Coronavirus

[Harpsman]

A friend posted her friends recent experience of the on going pandemic;

"So lockdown is sort of relaxing we are beginning to poke our heads out of our burrows, maybe meet up with folks again in small groups and all the rest. Happy Days! I thought the same myself, met a few clients last week, didn't get too close and was outside with them. Neighbours called - again didn't get too close and stayed outside. Got diesel, wore gloves. I was tempted to meet a few friends and go for a swim somewhere luckily the forecast gave bad winds so we didn't. I really didn't think I had exposed myself too much. Thursday night felt a bit sore working in the garden but then I have been doing more of that recently, Friday I felt like I had a flu coming on and by the end of the day it was turning into a proper man-flu but I had none of the main symptoms of Covid like temperature, cough, or loss of taste or smell. Saturday I was very bad barely fit to get out of bed. I rarely get a flu so I thought may as well get tested as we didn't know whether to isolate or not. I booked myself in and went to the MOT centre...... Today the results came back positive. Good news is I am pretty much back to normal and so far the rest of the family are fine as are the neighbours. My parents were due to come over for the first time since lockdown started on Sunday, luckily we cancelled that as they are both over 70. Just be carefull out there folks this thing is closer to your doors than you think."

 

[gmase]

I wonder if those people are also afraid of that there windmill cancer that's been going around lately. 🤣

Yes they are the same. Fortunately, windmill cancer and coronavirus have the same cure - injecting disinfectant. Dr. Trump says it is so.

 

[gmase]

Corona might be as a virus, but not as dangerous as they claim, and all these restrictions more seems like an experiments how much can governments control the pople

Control the population, kill a few excess citizens, and bring economies to the edge of economic collapse. Genius!

 

[Luxman]

20th Century-Inspired Propaganda Posters About The COVID-19 Crisis In The US
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/05/...-posters-about-the-covid-19-crisis-in-the-us/

 

[gmase]

20th Century-Inspired Propaganda Posters About The COVID-19 Crisis In The US
https://designyoutrust.com/2020/05/...-posters-about-the-covid-19-crisis-in-the-us/

Great find @Luxman. This one gets the blue ribbon:

 

[gmase]

Local trends: https://coloradosun.com/2020/05/26/colorado-crime-quarantine-trends/

"Crimes against people were down during the stay-at-home period - unless those people lived in the same home."

 

[D-rock]

On a side note I noticed Trump accusing a reporter of being "politically correct" by wearing a mask, and that got me thinking. You know what, he's right. There is going to be a solar eclipse passing near to where I'm at in a handful of years. It might be the only time in my life I get to see a total one. To be more like Trump our Glorious Leader and be less oppressed by political correctness I'm going to stare at it with my bare eyes just as long and as hard as possible, and then I will force my self to stare some more. I will let the bigly shining light of it's corona burn it's freedom into my retinas. Sure, some libtards out there will state how insanely dangerous that is. Some will try and point out how I'm an unbelievably insane idiot and fucktard. A lot of them will mock me or just point in my direction and laugh. Fuck them, I won't be chained by their political correctness anymore. The voices in my head are more right than any evidence they might have. I only regret that my actions will only affect me, and I can't share my experience by proximity to those that are close by me so that they to can experience my unshackled freedom.

Corona might be as a virus, but not as dangerous as they claim, and all these restrictions more seems like an experiments how much can governments control the pople

Well, yes that's understandable. I mean those 100,000 dead people this year (that we only know about so far and also still counting since it's only May yet) despite unprecedented measures to control it probably only came about by magic or some deep state plot. That's not much worse than the flu, right? And, if it is I'm sure those numbers are all just one gigantic conspiracy like every bit of data that has inconveniently ever gone against anything I've ever believed in. That's just the way reality works for me.

Whenever there are a large group of world leading experts in a subject that they have spent their whole adult lives studying, like scientist, doctors, or engineers, and who know a hell of a lot more about a subject than I do, and who the overwhelming majority of them have come to a consensus on something, I default to either believing my gut, some total dumbass like our current president, a conservative entertainment personality pretending to a journalist, or a random guy on the internet because what the hey, why not? If I ever let myself fall into the allure of the siren songs the experts say I'm going to start believing some crazy shit, like the Earth is spheroid, climate change is real and caused by humans, or COVID-19 at best is a very serious problem that strong measures are needed to contain to be on the safe side.

