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re: Why the Lockdown Lost
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:24 pm to mmmmmbeeer
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:24 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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mmmmmbeeer
Did you eat paint chips as a kid?
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Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:25 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Seems like a very reliable place to get news after looking at the home page.
This isn’t a news article. It’s an opinion piece. But you probably don’t know the difference.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:26 pm to NIH
Umm, dude. I've worked daily since it all began. Haven't avoided a single place. Go bleed on some other whiney arse thread why dontcha? Or did I pick a scab about where you get your news?
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:30 pm to notiger1997
I am a very high risk person/patient (stage IV colon cancer) and I have thought since the start of this crisis that the lockdowns were way, way over the top on stupidity. First when masks were in short supply they were ineffective and useless now they are heavily encouraged or mandated. Then it was we just need to flatten the curve to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, now it’s no opening up until a cure or a vaccine is ready.(in some places) I told my wife back in early January that the fear of the virus and the economic implications would be horrendous. I said that based on China’s shutdown long before the virus was found in the US and long before any lockdowns. I still believe that the economic damage will cause mush more devastation than the virus would have.
I feel like that I have to decide for myself what level of risk I am willing to take and what I am not willing to do. I do not think everyone should be locked down because I have the misfortune of fighting a serious underlying medical condition.
I still think we will continue to see cases and deaths from SARSCov2. However, the risk from infectious disease has always haunted mankind and will continue for the foreseeable future.
Enough ranting!!
Have a good night
I feel like that I have to decide for myself what level of risk I am willing to take and what I am not willing to do. I do not think everyone should be locked down because I have the misfortune of fighting a serious underlying medical condition.
I still think we will continue to see cases and deaths from SARSCov2. However, the risk from infectious disease has always haunted mankind and will continue for the foreseeable future.
Enough ranting!!
Have a good night
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:I think you're on to something because I've thought the same thing. It's like they're addicted to being anxious about something with this virus. Scared to death of it. And loving every second of being scared. Don't you dare challenge them to feel better about everything, you're killing their buzz.
Some people simply want to be scared,
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:32 pm to RealityTiger
Guys around here are scared to death 5G caused it. Thoughts?
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:34 pm to Dominate308
You really only need the top half of the suit.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:34 pm to Randman
Find a more credible source.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:36 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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I didn't bother reading the article, ya know, townhall.com and all that. That said, interesting that that paragraph really spoke to you.
You are hands down, the biggest goddamned idiot on this forum, and that’s a helluva accomplishment. Your boyfriend should be proud.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:37 pm to OweO
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Find a more credible source.
You want a more credible source...for an opinion?
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:38 pm to OweO
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Find a more credible source
It was an opinion piece on a non-leftist website. No one said it was a peer-reviewed publication. For the love. Take it for what it's worth and stop being a bunch of gaping holes.
This post was edited on 5/17/20 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:41 pm to Sao
Just curious. I don’t want you to have to take your gloves off to type an angry response.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:41 pm to Randman
If it's opinion, are you admitting many of you PT dorks get your opinions straight from opinion pieces? That's what you run with at the plant water cooler?
I mean, your own OP opinion says it's an
I mean, your own OP opinion says it's an
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Excellent article
This post was edited on 5/17/20 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:42 pm to Randman
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for an opinion?
Yes, one that's less biased.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 8:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:Reddit is a fricking dump.
The average age of a Redditor is 19. Remember that the next time some dingleberry tries to argue with you that communism just wasn't implemented correctly. "Workers of the world unite", says person who has never worked a day in his life.
During this pandemic, Redditors fall into 2 categories.
1. Useful idiots. Scared to death due to media fearmongering. Believes whatever the hivemind and Reddit staff push. Also noteworthy that the Chinese government, by proxy, owns a stake in Reddit. They are too fricking stupid to realize that the lockdown induced depression hurts them the most. Instead of graduating into a flaming hot job market, they are going to have a hell of a time finding a job.
2. Wilfull idiots. Also called accelerationists. They want this virus to push the world into socialism. "Government shut down businesses, economy is fading, look how frail capitalism is!". They think they will be party leaders when the "revolution" happens; I'm sorry to notify them, but their gender-fluid asses will be the first sent to the gulag.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 9:51 pm to Randman
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Lab coats in ivory towers—who never treated a single patient – went to Congress and lectured senators. While at least one of them—who is an actual physician, who not only contracted COVID-19 but once recovered—volunteered at his local hospital. Speaking of doctors and gaslighting... Who thought it was a genius move to start ignoring thousands of physicians treating COVID-19 patients? Who thought it was better to take the opinion of a lab coat who flip-flopped on the treatments he admitted he would use if he were practicing?
I’ll bite. You are right this is an opinion and like most opinions it is not entirely correct.
Physicians are not the end all be all gods of medicine. They treat patients with the knowledge they have learned. This is a novel virus. Physicians were not equipped to deal with this on their own. One physician who recovered is anecdotal. Containment and treatment both are important. Now infectious disease doctors are the types of doctors we should have listened to. They have specific concentrations on the spread of disease other physicians do not. Flip flopping is such a funny thing to point out. Information changed and one should change with it. Treatments change constantly in medicine.
Also, the color commentary on marriages, kids not seeing their friends for 2 months, and graduations aren’t legitimate concerns. Now if you’re talking serious mental health issues, domestic abuse, etc. yes of course.
I don’t really understand posting an opinion article, which just absolutely seems like confirmation bias.
Thank you for attending my TedTalk.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 10:12 pm to Randman
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Where’s the accountability? Who thought it would be best to only allow treatments for COVID-19 to be applied in hospital settings as opposed to frontline primary care physicians' offices? By doing so we exhausted hospital staffs and actually caused infection to worsen to less curable stages. Who thought it was a great idea to force nursing homes to take COVID-19 cases when death amongst those aged over 70, with underlying conditions, were the ones we were all locked down to protect? What happened to preventing the “Grandma killers,” public health experts?
To be fair to this one, most front line places are just not set up to deal with highly infectious patients.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 10:17 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Uh? Pretty much anytime a pandemic shows up? It wasn't just us, either. Most of the world was in quarantine. I guess doctors around the globe don't know wtf they're doing but, rest assured, Joey Rightwing knows!
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In doing so we dramatically slowed the development of herd immunity.
We still aren't 100% sure that the antibodies Covid leaves behind leave people immune. We're literally less than 6 months into this but non-medical people know "herd immunity" from a virus that has already shown signs of mutation is a given?
You are spot on with your first point. Your second one is kind of stupid. Sure, we’re not 100% sure the sick will develop antibodies, but we ARE 99.9% sure. Epidemiologists, in favor of lockdowns, blush when this is brought up. This is classic media driven nonsense. Of course we will have antibodies to this slow mutating virus.
Posted on 5/17/20 at 10:18 pm to Sao
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Sao
Trump’s going to win and there ain’t a thing you can do about it, Beto.
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