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Press should be 'held accountable' for coronavirus panic: 'They are hurting people'
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:00 pm
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“A bad flu season is 80,000 dead. We’ve got about 18,000 dead from influenza this year; we have 100 from corona,”
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“Which should you be worried about, influenza or corona, 100 versus 18,000? It’s not a trick question,” he continued. “Look, everything that’s going on, with New York cleaning the subways and everyone using Clorox wipes, and get your flu shot, which should be the other message, that’s good, that’s a good thing. So I have no problems with the behaviors.
“What I have a problem with is the panic and the fact that businesses are getting destroyed and people’s lives are being upended. Not by the virus, but by the panic,” he explained. “The panic must stop, and the press, they really, somehow, need to be held accountable, because they are hurting people.”
Dr. Pinsky went on to call the news media’s coronavirus coverage “irresponsible” and “excessive,” and he downplayed the severity of the illness, saying “several people in this building probably have it and don’t know it.”
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Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:02 pm to Mike da Tigah
People saying we have 100 dead are fricking retarded. The virus just got to the states and is spreading very rapidly. The virus has barely had time to take its course with people in the US.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:02 pm to Mike da Tigah
Spent many a night listening to Dr Drew diagnose gonorrhea for anonymous callers. Good times.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:03 pm to Mike da Tigah
frickin' Dr. Drew? 
OK
OK
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:04 pm to Mike da Tigah
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several people in this building probably have it and don’t know it.
Yeah, that’s the point. That’s exactly why they’re shutting things down.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:04 pm to FulshearTiger
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The virus just got to the states and is spreading very rapidly.
The virus has very likely been here for a while, we just weren’t testing for it.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:04 pm to FulshearTiger
The virus got to the US the same time it got to Italy. The US death count is at 36.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:05 pm to FulshearTiger
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People saying we have 100 dead are fricking retarded. The virus just got to the states and is spreading very rapidly. The virus has barely had time to take its course with people in the US.
Looks like you will be safe in your doomsday bunker.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:06 pm to UpToPar
quote:link?
The virus has very likely been here for a while, we just weren’t testing for it.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:07 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
You want a link to something that can’t be verified?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:09 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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The virus has very likely been here for a while, we just weren’t testing for it.
link?
Common sense and the CDC testing snafu suggest he's right.
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:09 pm to UpToPar
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The virus has very likely been here for a while, we just weren’t testing for it
Probably. But do you think it is anywhere near its peak? And do you think the majority of cases have fully played out yet?
I have no idea how many it will kill, but to be comparing it to something is pretty fricking ignorant.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:10 pm to Mike da Tigah
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Italy
The nation’s first two positive coronavirus cases were reported on 30 January, while the first death occurred on 22 February.
Now today...
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The death toll from coronavirus in Italy has risen from 631 to 827 – the largest day-on-day jump in fatalities since the country’s outbreak began.
Another 196 people have died from the deadly disease since Tuesday, giving Italy the largest death toll outside of China. At the same time the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases rose by more than 2,000, from 10,149 to 12,462 today.
But yeah muh media
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:10 pm to FulshearTiger
No one. Absolutely no one. Has suggested this has peaked.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:10 pm to FulshearTiger
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The virus has barely had time to take its course with people in the US.
bullshite. It’s been in China since October. It’s been here since not long after that and we just didn’t know it. We’ll never know for sure, but I’d bet tens of thousands of Americans have already had it over the course of the winter and recovered and have no idea they ever had it. I’m not going to trust China’s numbers, but it appears that in the 5-6 months it’s been there it has killed less than 10,000 in a densely population country of 1.4 billion.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:11 pm to Mike da Tigah
Dr. Drew is an addiction medicine specialist, not an epidemiologist. Listening to him over, let's say, Trump advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, would be the equivalent of ignoring your cardiologist's advice regarding a heart condition in favor of what your dentist told you.
Just last night on Hannity, Dr. Fauci said that the virus would be "ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu" with a mortality rate of 1 percent.
I'm sorry that it's going to hurt businesses in the short term, but the long term economic and human costs of ignoring the advice of epidemiologists and public health officials would be far worse.
Just last night on Hannity, Dr. Fauci said that the virus would be "ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu" with a mortality rate of 1 percent.
I'm sorry that it's going to hurt businesses in the short term, but the long term economic and human costs of ignoring the advice of epidemiologists and public health officials would be far worse.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:12 pm to ell_13
I know that you're an absolute idiot from your several days of posting, but where did I say or imply that anyone did? I asked that specific poster.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:12 pm to ell_13
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The virus got to the US the same time it got to Italy.
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As many as 50,000 Chinese live and work in the area, making clothes bearing the prized "Made in Italy" label which sets them apart from garments produced in China itself, even at the lower end of the fashion business.
You're right, but Italy got a lot more cases imported into their at the time. I've read that most of these workers are from one of the coastal regions that neighbors the Wuhan region. Thousands of these workers returned home to China for the Chinese new year then returned to Italy with a lot of them carrying the disease. Although we got the disease at roughly the same time, Italy got a massive dose of it and is why their disease is so much further along than us or any other EU country.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:13 pm to castorinho
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The death toll from coronavirus in Italy has risen from 631 to 827 – the largest day-on-day jump in fatalities since the country’s outbreak began.
Another 196 people have died from the deadly disease since Tuesday, giving Italy the largest death toll outside of China.
Less than 5,000 people will die in Italy from this. With all due respect to those who die, but big fricking whoop.
How many people will die in Italy this year from flu?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 11:14 pm to FulshearTiger
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But do you think it is anywhere near its peak? And do you think the majority of cases have fully played out yet?
Is it near it’s peak? No, but I think we have a pretty good handle on the severity. I think we end up with around 5-10K deaths when it’s all said and done.
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