COVID-19 Rant

pennywise37 · March 29, 2020, 11:25:49 PM

well that sucks i'm sorry to hear that, true you may not have met the guy but i'm sure you didn't want this to happen to the guy. i hope your pal's boss ends up beating it.

chefzombie · March 30, 2020, 01:29:13 AM

ditto. this is so much harder when it gets truly personal, i wish more people understood that. far too many of my friends and family ARE dealing with being ill or having loved ones ill and dying...it hurts.

pennywise37 · March 30, 2020, 02:06:04 AM

i can understand that and we all can here really, did you see that Reporter on the news who started crying when she found out that i think football player donated to new Orleans? on air i mean, i'm not judging i guess she was from there and i say good for her for letting it out on live tv even she didn't mean to do it at all.

RCMerchant · March 30, 2020, 02:45:12 AM

I'm very sorry, John.

Rev. Powell · March 30, 2020, 07:45:15 AM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 29, 2020, 10:03:59 PM
My sister-in-law's brother died of COVID today. I never met the man and believe they were estranged. Before that, I learned a long time pal 's boss is in the hospital with COVID.

Sorry to hear that.

You're near the epicenter.

Allhallowsday · March 30, 2020, 11:25:05 AM

Quote from: RCMerchant on March 30, 2020, 02:45:12 AM
I'm very sorry, John.

It's okay, I don't know these two people but obviously it's close.

Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 30, 2020, 07:45:15 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 29, 2020, 10:03:59 PM
My sister-in-law's brother died of COVID today. I never met the man and believe they were estranged. Before that, I learned a long time pal 's boss is in the hospital with COVID.

Sorry to hear that. You're near the epicenter.

Thanks; to be clear, the sister-in-law I mention is NOT my beloved Gayle who passed in 2014.

pennywise37 · March 31, 2020, 12:33:49 AM

still it sucks either way

lester1/2jr · March 31, 2020, 08:26:15 PM

some hard truths here

https://www.takimag.com/article/speak-the-truth-shame-the-chinese/

If China doesn't stop people from eating exotic animals these sort of things are going to become all too common. thats the bottom line

RCMerchant · March 31, 2020, 10:36:01 PM

Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 31, 2020, 08:26:15 PM
some hard truths here

https://www.takimag.com/article/speak-the-truth-shame-the-chinese/

If China doesn't stop people from eating exotic animals these sort of things are going to become all too common. thats the bottom line

WTF is Taki magazine- and why should I believe it?

That's some magical thinking there. Wow.

Don't believe everything you read on a website.

And in the long run- who gives a f**k what the Chinese eat? It spread faster in China because they are packed like sardines in cities. Lotsa folks. Up in Mongolia- well- they don't give a f**k. Nobody goes or lives there. Except maybe folks who are smarter than any of us! It ain't about nationality- it's about population .

I love this one- from the same webpage!

They call Joe BIden 'Rapey Joe"!

I really think this site is a parody. It has to be!

https://www.takimag.com/article/rapey-joe-gets-fingered/

Yup! That's some 'Hard Truths" there! Holy Gawd Dam! Talk about fake news! This makes the old Weekly World News look like punks

!

Allhallowsday · March 31, 2020, 11:13:29 PM

Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 31, 2020, 08:26:15 PM
some hard truths here
https://www.takimag.com/article/speak-the-truth-shame-the-chinese/
If China doesn't stop people from eating exotic animals these sort of things are going to become all too common. thats the bottom line

The Flu pandemic 100 years ago was thought to have started right here in the USA (millions died worldwide).
I would like it if nobody ate "exotic animals" but, I ain't eatin' horsesh!t.

lester1/2jr · April 01, 2020, 11:35:23 AM

RC - its a right wing site. what part of it do you disagree with?

don't attack the messenger

and Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault recently https://www.vox.com/2020/3/27/21195935/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation

so how do you guys think the epidemic started? I'm very curious because most people in the world believe it came from bat sold in a so called "wet market", very similar to how SARS and Bird Flu started

lets hear a logical disagreement thats not just the jumping up and down emoji

RCMerchant · April 01, 2020, 11:42:38 AM

Quote from: lester1/2jr on April 01, 2020, 11:35:23 AM
RC - its a right wing site. what part of it do you disagree with?

don't attack the messenger

and Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault recently https://www.vox.com/2020/3/27/21195935/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation

All of it. Talk about 'fake news!"
Ssh! It's all conjecture and plain old bulls**t. It's like watching the 'Ancient Aliens' show, just making up s**t and calling them 'facts' to fit their belief system.
I don't have the answers- but I don't pretend to, either.
This isn't about politics, and and shouldn't be. It's too late to place blame on anyone. I've heard theories that it was a chemical weapon developed by the Russians, fer crying out loud! And who knows?
But all this conjecture is not helping matters at all.

lester1/2jr · April 01, 2020, 11:57:47 AM

one problem thats not addressed in that story is how the bats, which are not native to the area, ended up in this "wet market".

https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/experts-know-the-new-coronavirus-is-not-a-bioweapon-they-disagree-on-whether-it-could-have-leaked-from-a-research-lab/

after SARS the Chinese govt set up a research facility in Wuhan to study animal to human transmission. so some people, including scientists from China, have speculated that THAT is how these animals ended up there. possibly taken from the lab and sold to people who like to eat "exotic" animals, which is the gimmick of these markets.

prevention this from happening is the key. we can't shut down the entire world every couple months for one of these things. We won't be able to "flatten the curve" every time, human imperfection being what it is

RCMerchant · April 01, 2020, 12:25:25 PM

I don't know how or why it's here. I'll leave that to the scientists. Not by listening to unproven theories.

I will agree that eating animals like bats and monkeys and rats is a stupid idea. They carry lots of germs.
Hell, they eat fish if not cooked right will kill you!

Zapranoth · April 01, 2020, 02:11:02 PM

Quote from: lester1/2jr on April 01, 2020, 11:57:47 AM
one problem thats not addressed in that story is how the bats, which are not native to the area, ended up in this "wet market".

https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/experts-know-the-new-coronavirus-is-not-a-bioweapon-they-disagree-on-whether-it-could-have-leaked-from-a-research-lab/

after SARS the Chinese govt set up a research facility in Wuhan to study animal to human transmission. so some people, including scientists from China, have speculated that THAT is how these animals ended up there. possibly taken from the lab and sold to people who like to eat "exotic" animals, which is the gimmick of these markets.

prevention this from happening is the key. we can't shut down the entire world every couple months for one of these things. We won't be able to "flatten the curve" every time, human imperfection being what it is