Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

On brand.

 

I loathe you with every fiber of being equivalent to every Advil I had to take.

Except for the farts. That’s just awesome.

 

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This from the guy who's been downplaying the pandemic from nearly day one on this thread. Oh sorry, I forgot... you're just trying to offer different perspectives to break down water-tight preconceptions, or something.

 

I heard from a friend shot no. 2 of Pfizer makes your penis grow two inches and helps your golf game - is this true?

 

I don't claim to have all (or even any) of the right answers. But when I see Eric Feigl-Ding's 742nd doomsday prophesy sputter into nothingness, I feel it does offer some license to say, "Maybe you guys don't have all the right answers, either." It's perfectly reasonable to wonder whether closing tennis courts was a prudent decision, or whether California got the desired bang for its shutdown buck, since its numbers are decidedly middle of the pack. It doesn't make someone a virus-denying Trumpist to point stuff like that out.

 

Many people made mistakes during the pandemic and we will look back and see things that should have been done differently - we didn't need to sanitize library books or wear masks while biking outdoors. But, the people who made bad-faith contributions to attacking masks, county healthcare officials, doctors, social distancing, limiting big groups, vaccines, etc. contributed to making things worse. From the start, the people who didn't understand the economic crisis was connected to solving the health crisis hurt the rest of us. Many of them chose the sugar high of appealing to their crowd by owning the doctors and scientists. That's their legacy to live with.

 

Ask him.

 

Given California's population density, the 11th-highest in the country, I'd say the exercise of caution was generally a decent idea. Closing tennis courts was probably silly.

 

Eric Feigl-Ding is also the king of the doomsday prophets. He's' the Oral Roberts of the COVID doom Twitter world, and he didn't even make the Sweet 16.

 

One of the things that drives me nuts is states' retroactive changes to cumulative totals.
Florida, which we are told on here is doing just fine, reported in the Johns Hopkins dataset that it had conducted a total of 21.7 million tests through Feb. 28 and a total of 20.8 million all-time tests through April 1. Hence its conducted -913,000 tests from March 1-April 1 and had a -17% positivity rate for the period. Hooray ! Their heroic governor, who refused to bend to libruhls, has overcome all the naysayers.
Likewise, I doubt that Iowa had a 27% positivity rate in that time frame.

 

CDC says fully vax'd people can travel the country. On 4/21 I'll be really tempted.