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Originally Posted by Titty Meat
Originally Posted by petegz28 View Post
This virus has been here since November at least if not October. Would you really be surprised after almost 6 months if 100,000 people in Ohio had it?
Originally Posted by petegz28 View Post
Masks don't do jack shit. Stop listening to the ****ing media.
Originally Posted by petegz28 View Post
We are jumping off the ledge. Closing schools for months. Shutting down all restaurants and bars. Canceling all sports.
It is just starting to feel like people are panicking for the sake of panicking. I mean in WA most and I mean almost all of the deaths are from a nursing home or nursing homes. So you shut down schools for 2 months?
Originally Posted by petegz28 View Post
Meanwhile, no one anywhere else in the world is having the problems Italy is having. Why is that?
Originally Posted by petegz28 View Post
I have been hearing "we are headed to being like Italy" for the last week. I am starting to doubt that more and more. Hopefully the people saying this are very wrong.
Originally Posted by Titty Meat View Post
It's just the cold. People are dying the health care system could collapse and the market is tanking. It's just hysteria! Everything is fine.
It is hysteria you ****ing twat. Evidenced not by the lack of orange juice, vitamins or Airborne but the lack of ****ing toilet paper.
And you are the kind people that are driving it like it's some kind of ****ing movie or episode of the Walking Dead.
No one said everything is fine. Just some of us are objective enough to understand that it not the end of the world you are desperately trying to make it out to be.
All quotes a month + ago
#petethings
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He wasn't wrong on some of his comments:
The virus was likely here earlier than thought and ever antibody test that has been done, even with faults, has at least an exponential factor of those who've already been effected. No one should be surprised by this weeks
later.
We aren't Italy as a country, heck, even NYC isn't Italy. We've actually have done quite well compared to several other countries. If you take NYC and NJ out of the equation we were remarkable compared to most of the world.
We were told 4 weeks ago and earlier to not wear masks, now they said we can choose to wear them, and some states are mandating it. The studies show you are more at risk to contract the virus with a mask on, but you are less likely to infect someone if you are contagious with a mask on.
Sweden seems to be getting it right, the more and more information that comes out. The stats were shared earlier in this thread where they have a lower percentage of excess expected deaths during this than most other countries. Although, with the models at the time, it was probably prudent that the US did to do these things in my opinion.
People were panicking, buying a years worth of toilet paper...This is highly, highly dangerous to the older population and way less for those young and healthy. Nursing homes have been hit harder than any other group.
It's not just the cold, it's similar to the flu for the YOUNG AND HEALTHY, and is more dangerous for those who are older and have underlying conditions. You had a valid point on this one, nowhere near a cold.
The media was playing it like the walking dead, and we would have hospitals overrun and people having to be chosen to live or die because of no ventilators. This wasn't even close to those scenarios or the end of the world or the Spanish Flu...
Pete was a little to dismissive of the virus, and you and the media appear to be way over estimating the effects of the virus. Somewhere in between was right and that seems to be where we are now as we open back up.