 

[gmase]

On a side note I noticed Trump accusing a reporter of being "politically correct" by wearing a mask, and that got me thinking. You know what, he's right. There is going to be a solar eclipse passing near to where I'm at in a handful of years. It might be the only time in my life I get to see a total one. To be more like Trump our Glorious Leader and be less oppressed by political correctness I'm going to stare at it with my bare eyes just as long and as hard as possible, and then I will force my self to stare some more. I will let the bigly shining light of it's corona burn it's freedom into my retinas. Sure, some libtards out there will state how insanely dangerous that is. Some will try and point out how I'm an unbelievably insane idiot and fucktard. A lot of them will mock me or just point in my direction and laugh. Fuck them, I won't be chained by their political correctness anymore. The voices in my head are more right than any evidence they might have. I only regret that my actions will only affect me, and I can't share my experience by proximity to those that are close by me so that they to can experience my unshackled freedom.




Well, yes that's understandable. I mean those 100,000 dead people this year (that we only know about so far and also still counting since it's only May yet) despite unprecedented measures to control it probably only came about by magic or some deep state plot. That's not much worse than the flu, right? And, if it is I'm sure those numbers are all just one gigantic conspiracy like every bit of data that has inconveniently ever gone against anything I've ever believed in. That's just the way reality works for me.

Whenever there are a large group of world leading experts in a subject that they have spent their whole adult lives studying, like scientist, doctors, or engineers, and who know a hell of a lot more about a subject than I do, and who the overwhelming majority of them have come to a consensus on something, I default to either believing my gut, some total dumbass like our current president, a conservative entertainment personality pretending to a journalist, or a random guy on the internet because what the hey, why not? If I ever let myself fall into the allure of the siren songs the experts say I'm going to start believing some crazy shit, like the Earth is spheroid, climate change is real and caused by humans, or COVID-19 at best is a very serious problem that strong measures are needed to contain to be on the safe side.

Well said D-rock. I posted this at #329 and it's still true:

Do you know more than an expert?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/problem-thinking-know-experts
https://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/

Key points:

• An expert isn’t always right.
• An expert is far more likely to be right than you are.
• Having a strong opinion about something isn’t the same as knowing something.

 

[Luxman]

 

[Luxman]

Coronavirus VII: Sports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

 

[gmase]

I saw this on a t-shirt today:

 

[Luxman]

The Black Death probably started in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_migration

 

[maildude]

 

[gmase]

The Black Death probably started in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_migration

This is interesting:
By the end of 1350 the Black Death had subsided, but it never really died out in England over the next few hundred years: there were further outbreaks in 1361–62, 1369, 1379–83, 1389–93, and throughout the first half of the 15th century.

 

[Luxman]

This contradicts what we've been told for the past 3 months.
Is this new info based on scientific data or political will ???
The original video was taken down.

WHO: Coronavirus patients who don't show symptoms aren't spreading new cases

Coronavirus: New York City Begins Reopening | NBC Nightly News

 

[gmase]

This contradicts what we've been told for the past 3 months.
Is this new info based on scientific data or political will ???
The original video was taken down.

WHO: Coronavirus patients who don't show symptoms aren't spreading new cases

Coronavirus: New York City Begins Reopening | NBC Nightly News

Your answer probably depends on who you ask. The most logical explanation is confusion and lack of much experience with the novel coronavirus.
https://thehill.com/homenews/corona...y-widely-criticized-statement-on-asymptomatic

Others may try to sell you a story about a global conspiracy. 'They' took down the video because someone was speaking the truth and all this stay-at-home business was just a worldwide test to see if we would comply.

 

[gmase]

We (the US) are #1 and still outpacing the pack:
https://thehill.com/homenews/corona...n-coronavirus-cases-amid-surge-in-some-states

Freedom!

 

[gmase]

Was the cure worse than the disease?
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/502518-we-must-learn-from-the-shutdown-mistake

 

[Luxman]

Was the cure worse than the disease?
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/502518-we-must-learn-from-the-shutdown-mistake

"Over $9 trillion that Congress has approved in financial assistance packages."
Corporate executives and shareholders are going to receive record-breaking "bonuses" so they can cope with the pandemic.
That's why Trump fired the IG responsible for independent oversight of the assistance packages.
Most of the assistance will go to the states, corporations, and other corrupt aholes who supported Trump with his crimes and lies.
Trump is using the assistance money to buy votes for the Nov. election.

Trump ~ Crony Capitalism ~ an economic system in which family members and friends of government officials and business leaders are given unfair advantages in the form of jobs, loans, etc.

 

[gmase]

"Over $9 trillion that Congress has approved in financial assistance packages."
Corporate executives and shareholders are going to receive record-breaking "bonuses" so they can cope with the pandemic.
That's why Trump fired the IG responsible for independent oversight of the assistance packages.
Most of the assistance will go to the states, corporations, and other corrupt aholes who supported Trump with his crimes and lies.
Trump is using the assistance money to buy votes for the Nov. election.

Trump ~ Crony Capitalism ~ an economic system in which family members and friends of government officials and business leaders are given unfair advantages in the form of jobs, loans, etc.

At the bottom of the article where it gives the author bio it omits "during the Trump Administration from 2019 to 2020." You are spot-on.