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  • Canedawg2140Canedawg2140 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I don't know how to PM anyone. Had someone already ask me to do this...

    So I just post stuff. Not too crazy stuff, I think. Just call it like I see it.

    I don't understand a lot of things about "sides" and views. But I know that everyone (and every viewpoint/political theory) is wrong sometimes. Unless you are on this board. Cause some cats on here have it figured out.

    I am all about supporting our guy on here. Hoping and praying for his recovery.

    But facts mean different things to different people. Maybe some people's experience is different with the virus. Maybe somebody lost a loved one to cancer or heart disease recently - not Covid. That's a stretch, but I don't know. I feel like everyone thinks every statement made must be a low-key middle finger to someone else.

    I do know that always assuming a middle finger is a bad way to think and act. And there's been one-gun salutes all over the place.

    I want:

    Football

    School

    Parties

    Church

    Crowds

    Restaurant food

    ...and all these sick people to be well.

    BUT, I'm not gonna constantly blame others for a virus... Unless it's China (can-o-worms heard opening in the background)...

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,697 mod

    Def China’s main fault. But people who refuse to wear a mask when it’s been shown to slow asymptomatic transfer, I don’t know why it’s so hard to wear one. That’s me. I mostly agree with you on most things and think we have more in common than differences.

    and I don’t care which political party brings that about.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,267 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    All of us want to be able to go to work, enjoy our lives, and not have to worry about a loved one dying. People are pushing masks so hard because we believe it will get us to that place again.

  • Canedawg2140Canedawg2140 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Hopefully the mask thing is becoming less of a hurdle and more of a common practice for everybody.

    No doubt we would agree on a lot. I hope we can both try to be understanding of those who we completely disagree with, even when we think they are being moronic.

    Some of my worst moments in life (foot-in-mouth disease) were when I assumed someone a moron, only to find out the context of their apparent moron-ness made them very sensible. I have found that most morons actually aren't true morons.

    But a few are. And I should just walk away. Cause you can't reason with crazy (again, this is like 3% of the population...).

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,267 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020
  • CaliforniaDawgCaliforniaDawg Posts: 674 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    We all are Texdawg. We all want this to be over. I wuld love cases to start going down. All I can do is my part by being conservative and cautious to make sure I'm not part of the spread. Maybe you and I can get together and when no one's looking knock some sense into the clueless youngsters who don't seem to care less about being careful.

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Well.....I've obviously been drinking a lot tonight.......and......I actually wear a mask everywhere now.

  • Denmen185Denmen185 Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020

    In Florida it seems that Spurrier is in charge of Covid; he always has been gleeful in running up the score 🤣

    In all seriousness, here is yesterday's scoreboard

    Mississippi seems incapable of reporting Tests the same way on consecutive days.

    That aside, the % positive numbers were also alarming at an average for the other 9 states of 14.5% (up from 9.5% for July 1-7). The average number of tests for the 9 states so far this month before yesterday was 292,461. Yesterday this was 280,477. Cases for July 1-7 averaged 27,881 while yesterday's was 40,612. This means that testing was roughly 12k below average but positives were almost 13k higher.

    This post is purely made to make everyone aware of the issue. There is a lot of false narrative coming out from a number of people and my philosophy is and always been tell me the facts and I can deal with it. In business I used to tell my employees "I don't like bad news but can deal with it. I can't handle being blindsided".

    Deaths related to these cases likely won't be seen until early to mid August.

  • dawgnmsdawgnms Posts: 5,355 mod

    Over 130,000 dead in less that 6 months from it's reported arrival from a virus that is highly contagious ain't no hoax. Warmer weather has weakened it some but will be back with a vengence when cooler weather arrives.

    College Football is 50/50 right now but I doubt we will see it this year. A vaccine is months away if we get one at all. As for masks wear one or don't your choice to do so without the government telling you to, me I am required to wear one at work and I do wear 1 in indoor public places.......but if told to by the government well highly doubt I would....

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I post the death stats to show how it relates to other causes of death. To show how destroying our society and economy is not justified. Because this goes against the agenda for what some are pushing (for whatever reason) they DV enough to hide the comment. It's more of a state of mind than a specific thing. Similar to when conservative speakers get physically assaulted and chased out of speaking engagements on campuses and what not. Or the modern day cancel culture that's going on. That kind of arrogance and zealotry doesn't belong IMO and I'll speak out against that every single time.

  • PerroGrandePerroGrande Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020

    The death rate in the US has already collapsed. It hasn't just dropped. The rate hasn't collapsed in the southern hemisphere. They are in the dead of winter and death rates have ramped up a lot since March (in places where the disease is active). *Cases* are exploding higher in the US, but the death rate (deaths to active cases) has dropped tremendously since April. The cases have increased so much we should see a large uptick in deaths in the next few weeks. Hopefully, we won't see an increase in death rates, though. We will likely get a return of higher death rates this fall/winter.

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