I said on page 2 of this thread, back on Jan 21st, that "Yes, another manufactured crisis, again."

Two months later, I still have not seen anything that changes my mind. Still shaking my head in disbelief at the Chicken Little scenarios being displayed every single day, and the mass easily being manipulated into gulping them down. I'm glad there are still some people on this board (Para, erj_pilot, jljones, etc...) who don't buy into this shit. But, it seems like we're in the minority, sadly.

I am noticing something that looks quite promising and hopefully it is as everyone hoped -

Warmer weather may help get rid of it.

If you look at southern places that should be covered up, infection is a lot lower. Orlando with Disney World and travelers from all over the world until last week should have been an explosion. Other major southern cities are considerably lower than similarly sized northern cities.

Detroit metro hospitals are now reaching max capacity.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:

Warmer weather may help get rid of it.

If you look at southern places that should be covered up, infection is a lot lower. Orlando with Disney World and travelers from all over the world until last week should have been an explosion.

The last 14 days, we have hit 81 degrees or higher every single day. 12 of those days were 84 or higher. 9 of those days were 88 or higher.

I hope they are right.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
I am noticing something that looks quite promising and hopefully it is as everyone hoped -

Warmer weather may help get rid of it.

If you look at southern places that should be covered up, infection is a lot lower. Orlando with Disney World and travelers from all over the world until last week should have been an explosion. Other major southern cities are considerably lower than similarly sized northern cities.

Detroit metro hospitals are now reaching max capacity.

I've heard that there have been three studies into this that seem to show a correlation between warn, humid air and lower infection rates. One explanation was that the airborne droplets become bigger when it's warm and humid, and fall to the ground quickly.

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I am noticing something that looks quite promising and hopefully it is as everyone hoped -

Warmer weather may help get rid of it.

That' been dispelled and if you look at Australia's recent average temps, well over 90 degrees F, you will see that warm temps have not helped much; in fact their diagnosed cases are increasing daily.

https://www.worldometers.info/...s/country/australia/

Global warming to the rescue!

^^^^^^^^^^^^
LOL that’s hilarious I don’t care who you are.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

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I am noticing something that looks quite promising and hopefully it is as everyone hoped -

Warmer weather may help get rid of it.

That' been dispelled and if you look at Australia's recent average temps, well over 90 degrees F, you will see that warm temps have not helped much; in fact their diagnosed cases are increasing daily.

https://www.worldometers.info/...s/country/australia/

IMO too soon to say that disproves the theory.

I wonder how their number of diagnosed cases compares to the number of tests conducted. If they conduct more tests every day, of course they will see an increase in the number of positive diagnoses. IMO the number of tests should always be published alongside the number of positive diagnoses.

People: We are responsible for nobody in our lives except ourselves and our immediate family. If you feel that you (or your family) need protecting from some form of virus, the only advice I can give is to hide in your homes until all the viruses are gone. Do not go outside. Do not get groceries. Do not go to work. Continue to live in fear and in the end, I'll guarantee that you are still gonna die. It's simple. You can live or you can live in fear!

For those that believe the "social distancing" stuff is what is cutting down on the rate of transmission: get a clue. The people that are infected are not in a true quarantine and never will be. They will still interact with others and those others will interact with you. Some groups are more susceptible, so I can understand a higher level of caution for them, but overall, this shit will blow over just like every other calamity before it. Oh, and not only will it blow over.....IT WILL BE PART OF OUR LIVES FOREVER MORE, just like SARS, West Nile, Ebola, H1N1, and whatever other bullshit was supposed to have killed us in the past. The media makes money when there is a panic. Watch the movie HOAXED. It'll open your eyes to what a bunch of money grubbing whores the media is.

Right now, right this second, the USA is 3rd in the world in cases. Less than 24 hours from now, on Friday, the USA passes both Italy and China numbers and will be in first place.

What this means? China's numbers are as fake as a strippers tits. Yeah the world totally believes those numbers. Not. And point 2, we are entering a point of rapid exponential growth and the next few weeks will be interesting.

As of 330 PM eastern

China 81,285 cases
Italy 80,589 cases
USA 79,082 cases

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China's numbers are as fake as a strippers tits. Yeah the world totally believes those numbers. Not. And point 2, we are entering a point of rapid exponential growth and the next few weeks will be interesting.

Yes. We are ramping up our testing. We are a much larger country than Italy. China's numbers are fake.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I said on page 2 of this thread, back on Jan 21st, that "Yes, another manufactured crisis, again."

