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Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

Townies cool with being in the streets shouting shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of philly. But a 3 hour plane ride with people who have been tested for covid in the past five days???? Bigly bad. Cool bro.
 
Dwayne Haskins got caught partying with 7 strippers after losing.

Y’all worried bout all the wrong shit.
 
WFcatamount22 said:
Townies cool with being in the streets shouting shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of philly. But a 3 hour plane ride with people who have been tested for covid in the past five days???? Bigly bad. Cool bro.
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Lol haven’t been to a protest or lived in Philly in four years but go offfff
 
WFcatamount22 said:
Dwayne Haskins got caught partying with 7 strippers after losing.

Y’all worried bout all the wrong shit.
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“Y’all need to out of nowhere criticize this one black dude that doesn’t post here instead of calling me out for the things I post here”
 
Paul Hogan said:
Y’all realize that there are people getting on full capacity airplanes every week for work and sleeping in hotels who haven’t caught this, right ?
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Lol

And ELC rawdogged someone with AIDS

Doesn’t mean it’s a good policy
 
DistrictDeacon said:
All I need to know is that she thought it was a good idea to fly to the Caribbean with at least 8 other people outside her household in the middle of a pandemic.

How long did she quarantine after she got back, before she went back to work?
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Flying with 8 other people? Damn. Is renting a private jet to avoid the unwashed masses a humblebrag?

Flying right now, through airports, is a dumblebrag.
 
scooter84 said:
Fuck you too. What exactly do you see so horrible about that? We were all tested right before we went. We are all careful in our day to day lives. We were all careful in public to distance and wear masks, etc. etc. So why the horror?
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What kind of test did you do? Rapid or PCR?
 
scooter84 said:
Who the fuck is acting like things are normal? I don't remember wearing a mask every time I'm in public when things were normal. I don't remember refusing to eat inside a restaurant when things were normal. When we drop groceries off at my in-laws living facility we sign in, have our temperature taken, stay away from them and wear masks the entire time - none of that seems normal. I haven't been to a bar for a beer since like March - not normal.

I am not an anti-mask virus denier - if I was I could understand the anger. My wife and daughter are in healthcare. My wife is a school nurse and they just successfully kept their school open for in-person classes for the entire semester - she has worked her ass off to keep those kids safe and is very proud of that accomplishment, as she should be.

If we are fucked it is not because of people like us, trust me on that.
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If your wife is traveling on vacation and staying with multiple families then she shouldn’t be that proud. The school stayed open despite her. I’d be pissed if I found out my kid’s school nurse did that.

It sounds like you and your family have taken lots of appropriate precautions but that was horribly irresponsible.
 
WFcatamount22 said:
Townies cool with being in the streets shouting shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of philly. But a 3 hour plane ride with people who have been tested for covid in the past five days???? Bigly bad. Cool bro.
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So dumb. Tests are not 100%. Asymptomatic people can pass it on. We don't know yet if people, like you, with the antibodies or vaxinated people can be exposed and carry the virus, while not getting sick themselves, and pass it to others. Stop fucking traveling.
 
WakeBored said:
The bolded is wrong.

I'm no expert in any of this, but just poking around on the internet, it looks like about 15.3% of COVID deaths are in the 50-64 age group. At 318,000 total deaths in the US so far, that's about 49,000 deaths in the 50-64 age group.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/coronavirus-deaths-older-adults.html

The University of Washington is predicting 561,000 deaths in the US by April 1. That would be about 555,000 deaths from April 1, 2020 to April 1, 2021, about 86,000 of which would be in the 50-64 age group if we stick with the 15.3% figure.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view=total-deaths&tab=trend

There are about 6,000 deaths per year in the US attributed to the flu in the 50-64 age group.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

So, COVID is about 14x more deadly than the average seasonal flu for the 50-64 age group.
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I know you realize this but I would also like to emphasize those COVID deaths are suppressed by what precautions have been taken. COVID-19 is not the flu and fuck every person that has equated them.
 
I hear a lot of this in my real life/see some in this thread, but it consistently amazes me how consequence-driven people are about (not) taking covid precautions. Whether or not a specific action resulted in you getting the virus has nearly no impact on if it was unnecessarily reckless. Doing something unnecessary to increase your odds of getting/spreading covid from 0.5% to 5% (made up numbers) is incredibly shitty even though you can argue things were fine/you weren’t infected 9.5 times out of 10.

Are these people that consequence-driven in all aspects of life? If someone drove on icy roads in a blizzard without 4 wheel drive and happened to safely make it to their destination, would you tell them they took enough precautions and it was fine or that they were being reckless?
 
In some respects, yes.

But it seems like there’s a large cross section of people who aren’t worried about the small chance of dying from covid but are “worried” about the small chance of vaccine side effects.
 
Paul Hogan said:
Y’all realize that there are people getting on full capacity airplanes every week for work and sleeping in hotels who haven’t caught this, right ?
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You realize that the current estimate of asymptomatic cases is 20-40%, right? And that asymptomatic people can be contagious, right?

If you fly on a regular basis, you’ve either already gotten it or you will. And if you are a frequent flier who had it and didn’t know it, you’ve likely spread it.
 
Pretty sure planes have been low spread areas. But y’all keep on keeping on with those feelings. Spending 30 min in an airport is probably about as bad as spending 30min in a grocery store, probably better depending on where you live.
 
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