Posted on 03/16/2020 8:43:03 AM PDT by GulfMan
Before you look up my account and call me a noob I have been here since Clinton was President, just under a different user name. I haven't posted in a week or so, I've just been reading and lurking. It has really been an awakening recently to say the least.
I am surprised and maybe even a little shocked by my fellow Freepers. I really kind of thought we were all kind-of like minded (ya, I know, conservatives).
We have the "FluBro's" who are in total denial of what is happening world-wide. It reminds me of the other party and their inability to see and or face the truth and I am just so surprised by that. They are the exact kind of people Italy is warning us about in a new article today. In the fact, the entire nation of Italy scoffed and laughed it off, now they warning us not be like them. I think there are too many in this country like that however, I just spoke to a real estate person in Gulf Shores who said the place was booming, as grandparents/parents were taking their kids down for vacations since school was cancelled. Not a clue.
We have the folks supporting the guys from Tennessee who drove around the country and bought up all of the supplies that people would want to protect themselves from the virus only to list those products on Amazon at outrageous prices were completely justified in the name of free enterprise. Imagine being the type of person that sees a crisis and their plan is to exploit people for money during those times, and then to have other people support them?
We have those who say they will refuse to quarantine and won't be told what to do and want all kinds of places to remain open. It's like cantankerous old coots who are stuck in their ways and feel their freedom trumps everyone and everything around them, they owe their brother nothing. I'm embarrassed in part to be in the same boat as many on this forum. The constant arguing between those that know this is a serious situation and the FluBro's is tiresome.
That said, this is the best site for following the Coronavirus outbreak as people are local everywhere and sharing local news we wouldn't get anywhere else. I will continue to lurk for sure.
I hope everyone stays safe and pray this passes quickly, that as few as possible die, and the economy rebounds strongly, and we get back to living the American dream.
God Bless
Interesting, thanks.
Yawn
It has been dissapointing. But I’m told that, the behavior we are seeing is a normal human emotional adjustment process. And some people accept the facts of what’s happening and act accordingly. While others are in denial and are given to angry denials of what’s happening.
I’ve been identifying people as Coronavirus Deniers, Frooges, and Frensures.
Coronavirus deniers are the ones that are in total denial that this is a serious disease.
Frooges are Freeping Scrooges. They don’t want to be inconvenienced and don’t care if old people die. They want to decrease the surplus population or as one freeper called them, the eater elderly.
And as Frooges. (Freeping Scrooges). The ones that just don’t care because only old people die.
And the Frensures are freepers who want to censure you. I don’t know if they are afraid bad news will hurt Trump, or bad news will hurt the market, or bad news will scare them. But they just want you to shut up about it. Never mind that the only hope we have of avoiding a disaster is to talk about it, and develop plans.
This will pass. We’re going to keep talking about it, because it help things from getting worse. Trump is going to be fine. Nobody wants Joe managing this over Trump. The Market will recover when we get control over the virus.
That picture is blurry! You stink! :)
Yawn
I've been here since early 1998, and I don't think much has changed here except for the number of people complaining about FR. If you don't like it, start your own competing conservative website and organize it just the way you like. Then see how many followers you get.
I don't quite see how you could have "been here since Reagan," since to the best of my knowledge FR started in 1997, eight years after Ronald Reagan passed away. Perhaps Jim had something going on Prodigy or AOL before the FR website, I don't know.
“80% or better recover from Coronavirus”
We are seeing some experts now saying 500,000 to 2 millions Americans may already be infected. Which means the survival rate is probably more like 99% or better in First World countries.
Like the vast majority of us, I grumble about the hair on fire crew but follow the protocols to keep others and myself as safe as reasonably possible.
Yup. Kind of reminiscent of how the real zealots feel about the dangers of climate change. They see it as a deadly crisis, and are astounded when there are people who don't shout their "Amens!" in agreement. They think anybody who doesn't agree with them surely must be a moron.
One thing that’s changed: The US has raised another generation of people who are illiterate in basic math and science.
We’re paying for it now.
It is so ironic. The denial of what is happening is on your panic pusher side. You all think you can flip a switch and start a roaring economy again immediately. It doesn’t work that way. We have pursued a cure far worse than the disease. Deny the reality all you want, but it is sure going to be a hard lesson for most of you. The elderly we are so eager to save will suffer ten fold during the coming economic crisis.
In the age of fake news people must manufacture their own reality. The guys from TN probably thought they were just profiting on unreasonable fears.
Within the next two weeks we’ll all pretty much converge on the same version of reality. Between now and then ...
Prepare!
I hear you, GulfMan. I’m constantly reading FR...mostly because I just don’t want to hear anything from TV. With FR I can pick and choose which articles to read but also get tons of information which I find helpful. Some viewpoints are different from mine..and I *try* to keep from posting. ;).
Wuhan flu blues? This too shall pass.
We’re paying for it now.
Agreed. This sure isn't the America of the 1950s and '60s.
It's a shame; it wasn't even that engaging :-(
I don’t have anything against your view, but there’s one point that I haven’t heard anyone make. We don’t know the end result of the virus, but neither do we know the end result of the psychological effect of shutting down the country (please allow the hyperbole). I predict that more people will die from a spike in suicides than from the virus. I know I’m setting myself up for ridicule by saying that.
Over 1.6 million people have died from cancer in 2020 alone.
Over 3,000 people die a day in car accidents.
202,811 have died from malaria in 2020.
517,193 have died from alcohol in 2020.
Scroll down to “Health” in the link below to see official stats.
https://www.worldometers.info/
I think most are being cautious....there’s always a few who get panicked in any emergency situation but on the whole people are being ‘reasonably’ cautious and prepared.
From what’s been said we’ll know in the next two to three weeks how this virus will play out. if or not we get hammered or have avoided what might have otherwise been..
It’s just the Internet, dude.
There is a ton of good information—on both sides. You can find it.
One of the best thing to do, is log out and read the articles. When you feel like “responding” you must actively log in. That usually gives me pause.
Don’t read the comments.
Most Freepers honestly lack the education in viruses, transmission, or epidemics—and they are unwilling or unable to educate themselves. When you see Rush Limbaugh quoted as a source...think about that....for medical issues—you get the picture.
So, log out. Don’t leave. Think about your education, your expectations, and base stories and comments on those.
We will be fine.
It’s like fighting with my brothers. When the situation ended, we all got together to fight the bully down the streets.
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