Posted on 03/21/2020 10:21:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Commentators have noted the dishonest reporting of statistics to buttress the false claim that deaths from the coronavirus (hereafter, COVID-19) are far in excess of mortality from the common flu when in fact the opposite is likely the case. Others have noted that, like the common flu, the most vulnerable cohort from COVID-19 is the elderly. For example the average age of those who have died of COVID-19 in Italy is 81.
One thing is clear. The panic and hysteria are at levels never before seen or witnessed by most people alive today. It seems like a time of war. My dad fought in World War II. However, I was not born until well after it. I'm a retired prosecutor. In my retirement, for the past ten years, I've run an event/wedding photography business. For me, it's a way of reliving stress. I enjoy photography, and I particularly enjoy connecting with the young couples whom I photograph on their special day.
One such couple, Nathan and MacKenzie, had hired me to photograph a gathering of 130 of their family and friends for their wedding and reception later this month. No, Nathan and McKenzie are not in their eighties. Nathan is 25, MacKenzie 21. I was looking forward not only to witnessing the love and joy inevitably expressed by the married couple and their family and friends, but also to photographing again at this particular venue, a ten-acre oasis that I had often worked at in the past. I was indeed shocked when Nathan called me on March 17 to report that the wedding and reception, for which all the invitations had gone out and for which they had planned for over a year, were being canceled on the "Order of the Health Officer of the County of Riverside."
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Sounds like the beginnings of anarchy. The thin veneer of civilization is starting to crack.
Another week of this bs and what will it be like?
If everyone would just ignore the facts, that wedding could have gone on and the photographer could have gotten paid.
Sure the marriage would be off to a horrible start if news that half the wedding party came down sick and several were in the hospital. Or that the groom came down sick while spreading it to half a dozen other couples on the honeymoon.
Not feeling any sympathy for this guy. Some for the couple, that had to postpone.
Sorry to hear about your troubles FRiend. Hopefully Trump will see how small businesses are hurting and come up with some kind of relief package.
I am sorry to hear that, but one anecdotal case either way does not not accurately describe what is happening.
“she was all man when it came to posturing, but when the going got tough it was all tears and emotion.”
Sounds like all feminists. They make me crazy.
The panic and histeria is unwarranted.
I am a numbers guy and I truly feel for all of the people that will lose their lives to this disease. I go over the numbers every day and I never focus on either a single death or a single recovery. What matters is what can be dissected from all of the data.
1. What I have learned is that this year would normally be classified as a “very bad flu year”.
2. People are mostly lemming and I will change what I do in the future because of them.
3. The only difference is that the president is not too democrat.
Check this out.
Yikes is right.
I haven’t seen that, but we’re pretty hunkered down. This would be a really bad time to be in a trauma-causing auto crash.
Atlanta might be catching up with Denver in the “running red lights” competition. In Denver, the question is, “how do you tell the REAL Denver driver?” Answer: “He or she is the third one through the red light!” I lived there from 1983 to 1993.
Planning weddings a year+ in advance is silly. Extravagant exercises in narcissism. And half of them end in divorce.
Just call your priest or go to city hall and then have friends meet in someone’s home or a restaurant.
If Uncle Lenny in Budapest can’t make it without 6 months notice you can just see him some other time.
Thank you for the kind words
My gross is off 70% between rain and this
And banks for all their talk ....well banks are what they are unless folks are too big to fail
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