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Old 03-12-2020, 10:59 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Originally Posted by SeaMaj7 View Post
You strike me as a subverted demoralized idiot that relies on emotion rather than logic to come to a conclusion.

Where was the PANIC politically over SARS-CoV-2? Well, they held a HUGE concert in Toronto to spread the virus with THOUSANDS of attendees, lol

Swine Virus; OMG we're all going toto die, but wait, it's under control. Obama 2012!

This overhyping trend is a sign of 1984; Animal Farm; and A Brave New World coming to fruition.

Nice going, leftist morons.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFpZFnJ6ZT8
Great video, thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen that one before. RIP Neil Peart.

 
Old 03-12-2020, 11:26 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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Originally Posted by residinghere2007 View Post
This is not worse than swine flu IMO. I vividly remember swine flu.

Only thing that was worse is that people are more panicky and anxious today than they were 10 years ago.

I'll note that politically Obama actually did do a better job on getting on top of it and having a calm face/demeanor. Trump does not exude calmness and he doesn't have an adequate plan in place. Biden recently released a plan and invited Trump to adopt it. Trump should adopt it:

Biden Plan for Covid-19
Biden’s Coronavirus plan seems to include donating to his campaign.
 
Old 03-13-2020, 01:15 AM
 
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I haven't found any good in Trump..maybe that his leadership has caused people to be more proactive and do things like march but that's obviously just a side effect or maybe that he's too dumb to be able to get most bad policies out there. So basically nothing that he has actually done is good.
You do realize that there are lists of accomplishments he has achieved according to his backers, just as there are lists from his detractors that show where he has screwed up, right?

So you are trying to tell everyone reading your post, that not a single thing on the pro-Trump list you would agree with, was a good thing he has done.


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Old 03-13-2020, 01:20 AM
 
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They must be providing a product that the public likes then. This is capitalism after all. You do support capitalism, yes?
Of course, but that is too simplistic. I do not think many people respect or pay attention to them like they use to.
I don't know how Reuters or the AP get their funding, but they are both news services that are frequently quoted.
More than anything, you can be aware of what happened in a certain situation, and will know how Maddow or Hannity will spin it.
But they are partisan opinion hosts, not the news service.

So when you see headlines framed as if Maddow herself wrote them by the same leftist sources, they have ceased to be journalists, and are not partisan advocates passing themselves off as professional journalists.


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Old 03-13-2020, 06:11 AM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
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Originally Posted by godofthunder9010 View Post
COVID-19 is more airbore than the flu. It survives longer on surfaces than the flu. It has an incubation period. The flu doesn't. The COVID-19 incubation period lasts anywhere between 1 and 27 days, and all the while you're contagious. So you have no clue that you've got the thing, but you're spreading the disease anyways.

So what about lethality. The 2009 flu "pandemic" ended up being a fairly average flu season. About 1.4 billion people got the H1N1 "swine flu". The highest estimate of fatalities is 575,400. If we go with the maximums, we come out with a death rate of 0.04%.

There are 128,343 confirmed COVID-19 cases right now. This genie just barely got out of the bottle. With that tiny start, it's already killed 4720 people and that's not even counting deaths that China and Iran refuse to admit to. In most of the cases, we're still waiting to see whether the victims live or die, so we really shouldn't factor the full total in. Still, just for fun, let's do so anyways. COVID-19 has killed 3.7% of everyone who's caught it, which would make it 92.5 times more deadly than the Swine Flu. But if we do the numbers right, we look at the total recovered 68,324 vs the 4720 dead. Added together, we have all COVID-19 cases that have reached a final resolution. That's where you get the kill rate for this thing.

68,324 + 4720 = 73044
4720 / 73,044 = 6.4%

So that's 160 times deadlier than the Swine Flu.

What does that look like when it reaches the same kind of numbers as a flu outbreak?

1 billion COVID-19 cases = 64 million dead people
2 billion COVID-19 cases = 128 million dead people
3 billion COVID-19 cases = 256 million dead people
4 billion COVID-19 cases = 512 million dead people

Yeah that's one helluva lot scarier than the flu. And remember, this thing is more contagious and one helluva lot better at spreading than the flu, so it certainly can reach a few billion victims.
Your numbers don't account for all the people who have contracted COVID-19 but it wasn't diagnosed and/or it resolved on its own.

