Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Deebased]

Right? FFS....



Of course that happened in Utah County.

It's amazing to see the meat packing plant closures happening despite social distancing efforts, and the Dheli-types still think the economy would be cruising along just fine in a "take it on the chin/let people decide their own risk tolerance" scenario. I've said this in various ways multiple times already, but the economy would be so much more fucked in Dheli's ideal world. What if, instead of a couple isolated plants being shut down due to widespread outbreaks among workers, half of them or more all went down at once? Or what about distribution? The average trucker has multiple chronic health conditions, 5-10% of them could die in two months and another 10-20% could survive following extensive hospitalization only to emerge permanently disabled. At any given time over a period of 2-3 months easily 20-30% of truckers could be dying, hospitalized, or simply too sick to drive. Forget temporary toilet paper stocking issues, we'd be facing the potential collapse of the entire distribution system that provides us with food and basic goods. It's a terrifying prospect.

As for the non-essential sectors of the economy, the idea that people would still be going to bars and restaurants, attending sporting events, flying on airplanes, etc. while 20,000 people are dying per day and food is being rationed (see above) is beyond laughable.



Yeah, that's scary. Even the binary scenario illuminates how terrible people are at assessing low-probability/high-consequence risk. Sure, 80% of COVID deaths are 65 and older. Flip that around and 1-in-5 deaths are 25-64. If you walked up to a carnival ride and the toothless carnie running it told you that only 1-in-5 people your age riding it die, would you really get on that ride? Fuck no you wouldn't.



Deebs is a troll who just shitposts to entertain himself. He exclusively posts in PoliAss and PoliAss-adjacent threads like this one. Don't waste your time.

ahh shit mainly its for procrastination and to poke fun at the asshats running around confused by their own moral false equivalencies.

Edit:
I should have read your whole post.
Right in the center more fear based sensationalism

Yeah, that's scary. Even the binary scenario illuminates how terrible people are at assessing low-probability/high-consequence risk. Sure, 80% of COVID deaths are 65 and older. Flip that around and 1-in-5 deaths are 25-64. If you walked up to a carnival ride and the toothless carnie running it told you that only 1-in-5 people your age riding it die, would you really get on that ride? Fuck no you wouldn't.

FFS this is damn near laughable. Its more like the entire population is forced on a carnival ride, the media tells you everyone's going to die from it. But you notice 90% of the people coming off the ride didn't even know they were on the ride, 8% of the people felt nauseous, 1.5% get quite sick and then every thousandth ride or somebody passes away.

[MultiVerse]

It also requires “lockdowns” which the us doesn’t have.

If I understand your point then yeah we are definitely working with 2nd or 3rd (or 10th 20th) best options compared with an effective initial response.

Now it's a three legged stool: 1) Economy 2) Public Health and 3) Mental Health. Any plan that focuses on one at the exclusion of another will probably fail.

[XXX-er]

For those attacking Dhelihiker,

What exactly is your plan? Is it to just lockdown for a year and hope we have a vaccine by then?

well we don't have 2nd amendment rights so nobody has automatic weapons and personaly I look terrible in camo, so the other option it to listen to provincial & country leaders and experts who talk to other experts in the field

things are changing and its pretty early in the game

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covid-...ates-1.5553168

this is a good artical ^^ giving 3 reasons why the American death rate is twice that of Canada and the reasons they give are healthcare, politics and the big Apple

[Ted Striker]

Any one have thoughts on the kids in NYC who recovered from COVID but are now showing symptoms of Kawasaki?

They're turning green?

[DougW]

well we don't have 2nd amendment rights so nobody has automatic weapons and personaly I look terrible in camo, so the other option it to listen to provincial & country leaders and experts who talk to other experts in the field

things are changing and its pretty early in the game

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covid-...ates-1.5553168

this is a good artical ^^ giving 3 reasons why the American death rate is twice that of Canada and the reasons they give are healthcare, politics and the big Apple

From my reading its just the big apple, with the rest being patting ourselves on the back, BC was lucky in the timing of spring break so there's that too.

[Toadman]

I wonder if masks would have protected them?

Naw, would need to be face shields. With UV protection...

[mcski]

Naw, would need to be face shields. With UV protection...

Probably still not enough, that Ark looked like it was using 5G

[mcski]

They're turning Japanese?

Fify

[Ted Striker]

Ha! My favorite slightly racist song from the 80s

[KQ]

The economy won't recover until people feel safe.

Psychological manipulation and gaslighting in order to normalize death is a poor substitute for the fact that this is a contagious virus, not a condition of existence.

