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re: For your family & friends that think this is an overraction
Posted on 3/18/20 at 1:00 pm to GardnerBarnes
Posted on 3/18/20 at 1:00 pm to GardnerBarnes
People die everyday dipshit
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Posted on 3/18/20 at 1:02 pm to TigerCoon
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Weren't the British way behind the curve on their response?
Yes, because the same guys who wrote this paper originally said "do nothing, let's go with herd immunity and it will all be over quick"
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Imperial College, experts noted, was part of the advisory group for the government’s now-abandoned strategy, which played down radical social distancing and accepted that the infection would spread through the population. The theory is that this would build up so-called “herd immunity,” so that the public would be more resistant in the face of a second wave of infections next winter.
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Posted on 3/18/20 at 1:17 pm to cable
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People die everyday dip shite
Posted on 3/18/20 at 1:40 pm to GardnerBarnes
There’s nothing nihilistic about stating a fact. 3200 people die in car wrecks each day in America. Why haven’t we banned cars?
Posted on 3/18/20 at 2:10 pm to GardnerBarnes
He advocated for the same levels of panic/complete shutdown in the UK with the swine flu started to become a "pandemic" there. Mass hysteria! Cats and dogs living together, etc. The media hyped it up as a pandemic of biblical proportions. He advocated for school closures, etc.
Some media outlets opined 5% - 30% of the population would get the swine flu with 65,000 deaths in the UK being a possibility. But what actually happened....
Put as many letter as you want behind your name. Reality isn't matching up. This thing didn't just arrive on an airplane at the beginning of March. It likely has been here for several weeks, if not months. Yet, the bodies aren't piling up in the streets. And if it is looking kill "millions", then it better get to work because we are a LONG way from those numbers.
You can get the foremost expert on Astrophysics or Cosmology to write a verbose report on how the sun actually rises in the West. Unfortunately, the problem arise when reality doesn't match perception
Some media outlets opined 5% - 30% of the population would get the swine flu with 65,000 deaths in the UK being a possibility. But what actually happened....
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In the summer of 2009 UK newsprint coverage was at its height, coinciding with the first wave in swine flu cases. (Hilton, in submission) But by autumn 2009, despite a second surge in cases, swine flu was no longer a top news story. In October the swine flu vaccination programme commenced in the UK, first targeting those deemed to be at greatest risk, with the plan of rolling out the programme to the remaining population in the coming months. As the winter progressed it became evident that the virus was not as virulent as first predicted and the stockpile of vaccines would not be necessary, leading to some accusations of "over-hyping the pandemic" [7,8]. By the spring of 2010 mortality data demonstrated that swine flu had been less lethal than first feared and case fatality rates compared favourably with previous influenza pandemics, [9] accounting for less than 500 deaths in the UK [10] and 18,000 worldwide [11]. On the 10th of August 2010, 14 months after WHO declared the pandemic, the Director-General of WHO announced the pandemic officially over.
Put as many letter as you want behind your name. Reality isn't matching up. This thing didn't just arrive on an airplane at the beginning of March. It likely has been here for several weeks, if not months. Yet, the bodies aren't piling up in the streets. And if it is looking kill "millions", then it better get to work because we are a LONG way from those numbers.
You can get the foremost expert on Astrophysics or Cosmology to write a verbose report on how the sun actually rises in the West. Unfortunately, the problem arise when reality doesn't match perception
Posted on 3/18/20 at 2:54 pm to SippyCup
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And it would be their own fault. The government needs to stop protecting us from ourselves. If we go out, we know the risk, its called risk for a reason.
Usually, I share your outlook. Personal responsibility. But under these circumstances, precautionary measures must be taken for the good of all. We can't eliminate this, but we can mitigate the damage by limiting contact between people. Nobody enjoys being told what to do, but sometimes they need to be told... even more so when one believes his "right" to take risk trumps the health of others.
See what I did there..... LoL
Grow up man, have some sense of civic duty.
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