I'd bet you on that a year my ass lol.... I'll msg u in 2months when everything opens again and tell you how wrong you were.
In 2 months the worldwide (official) death toll will hit the 1 Million mark, then panic will break lose.
Mark my words.
The virus seems to kill obese patients which makes sense. It's a serious respiratory virus that fills a person lungs with mucus, the patient tires out and has to be put on a respirator.
For me it's very simple. Give everyone a 5 pack of 500mg Hydroxychloroquine or they can get the prophylactic 8 doses of 400mg where you take one a week for 8 weeks. Zpack and zinc.
The mode of action of this medication is something that actually works as it blocks the virus from attaching to the ace2 receptors on cells and decreases the pH of lysosomes in the cells making the cytoplasm more acidic.
The government like always tells you to trust your doctor and only do what these fuckers tell you to do. You don't have a brain, you can't think for yourself, always trust the authorities as they know best.
As for the constant beating of the drum telling us we need to get everyone tested. That's bullshit, that won't accomplish anything. Just give us the medication to treat ourselves, the worse that can happen is a few die from heart problems and some idiots might overdose and cause a retinopathy.
Hydroxychloriquine doesn't cure all patients, it is no silver bullet.
If it did, nobody would die anymore. Simple fact.
Jesus Christ what a buncha paranoid conspiracy theorizing bulllshit.
I think if 1/2 you morons downplaying this contracted the fucking virus you’d have a different comment
At the very least they'd erase a couple years worth of gym/juice gains.
I'm one that takes the virus seriously. Then again I have asthma and know what it's like to be in the emergency room gasping for air needing a breathing treatment and shot of adrenaline.
You can live without food and water for sometime, but you can't live without air for more than maybe 20, 30 minutes tops.
As for the country, I see idiots more worried about the economy than people. There's a way to balance the concerns of both, but when I see a dick cheese like Trump who is more worried about the economy because his hotel businesses lost shit loads of money, that pisses me off. We don't exist to serve fuckhead billionaires. I don't consider people canon fodder lining up to take their chance at death for $12/hr to make their masters richer.
He probably already bailed out himself.
What would have happened if we just let people keep gathering and infecting everyone. That’s the “curve,” right?
a spike in the curve means tens of thousands of people susceptible will need respiratory care. We can’t handle that. So people line up in parking lots to die.
Sad that a conspiratorial theorist denies this reality.
It's unbelievable how crowded our normal life was, crowded sidewalks, offices, malls, clubs, cinemas, restaurants, schools and so on.
It'll take a long time so it's safe to return back to normal.
Say one million people died out of 7.6 billion, which by all accounts is a huge bump over projected death totals, is that cause enough to halt the world's economy?
80% of people put on ventilation die from this. I'm willing to bet that 20% success rate is almost exclusively under 55 years of age.
The seasonal flu, which is floating around like it always does this time of year, kills on average no less than 12000 people in the US (that was from back in 2010, so that minimum has gone up) The medical professionals have stopped counting flu deaths since this started. You can happily subtract, at a minimum, the aggregate flu deaths for the covid time frame (perceived start to end) from the death total. It's at least 12k. That's about half of the covid deaths.
Now, with all that being said, I have yet to hear someone grandstand that the virus isn't real and that it will not cause a large swath of death. What I'm hearing is the solution is causing more problems than the issue.
I agree with this.
There was talk about suicide rates and how they have been tracked in past situations like this. They spike, bigly. There was almost 50k suicides in 2018. How big of a jump do you suppose that'll make when people economic outlook shatter? When their personal relationships suffer because of this and they can't be rebuilt? When their business folds and dozens off families are depending on government hand outs to survive now?
That's just one angle. There are more. I believe in hindsight we will conclude that it wasn't the pandemic it was made out to be and how it was handled was wrong. You don't isolate those that are able to survive, you isolate the weak and wait for a vaccine. This is when mankind needs to realize this is life and people die. This is when we should be making the daily grind to work.