Two months later, I still have not seen anything that changes my mind. Still shaking my head in disbelief at the Chicken Little scenarios being displayed every single day, and the mass easily being manipulated into gulping them down. I'm glad there are still some people on this board (Para, erj_pilot, jljones, etc...) who don't buy into this shit. But, it seems like we're in the minority, sadly.

I'm in your corner. The most stressful part of my day, and I am married, father of two daughters, boss of 14 employees, is discussing this disease with my fellow NY'ers. Ugh, I understand its contagious and scary but get a grip. One of my employees, who was the most concerned for his safety when we discussed coming back to work, still refuses to wear gloves and got butt hurt when I scolded him for spitting.

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Originally posted by mutedblade:
People: We are responsible for nobody in our lives except ourselves and our immediate family. If you feel that you (or your family) need protecting from some form of virus, the only advice I can give is to hide in your homes until all the viruses are gone. Do not go outside. Do not get groceries. Do not go to work. Continue to live in fear and in the end, I'll guarantee that you are still gonna die. It's simple. You can live or you can live in fear!

Actually it would be the smart move to quarantine yourself in your house for as long as possible with no outside contact. Would you rather get it now, or in 9 months? If you get it now, the hospitals are literally melting down, they are out of supplies and out of ventilators. If you get it in 9 months, manufacturing will have kicked in, there will be an abundance of mask, gowns, protective gear for the staff, and an abundance of ventilators. AND in 9 months, they will know a lot more about the virus, and will be better able to treat the symptoms. They will come up with a best practices treatment plan that saves lives. And they just dont have that knowledge currently.

How is it that our health care professionals have been caught flat-footed regarding protective equipment?
All I have heard about for weeks is how low our supply is on stuff like face masks, etc.

For fuck’s sake, what does the management staff of these hospitals get paid for?
Is it crazy to think there could be a pandemic from time to time (bad flu season, different unexpected strain of flu affecting more people than usual, a Covid virus…whatever)?

How about making sure you have a stockpile of stuff like that on hand, you know…in case it’s needed?
N-95 mask shortage? Seriously? Idiots.

If they had listened to Para, they would have bought it cheap and stacked it deep when times were quiet.
Like we have all done regarding guns and ammunition. You won’t find us standing in a bread-line at the local gun store.

Feel free to continue panicking.

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Originally posted by bubbatime:
Actually it would be the smart move to quarantine yourself in your house for as long as possible with no outside contact. Would you rather get it now, or in 9 months? If you get it now, the hospitals are literally melting down, they are out of supplies and out of ventilators. If you get it in 9 months, manufacturing will have kicked in, there will be an abundance of mask, gowns, protective gear for the staff, and an abundance of ventilators. AND in 9 months, they will know a lot more about the virus, and will be better able to treat the symptoms. They will come up with a best practices treatment plan that saves lives. And they just dont have that knowledge currently.

All the hospitals are melting down? For Pete’s sake. Talk about sensationalism.

Man, even members here are parroting the media buzz words.
I'm just shocked they didn't eat up the global warming and gun violence epidemic as well.

And yeah, remember how the media portrays the dem's political rallies? The camera is all panned in on a tight shot where it looks like a bazilliion excited people but the next shot is from a few hundred feel back and it's just about 15 people huddled together.
Do ya think they just might be doing that same shit whenever they show scenes from the hospitals they are claiming to be all overrun with zombies? Ya think?

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Originally posted by mod29:
How is it that our health care professionals have been caught flat-footed regarding protective equipment?
All I have heard about for weeks is how low our supply is on stuff like face masks, etc.

Simple. The people that hold the purse strings, that approve purchases, are NOT preppers. They know the risk of a global pandemic. They get continuing education. They are corporate nit wits, that just thought "this has never happened before", we "can just buy supplies" from our distributors. These ass jockies never thought that the supply chain would crash, that they would not be able to purchase more supplies. They keep a 1 month stock of supplies in stock in their hospitals, and thats about it. And thats during normal times. A 1 month supply in pandemic times turns into a 5 day supply.

So basically, people whos job is to plan, didnt plan. They failed. They failed their communities. They failed their staff. They failed America.

Look at pictures coming out of Italy. The staff are protected by literally the best equipment money can buy. Re-breathers, full head to toe protection, face shields. Now look at an American hospital nurse. Wearing a mask that was made by in the hospital laundry of fabric thats bought at Jo-Ann fabrics. Definitely NOT an N95 fabric.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...ically-revises-model

“Revised”

Yeah, this is nothing to worry about. My hospital has 30 patients currently in ICU on ventilators and three deaths from COVID-19.

Move along, nothing to see here.