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MontereyJack
 
  3  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 02:13 pm
@coldjoint,
That's what they said before they spent decades learning how to eradicate smallpox. And they learned they didn't have to accept the dreadful reality but could change it.
coldjoint
 
  0  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 02:51 pm
@MontereyJack,
Quote:
And they learned they didn't have to accept the dreadful reality but could change it.

When they cure death give me a call.
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Builder
 
  0  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 02:52 pm
@coldjoint,
Quote:
For Christ sake she is just stoking a manufactured panic.


Knee-jerk reactionaries (squeaky wheels) getting all the publicity(grease).

Despite all the fear and doom in "our" Mudrock media, life continues on a fairly normal trajectory here. Apart from the empty toilet roll shelves, which is, thankfully, coming to an end here. Dropped in to Aldi yesterday, to fetch some chocolate for a visit to my elderly Mum, and the shelves were again stocked with freckle flannel.

Top shelf stuff, too. And no rabid scenes, or desperate grasping by the masses. Just a simple sign saying one pack per person. No face masks visible on anyone anywhere, either.

Our widely-detested and racist scum, minister Dutton apparently caught coronavirus (still looks fine) and despite being in a meeting with our PM, said PM has postponed the ban on public meetings until he goes to the football, and has his get-together with his pentacostal paedophile pals at the Hillsong "church".

In short, just the easily-led nonces are believing the hype.

We're enjoying the results of the "behind-the-scenes" power-play between the Saudi oil-igarchs, and the Russian mobsters, with seeing who can undercut the other, with their oil glut.

Pump prices are crashing visibly. People are talking once again, about not relying on a communist nation for the bulk of our consumables, considering they couldn't lie straight in bed, about virtually anything.

Life is good. And drought-breaking rains are filling the rivers and dams are overflowing.
coldjoint
 
  -1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 03:21 pm
@MontereyJack,
Quote:
That's what they said before they spent decades learning how to eradicate smallpox.

If you are so worried about disease how about the TB and polio( both eradicated, for awhile) illegals have bought with them? There is a way to stop them from entering our country. What are you doing on that front with advocating for open borders?
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coldjoint
 
  0  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 03:24 pm
@Builder,
Quote:
Life is good. And drought-breaking rains are filling the rivers and dams are overflowing.

If it is a good day for Australia, it is a good day for the rest of the world.
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coldjoint
 
  -1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 03:36 pm
Quote:
Compared to what?

Do not want to post to many articles with common sense behind them but...
Quote:
Compared to what? That should be the question that every fear-mongering news story on the coronavirus has to start with. So far, the United States has seen forty-one deaths from the infection. Twenty-two of those deaths occurred in one poorly run nursing home outside of Seattle, the Life Care Center. Another nine deaths occurred in the rest of Washington state, leaving ten deaths (four in California, two in Florida, and one in each of Georgia, Kansas, New Jersey, and South Dakota) spread throughout the rest of the approximately 329 million residents of the United States. This represents roughly .000012 percent of the U.S. population.

And the sad, but true, part.
Quote:
It is hard to imagine that the panicked leaders and populace of today would have been able to triumph in the last century’s World Wars. America’s colleges sent off thousands of their young men to fight and die in those wars; those students went off with conviction and courage. Currently, colleges and universities are shutting down with no hint of the virus in their vicinity. Would today’s panicked leaders and populace be able to triumph in the face of a World War, or some other legitimately comparable threat? Let’s hope that we do not have to find out.

https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/compared-to-what
Brand X
 
  2  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 03:48 pm
COVID19
@V2019N
· 1h
#US
#Florida ~75 confirmed cases (25 yesterday)

-@GOPChairwoman being tested for #coronavirus after FL trip
-Mayor of Miami tested positive
-Bolsonaro/members of his party may have been infected in FL

Exported cases to MI, CA, NY, IN, KS
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oralloy
 
  0  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 04:26 pm
@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:
Why is this one the end of the world?

The prediction is half a million US deaths. Not the end of the world, but still quite a catastrophe.
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oralloy
 
  0  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 04:28 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Best contemporary idea I know of
Quote:
California conservatives will hold conference featuring Bannon despite coronavirus concerns

The coronavirus has closed schools and knocked pro sports out of commission.

But not the California Republican Assembly.

The conservative group plans to soldier on with a conference of more than 200 next weekend in Tulare County that includes former White House adviser Steve Bannon and indicted former Trump aide George Papadopoulos on topics that include "the Deep State."
Politico

Blatham, your hatemongering is dangerous. If these people end up getting sick and using ventilators, that means others will die because those ventilators were not available for them.

Not to mention all the people who will get sick sooner and die from lack of available ventilators because these people spread the disease faster than it otherwise would have spread.
oralloy
 
  -1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 04:29 pm
@Brand X,
@NickKristof wrote:
A hospital in Seattle area has sent out a note to staff, shared with me, suspending elective surgery and warning that "our local COVID-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy." The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves.

The US has fewer hospital beds per capita than Italy does.
Brand X
 
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Sat 14 Mar, 2020 04:29 pm
Rachel Donadio
@RachelDonadio
· 2h
FRANCE NOW AT EPIDEMIC LEVEL. All restaurants, cafés, non-essential services closed. MORE THAN 50% OF THE 300 #COVIDー19 CASES IN FRENCH ICUs ARE PEOPLE UNDER 60; France now has 4,500 cases, which doubled in the past 72 hours, said Jérôme Salomon, head of French health service.
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oralloy
 
  -1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 04:30 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Posted in reference to we-all-know-whom

Sour grapes.
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MontereyJack
 
  2  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 06:00 pm
@oralloy,
I'm not clear why you think blatham is responsible for California conservatives' decision to do something really dumb. They are conservatives after all, it's their normal mode of conduct.
oralloy
 
  -1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 06:08 pm
@MontereyJack,
Blatham is responsible for saying "best contemporary idea I know of".
MontereyJack
 
  2  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 06:11 pm
@coldjoint,
What a totally dumb article. So tell me what brave deed keeping the country safe someone who marches off to die of coronavirus is doing comparable to fighting Nazis. They're dying for no noble cause, they're just dying. Stupid stupid comparison.https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/ And it should be avoidable deaths if Trump hadn't dropped the ball a couple years ago disbanding and defunding the pandemic response unit.
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MontereyJack
 
  2  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 06:14 pm
@oralloy,
He is however n no way responsible for the dumb decision of the California conservatives.
oralloy
 
  -2  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 06:30 pm
@MontereyJack,
I don't hold him responsible for their decision. I hold him responsible for his support of their decision.
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Brand X
 
  1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 07:14 pm
Rod Dreher
@roddreher
·
38m
A physician friend driving home tonight from a long, grueling day at nearly-overwhelmed hospital treating COVID19 patients, knowing it's going to get much worse for us all, saw lines of young people waiting to get in the bars in his city, writes, "I cannot believe the stupidity."
coldjoint
 
  1  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 08:55 pm
https://patriot.imgix.net/22de74208841af27bbec5fdbe794d7c044cfc5b5aaf2dc9b18d32e0ad91b1243.jpg?w=720&auto=format
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Sturgis
 
  2  
Sat 14 Mar, 2020 09:42 pm
@Brand X,
What does he mean trying to judge these youngsters? They're doing what youngins do. Go and have a few brewskis or other beverages on a Saturday night. Might as well, after all, their college campus is closed and ma and pa are playing Parcheesi or canasta with their friends at home.

Added bonus for some is the churches will be closed tomorrow (NY archdiocese closed them all for the foreseeable future).

With things so bleak they are looking to hang out with friends they don't see when away at school.
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