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Even The Flu Is Political-

How long do you suppose it will be before the left starts forcing things to cancel or be closed?

I don't mean to minimize this thing, but it really seems to me that the left in particular is kinda going overboard. Just like they go overboard during any other crisis situation.

When there is a shooting - they call for gun control before the dead are at room temperature.

When the president makes a phone call, they deny thaat transcripts are real and make shit up.

When their candidate loses, they make shit up and try to impeach the winner.

When a storm is brewing, it's named the storm of the century and reminded that if we would simply adopt an 1850's life style, everything would be fine.

This time its illness. Cold and flu season is at least as old as I am. I remember people getting colds and the flu for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it was reportedly worse than other years. Do you remember the swine flu epidemic - 2009? I don't either - not really. I mean I remember hearing about it. I looked it up and I guess Obama's CDC never did a complete synopsis of it. But later they estimated that between 7,070 and 13,930 deaths were attributable to H1N1 flu from April to 14 November 2009. And nobody panicked. Life went on.

But, Trump is the president now. And they never will let a crisis go to waste. All kinds of stuff has closed down and been cancelled already - and you know it's pressure from the media and the left. And, it's having the desired effect - hurting the economy - Trumps trump card.

So, how long before they try to legislate forced closings, behavior modification for all of us, to stick a fork in the economy, once and for all?

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Hikingguy · 56-60, M

The last I saw, worldwide the deaths from H1N1 from the WHO, were thinking it could have been over 500k.
And you are 100% right. Life went on!

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@Hikingguy Damn! That's a lot of people!

Hikingguy · 56-60, M

I think I read it right. Look it up. It shocked me.@Budwick

JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

@Hikingguy well then, why do we bother to have hospitals at all?

Let’s just let people get sick and then we will deal with the aftermath.

Sounds like a logical plan to me.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@JoeyFoxx Typical left - hyperbole.

PS - have you heard how inactive hospitals are right now?

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Hikingguy [quote]Look it up. [/quote]

No need.
You have earned my trust by being a straight shooter.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Hikingguy The ‘09 strain of H1N1 had a CFR of .02%. It was less deadly than the regular seasonal flu, which is why you didn’t see countries shutting down over it, overwhelmed ICUs around the world, 1k+ Americans dying in a 24 hour period, etc.

It really shouldn’t be compared to this current situation.

Hikingguy · 56-60, M

Thank you an same here. I honestly try not to spread anything false@Budwick

JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

@Budwick PS, the flood of patients isn’t homogeneous across the nation.

Tell me about all the inactive hospitals in New York.

And, it’s not hyperbole. The response many regions have had is NOT because it’s the end of the world. It’s because if you don’t slow it down, then hospitals will get taxed to the point where other patients will suffer, not to mention the fact that young and healthy clinicians are also dying from this thing.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@JoeyFoxx Outside of areas like NYC where people are packed like sardines, hospitals have some empty beds.

[quote]PS, the flood of patients isn’t homogeneous across the nation. [/quote] What are you saying Joey? Not enough of one race? too much of another? Or, is it gays? Or democrats? Men vs women?

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Budwick [quote] Outside of areas like NYC where people are packed like sardines, hospitals have some empty beds.[/quote]
That’s because the virus is getting there later. Per-capita ICU beds aren’t dramatically higher outside of NYC, and small town hospitals are looking at their own crunch time.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick It is quite simple and no conspiracy theories required. Most hospitals have stopped elective procedures and anyone not critical is being sent home in preparation because all the evidence suggests it is not a matter of if they get slammed with cases of covid 19 but when.

And waiting till the last minute to prepare is how you end up getting overwhelmed.

JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

@Budwick WTF?

I mean the patient curves are different in different communities. Every city with a moderately dense population will see a curve. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

What did you think I meant by homogeneous???

Budwick · 70-79, M

@JoeyFoxx [quote]What did you think I meant by homogeneous???[/quote]

that why I asked "What are you saying?"
And I still don't know.
Patient curves means nothing to me.

JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

@Budwick you asked about gays and democrats... made no sense.

Click here: https://covid19.healthdata.org/

The peak need for ICU beds in Washington state has already passed, where it’s still weeks away for other states.

We are one country. But it’s not one curve.

Have you not heard about “flatten the curve”?

Budwick · 70-79, M

@JoeyFoxx [quote]Have you not heard about “flatten the curve”?[/quote]
Yes - never heard it called 'patient curve'.
Never heard it

So, what you are saying is that different places have different numbers of cases of the virus. No $0.50 cent words in there - but it's clear I'm not talking about milk! (Homogenized)

JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

@Budwick It's not only that different places will have different number of cases, but the timing will be different. (When things are homogenous, is means everything is the same. Homogenized milk is just a college-boy word for "mixed up good")

Budwick · 70-79, M

@JoeyFoxx [quote]different places will have different number of cases, but the timing will be different.[/quote]

Why do you suppose THAT is?

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick There are dozens if not hundreds of factors.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Do you think, given the exponential spread behavior of a virus, that delaying isolation could be a big one?

You know, like when New York was encouraged to keep going to Broadway and Nancy partied in Chinatown early on that it may have influenced people in those areas to go out and get infected? Resulting in a couple big hot spots in America?

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick I agree delaying it was a big blunder and definitely made it worse but it is hardly one sided.

You had up till a few weeks ago Nunes telling people to go take their families out to a public restaurant and Florida and Louisiana are hardly Democratic strongholds.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow It was about a month ago - Nunes stepped in it too. He's from California, right?

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Budwick Nancy's Chinatown visit aged badly, having come a few days before the first case of community spread was confirmed in the country.

But Nancy is not in charge of the federal response to the situation. Trump is. His administration was responsible for executing our playbook on pandemics - and they fucked it up. Nancy's primary job in this stuff is opening the purse when requested, and investigating the administration's actions.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@QuixoticSoul [quote]Nancy's primary job in this stuff is opening the purse when requested, and investigating the administration's actions.[/quote]

And yet, she led the fruitless charge on the Russia collusion fiasco for several years, led the impeachment fiasco as Trump was shutting down flights from China, she refused funding for the wall which could have been useful during the virus thing.

Nancy is a vindictive, ferocious bitch without connection to reality.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Budwick Lmao your own connection to reality is looking pretty thin right now.

The wall 😂😂😂

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Budwick Give me a break. Even that is a stretch for you.

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