Coronavirus: COVID-19

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

99/100 times, the "context" that supposedly changes everything about whatever Trump says is wholly consistent with how it's being reported. While the media tends to explain the context pretty decently, their headlines don't often do this since headlines are used to give the gist of the article instead of detailing the whole situation in one sentence fragment. Many Trump supporters get confused by this.

Meanwhile teachers can’t even tell their students to STFU and read. I wonder how many full grown adults have never actually read a book.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Or it could be a response to the memes. But at that point who ever is trusting memes is probably a lost cause in the first place.

If you can’t read you look at the pictures.

Lucem Ferre · 04-26-2020, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Meanwhile teachers can’t even tell their students to STFU and read. I wonder how many full grown adults have never actually read a book.

My step dad can hardly read. He still sounds out his words.

The Batlord · 04-26-2020, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

If you can’t read you look at the pictures.

You can do both with comics.

**Frownland** · 04-26-2020, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You probably do too, but I doubt it. There are way too many signs pointing to nothing positive or proactive coming out of this. Incarceration rates are going to stay high. There’s already a movement toward house arrest ankle bracelet with forced enslavement but the county lockups are still staying and will remain overcrowded, violent, insanity inducing petri dishes. I know you’re talking about accelerating our approaches to vaccines and so forth but even the low hanging fruit of universal nutrition, housing, and health care - the large scale equivalent to washing our hands - isn’t even remotely on the table. Our policies of environmental devastation are still running full force which also gives a free pass to the proliferation of all kinds of human hostile pathogens and their vectors. As flooding and storms continue to amplify so do the unsanitary conditions that come with them. And war... we’re still at it. If there was ever a time for “swords into plowshares” it’s right now but it’s not even being discussed.

Depends on how long it takes until they make and distribute a vaccine. The longer this lasts, the more undeniable these shortcomings will be.

There are some changes that I'm counting on though, even if it ends today. There will be mass exploitative price explosion once people try to get back to "normal" and demand increases again. The customer is always right model will be pulled back at least somewhat. And there will be less random small talk from bored strangers.

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Meanwhile teachers can’t even tell their students to STFU and read. I wonder how many full grown adults have never actually read a book.

That's what got us here fosho.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 12:47 PM

Honestly Frown - things will continue to move in several directions at once.

To make it simple I think the bad guys are going to win but ain’t nobody know.

Lucem Ferre · 04-26-2020, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Honestly Frown - things will continue to move in several directions at once.

To make it simple I think the bad guys are going to win but ain’t nobody know.

I think the people have to demand better precautions for something like this and the administration will fold out of public opinion. In which case I think the same problem will repeat it's self once we get comfortable and they start pulling back funding towards these precautions again.

I have very little faith that even that will happen because people are idiots and still in denial of the severity of this virus.

**Frownland** · 04-26-2020, 01:01 PM

Same as it ever was. It's already happening, look at how the stock market is already in a corrective state headed back toward the inflated level that it was at before despite the economic impact of the virus going the other way for most Americans.

The Batlord · 04-26-2020, 01:03 PM

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I think the people have to

Any statement starting with this is already a fail.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 01:12 PM

This is just my totally unscientific theory but I’m thinking the second and third infections are deadlier than the first infection.

It seems like having built some kind of immunity from the first infection would make that unlikely but “novel” means we haven’t necessarily evolved in any sort of way that’s going to help us beat this thing.

All that is is ****ing thought from my head.

The strokes, the possibility of multiple infections, the way the virus seemed reasonably contained in Singapore and then the new explosion, Italy is so flooded with tourism how many times had people really been infected before the deaths started spiking - NY as well

Pure speculation. Sorry if I’m Trumpin or just being stupid thinking out loud

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Honestly Frown - things will continue to move in several directions at once. To make it simple I think the bad guys are going to win but ain’t nobody know. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Same as it ever was. It's already happening, look at how the stock market is already in a corrective state headed back toward the inflated level that it was at before despite the economic impact of the virus going the other way for most Americans. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

04-26-2020, 01:12 PM	#1720 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	This is just my totally unscientific theory but I’m thinking the second and third infections are deadlier than the first infection. It seems like having built some kind of immunity from the first infection would make that unlikely but “novel” means we haven’t necessarily evolved in any sort of way that’s going to help us beat this thing. All that is is ****ing thought from my head. The strokes, the possibility of multiple infections, the way the virus seemed reasonably contained in Singapore and then the new explosion, Italy is so flooded with tourism how many times had people really been infected before the deaths started spiking - NY as well Pure speculation. Sorry if I’m Trumpin or just being stupid thinking out loud __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html