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| not1xor1:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on March 19, 2020, 12:10:10 am ---The long story short is that people need to calm the fuck down, stop endlessly rewatching and rehashing the same shit and take some sensible precautions. Maybe turn off the tv for a bit and do some sowing. --- End quote --- no the story is that people are putting their head under the sand and go on carelessly as ever the longer you behave that way the longer the problem lasts it is not a matter of being angry but of being rational if all people would be able to refrain from careless and stupid behaviour the virus would get extinct within a month unfortunately most people are just careless assholes and they do not care if they will make other people die, having their usual glass of beer at the pub is most important than somebody else's life BTW go on like that and within a month death figures in your country will easily get above those of the flue |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: not1xor1 on March 19, 2020, 08:02:38 pm --- --- Quote from: james_s on March 18, 2020, 11:03:08 pm ---[...] I would like people to do that with the common flu as well, which Covid is still not even close to catching up to in terms of deaths as of now. It may indeed become far worse but that doesn't change the fact that the flu has already killed 12,000 in the USA and yet we have idiots who refuse to get the cheap and readily available vaccination for that. --- End quote --- you are just at the beginning flue doesn't kill people by the thousands a day as COVID-19 might soon do here and/or would have surely done without any containment measure flue doesn't kill healthy and 40-50 years old medical staff you have no idea what you are going to deal with --- End quote --- Yes it does. I mentioned already that I knew somebody who died of the flu when they were 8 or 9, a friend of my brother. Jim Henson was a healthy 53 year old when the flu killed him. These are just two examples out of many, many thousands. You are drastically underestimating the impact of the flu while being overly alarmist about Covid. And since I know you are going to take this as me saying Covid is no worse than the flu, that isn't what I'm saying, but it's also not as drastically worse than the flu as you seem to think it is. You are caught up in the panic and thinking emotionally rather than rationally. Most people are going to recover just fine, at least from the virus. |
| Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: rgarito on March 19, 2020, 06:56:55 pm --- --- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 19, 2020, 06:53:41 pm --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 19, 2020, 06:29:43 pm ---Instead of confining EVERYONE, we could just confine people that are either NOT tested yet or tested positive. People tested negative with a valid proof could be waived of confinement. Pretty simple. --- End quote --- Or better yet, test people like cashiers and postmen and delivery people, so that those who need to interact with others would not be spreading the virus. --- End quote --- Nah, in America, we are concentrating on testing members of sports teams... :palm: --- End quote --- And the politicians, and the movie stars! You can tell where America's priorities lay. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 19, 2020, 08:35:57 pm --- --- Quote from: rgarito on March 19, 2020, 06:56:55 pm ---Nah, in America, we are concentrating on testing members of sports teams... :palm: --- End quote --- And the politicians, and the movie stars! You can tell where America's priorities lay. --- End quote --- Considering the number of European politicians who have tested positive, they might just be testing the right demographic. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: not1xor1 on March 19, 2020, 08:25:23 pm --- --- Quote from: Mr. Scram on March 19, 2020, 12:10:10 am ---The long story short is that people need to calm the fuck down, stop endlessly rewatching and rehashing the same shit and take some sensible precautions. Maybe turn off the tv for a bit and do some sowing. --- End quote --- no the story is that people are putting their head under the sand and go on carelessly as ever the longer you behave that way the longer the problem lasts it is not a matter of being angry but of being rational if all people would be able to refrain from careless and stupid behaviour the virus would get extinct within a month unfortunately most people are just careless assholes and they do not care if they will make other people die, having their usual glass of beer at the pub is most important than somebody else's life BTW go on like that and within a month death figures in your country will easily get above those of the flue --- End quote --- People being alarmist and overreacting is precisely what causes others to blow them off as being caught up in panic and behaving carelessly. We have to be rational, stay calm and take reasonable precautions. Fear and panic causes irrational behavior that makes things worse. If everyone were calm and level headed we could take action and not have this polarization between absolute panic and total disregard. The sensible middle ground is drowned out. |
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