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Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

Liquid Karma said:
Amazingly it took the UK until a couple days ago to put India on the Do Not Travel list.

We should be at a point to start sending excess vaccine supply to India soon.
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Isn't India producing tons of vaccine? Is supply really their problem?
 
DistrictDeacon said:
The death rate per capita was 10 times larger for Covid than auto accidents in 2020. And that's with all the precautions/lock downs that took place.
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The death rate per capita for black Americans is 2,000 times larger for auto accidents than by police. Yet we haven't had any riots, protests, massive budget shifts, or attempted sweeping legislation aimed at drunk driving or vehicle safety components. If there is anything we've learned from the past year, it is that most people are stupid and gullible, and social media is the downfall of society.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
I feel like this thread is way too long all that needed to be said was said a long time ago. “This gives the smell of their typical pending milkwich snowstorm school closings that ends up being 45 degrees and sunny. It's hard to believe what comes out of China and our media. Wash your hands - you'll be fine. Just my 2 cents. It's the flu with a name. There have been bad cases of unnamed flu in previous years and nobody cared much. Marketing is everything. Kung Flu”
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Exactly. I was pretty dead nuts on for anyone under 75.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
The death rate per capita for black Americans is 2,000 times larger for auto accidents than by police. Yet we haven't had any riots, protests, massive budget shifts, or attempted sweeping legislation aimed at drunk driving or vehicle safety components. If there is anything we've learned from the past year, it is that most people are stupid and gullible, and social media is the downfall of society.
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The Hornets lose more points from missed shots than from the referees. Yet you spend more time complaining about injuries and the refs than wondering why the Hornets don't shoot better. Imagine how mad you'd be as a Hornets fan if the refs were causing Hornets injuries.
 
PhDeac said:
The Hornets lose more points from missed shots than from the referees. Yet you spend more time complaining about injuries and the refs than wondering why the Hornets don't shoot better. Imagine how mad you'd be as a Hornets fan if the refs were causing Hornets injuries.
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If their better shooters (Hayward, Monk) are injured and can't play, then yes the injuries are a direct cause of losing points to missed shots. Regardless, I'm not setting someone's business on fire or advocating shutting down the economy and keeping kids out of school because Cody Martin can't hit threes.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
The death rate per capita for black Americans is 2,000 times larger for auto accidents than by police. Yet we haven't had any riots, protests, massive budget shifts, or attempted sweeping legislation aimed at drunk driving or vehicle safety components. If there is anything we've learned from the past year, it is that most people are stupid and gullible, and social media is the downfall of society.
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What are you talking about? We have an entire governmental organization, the NHTSA, with a $1 trillion annual budget, dedicated to vehicular safety. Their work has involved road design, airbags, raising the minimum legal drinking age, etc. - massive, sweeping legislation. And traffic deaths are 1/3 of what they were in 1970 (despite a 150% increase in miles driven per year). A massive amount of time and money goes into vehicular safety.

I do agree with this statement you made (with an edit), "If there is anything we've learned from the past year, it is that some people are stupid..."
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
If their better shooters (Hayward, Monk) are injured and can't play, then yes the injuries are a direct cause of losing points to missed shots. Regardless, I'm not setting someone's business on fire or advocating shutting down the economy and keeping kids out of school because Cody Martin can't hit threes.
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Obviously you're not a true fan.
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Right, that's why a bunch of states had outdoor gathering restrictions, social distancing requirements, and mask mandates in place for most of last year. It certainly wasn't an accepted fact it was safe to go out and have a beer on the brewery patio.
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Lots of states were acting out of optics and not reason.
 
things are starting to get political here. it was bound to happen
 
Lets not get distracted by these silly arguments and politics, today is the one year anniversary to the discovery of the coronavirus cure.
 
Rafi said:
What are you talking about? We have an entire governmental organization, the NHTSA, with a $1 trillion annual budget, dedicated to vehicular safety. Their work has involved road design, airbags, raising the minimum legal drinking age, etc. - massive, sweeping legislation. And traffic deaths are 1/3 of what they were in 1970 (despite a 150% increase in miles driven per year). A massive amount of time and money goes into vehicular safety.

I do agree with this statement you made (with an edit), "If there is anything we've learned from the past year, it is that some people are stupid..."
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Shockingly, nobody torched either the NHTSA offices or Hyundai factories when 42,000 people still died in car wrecks last year.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Shockingly, nobody torched either the NHTSA offices or Hyundai factories when 42,000 people still died in car wrecks last year.
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That's because there are different ways in which people die, and some of those ways are very unjust. This is obvious, and your argument, not surprisingly, is dumb.
 
Seems strange we aren't really making a dent in daily COVID cases despite the number of vaccines (and cumulative cases) out there. We've been stuck at 60k cases nationally for 2 months straight.
 
more vaxes, but more stuff opening up and way more interaction

isn’t it young people driving the cases? less likely to be vaxed or patient
 
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