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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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heisman said:
You're attacking me for posting a CDC study? I don't think you want to make this personal.
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1. That's an attack?
2. I'm "attacking" you for your interpretation of the study.

People who wear masks will get it. Nobody has said the mask will prevent you from getting it.....so you posting that in response to what BKB said makes little to zero sense.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
1. That's an attack?
2. I'm "attacking" you for your interpretation of the study.

People who wear masks will get it. Nobody has said the mask will prevent you from getting it.....so you posting that in response to what BKB said makes little to zero sense.
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I didn't interpret it. I found it interesting and thought others may as well. Feel free to interpret it for us.
 
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dav713 said:
And 40% said they dinned at a restaurant. You have to take the self reported rule following with a grain of salt. Otherwise you'll believe folks eat with their masks on.
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A significant portion of those could have been the non-mask wearers. And yes, I agree with you, no way of really knowing. Found it interesting nonetheless.
 
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Jake said:
I'm wondering how long we are going to "live" this way? Are empty arenas, limited travel, and working from home (if you're working) our future? Is that living?

Yeah, yeah, "until there is a vaccine..." is the response to everything. What if there isn't one? What if millions of people refuse to get it? Then what? Forced vaccinations?

At some point we're going to have to accept this risk as part of life. We've had viruses before and we'll have them again - we are fragile creatures whether we like it or not. But the approach taken with this virus did not work. "Fifteen days to flatten the curve" has turned into 7 months and counting. "Someone tested positive! Cancel everything!" has to stop at some point. This has gotten ridiculous.
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EVERYONE is tired of this shit (even me, a super-introvert who doesn’t like people much)...I don’t think that’s even a question. And yes, like 9/11 and many others, this will likely be a event that changes certain aspects of life permanently. I don’t think “this is it now” forever though. It could be a vaccine, it could be a treatment regimen, it could be a better preventative spread measure...it could be an eventual natural mutation. There are a lot of things that could end this nightmare as we know it.

Honestly, if this was just science and medicine and nothing else, it would be easy to foresee a future where this was contained and life could go on. But it isn’t, of course. It is 100% political, which pits party vs party, community vs community, and family vs family. Treating and containing the virus becomes incidental to who is “right”. So, ironically, everyone is tired of this shit, but the same people all tired of this shit are going to prolong it.
 
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Jake said:
I'm wondering how long we are going to "live" this way? Are empty arenas, limited travel, and working from home (if you're working) our future? Is that living?

Yeah, yeah, "until there is a vaccine..." is the response to everything. What if there isn't one? What if millions of people refuse to get it? Then what? Forced vaccinations?

At some point we're going to have to accept this risk as part of life. We've had viruses before and we'll have them again - we are fragile creatures whether we like it or not. But the approach taken with this virus did not work. "Fifteen days to flatten the curve" has turned into 7 months and counting. "Someone tested positive! Cancel everything!" has to stop at some point. This has gotten ridiculous.
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The WHO recently reversed course and agrees with you:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/11/who-w...conomic-damage/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Goes even further to say that lock downs may very well be worse for public health due to the impact on poor populations and poverty in general (when you’re not trying to prevent health system overload, etc).
 
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BigJim said:
The WHO recently reversed course and agrees with you:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/11/who-w...conomic-damage/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Goes even further to say that lock downs may very well be worse for public health due to the impact on poor populations and poverty in general (when you’re not trying to prevent health system overload, etc).
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That's not quite what they are saying. Here is the quote from your article;

“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Nabarro said.

“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”

Herd immunity
Most epidemiologist say using Herd Immunity as way of dealing with outbreaks is not a viable way to deal with outbreaks and would cause massive unnecessary deaths. We're talking DEATHS in the MILLIONS to achieve Herd Immunity.
So, please! Let's not try to validate a deadly theory that is never justified other than by politicians. It is in one word "INSANITY".
 
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