Posted on 04/19/2020 12:57:18 PM PDT by DannyTN
A new NBC News/WSJ poll also shows how the past month has changed Americans’ attitudes about the coronavirus.
In March, 53 percent of voters said they’re worried that someone in their immediate family would catch the disease. Now it’s 73 percent.
Also in March, a combined 26 percent said the coronavirus has changed their day-to-day life in a “very” or “fairly” major way. Now it’s 77 percent.
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I assure you it would not. This is a contagious virus widespread in the general population. Those who are going to get it will get it. The lockdown has done nothing except trash the economy and people’s livlihoods
We know flu comes every year, but it's impossible to predict a really bad year until you are in the middle of it and then it's really too late. Because it's already peaking.
We're half way to the death count of the worst flu season in 40 years with as lock down. It would have been far worse without a lockdown.
If you move the car off the train track and then the train doesn't hit you, do you say, we shouldn't have move the car, because the train didn't hit us?
The train didn't hit you because you moved the car. CV deaths aren't worse because we did the lock downs.
“You can see why they came with 2.2 million dead Americans if we let ‘er rip through our population.”
If I’m not mistaken, that’s roughly how many Americans die of all causes in a given year.
I keep expecting a change in attitude as the death toll mounts. It’s now over 40,000.
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When it gets to 150,000 - 500,000 like H1N1, call me
The categorizing is based on whether the person would have presented and died in the hospital if not for the virus THIS time.
The virus attacks all organs. It is not an influenza virus. You die from “the virus”, you die from an organ failure.
Using your logic, everyone dies from lack of oxygen to the brain—because that is what technically kills everyone.
Plus, you realize that the estimation of the flu deaths every year follows the exact same rules of categorization—except they assign EVERY pneumonia death during flu season to the flu.
The issue is you probably never paid attention to deaths and how they were categorized. Educate yourself. It will save you from making incorrect statements in public.
Just because the reality of the world does not fit your view of how it should operate, doesn’t mean the rest of the world is wrong.
Follow common sense measures. avoid crowds and overtly sock people. Wash you hands. Eat and sleep well and maintain your general health as best you can. Exercise regularly if you can. Live fearlessly and trust God for the rest
‘I assure you it would have been a lot higher.’
you can ‘assure’ nothing of the kind...you are merely spouting speculation, anybody can do that...
The same number. If you are going to get it you are going to get it
So we all get this in the end. it is not the “flu” it is a xxxxx bio weapon. the PTB know it and we got 3 years til 80% of the world is depopulated. the stay at home order is pretty much world wide, if that tells anyone what the real threat is. that is my theory.
How is that for a Grim FRearper?
In 1967-68, when I was a freshman in college, there were 100,000 flu deaths in the U.S., which had at that time a population of about 200,000,000. This was the so-called “Hong Kong” flu. It was a bad flu season, but I don’t remember the economy being shut down.
I don’t know where you live, but there are no restrictions on my liberty.
I am free to go where I want. No one is stopping me.
What exactly is it that the government is preventing you from doing?
The ONLY thing I cannot do that I usually do is go to the movies. Which was fun, but not a huge part of my life.
Sure: Wash hands, practice good hygiene, optimize treatment of comorbidities. Close contacts should not visit if sick. The same thing for literally every other virus.
We don’t know and will never know the actual toll from flu this year because they combined all of them together and attributed them to Corona.
This time next year it will be forgotten almost completely unless they find a way to morph it into the next covert 22 or whatever.
Politicians and bureaucrats really like the power this gives them.
All the liars and the fearbros have piled on to try and exacerbate something that actually is a very short term highly infectious and demographically targeted virus.
Who is stopping you?
You want to go out? Go out.
You want to go visit friends, go visit them.
If the cops stop you, lie to them.
I don’t understand what the big deal is.
Nothing but fearmongering bastards at NBC news. If they get their way this will never go away until the day they install a democrat president.
Enough is enough of this crap. We need to shut democrats down everywhere they operate.
CDC says that there were 12,469 deaths in the US due to H1N1. We are 3.5 times past that.
That's a world wide estimate your quoting. And worldwide we have 165,000 CV deaths plus what ever China and Iran are failing to report. So we are already there.
Thank you. So do you feel that “distancing” has at least some merit?
Thank you.
Cute veiled threat. You know what it really is — those of us who are able to read and analysis and synthesize are tired of being pushed around by every two bit summer who posts a story to promote his beliefs. I am sorry but now that it appears you are wrong as well, you are taking your marbles and going to sit in your superior attitude of believing you are correct.
From the get go, you have posted emotional material, little factual. you and Danny and the others. You are classically transferring what YOU do to those who are now being shown as right.
Its time for you, too, to reveal your character. Are you someone capable of saying you were incorrect, or will you hold to the increasingly unsustainable stance that you have taken.
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