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  1. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks. BTW, my son just called and he and everybody else from his cabinet making company have been sent home because three of his co-workers tested positive for COVID-19. He's 26 and strong as an ox so should be okay if he's also contracted the virus but I sure hope that isn't the case.
  2. From what I understand, complacency and fewer precautions in October were particularly deadly in the Bay Area as there was no statewide policy, just local and the mayor of what was then the state's most populous city, SF, simply implimented a mask-wearing requirement but no social distancing as was done in L.A. And then in November following the WWI armistice, hundreds of thousands of doughboys brought a mutated variety of the disease back with them from Europe. We won't have the latter problem with COVID-19 and let's hope a vaccine is found long before the 12-month mark that's been speculated.
  3. 5,382nd example of what an effing moron we have for a president
  4. I don't get HBO so only watch Bill Maher when I'm staying in a hotel while traveling. So I don't know exactly when he said it but on Ben Shapiro's show yesterday afternoon he played a soundbite from a recent show in which Maher said the same as we are. Maher is my kind of liberal in that he calls leftwingers out when it's deserved and in essence Maher said broadcast media people have been providing porn for the privileged. It's small businesses and their employees who are really getting hammered by the forced shutdowns and the sensationalist slant that's supporting them. The broadcast companies see the slant as a means of propping up their Neilsen's while the anchor people stay fully employed in their 7-figure jobs.
  5. And profits are far less important to the broadcast media in Sweden than is the case here. https://sweden.se/society/10-features-of-democracy-in-sweden/ Want profits? Get ratings. Want ratings? Don't simply report hard facts; instead, sensationalize and cherry pick them.
  6. I urge you to read the article more carefully. Note qualifiers like "some" who have come down with symptoms and "severe" cases. And note that it's based on anecdotal evidence and not at all on statistical data. COVID-19 is indeed clearly worse than the common flu. Just as clear, however, is that many media reports continue to sensationalize the disease.
  7. The death rate for those confirmed to have COVID-19 in California is currently 3.5%. An article in today's L.A. Times article about a Bay Area study of blood test antibody or sereolgy tests suggests the number of people who have developed the disease could be 10 times higher than shown in cheek swabs. In other words, that a massive amount of people have been exposed to the virus who have exhibited symptoms sufficiently minor that they haven't needed hospitalization. And this article linked by Joe above speaks volumes: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-data-suggest-the-coronavirus-isnt-as-deadly-as-we-thought-11587155298?mod=hp_opin_pos_1 As modified by this: https://analytica.com/adjusting-the-santa-clara-county-antibody-prevalence-results-for-self-selection-bias/ The point is, this disease is dangerous but the danger has been overblown in the media. (Sorry fellow leftists but that's how I feel at least.) If you are elderly or have one of the identified medical conditions which makes it difficult for your body to fight off the virus, COVID-19 is very dangerous. However, if you're not one of the small percentage of the population in those categories, statistically speaking, it does not appear to be. So particuarly since it's always been anticipated that the chances of spreading the disease will diminish when the weather gets warm, it seems to me that in the states you refer to, people not in a problematic group should begin returning to work by mid-May.
  8. Bingo on that too. Nobody should listen to that fraud about anything.
  9. I pretty much agree with this too. Get the GD testing program in gear and then get most adults back to work and most kids back to school!
  10. I'm admittedly no expert when it comes to this stuff. However, I just can't understand the medical community's almost complete rejection of herd immunity when it comes to this disease. When I was a kid there was no vaccine for measles, mumps and chicken pox which would all make kids quite sick but I remember my mother wanting me to come down with so if I was exposed to any of them in middle age or older I either wouldn't get sick at all or would have just mild symptoms. I would understand rejecting that approach for COVID-19 as long as there are insufficient hospital beds to accommodate those who become very ill. However, that is gradually changing and it's my understanding that in many communities, hospitals are actually laying off staff because with social distancing they have far less than the usual amount of patients from other illnesses, car accidents and the like. I'd also understand rejection of that approach if COVID-19 exposure was killing everyone at basically the same rate but that is not at all the case. Data show that people under 65 who aren't obese, don't have diabetes and don't have heart disease. lung disease or a compromised immunity system are dying at a miniscule rate. So I just don't get it. It's no surprise that I'm not exactly a fan of our current president but I think he's correct about one thing and that is if you let some in the medical community decide how we continue to approach this, our economy is going to be so damaged that it's going to take more than a decade to repair it and in the meantime, hella amounts of people or going to die from the effects of homelessness.
  11. Take Germany out of the equation and the remaining three European countries would look even worse.
  12. Far too many death figures have been released which ignored variables like the yuge percentage of residents of Washington state who died in that nursing home because half a dozen of the staff had the virus and infected the elderly people under their care. Or studies that predicted the US would eventually become Italy although their population has an average age of almost ten years older than the US. It was quite stupid with probably a lot of lazy thrown in and I believe it to have been mainly a result of media outlets wanting to entice viewers or add clicks. From the get-so it was apparent COVID-19 was going to be a lot worse than the average flu but comparisons to 1918 weren't just ludicrous, they were cruel.
  13. Here was MY POS: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-sz-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=sz&p=ford+pinto+1973+commercial#id=3&vid=0b80aa46e8a0e57d2fad0813aa5118f2&action=view Except mine had none of the add-ons. Not a single one. No sun roof, no rear window defroster, not even a tape player or FM radio. Bought it from my dad after he drove it a couple years and became disgusted with the manual transmission. One winter the heater stopped working and I had no money to fix it. Dad rode with me to the market and froze his ass off even though by then I had moved from the Bay Area to SD. Dad told me that if I'd take the POS to the shop immediately and have the heater fixed he would pay for it. I did and he did but I'm not sure he ever rode in the thing again anyway.
  14. I was a starving college student and drove a death trap Pinto. Although it was a major POS, it was great for that time. Got like 30 mpg and once when it ran out of gas waiting in one of those lines, my buddy and I just pushed the thing half a block.
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