COVID-19 - Advisory Notice

LTLSihls wrote:

I'm certainly not trying to minimize the severity of the CoVid-19 virus, but it might behoove us to also keep in mind the following statistic from the CDC:

The number of people who have died from *seasonal influenza* so far has now reached 20,000, including 136 influenza-associated deaths in children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported as of February 29.

I certainly was unaware that so many had perished from the "common flu".

In the most severe cases this flu manifests as pneumonia, requiring those severe cases to require hospitalisation and respirators to keep them alive. If too many cases occur in a short period of time, hospitals won't have enough respirators for everyone. So people will die of the virus but also due to lack of respirators. This, of course, is on top of all the flu cases you mention, and all the other 'normal' illnesses and accidents that hospitals have to deal with. In the UK the policy now is an almost complete lockdown of normal society for at least 3 weeks (but more likely it will be months rather than weeks) in the hope that our hospitals won't be overrun and everyone who needs care (especially respirators) will get that.

So once this covid19 terror passes, what freedoms are we going to give up this time around? Forced immunisations, 24 hour surveillance, microchipping, cash ban, having to obtain permission to see certain individuals, social credit systems such as the one in china. It's all on the menu folks.

An interesting view of how the US is coping.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52012049

Freddie Jupiter wrote:

So once this covid19 terror passes, what freedoms are we going to give up this time around? Forced immunisations, 24 hour surveillance, microchipping, cash ban, having to obtain permission to see certain individuals, social credit systems such as the one in china. It's all on the menu folks.

and the moon landings didn't happen...and 9/11 didn't happen...zzz

Why are we talking about moon landings and 911 all of a sudden? I don't recall saying anything about moon landings, or 911.

Bloody hell this corona virus must also be infecting brains, as well as the respiratory system.

Freddie Jupiter wrote:

Why are we talking about moon landings and 911 all of a sudden? I don't recall saying anything about moon landings, or 911.

Bloody hell this corona virus must also be infecting brains, as well as the respiratory system.

Because you're engaging in stupid, paranoid hyperbole and conspiracy theorizing.

Really? So in your country the government hasn't been trying to immunise people, ban cash, and increase the amount of surveillance they have? Because where I live they've been trying to do all of that for years.

You're one fucked up individual. Do you understand that the biggest pandemic in a century is taking place, or do your weak personality and limited mental faculties make you hide in fantasies about plots and conspiracy theories?

What does " trying to immunise people" even mean? Are you talking about COVID-19? There is no cure nor a vaccine, so that's not even a possibility. Or are you talking in general terms - like one of those pathetic anti-vaxers who are too dimwitted to understand that the eradication of smallpox and polio, amongst others, through vaccination are some of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century?

I get the distinct impression from your 185 obnoxious posts that you're one of those people who are of, shall we say, limited mental faculties, but who've managed to convince themselves that they're brilliant clear thinkers who can see what others can't, simply because they believe the opposite of what any credible source says. It saves the effort of actually using your brain and looks like you're a critical thinker anyway, right?

Freddie Jupiter wrote:Really? So in your country the government hasn't been trying to immunise people, ban cash, and increase the amount of surveillance they have? Because where I live they've been trying to do all of that for years.

how many other residents do you have with you in Moronica?

It looks like I ended up in stupidsville, population 2 -- a Marxist and the village idiot.

Why do people humour this moron? If you ignore it, it will go away.

@Mr Bean, people will ignore you before they ignore me, because you're boring.

Holly2003 wrote:

In the most severe cases this flu manifests as pneumonia, requiring those severe cases to require hospitalisation and respirators to keep them alive. If too many cases occur in a short period of time, hospitals won't have enough respirators for everyone. So people will die of the virus but also due to lack of respirators. This, of course, is on top of all the flu cases you mention, and all the other 'normal' illnesses and accidents that hospitals have to deal with. In the UK the policy now is an almost complete lockdown of normal society for at least 3 weeks (but more likely it will be months rather than weeks) in the hope that our hospitals won't be overrun and everyone who needs care (especially respirators) will get that.

All correct.

And it looks like the NHS will be getting a substantial boost in funding. Thank goodness sanity is prevailing.

Unlike the US where the sociopath in chief wants to "reopen" the country on Easter and refuses to pay for ventilators.

Freddie Jupiter wrote:It looks like I ended up in stupidsville, population 2 -- a Marxist and the village idiot.

you and your alter ego