Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Angry? Hardly. I’ve been truly having the time of my life. And my airline isn’t furloughing. Again, are you even a pilot?

Maybe you can explain this one to me, how do you get a positive test if you never get tested because you drove off because you simply didn’t have anymore time to waste sitting in your car while you were fine and never subsequently got sick? Does filling out paperwork make you test positive automatically? It seems to be the case, and not exactly isolated either.

Conversely, every ER admittance get tested for COVID-19 even with no symptoms or complaints of Covid. In other words, a traffic accident or a gun shot wound victim, or someone who got injured by being a “peaceful” protester all get tested and the test being incentivized to be positive (see previous paragraph), and suppose they die. By news media accounts, that’s another COVID-19 casualty which fuels Karen-like behavior. I won’t even go into “presumptive COVID-19” label being mixed in.

See, I was around during SARS, and then around various strains of H1N1 where similar number of people died. I was also in the Middle East for years when MERS was a thing. I also flew around West Africa during the most recent Ebola outbreak. Ebola was by far the scariest, but none of those events were politicized like this and we certainly didn’t act like a bunch of hypochondriac scaredy-cats. Not to mention the fact that the CDC and western governments were actively invited to help unlike this Wuhan special. We also didn’t financially or politically incentivize every positive test or death.

Let’s face it. This virus is serious. Not denying that. However, the reaction doesn’t warrant anything that was historically done in similar circumstances.

Most normal people can see it - partisan hacks cannot.

Don’t bother replying... I’m not interested.

Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

WutFace, are you even a pilot? Seriously, you sound like a know-it-all college kid who learned a few big words and now pretends to be the newest Einstein.

Get off APC and go enjoy your day.

Originally Posted by WutFace

Well, it's not even August 1st, and we're here. To be fair, this has exceeded all of our expectations with how much death this virus can bring. And we're not even close to being done yet. The fall and winter are going to be absolutely devastating without a major course correction.

It's a trip to go back to when the outbreak first started in March and April to read the predictions of where this was going. I'm curious if some of those early deniers have evolved their positions. I would guess not. Here's Speed Select's post from two days ago:




So obviously he hasn't evolved from his position from months ago. One thing he's absolutely wrong on. It's not survival of the fittest, it's survival of the richest. The rich will have the resources to remove themselves from high risk scenarios where the poor will not. The rich will have access to high quality healthcare to keep them breathing, and the poor will not.

This natural selection nonsense is complete and utter propaganda. We aren't living on the plains of the Sub-Saharan savanna. We have a very unequal society which completely takes Darwinism off the table.

So coldly in return, Speed Select, I say take your economic hardship like a man. Your poor excuses for the deaths of hundreds of thousands are revolting and prejudicial at its core.

Those who prioritize the economy over health will get neither.

Originally Posted by Knobcrk1

You just have no idea about what you’re talking about, especially the first half of your post. Have you been tested? Sounds like you’re up in a cabin somewhere in the woods passing opinions on this matter far far away. As far as the second part, you can’t compare what Covid19 has done to the world with the other modern viruses. They didn’t spread like covid and have not done this level of damage.

Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Nope, none whatsoever. I’ll just trust the nearest Karen, especially the Democrat one, and not my lying eyes and ears.


And then we have reports from the most densely populated places in the world...

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/a...-poorest-areas

Originally Posted by AntiPeter

It isn't, but it is much more fatal, along with cancer and diabetes. And those diseases (unlike COVID) are much more often than not totally voluntary (while some cancers are hereditary most have a lifestyle component, heart disease and diabetes - type 2 - are almost entirely preventable).

The current fatality rate for COVID (iFR) for the under 70 population is 0.04%, or about 1 in 3,000.

For those of you waiting for a vaccine, what do you think is going to happen? The vaccine is unlikely to offer full protection from COVID-19, and if polls are correct about 1/3 of Americans aren't interested in taking it. Even with a vaccine COVID will be around indefinitely.

It seems clear the virus can not be contained, so isn't acceptance the only way forward at this point? The rest seems like politically driven, economically destructive science fiction.

Originally Posted by kingairfun

Nope, with every day that passes I am less and less a believer in the deadliness of Covid compared to everything else we deal with.

I'd much rather take my chances with Covid than lose my income, college funds, home equity, personal freedoms, and way of life...

Does that basement, you're in, have any windows Wutface?

Less than 99 days ladies and gentlemen

Originally Posted by WutFace

You sound angry. I'm sorry you're worried about furloughs. But let me make one thing clear, it's the ones who want to pretend that everything is fine that will cost you and others their jobs. Every denier that carries on and spreads it to another makes this nightmare go on another day. If you want to be angry, be angry at them.

This was said at the beginning at the outbreak, but it bears repeating:

“If everyone stayed in their homes for 4 weeks, this would all be over”

No more travel bans. No more worthless passports. We could get on with our lives. But instead, we'll struggle through this until next year sometime. Because we were too cowardly to face it head on, and too selfish to make sacrifices.

So yeah, when you see someone complain about masks, you should mock them. Be angry at them. They are the ones who are costing you your job.

Originally Posted by Knobcrk1

Nobody is trying to take your freedoms.