I apologize. I should have worded my first post diffently. I didn’t know this was an ongoing thread.
No worries. We are all good. (For a few weeks, ha ha.)
It is an ongoing thread, but each day there is a new post with the latest numbers from China. Then the “fun” on FR begins.
We all make mistakes, including the people who are ripping off your head. It is quite OK to disagree, or to bring to bear more facts or a different type of analysis to a problem, so as to educate or persuade others. I don’t think that a disagreement requires that people become verbally abusive to each other. That said, I have made that mistake myself many times. I try to avoid it as much as possible.
If I may offer a suggestion?
People who are not regulars here (and sometimes I’m gone for months!) drop by here (FR) all the time. In an ongoing situation that generates a sequence of threads to keep up with events as they develop, maybe the thread poster(s) could provide a link to the previous thread in their comment #1. Even better would be to make this cumulative, so that each successive thread posted would start off with the links to the whole sequence. That way it would be obvious to those who “pop in” or lurk that there has been a LOT of discussion ongoing, and if such as in this situation the FReeper “popping in” happens upon a thread newly created, they can with one click jump back to the prior thread to get a better sense of what’s going on. There’s often a lot of great info. here - one just needs to sift through the wilder stuff on either side...
We FReepers tend to forget that MOST people aren’t glued to the news so much, have tight schedules, and so on.
Vermont Lt, thank you for being gracious - FR needs more like you.
Someone once commented on FR that FReepers will throw the chairs at each other, but most are actually really good people. I try to keep that in mind - not always successfully, I suppose, because we do have a few ornery types here who just like to argue for the heck of it.
GranTorino, might I suggest that if your comment had had a question mark at the end, it would have raised less ire.
Links to a couple prior “live” threads about this virus:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3815321/posts
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3815061/posts
All (and me too): No one can be knowledgeable in everything. Please do a ten count B4 bashing others on our side. And in this, most all of us should be on the same side. If this virus really gets loose in the US and if that Ro number really is around 5, we may be needing that neighbor we derided...