Corona panic where you live

Even the government doesn't know how this will end. This is humanities first trip through corona virus waters. You never know how bad that first trip is going to be until it's over.

 

“Even the government “? Your kidding! Even the almighty omnipotent knows all sees all government doesn’t know? OK now I’m scared! LMAO

 

And that's the problem with the left's never ending worship of the expert. Even the experts don't know everything. There is simply too much everything.

 

The idiot governor in my state is shutting down every single K-12 school in the state until early April, we have less than 10 known cases. As far as I can see in my rural area not much has changed at all, until that decision...

 

I was under the impression the toilet paper thing was liberals prepping for November, when a box of tissue just won't cut it...

 

Massachusetts here, there's a fair amount of lunacy regarding the virus but this being the bluest of blue states that's a constant. Supermarkets are a little picked over but mostly in the snack and soda aisles like someone's planning a party. Lots of school closings, major events cancelled. Don't know if it's related but I saw gas under two bucks today, when was the last time we saw that? We as a country have had our share of stuff to deal with in the past but I've got to say this is a tough call. How much of it is real, how much political, how much are things in control or not, is the sky going to really fall this time? I just don't know, does anyone? I think the real danger here is not knowing anything we can point to and say that's what's going to happen. With so many conflicting opinions it's a sure bet that the government is just as much in the dark about this as anyone

 

That's fine but he can't compare what happens in a town of 200 to a city of 2 million.

 

Why not? Watching 10 people panicking in a small town is a no big deal, but watching 1000 or more people panic is much more influential to their neighbors in the city. This explains the lack of diversity of thought in metropolitan cities.

 

Actually if you had towns of 200 that were 100% liberal or conservative you’d have an excellent case study. My towns probably two thousand and of that we may have a hundred liberals so I can pretty definitively say conservatives are not panicking not buying out stores.

 

The gas isn't corona virus related. Russia and Saudi can't agree on how to fix the prices so they're playing how low can you go which, when you're an oil producer, means how much can you produce and neither care much
if American producers get clobbered into the bargain.

 

I'm in a solid conservative state. Unfortunately, the stores have no toilet paper, hand sanitizer or paper towels, but the majority of normal goods are- normal. I just came from a wal-mart, which was busy but not crazy. Only saw one person in the store wearing a breathing mask, and think that is the first such person I've seen. However, the lunacy keeps being promoted. FOX, a conservative network, had a headline to day of "America shuts down:" This refers to the many closings. We just heard from relatives in Canada that they are shutting down their casinos. Nike is shutting stores in Europe and other places. Some places are closing simply because traffic is so low they aren't making money anyway, but in the long run unnecessary closings means laid off help. It also means disruption in the production and supply lines we depend on, and that means greater economic impact. We're going to wind up kicking ourselves a lot harder with panic than with the virus. Panic is far more contagious than this infection, and I think will prove more deadly. I'm kind of ashamed of us for not being stronger than we appear to be, but we aren't alone; it seems like it's world wide. Self- imposed recession- and lets hope it doesn't get worse than that.

 

Your anti-intellectual attitude is pretty unnerving especially now

Russia is actively trying to damage the US energy producers. Anything to hurt America...

 

The truth is the truth whether you like it or not unprecedented us unprecedented whether one likes it or not. And Corona for the time being is unprecedented. What unprecedented means is that even the experts are reduced to speculation.

 

I don't disagree with your portrayal of most Republicans, but is prideful ignorance any worse than the arrogant ignorance heard from the other side?

 

There is one glaring difference between the intellectual and the pseudo intellectual, the latter being the breed that dominates leftist ideology, the latter believes he knows everything already and is therefore incapable of learning anything he does not already know. The true intellectual is the one that knows his limitations and further knows that the amount of information he has thus far acquired, is paltry indeed compared to the amount of knowledge he has yet to acquire.

 

So, is this a good reason to discredit all information thus far acquired and to disregard all ''experts''?
Geez, we'd all still be living in caves, wearing furs and eating raw meat if everyone thought like you.

 

Interesting that we've recently heard about mounting household debt and liberals are doing everything in their power to keep people from going to work...

 

Pure nonsense. Your opinion is presented as fact,. It's not

 

No one including me is a saying that merely that

No one is discrediting any information, merely saying that the information available is currently quite incomplete and will remain so for sometime yet. We have competing theories and hypotheses regarding that information, but until this has run its full course they will remain largely theories and hypotheses.

 

They would have to dig pretty deep to out do the Chinese and the corona, but I know, they're our special friends

 

In a country populated by 327 million people, the U.S., since January and after several weeks of testing, today there are 2975 known cases and 57 deaths, 41 in Seattle-area nursing homes.

The most commonly implicated virus for the common cold is the rhinovirus, up to 80% of cases. Rhinovirus is extremely virulent. If one person is infected with the virus, chances are his/her immediate family will become infected along with a fair number of business associates and friends.

After a period of several weeks there will be up to 2975 cases and 57 deaths by the rhinovirus caused common cold and related illnesses. Most of the deaths will occur among the elderly with underlying conditions.

Sound familiar?

My point, had the governments been tracking the rhinovirus last year, there would be very similar results as the covid-19 virus this year. Actually, the rhinovirus may be more contagious. I would sure like to see a comparison, including number of deaths and ages of victims, but, for some reason, we won't get one.

To be perfectly honest, I really have no idea what is going on. I only know this. Based on actual numbers, not projections, not graphs, not rhetoric from politicians, this is not a serious problem. Come on, 57 deaths from a disease within a population of 327 million is not a serious matter.

Has anyone under the age of 50 died from covid-19 in the U.S.? I don't know, but I expect the answer to be no.

 

"I like it when people are thinking I'm overreacting because that means we're doing it just right," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

57 deaths within a population of 327 million since January? More Americans have probably died from hiccups. What the hell is going on?

 

I’m with you on this one. I’ll never understand the bottled water thing.

 

Ha! That was funny. Thanks.