

I am so burnt out hearing one side insanely claim we need to keep the whole country closed, and the other equally insane side claim that we need to open up everything...

Both sides are equally dumb, and equally harmful in different ways...

It's time for some common sense driven decisions to be made, and the partisan hacks, crows. and sheep herds on both sides need to shut up.

There is no "one size fits all" - "everyone needs to do this" solution here... Places like Tensas Parish can open now... Places like Orleans Parish need to wait. Not sure why this can't be understood from either side.

Places that do open up need to implement best practices in necessary travel, sanitation and distancing. Our most vulnerable people (Elderly and Pre-existing condition folks) need to stay quarantined and be taken care of by the healthy people that are not at risk. Healthy people that have little to no chance of dying from this, need to be put back to work in areas where the virus has not been an issue, and the Healthcare system is not under pressure.

This doesn't have to be a "black or white" decision of KIll People, or Kill the Economy... this is an asinine - shortsighted - ignorant discussion and standpoint on either side.

We do not have a Vaccine, we will not have one for the foreseeable future... We will have to live with this virus... We can't hide from it (just read Gov. Cuomo said 66% of his NY Covid patients have gotten the virus while staying home) ... Most of us will get it... the question is not if... but when? And how do we manage it so we don't swamp the hospitals? And how do we protect the people most likely to die from it?

Everything else is partisan BS... and I am sick of all of it.

and i'm sure there are plenty who are just as mad at those who struggle with false equivalency

 

[ktulu909]

Look at the bright side, society is about to get smarter.

Logic doesn't always apply. If Murphys law teaches me anything, all of us staying home will get it off mail or something stupid.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I'm not here to argue with you or change your mind Lady... I know I am too late for that.... I just wanted to point out the idiocy on both ends...

but you haven't done that
you've huffed and puffed but haven't come anywhere close to demonstrating your point

 

[EGLSShin]

Heard furloughs are coming to some gov workers in New Orleans.

 

[nolaspe]

wait til you watch Plandemic.

I'm not wasting a second on that anti-vaxxer crackpot fake-science fraud w/ a criminal record and debunked 'research'...

 

[Goatman Saint]

This is false and actual research has shown there are several strains circulating. Some with possibly different properties in terms if infectiousness and possibly severity.

Prove it

 

[bonnjer]

I remember when this thread was mostly about charts, graphs, tables, tweets. Ah, the good ol' days.

 

[Infoman]

but you haven't done that
you've huffed and puffed but haven't come anywhere close to demonstrating your point

I have and more... I don't expect you to get it, or even acknowledge it, because you follow of one these political groups (cults) and will argue anything that is not in lock step with your ideology... even if it's plain as falling rain.

The point is... Locking down all "non-essential" commerce in the entire State and killing people's life long efforts, and putting family livelihoods at permanent risk... Instead of just quarantining the most highly populated areas that are actually being impacted and need the mitigation efforts enforced... while not going above and beyond to protect the most vulnerable people in our communities (Elderly and People with pre-existing conditions)... while not allowing these lesser impacted areas to return to commerce in a more sanitary, travel restricted, and socially distant fashion... Is uh... Dumb....

Just as Dumb as say... Just re-opening States' commerce everywhere no matter the situation, region, or clear indicators for specific areas... and with no regard for Healthcare capacity.... and no clear plan for mitigating spread... while just saying "well we have flattened the curve, back to work"... Equally dumb...

Equally partisan and extremely short sighted views... all Equally meant to keep dividing us upon dumb party lines... I am Equally sick of all of it.

Also, None of what I said is directed at you, so please feel free to ignore me.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I have and more... I don't expect you to get it, or even acknowledge it, because you follow of one these political groups (cults) and will argue anything that is not in lock step with your ideology... even if it's plain as falling rain.

The point is... Locking down all "non-essential" commerce in the entire State and killing people's life long efforts, and putting family livelihoods at permanent risk... Instead of just quarantining the most highly populated areas that are actually being impacted and need the mitigation efforts enforced... while not going above and beyond to protect the most vulnerable people in our communities (Elderly and People with pre-existing conditions)... while not allowing these lesser impacted areas to return to commerce in a more sanitary, travel restricted, and socially distant fashion... Is uh... Dumb....

Just as Dumb as say... Just re-opening States' commerce everywhere no matter the situation, region, or clear indicators for specific areas... and with no regard for Healthcare capacity.... and no clear plan for mitigating spread... while just saying "well we have flattened the curve, back to work"... Equally dumb...

Equally partisan and extremely short sighted views... all Equally meant to keep dividing us upon dumb party lines... I am Equally sick of all of it.

Also, None of what I said is directed at you, so please feel free to ignore me.

you're doing the exact same thing you accuse "both sides" of doing

 

[DaveXA]

It's been beat to death today. Let's move on please.

 

[Sun Wukong]

To be fair, I'm pretty sure people have been drinking bleach for years. That's not really new. Heh.

It isnt. I remember when I was in college, the burnouts and pill poppers that I delivered pizza with somehow came to believe ingesting bleach soaked bits of toilet paper would make them test negative on drug tests. And that was apparently a thing that was bigtime going around at the time, not just local.

 

[St. Widge]

If this story is true, it's pretty sickening:

 

[nolaspe]

Trump's personal valet tests positive for coronavirus

The president and the vice president have since tested negative, the White House said Thursday.

www.nbcnews.com

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump's personal valets, who works in the West Wing serving the president his meals, among other duties, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the closest the virus is known to have come to the president, a White House official said.