Posted on 04/18/2020 4:56:46 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
A few things:
1. Some study in the Bay Area showed antibodies are widespread and there could be 85 people who have it for every one person who was tested - good news as it shows that its lethality is about the same as the flu.
2. Texas didn’t go far enough with their announcement on reopening.
3. Healthcare workers are getting laid off or are on reduced hours - checked two clinics yesterday and one was closed and one was half hours due to reduced number of patients during Corona. They flattened the curve so much that healthcare workers are getting laid off.
Well said
Texas is overrated...
Yes, but DJT turned off the economy. Why did he do this over what some call a seasonal flu?
Early on the theories were 1. Eating bat and 2. Bioweapon. I was going with theory 1. I now believe theory 3 is most likely which is they were trying to raise their international prestige by doing virus research and they made a boo boo and someone got infected accidentally. But I am not married to this theory.
+2535
WAAAAT!
I wouldn’t say overrated....but Texas definitely underperformed with the lockdown. Hard to beat Wyoming on this issue.
I would suggest that if this is a bio weapon it’s been wildly successful. It’s been incredibly disruptive, turned out nation into a dead zone economically and now the real fun begins as we turn on each other. You’re100% wrong
Just like the flu. Are the feds going to push this “yet to be proven” research as only anecdotal?
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Dammit! There’s big bucks to be made on a vaccine. And you want to go and trash a golden opportunity for connected politicians and drug companies to profit off the biggest concocted calamity in a lifetime with simple cheap solutions like $10 HCQ pills and sunshine (UV light). Don’t harsh the megabuck payoff, man!
While we are all stuck in our basements and watching our livelihoods dwindle, I am thinking that if after we turn the economy back on and we a destitute, I am going to be looking for people to blame.
Maybe it is shortsighted and unfair but fairness means nothing if you cannot feed your family. Fairness doesn’t put food on the table. After all “I am alive.” However, maybe I would have been alive even without the shutdown.
Plus, this has been self-inflicted and I have little choice in the matter. Also, as more details trickle in and we may conclude the shutdown as instituted was unnecessary, I will not be happy.
Again and let me repeat — I will be looking for people to blame. Lets hope that for their sake, the economy is back running full speed in short order. Otherwise, heads will roll.
Tennessee has a population of 7 million...how many died from coronavirus yesterday? ONE. That’s right...ONE. God has not given us the spirit of fear, so we are going shopping. The rest of you can die on your knees.
No. read my comment. I said the virus was a failure. Our reaction to it has been catastrophic. We did it to ourselves lead by fearmongers
Last 4 of your social?
I posted this to FB this morning.
China, WHO, and CDC first said.”Don’t worry, it’s nothing to worry about “.
Then everyone called it the Wuhan flu or chinese flu. Then they called you racist if you called it the same.
Politicians said “come on down to Chinatown
San Francisco “, or Martigra. So we did.
Then the powers to be said okay, time to worry but DON’T WEAR MASKS. They don’t do anything (btw leave them for First responders).
Now we can’t leave home without them.
Then the said it wasn’t airborne. Then they said it was.
Then they said 6 feet distances, then 10, then 13.
Many in the medical field say HQ works, some dont.
Then they said 3 million will die even if we quarantine, then 200 thousand, then 100 thousand, now they project 60 thousand.
They said 2 weeks. That’s the incubation period. In two weeks, if we stay home, we can flatten the curve. We stayed inside for a month.
Then they said we may need 3 months, 6 months. Hell maybe next year.
Then they said we need millions of ventilators, yet now they don’t. We need ships for hospital beds. But they didn’t.
Well, we stayed home a month or more, most places did flatten. Most show a downward trajectory.
They have been wrong almost every single time.
Forgive me if we stopped believing them. You can go on sheltering in place. But if we don’t open up soon, the life you so desperately wanted won’t be worth living.
America is heading for a depression worse than 1929. A phased approach to opening up is exactly what we need to do. So while some of you will hunker down, the rest of us will slowly return to normal.
I , for one, am willing to trust my instincts. Cause at this point that’s all I have. That and prayers.
It's only a success if it puts Creepy Uncle Joe (or his late-term replacement) in the White House.
The problem is that most sentient voters (i.e. non-Democrats) understand that the occurrence of the virus was not due to anything that Trump did, and they will not blame him for it.
What remains to be seen is how strongly the economy rebounds in the coming months. It's way to soon to predict his defeat, or even worry about it.
Don’t forget all the fake fatalities inflating things. True number of deaths due to CV is actual deaths from all causes minus average number of deaths from all causes for the past 5 years. This is a way smaller number of CV deaths (it might even be negative).
If you now believe C-19 was created in a lab, it isn’t the seasonal flu and any comparison misses the potential intent of the Chinese.
I can attest to that.
I work at a hospital in Northern California (aka The State of Jefferson). Our Lab and X-ray Dept. used to be staffed 24 hours a day. Now they operate on a Monday to Friday 8-4:30 schedule.
We have had no surgeries for a month. Our Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy cases are virtually non&existent. We spent tens of thousands of dollars re-opening a wing and repairing beds and equipment that had been mothballed. We have yet to use a single bed.
It's like a ghost town around here. I am a custodian and the only reason my hours haven't been cut is because most of our staff had found new jobs or quit to go back to school in the days and weeks before this all happened and now we can't find anybody who wants to work where they might come in contact with this flu.
They were looking at Italy. The media and doctors were pumping this up to be the end of humanity while the swamp was deeper than Trump fathomed by miles. No matter what Trump did he could not win so he went with the abundance of caution and they are still saying he did nothing and caused everyone to die!
Can the TexasEagle fly home to Texas?
It’s impact is like that of the flu - technically a Coronavirus isn’t an influenza virus.
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