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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    The numbers you're seeing are useless because we aren't testing nearly enough people.

    We're also not testing dead people for COVID-19, from several stories I've read.
     
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  2. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Same here. Stopped engaging with Trumpers long before this happened. The lessons learned dealing with SHYFS.
     
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    No, the mathematical concept of exponential growth has manufactured the panic. That is, people who can do math are scared shitless. You clearly cannot.
     
  4. Roscablo

    Roscablo Well-Known Member

    This is a good point. I'm amazed it isn't talked about more. The number of dead from this is way, way higher. But they were classified as something else -- pneumonia, respiratory failures, maybe even the flu -- because of lack of tests or slow response or whatever else. I would definitely bet that while it is certain our cases are much higher because of lack of testing, so are the deaths. People who keep using the argument the flu is more dangerous probably are going to lose that fight soon. They already have if you look at the deaths mounting in Italy, but that's another country so why worry, right?
     
  5. TowelWaver

    TowelWaver Well-Known Member

    Dude, you’re not even up to date on your talking points.
     
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  6. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    I think I’m making money ... everything around is closed — casino, restaurants, bars, movies, bowling alley — so the places I’m usually heading to aren’t able to take my money. Filled my gas tank for $1.48/gallon, which will last me since there’s nowhere to go. Bought my supplies in preparation for the hunker down, so that expense is gone. Plus getting a few OT hours at work so a few extra bucks coming my way.

    Apart from wondering if I or anyone I know will be anywhere on the dead to unemployed spectrum, this might work out all right.
     
  7. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    flu LOL
     
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  8. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Where’s the exponential growth then? This has been here for several months now. Hospitals should have already been overwhelmed.

    Again, the virus is real. The panic is manufactured.
     
  9. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Hmmmm, perhaps one of the two assertions isn’t true? And we know hospitals are now overrun. Therefore ...
     
  10. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    When has the truth ever stopped AQB from posting the bullshit he posts?
     
  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    TAKE IT TO THE NEXTDOOR THREAD!
     
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  12. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    They are? Since when?
     
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