Posted on 03/19/2020 5:18:25 PM PDT by skimbell
20,000 people dead in the US alone by the ordinary flu. The Kung Flu has killed 8,000 WORLDWIDE. Get a grip on your panic. You are still more likely to be killed in a car crash.
Sorry, but since you can’t even admit the reality of what just happened (China) and what is happening (Europe) - along with other places - no one in their right mind would care about your delusions. But, enjoy your fantasy, anyway.
San Francisco in the 1950s. I was born in the Mission District which borders downtown, full of blue-collar homes, stores, warehouses and factories. A lot of stuff was made here in factories. Railway lines criss-crossed the city moving freight cars on trains. There were milk bottling plants, breweries (lots), and various factories making goods (TVs used to be made here). Little by little, the factories were shut down and moved out of town. Then the warehouses began to disappear or be converted to live/work housing. Then the railway tracks were paved over or dug out of streets. Many warehouses were torn down and redevelopment created all new neighborhoods of expensive housing buildings. At the same time, SF shifted from being a Republican city to a Democrat city. My mother worked at a restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf alongside the Bay. Back then, it was a true fisherman's work area, with rail lines along the piers (with rails going into warehouses over the piers to load goods from ships). Now it's a t-shirt shop tourist destination with no shipping save for cruise ships and ferry boats, and the trains are long gone.
There are still some factories in the southwest corner of the city, but nothing like it used to be where I went with friends to watch workers slaughter cattle at the slaughter-houses or looking at ship-building. I now live in a suburb south of the city, where kids don't see actual workers producing goods. Much of the work is bio-tech or medical, on land that was steel plants or ship building.
Enjoy your angst.
Post the numbers from last year’s seasonal Covid-19 outbreak, that would clear up any questions.
For the past three and a half years you have been lamenting "fake news". Now all of a sudden you imagine them to be your salvation. Do you actually think these things through?
The numbers from last year’s seasonal covid19 outbreak? Can’t come up with them for some reason? I’m sure that stat is somewhere. Get back to me when you find it - off you go, now!
Please, get a grip on yourself. Listen to your elders. We've been through a lot.
“Just compare CV19 stats to flu stats”
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That’s what I’m telling you to do - take last year’s full season flu stats and compare them to last year’s full season COVID-19 stats. Can’t be all that hard to find them.
(Hint, to assist in understanding what’s going on - the problem isn’t stats, it’s the collapse of the health system trying to handle the constant, never-ending influx of new patients. Read up on it, you might be able to understand.)
If you enjoy baseless fear, you sure are in your element now. Enjoy.
Why don’t boomers panic over Wuhan virus? Obviously you don’t remember
Alarm in apples, the coming ice age, nitrosamines in bacon, wine and beer. Have you already forgotten global warming?
Nothing sells media like bad news.
I’m 75 and me and my wife haven’t panic bought one damn thing. Nor will we. It’s all a bunch of shit. Do what’s practical, anything beyond that is ludicrous.
In the meantime, grow up.
What really bewilders me is that merely two months ago people on this site were scoffing at everything the media said. Now they are hanging on every word, and getting so fearful. It is like watching a boat without a rudder. Can't anyone think anymore?
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