But, keep panicking.
 
Old 03-13-2020, 06:16 AM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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You have to remember-we really didn't DO anything over the H1N1 virus. Well, Obama didn't anyway. NO travel ban, no efforts to block people from entering this nation from the source country (Mexico). In fact he did everything in his power to encourage and enable sick people to enter this nation-much like the Democratic idiots want to do now. How many Democrats whined and went all SJW when the travel ban with China was put in place? How many more when the ban with European countries went into place this week? These people are just too dumb to be willing to do anything to protect American lives-if it impacts their SJW mentality. In 2009-this leadership failure resulted in 12,000 dead Americans, with 60 million sick. Granted-securing the borders and banning travel wouldn't have stopped the infection-but much like "self isolation" now-it would have been a step in reducing the progression-and more importantly-would have saved American lives. No question that Americans died over Obama's lack of action or response. But hey, we need to hide that fact from the American public, due to that D after his name. And "first black president".

We need to be thankful we don't have a Biden or Sanders in charge now. Their commitment to political correctness would have likely resulted in the same leadership failures seen under Obama-with many, many more American lives lost.
 
Old 03-13-2020, 06:37 AM
 
Location: NNJ
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A dead person doesn't give a rats a$$ of which POTUS is handling the situation better...

This whole thread is pointless... In events like these, the sitting President's actions and decisions should stand on their own.

I don't care much for Obama nor Trump. I do know that when news of people getting sick and community showing concern hit the global news channels, Trump was denying and calling it a hoax. I'm sure families of the sick enjoyed that.
 
Old 03-13-2020, 06:39 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Toyman at Jewel Lake View Post
You have to remember-we really didn't DO anything over the H1N1 virus. Well, Obama didn't anyway. NO travel ban, no efforts to block people from entering this nation from the source country (Mexico). In fact he did everything in his power to encourage and enable sick people to enter this nation-much like the Democratic idiots want to do now. How many Democrats whined and went all SJW when the travel ban with China was put in place? How many more when the ban with European countries went into place this week? These people are just too dumb to be willing to do anything to protect American lives-if it impacts their SJW mentality. In 2009-this leadership failure resulted in 12,000 dead Americans, with 60 million sick. Granted-securing the borders and banning travel wouldn't have stopped the infection-but much like "self isolation" now-it would have been a step in reducing the progression-and more importantly-would have saved American lives. No question that Americans died over Obama's lack of action or response. But hey, we need to hide that fact from the American public, due to that D after his name. And "first black president".

We need to be thankful we don't have a Biden or Sanders in charge now. Their commitment to political correctness would have likely resulted in the same leadership failures seen under Obama-with many, many more American lives lost.
H1N1 had a death rate like the flu. Wasn't worth a panic.

This is.

Derka durr.

(we also had specialists in place to handle and monitor pandemics, the nit wit fired those and has slashed the CDC budget)
 
Old 03-13-2020, 06:40 AM
 
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I just didn't see all the politicization that I do now. What am I missing?
2000 – Y2K is going to destroy EVERYTHING
2001 – Anthrax is going to kill us all
2002 – West Nile Virus is going to kill us all
2003 – SARS is going to kill us all
2005 – Bird Flu is going to kill us all
2006 – E.coli is going to kill us all
2008 – Financial Collapse is going to kill us all
2009 – Swine Flu is going to kill us all
2012 – The Mayan calendar predicts the world is ending
2013 – North Korea is going to cause WWIII
2014 – Ebola Virus is going to kill us all
2015 – ISIS is going to kill us all
2016 – Zika Virus is going to kill us all
2020 – Corona Virus is going to kill us all
The truth is FEAR is killing you…Turn off the TV, pray, trust God…and wash your handsJ
 
Old 03-13-2020, 06:45 AM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Originally Posted by LordSquidworth View Post
H1N1 had a death rate like the flu. Wasn't worth a panic.

This is.

Derka durr.

(we also had specialists in place to handle and monitor pandemics, the nit wit fired those and has slashed the CDC budget)
12,000 dead Americans isn't "worth a panic"? Maybe that's why Obama did nothing to stop the spread of the virus-it was only Americans dying. American lives matter less than his SJW ideals.
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