Jax and Coronavirus

[MusicMan]

Must we re-visit the response from February and March that was so feeble?  You will be seeing that in your TV every day from October 1st to November 3rd.....

By the way, little ole New Zealand is back at at their normal economic activity, ZERO cases.....

Also, hard to remember but the government did not shut down the PGA, NBA, NCAA, or any other such large gathering. That was done by the leaders of those institutions.

[bill]

Remember, we're being told there's no evidence that the protests contributed to the recent spike, but all the other non-political gatherings were totally right-wing Trump supporters super-spreading the virus like crazy!

Also don't forget the number of cases is going up, but the death rate is not being reported! Flatten the cur..OH nope, slow the sprea...DOH no! we gotta STOP the spread! Because even if you're seemingly healthy you could be asymptomatic... but it's really deadly! Even though...you may...carry...it...with no symptoms at all...and you're part of the problem!

Also every uninformed person is now an expert in epidemiology all of the sudden, so we should all get on eachother's case and really polarize one another and get angry with one another for not obeying the government orders!

UNITY

Stop making a logical argument, put your mask on and cower in fear.

[marcuscnelson]

One hundred twenty-nine thousand Americans are dead, Bill.

[bill]

One hundred twenty-nine thousand Americans are dead, Bill.

so the flu

[Peter Griffin]

And where is your epidemiology degree from?

I don't have one, so I listen to those that do.

I never claimed to have one, don't twist my words up! I'd also almost guarantee that you don't actually consult epidemiologists, but instead get your "info" from news sources who make fantastic ad revenue from the ratings spike associated with the increased viewership due to widespread fear associated with the widespread reporting of the severity of the pandemic.

COVID is real and serious, but don't forget to consider the source of your information and back check their sources occasionally as well.

One hundred twenty-nine thousand Americans are dead, Bill.

Do you mean deaths of people who tested positive for COVID? Was COVID identified as the sole or even primary cause of death? You're posting a statistic with no citation completely out of context with no qualifiers on it. A lot more people than that have died in America this year. If you're gonna act like a parrot at least act like an accurate parrot.

[BridgeTroll]

Must we re-visit the response from February and March that was so feeble?  You will be seeing that in your TV every day from October 1st to November 3rd.....

By the way, little ole New Zealand is back at at their normal economic activity, ZERO cases.....

Also, hard to remember but the government did not shut down the PGA, NBA, NCAA, or any other such large gathering. That was done by the leaders of those institutions.

Tiny country surrounded by water... and a society where wearing masks, social distancing, and prudent measures are common sense. Great comparison...

[BridgeTroll]

One hundred twenty-nine thousand Americans are dead, Bill.

so the flu

Not the flu... nothing like the flu...

[Peter Griffin]

My quick summary of the pandemic.

1. The Right and Left wingnuts even view pandemics through a partisan lense.
2. All levels of government shockingly ill prepared and wasted trillions of tax dollars.
3. All levels of people are shockingly ill prepared financially
4. The media is so partisan that the quality of reporting we get is worse than third world countries
5.Virtually no one understands how to use data and statistical analysis is non existent
6.Too many people only think about themselves
7. It's all about propping up the assets of the rich (  )

In other words...nothing new to see here. Carry on.

This is refreshing, like a sip of a cold sparkling water.

Take away the word "virus" and this sounds kinda like business as usual in the US...

[bill]

My quick summary of the pandemic.

1. The Right and Left wingnuts even view pandemics through a partisan lense.
2. All levels of government shockingly ill prepared and wasted trillions of tax dollars.
3. All levels of people are shockingly ill prepared financially
4. The media is so partisan that the quality of reporting we get is worse than third world countries
5.Virtually no one understands how to use data and statistical analysis is non existent
6.Too many people only think about themselves
7. It's all about propping up the assets of the rich (  )

so the flu



In other words...nothing new to see here. Carry on.

This is refreshing, like a sip of a cold sparkling water.

Take away the word "virus" and this sounds kinda like business as usual in the US...

[BridgeTroll]

The above post makes it look like " so the flu" was part of my post. It was not.

I get myself into enough trouble. I don't need any help.

bill often has issues using the "quote" button...

[Adam White]

My quick summary of the pandemic.

4. The media is so partisan that the quality of reporting we get is worse than third world countries

I can't comment on how partisan the US media is, but my wife and I finally got sick of watching BBC every morning as it was nothing more than fluff pieces about old guys walking around to raise money for the NHS and stuff like that.

Anyway, we have been watching Al Jazeera and France 24 for a over a month now and actually know more about what is going on around the world (including back home - Florida features regularly). And they don't talk to you like you're an idiot. So win-win.

[Lunican]

Florida daily total up to 10,109 cases. Local hospitalization numbers have gone way up as well.

[vicupstate]

Vanity Fair saying Convention in JAX may be cancelled.  Doesn't seem very firm though.

[Lunican]

I think it will be cancelled. Who would even want to go to that?

[thelakelander]

To console himself, Trump still has moments of magical thinking. "He says the polls are all fake," a Republican in touch with Trump told me. But the bad news keeps coming. This week, Jacksonville, Florida—where Trump moved the Republican National Convention so he could hold a 15,000-person rally next month—mandated that people wear masks indoors to slow the explosion of COVID-19 cases. According to a Republican working on the convention, the campaign is now preparing to cancel the event so that Trump doesn't suffer another Tulsa–like humiliation. "They probably won't have it," the source said. "It's not going to be the soft landing Trump wanted."

Neither the Trump campaign nor the White House responded to requests for comment.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/trump-despondent-as-numbers-crater-loser-label-looms