re: Woj: 16 Players Have Tested Positive for Covid

We have a Poli Board for political discussion, and there are plenty of COVID-19 threads (including a sticky) in the OT.

Can we keep this board about basketball?

The actual reality is that this is far less serious and deadly than fear mongers make it out to be for the express purpose of an election

While at the same time it’s more serious than the do absolutely nothing crowd wants it to be and could have been handled better with basic information and mitigation at the beginning.

If we had protected nursing homes early on we would be looking at a vastly different result.

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and some 85 year olds might die a year earlier than they otherwise would. We’re so soft as a society

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You serious dude?

The different messages were all from early on in the pandemic. The consistent consensus for a while has been wearing a mask significantly lowers the risk of transmission between people. It's honestly not even that much of a burden to wear one for the 30 minutes you're at a grocery store.

But if you ask the politards, it's the first step in implementing Sharia Law.

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I edited my post to reflect that this has been hyper politicized by both sides. Claiming as someone like Bronc does that one side is the beacon of light and fact and the other side is just murdering 100s of thousands is completely disingenuous.

This is a hyper politicized event.

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One side called out Trump’s grab for xenophobia as his only real response to the virus, were a bit slow on the uptick on banning air travel, the other side is making out the bipartisan scientific consensus on how to minimize death and spread within the country as a negative identity trait to be mocked and ridiculed. No matter how many straw men or rationalizations you bend over backwards to use, both sides are not equal and not equally culpable here.

The president could have easily shown true leadership, and likely saved countless lives and economic hardship as we struggle to control the virus as other developed countries continue to make much more significant headway, by simply showing a unity around the scientific consensus. Dude could have easily gotten every living president to either get together for a photo-op or a Zoom call to show a unified front about wearing masks and social distancing and instead made it a wedge issue so I now you have politards calling facemasks the fall of America, and we wouldn’t be having to go fricking backwards because governors felt pressure to open up too early and people want to make masks, or lack thereof, a tribal identifier.

And concern about not having any sports this year wouldn’t even be a thing because we would have had the virus under better control.

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both sides are not equal and not equally culpable here.

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Of course they aren't in your mind, because you are a hyper partisan individual that can't find the fault in "your team".

If you can't see hyper-politicizing by both sides, then I don't know what to tell you.

Yes. The CDC estimates the fatality rate for Covid overall at .4%. For healthy people under 50 it’s under .1%.

I don’t believe that no precautions should be taken. And the fact that people refuse to wear masks to the grocery store and that some states allowed full on packed to the brim bars and clubs to open, and that people attended them, is very dumb.

But the data and science gets stronger every day that in terms of severity this really is just a bad flu. It’s actually a lot less severe than a bad flu for a lot of people. It’s just a bad flu that’s more contagious than anything we’ve seen in modern history. But yes just bc it’s a “new” threat we’ve decided that dying from it is somehow worse than the million other ways people die that are preventable.

Why don’t we ban driving over 30 mph, or smoking, or eating red meat, or drinking alcohol? All behaviors that over time kill vastly more people than behavior that spreads covid. Yet you would never consider shutting them down.

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The problem isn’t me not seeing through my partisanship, it’s that you seem so drowned in yours that you are doing mental gymnasitics to equivocate months of anemic federal leadership and Balkanizing around bipartisan measures of safety with Democrats saying mean shite to score political points. There is not a metric you could find where the latter generated the level of harm the former did. So, no, they are not equal. As much as you want to both sides this situation it isn’t.

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You realize I could completely twist this to make the democrats seem MUCH worse than republicans?

It is completely subjective.

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You realize I could completely twist this to make the democrats seem MUCH worse than republicans?

It is completely subjective.

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So now your argument is you could contort facts to try and make the equivalency work better....Alright

At the end of the day no one had a greater capacity and responsibility than the president. Full stop. And instead of heeding early warnings and demonstrating national unity around the scientific consensus, a power he wholly had at is his disposal early on, taking aggressive and coordinated measures to combat the virus, he abdicated or outright undercut efforts through malfeasance and maliciousness at every turn. He used it to selfishly extend his culture wars and in that behavior made it harder for those even in his own party to do the right things and remain diligent in abiding by his own CDC guidelines.

Feel free to try and contort the record in any way you want, but trying to make anything the Democrats did as equivalent to that is going to either require turning your brain off or gaslighting.

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So now your argument is you could contort facts to try and make the equivalency work better

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You definitely missed the point, since I'm saying that it is exactly what you did.

Both sides play this game. The reality is that no one performed particularly well.