I'd happily be part of the death total to keep a good thing rolling. It's life.
IMO the worldwide (official) 1 Million dead mark will be hit by May or June. Then everyone will panic.
The really big part of the "mishandling" I refer to isn't really the mindless lockdown antics of our local governments. The response that is doing the most harm to people is the $8T (eight TRILLION) in bank and corporate bailouts being created from nothing while the individuals who will ultimately pay the price for that inflation (that would be we citizens) get at best a $1200 check we are expected to immediately spend to prop up the failing economies and sooth our raw backsides.
Virus or no virus, we have been royally fucked, and as I like to keep pointing out, all most of us are doing is cowering in our homes from a virus that may or may not be any worse than the seasonal flu.
I wonder how much of that $1200 check will go to illegal drugs and call girls.
Curious what anyone thinks about the food shortages. Pork is going to be scarce. Eggs are in low supply, as is milk.
if we let all the churchie people and conspiracy theorists do as they want, we’d be in a much worse hole than we’re in now.
and that smells like a worse long term economic issue to me
IMO food prices will skyrocket.
Basic economics: if they keep on printing money and many people stay at home, basic items like food will increase in price, since producers can buy less goods with the same money.
Yep. A nurse who is friends with my lifting buddy confirmed this over a week ago. You die of anything and also have corona virus, it’s death due to corona virus.
Do people shot dead also count as coronavirus victims, as long as testing confirms they had the virus?
Now seriously, the virus seems to harm the brain parts controlling automatic breathing and heartbeating.
So it's very possible that a heart attack was actually virus related.
Can't compare countries like Sweden, UK or even USA NY with each other. The population densities and demographics are vastly different.
Population density of Sweden is 25 people per sq km.
UK is 270 people per sq km, and England is 430 per sq km.
NYC is 10,194 people per sq km.
Many peoples minds are on the economy, the problem is if you were ever suffocating on mucous, had to be knocked out and intubated, have you hands tied to the bedrails so you don't yank your breathing tube out, have a catheter inserted, two IV's placed, an arterial line for ABG access. You'd probably not enjoy it.
As someone that grew up in the 70's when we had a lot less toys, our cars were shitbangers and yet our standard of living was much higher because we went outside and played, hung out. Nobody sat in their house worrying about bullshit. Nobody sat around watching the news. This idea that you need to constantly work at a job you hate for 50+ hours a week just to survive is dumb.
Sell your shit, walk away from debt and live life with less so you can be free. Stop buying these $40,000 cars, signing up for $200,000 house loans. People have enslaved themselves and the top .001% have made a killing off peoples poor impulse control.
When I see thousands of people lining up for food banks and driving really expensive vehicles. These people are dumb fucks. When I see someone that is 45 years old doing this. WTF have they been doing?
And I don't agree with the stimulus package at all, I don't see a need. There should be survival pay, but not this bullshit unemployment check where they add an extra $600/week. This is basically Trump buying votes using the Andrew Yang idea of Universal Basic Income, the conservatives laughed at it and now they embrace it when it's an election year.
Minimalists with savings in the bank will survive the better.
People should consider that since I was born the US has doubled in population.
I'm all for population control. I'm a strong believer in shutting down all forms of immigration and reproduction as much as possible. I'm not against have sex, just the baby part.
Having more people has been beat into our heads. The idea that we need these people to compete in the world economy as if that's the goal of being a human.
Lets look back at the 40's, 50s, 60s, 70s and see a country that is doing pretty damn good. People had food, shelter, a vehicle, basic education, junior had a bicycle, alarm clock, books and cloths that all had made in the USA.
Now where did it all fuck up, why did property values sharply increase. Why did incomes stay flat while the basics of life became obscenely priced.
Simple solution is to drastically decrease the population so people can spread out, the natural resources will take care of those left behind. Stop importing from China and exporting wealth. Live life within your means, stop listening to advertising, question everything, question the government, religion and any fuckhead that tries to con you.
Make America Great Again starts with Make America Less Populated Again?
