Coronavirus

Originally posted by dadudemon
In Oklahoma, for example, people were out and about, shopping, doing their thing, almost no change in habits. Then many retail places closed. Then the mass hysteria and almost everybody went out. Still very little change in the data and habits.

We have dropped to almost 0 but they are still projecting us to hit daily death peak on May 1.

WTF?

F*** you, Corona.

it has nothing to do with ny being a central world hub, and the millions of nj residents who work there. good luck with those Oklahoma figures, though I fear that post will not age well

Don't forget, failed leadership also played a role.

Yes it is. NJ is the most densely populated state by far.

Originally posted by Trocity
F*** you, Corona.

Corona Familiar really isn’t that bad

YouTube video

This is a good discussion of the sensationalizing of the mortician and funeral practices in times of this pandemic.

It seems pretty even handed to me, both acknowledging the severity of the situation we are in, while also criticizing the way that death is reported in this time. She references the stories about refrigerated busses for the dad and the trenches dug for the dead in New York. These stories, while already being low on any truth, will then turn into much more extreme versions in the discussions on social media, e.g. "all dead people will be buried in central park" when the reality is that "unclaimed dead are being buried in a cemetery previously used for this purpose, but at a higher rate than in normal times"

I like her channel generally, but it is good to hear from an expert about all these stories we are bombarded with every day now.

She also goes into problem the private funeral industry generally has, and how it is affected by this extraordinary situation.

Dr. Fauci Debunks Notion That He Blamed Trump, Shuts Down Reporter Suggesting Conspiracy

"After Dr. Fauci clarifies his remarks from Sunday about how earlier mitigation efforts would have saved lives, @PaulaReidCBS asks if he's doing so "voluntarily."

Fauci: "Everything I do is voluntarily. Please. Don't even imply that."

The look on his face says "b*tch I should slap you" lol.

And yeah, he kinda should have. They throw a fit whenever he shatters a narrative.

States and Feds arguing who gets final say on opening the country for business.

I'm normally inclined to side with states in most things, but in this case I'm not certain if any state has authority to restrict free travel, for any reason barring a national emergency.

And if states get to say when that emergency passes, that can easily be abused as a de-facto police state that gets maintained indefinitely, because the state refuses to ever admit the emergency is past.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
it has nothing to do with ny being a central world hub, and the millions of nj residents who work there.

I agree because they don't come close to comparing to Tokyo even a tiny bit and yet, Tokyo didn't experience what NYC did.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
good luck with those Oklahoma figures, though I fear that post will not age well

Thanks. I'm sure the Oklahomans who may die from your totally-not-sarcastic luck-wishing are grateful that you're wishing them to not die.

But considering OK hit a peak April 7th and it has been trending downwards and people are still out in droves, shopping, we will likely be okay and the IHME projections, which have always been wrong, literally every single day, by huge margins, are not correct.

Originally posted by Surtur
Dr. Fauci Debunks Notion That He Blamed Trump, Shuts Down Reporter Suggesting Conspiracy

[b]"After Dr. Fauci clarifies his remarks from Sunday about how earlier mitigation efforts would have saved lives, @PaulaReidCBS asks if he's doing so "voluntarily."

Fauci: "Everything I do is voluntarily. Please. Don't even imply that."

The look on his face says "b*tch I should slap you" lol.

And yeah, he kinda should have. They throw a fit whenever he shatters a narrative. [/B]

Much more importantly, Fauci clarified that the first and only time he told Trump to implement mitigation (lockdowns), Trump listened. He said that the second time he went to Trump and said to extend the mitigations to 30 days, Trump listened. He said that the first time he said to also restrict travel from Europe, Trump listened.

So I made this meme:

Originally posted by Artol
YouTube video

This is a good discussion of the sensationalizing of the mortician and funeral practices in times of this pandemic.

It seems pretty even handed to me, both acknowledging the severity of the situation we are in, while also criticizing the way that death is reported in this time. She references the stories about refrigerated busses for the dad and the trenches dug for the dead in New York. These stories, while already being low on any truth, will then turn into much more extreme versions in the discussions on social media, e.g. "all dead people will be buried in central park" when the reality is that "unclaimed dead are being buried in a cemetery previously used for this purpose, but at a higher rate than in normal times"

I like her channel generally, but it is good to hear from an expert about all these stories we are bombarded with every day now.

She also goes into problem the private funeral industry generally has, and how it is affected by this extraordinary situation.

Thanks for sharing and you make some great points. I saw this video, yesterday. NY still seems to be an anomoly and, despite what some may imply, we still don't know why NY was hit so hard compared to others. It's not because they were encouraged to hug Asian people - that's just thinly veiled racism from the right.

I also see people on conspiracy theory side completely denying that anyone is dying of COVID-19 or if they are dying, it's extremely small amounts.

The truth is definitely somewhere between what the MSM portrays and the tinfoil hatters. However, reality is closer to the hatters than the message the MSM portrays. Still waiting on those antibody tests to see how close it is to our shiny hat wearers.*

Oddly enough, there is another tinfoil hat group that says this virus was man-made on purpose to kill off people. It rangers from it being a Chinese weapon aimed at Americans to a CIA weapon aimed at the Chinese that backfired and hit the US.

*All the testing going on and no one is publishing results.

https://www.kqed.org/science/1961589/covid-19-antibody-testing-ramps-up-in-california

Does anyone have ANY results from the antibody testing? We've been testing people with "kits that show results in 10 minutes" for 7 days, now and yet, there are still no publicly available results that I can find. How is this possible? Why are they keeping this secret?

Originally posted by dadudemon
Tokeeyo iz no difrint then new yerk. Iz new yerk's fault. I have memez

solid point 👆

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
The WHO has now declared the outbreak a global emergency.

I just wonder if they're going to use this to try and force vaccines on everyone.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Much more importantly, Fauci clarified that the first and only time he told Trump to implement mitigation (lockdowns), Trump listened. He said that the second time he went to Trump and said to extend the mitigations to 30 days, Trump listened. He said that the first time he said to also restrict travel from Europe, Trump listened.

So I made this meme:

😆

But...isn't that how this is supposed to work?

Also, I thought Trump was a wannabe dictator? Lol.

Originally posted by Surtur

But...isn't that how this is supposed to work?

Also, I thought Trump was a wannabe dictator? Lol.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
solid point 👆

Days later, you still have no rebuttal. Just childish tantrum responses.

But, hey, if you think you have secret knowledge that the experts don't, let's go with that.

Also cuz it fits here too:

Originally posted by Surtur
The last one I saw was where Trump plays that video where it shows the media downplaying the virus and then after that it shows democrats praising him for his handling of it lol. And CNN absolutely melted down during it. Look at these banners:

Note the time stamps in the corner too. This was a rapid fire triggering where they changed a banner 4 times within minutes cuz Trump.

lol

Originally posted by Surtur

But...isn't that how this is supposed to work?

Also, I thought Trump was a wannabe dictator? Lol.

I'd rather it be up to the states. trump is obviously incompetent at handling anything about this, including elementary things like public speaking and not trying to make it all about him and his ratings. useless game show host