Posted on 02/26/2020 2:09:19 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
In regards to your statement on the VA hospitals handling something like the Corona Virus, please find some one to post some Baghdad Bob meme that says something like “Everything is Ok here” or “Nothing to see here, Please move on”
I attempted to post a meme picture but couldn’t figure it out.
It’s incomprehensible to me that some politicians want to ‘make hay’ out of something like this. They should be getting on-board the fight against it - and I hope that their constituents are watching.
My old granny used to say that ‘talk is cheap, it takes money to buy land’.
Trump and his team are acting strategically, while the Dem politicians are flapping their gums and revelling in their air time.
That’s a whole lot of toilet paper! :-)
And don't forget, it was you, who made the unsubstantiated claim that I was "upset with you", when I quite obviously was no such thing. And you never replied to what I had actually posted to you.
I thought DJT started off very weak - he was obviously not prepared as well as he should have been, and came across as “winging it” vs giving clear, compelling, confident points. (I realize he just got back from a very long trip and probably did far better than I could under that circumstance, but maybe he should have delayed a bit till he was more rested if so..)
He got much better as things went on, however - especially when attacking Pelosi and Schumer.
Also didn’t like how he answered the question about putting more travel bans in place..he got asked twice, pretty directly, and dodged both times. It’s simple - if country X has the virus, close the damned door and end the flights coming from that country - just like he did with China. So, why won’t he do that w/S. Korea, Iran, etc?!
Net, markets didn’t seem to get the confidence that they were looking for as futures were down pretty hard red by the end of the presser..
Definitely a very tough situation..but to those who don’t seem to recognize just how serious this may potentially be, it has a death rate AT LEAST 20X that of the common flu (possibly more), and can spread like wildfire because those who are asymptomatic can still spread it. I don’t think we’ve seen anything like that in ~100 years, and it could kill a very large number of people. Let’s pray it doesn’t.
Yes, there are a lot of things that could be making that number higher than the disease itself would kill under “normal” circumstances, including, among many others:
1. The Chinese health care system is clearly overwhelmed.
2. Genetics.
3. The availability of ventilators and medications.
4. Experience in treating the disease.
I expect that number will improve as the epidemic progresses. Still, it’s the best number we have so far to describe how serious the disease is if you get it.
You guys (the ardent, it cant happen here) people amuse me. I has already happened. It continues to happen. Pandemics , while rare, happen multiple times in our lifetimes.
Before you start suggesting this is nothing, you must preface it by saying you dont give a fu$k about the rest of the world. Because its there. And its not contained. And a lot of people are not only dying, they are not going to work.
And, its here. Trump just inoculated himself against blame. Not with a vaccine, but with half truths and happy talk.
Its here. And its probably in your town. Its in mine. And the town next to mine. But they havent shown up on any media lists.
Sam's Club...22 dollars!
German Measles parties.
Don’t you lash out at me!!!!
Ummmmmmmm...no, I haven’t, that I recall; not to mention the fact that I don’t “lash out” at people.
I’m lashing out at you!!!
Vitamin C serum can turn your complexion a shade of Orange-perhaps Mr. president uses the age serum C for keeping lines and wrinkles down to a minimum?
Let’s lash out at each other!!!!
Did you expect they’d do otherwise?
That’s a good word. I was simply saying we have some built in “spaces” that keep us from sharing illnesses in the same way they would in China (or Korea for that matter).
The weather should be in our favor....only one case in Latin America where it is summer, and that one has contact trace to Italy if I am not mistaken.
I'm bowing out of this conversation gracefully...you win!
Saying you don’t lash out at people is the worst form of lashing out at people!!!!
Kinky . . .
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