With no cure or vaccine the clearest way forward is difficult behavioral changes, like wearing masks in public, from most of the population which requires a nationally comprehensible and consistent message.

Other countries are managing to protect the economy and contain the virus.

The psychology behind why some people won't wear masks

[thebirdhunter]

Every time I saw footage on TV of China and everyone wearing mask I thought to myself what a fucking shithole that place is, everyone has to wear mask and how that would fucking suck. Well here we are the whole god damn world has to wear fucking masks now thanks to those dumb Chinese motherfucking bat eating shit stains.

[XXX-er]

From my reading its just the big apple, with the rest being patting ourselves on the back, BC was lucky in the timing of spring break so there's that too.

i think the political thing is big, consider if trump had sent a different message to the trumptards maybe more people would be taking distancing more seriously

or he could have just kept his mouth shut

compare the trump press confrences to the press confrences you see on canadian TV with real doctors who can string together complete sentances

[Benny Profane]

Worse yet, its caused by all sorts of environmental issues. Imagine if C19 was caused by pollution.

Oh wait. https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-air-pollution


on a side note, Cancer is contagious through tissue/organ transplants.

Palm to face.

[skaredshtles]

This thread is rapidly becoming one of a whole lot of:

THIS MESSAGE IS HIDDEN BECAUSE <rapidly growing list of morons> IS ON YOUR IGNORE LIST.

[XXX-er]

I wonder if masks would have protected them?

yeah but you put them over your eyes not your mouth

[KQ]

I’ve learned we should be against cancer too. Thanks for all that information about how cancer is actually a pretty bad thing. Cool. Good to know.

So does that mean COVID ain’t so bad?

Any one have thoughts on the kids in NYC who recovered from COVID but are now showing symptoms of Kawasaki?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj...en-11588698902

Story is only a day old, but wanted to hear what our professional porn searcher thinks about it. He seems to have a handle on this whole thing.

Fake news, or is COVID new, strange and unknown?

Was going to post this - there is much we don't know about this virus but in some cases it is causing damages akin to rheumatic/scarlet fever (mentioned this before, my father suffered from the effects of hear damage he rec'd when a young boy with rheumatic fever. He died at 56) Reports are the children in Europe and the US have fever and inflammation of the heart and the gut. Some are as young as 6 months. That damage is for life and will shorten their life greatly.


Three U.S. children with COVID-19 have rare inflammatory syndrome


A rare condition in children, which doctors fear is linked to the coronavirus, has been recorded in around 100 kids across 6 countries

[thebirdhunter]

i think the political thing is big, consider if trump had sent a different message to the trumptards maybe more people would be taking distancing more seriously

or he could have just kept his mouth shut

compare the trump press confrences to the press confrences you see on canadian TV with real doctors who can string together complete sentances

Nobody sees your Canadian press conferences because Canada is irrelevant and nobody cares. Why don't you man up and just say how much you hate America. Every time you post you throw out whiny little bitch insults to America.

[KQ]

All these people protesting and making threats about having to wear a mask when frequenting certain businesses just aren't thinking deep enough.

Most places have signs that say "no shirt, no shoes, no service" so why are they complaining about that too? I want to see shirtless, shoeless, maskless people parading around yelling about their civil rights dammit!

[dunfree]

Every time I saw footage on TV of China and everyone wearing mask I thought to myself what a fucking shithole that place is, everyone has to wear mask and how that would fucking suck. Well here we are the whole god damn world has to wear fucking masks now thanks to those dumb Chinese motherfucking bat eating shit stains.

dont you usually wear a hood & body sheet on Friday knights?

[skiballs]

^no you don't, fat people with smelly feet ain't pretty.

[XXX-er]

This thread is rapidly becoming one of a whole lot of:

THIS MESSAGE IS HIDDEN BECAUSE <rapidly growing list of morons> IS ON YOUR IGNORE LIST.

goodness I am experiencing FOMO ... .I do hope i am on somebodies ignore list

i only have 1 person on ignore cuz they lie like Trump about nothing, so what is the point of talking to someone who just lies ?

[thebirdhunter]

These are the people who put others on ignore.

[XXX-er]

Ha! My favorite slightly racist song from the 80s

I thot it was pretty funny and it was a good song, I wonder what the japanese thot ?

[Mazderati]

skougar or birdhunter?

[AdironRider]

All these people protesting and making threats about having to wear a mask when frequenting certain businesses just aren't thinking deep enough.

Most places have signs that say "no shirt, no shoes, no service" so why are they complaining about that too? I want to see shirtless, shoeless, maskless people parading around yelling about their civil rights dammit!