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Bankwalker, in my opinion, your post is skewed and not what we need on here.
For days now I have been telling a bunch of my friends about what Texdawg said about putting at risk our refound freedom as they way he phrased it made me think about how different messages about the same value resonate with different people differently. He may not realize what he said impacted me, but it did. I would have never learned from him if we didn't have this thread about Covid19. Graydawg asked me a great question about comparing Covid19 to the flu. I really valued that he and I could have a good discussion about these things and that I could explain why I think comparing Covid19 and the flu is helpful as long as it is apples to apples.
But neither of them or Yaledawg or Kasey or Canedawg are posting in such a way to antagonize someone with different views. The best posts on this thread are the ones that share perspective and information and not one that describes one side as "effective" and another as "lacking any competence" because it feels to me as if you are trying to tell me how I should think about things.
I can't tell Texdawg what to think (I bet he chuckles at the thought of me even trying), but I can share information with him that expands what he knows - just as he does for me. I welcome information you have that you want to share about Covid19.
It is important that all of our posts be about Covid19 even if they sometimes inadvertently touch on politics, but lets not write posts that are political posts that inadvertently touch on Covid19.
I went to the grocery store today to do a small shop for the lady I help in assisted living, and few items for the wife and I. The store was well stocked and few shoppers in there. Never came within 10 feet of anyone until checkout. They all were wearing mask and taking precautions.
Crazy thing is my shopping lady always request tissues. It's a hit or miss and only 2 boxes allowed. Of course I went down the often empty aisle just to check. Low and behold, there was tissues to be had. I bought the max of of 2 per customer.
The jewel was they had TP on the shelf for the first time I've seen in 6 weeks. 7 packs of 12 rolls of a brand I've never seen. I grabbed one not knowing the limit, but wanted to make sure others had a chance too.
Felt like I won the lottery so I went and bought a lottery ticket........😛
Did you say Darwin? This might go against the seriousness of my last post, but can't resist.
So the odds of me buying that Jeep for a few rolls of toilet paper just went down?
Lol.....not necessarily!! 😜
Facts. I only posted facts. To lecture me about how my post is skewed while overlooking the ones skewed the other way simply because one fits your belief system and one doesn’t is not unexpected.
I apologize for commenting on your response because I may have missed your intent or some other point you were teying to make. I quit reading a paragraph and half in to your tongue lashing. If you are making a list about what’s not needed then you can add your own.
If you look at my other posts I differentiate between "Cases" and infections and use the NY study to compile my numbers. I used 1 "Case" = 10 infections so to achieve 200,000,000 infections for herd immunity there will be 20,000,000 "cases" which at 10% = 2 million deaths.
BTW the true number of deaths is much higher than reported but I didn't factor that in!
Good evening, Bank!
I think the post at 8:30 AM that was not fact-based (or, at least was commentary open to debate and could be considered inflammatory by some) was the biggest issue. I don't think the issue was with several of your posts that did contain some statistics.
I have some ultra soft charmin I’ll trade for the Jeep, it’s worth more than that John Wayne stuff
@deutcshland_dawg It won't let me quote.
The total deaths will be 2 million if we rely on herd immunity and 50-60,000 a month until a vaccine is developed. If the vaccine is developed and used within a year we are looking at 6-700,00 deaths. If it takes 2.5-3 years to develop a vaccine or cure then the toll will be 2 million also unless it miraculously disappears beforehand. Going back to prior normal would (SWAG) mean the 2 million would die within 12 months. There would be many indirect deaths on top of that as medical assistance would not be available.
Personal note, I had stage 3 colon cancer in 2018 and my colonoscopy has been delayed due to the virus. Who knows what if any impact delaying that for another 12-18 months would be. Potential indirect death?
@ghostofuga1 I can bring SCENTED Scotts. As much as my (huge) bag will carry.🤣
I saw more of a natural selection stance. Not the endorsing of eugenics, which would be forced to yield a specific result. That's a dishonest take and assigning the worst intent in someone that doesn't agree with you.
It's quite honest since from its inception the eugenics movement took major issue with public health advancement. Its proponents believed it allowed the weak to live unnaturally longer lives making society weaker as a whole. In fact "let natural selection run its course" was the entire point of eugenics. The word literally means good origins or good birth in Greek.
Eugenics is assigned reproduction in order to produce a desired result. It's the interference of man to load the deck of the game. And it's most commonly associated with Nazi Germany and their genocides in order to perpetuate their own race. But making wild accusations seems to be a common trend in our society these days...
A quick google:
Eugenics: the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
"Supporters of eugenics, the powerful early 20th-century movement for improving human heredity, often attacked that era's dramatic improvements in public health and medicine for preserving the lives of people they considered hereditarily unfit. Eugenics and public health also battled over whether heredity played a significant role in infectious diseases."
In their view eugenicists believed letting those susceptible to disease die would increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics they deemed desirable. The characteristic being not dying from infectious disease.