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Peace through superior firepower |
I suggest that you guys just stop watching/reading the news altogether for a while. | |||
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Exceptional Circumstances |
This is exactly what I told my employees today. They are scared to death from what is IMHO sensationalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Indeed. Damn good advice. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Savor the limelight |
Nice, four straw man arguments. The options you've posted for a person to be skeptical are: crazy, sovereign citizen, low information sheep, and stupid. Good luck getting a serious answer. | |||
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wishing we were congress |
https://www.breitbart.com/poli...l-stuffed-with-pork/ Nancy Pelosi Proposes 1,120-Page Coronavirus Bill Stuffed with Pork The bill includes a wish list of Democrats’ pet issues, including provisions on election law, payment for student loans, same-day voter registration, collective bargaining powers for unions, increased fuel emission standards for airlines, and the expansion of wind and solar tax credits. Other provisions require corporations to include gender and racial diversity data to be reported to the federal government if they receive financial backing from the government. | |||
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Here is what I know: 15,000 people (according to WHO and CDC) have died "globally" over the past 90 days from the Corvid19 virus. Today, globally, 155,000 people will die of causes not affiliated with the Corvid19 virus. Everything is relative. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Sensationalism to say the least. If your sole source of "information" in this thing was the dominant "news" media, and you didn't already have a healthy skepticism for their "news" coverage, you'd probably about be a quivering lump hiding in the corner of your basement by now. President Trump was right to call them out, once-or-twice, in the last two or three news conferences. The situation may be somewhat dire (and even that is probably overstating things), but these guys would have you thinking it's TEOTWAKI about now "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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WTF! That bitch. That whole list was smh until this last deal. Got damn dems pulling shit like this, right now? Hopefully people read this and it keeps their dirty asses from winning the election in November. Damn. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I kneel for my God, and I stand for my flag |
Yep. Five people dead in Oregon tied to Corona, all of which were elderly with underlying health issues. I'll wager five people have died from falling in their shower over the past month. | |||
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I'll preface this by stating I don't trust the Chinese government at all. I've seen a pretty good critique of this theory (massive drop in cell phone = due to death) from some telecom people I know. According to them China has been switching from 4g to 5g. There was some sort of data cap that applied to 4g that does not apply to 5g. What they've told me is that many people had multiple SIM cards, like 4-6+ in many cases. As they switch over to 5g they don't need all the extras. I can't remember all the specifics at the moment, but there was a totally plausible reason for the drop in numbers due to network changes. PS - I still don't trust the Chinese government | |||
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Cogito Ergo Sum |
New Mexico’s governor to order stay at home at 3pm new conference. For New Mexico’s fragile economy this will hurt. Oil prices are hurting the state as they budgeted at $50 a barrel. If she doesn’t exempt the oil patch things could get touchy. | |||
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Ammoholic |
I've not watched one bit of news on this situation, or any news coverage. I listen to all the press conferences, some YouTube videos, read stuff here, and some articles. I'm concerned. It's somewhere between a couple thousand and 10's of thousands of deaths. For people like me and my wife, chances of requiring hospitalizations or death is increased. I'll be a hermit for a bit, and I'll plan for the worst and hope for the best. I do need to stop following this so closely. I can't do a thing about what's going to happen, so all it does is add extra unneeded anxiety. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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^^^At your age, you should be A LOT more worried about the economic effects of this panic than the virus itself. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
PowerSurge, you've beaten the 'economic disaster' drum non-stop. We get the point. | |||
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Member |
Understood. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
We follow it closely so as to have something of a handle on our exposure. We mildly stocked-up about two-three weeks before things really started taking off outside of China, so we're pretty well all set. But, not having any clue how long things are going to last, we're replacing stocks as they're consumed. That means potential exposure. As for the anxiousness: I just remarked to my wife about noticing mild behavioral changes in our cats. They're probably sensing our mood and reacting to that. We don't feel terribly anxious, but there's unquestionably a level of concern. You might try One America News. We had it, and then dumped it because it was becoming "All Trump, All The Time," and what we wanted was news. I re-subscribed us a couple days ago because I couldn't tolerate the dominant media drama any longer. The difference is night-and-day. We've taken to skipping through big chunks of the local "news." It's now down to about 10-15% news (and part of that is weather), and 85-90% pandemic drama of one sort or another. Oh, and the "sports" segment. Problem they have is there's not much sports to talk about, so they're down to talking about what sports there would be if there were sports. I kid you not. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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The problem with your analysis is that it completely fails to account for how diseases spread. With the swine flu in 2009, it wasn't that 166,000 people got it each day. To MASSIVELY oversimplify... in the beginning, one person had swine flu. He gave it to two people. Those two people each gave it to two more people (four in the third "generation"). Those four each gave it to two more people (eight in the fourth "generation"). That doesn't sound so bad until you realize that there are about 1,000 people in the eleventh generation... and about a million in the twenty-first. Right now, in the US, the number of active cases is doubling every two to three days. Yesterday, there were about 33,000 active cases. Three days before that, there were about 13,000 active cases. So we got 20,000 new cases in 3 days. But we DON'T expect 20,000 more over the next three days from yesterday - we expect to have more than TWICE as many as we have now - if the trend continues, probably around 70-80k total. I will put this picture up again. The orange line is new cases each day. The problem is that the number of new cases each day is increasing, and increasing quickly, not staying the same. Watch the small-scale, simplified simulation of disease spread in this article. One person is sick at the beginning, then two, then a few, then a small number... then very quickly, almost everyone. The later simulations give examples of methods used to control epidemics. https://www.washingtonpost.com...ld/corona-simulator/ | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
Lil’ Andy has been schooled by statute that businesses engaged in selling of firearms and ammunition don’t fall into his cute little executive power grab. By statute, 39A-100, he can’t order those businesses closed. If they ever were to take the house and senate, be sure that will be removed for the “public good”. | |||
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Fortified with Sleestak |
Virginia has closed schools for the rest of the year and issued a "non-essential business" closure for the next 30 days. Non-essential retail businesses can still operate so long as they keep customers down to 10 at a time. Many entertainment oriented businesses are closed and service oriented businesses like barber shops, beauty salons, and massage parlors are closed because you can't get your hair and nails did or a rub and tug without someone violating that whole 6 feet of space distance rule. Oh and ya got until midnight tomorrow to violate that rule should you feel it necessary. I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown | |||
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Ammoholic |
Let me simplify that. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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