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You follow them in lockstep. Your falsehood was dismissing the notion that viral propagation would be different in the US because it is composed of 50 semi-autonomous states across a huge land mass, trying to compare smaller homogeneous European countries to the entire US, dismissing Sweden as a sample case (in part because Stockholm was a small city). Should I go on?

The utter disgust is that this was totally predicted and warned as the real side effect of the extended lock downs. But hey, let me post a few cartoons of Trump, and I will feel good about my depraved state of mind.

Make sure you share this cartoon with airplane pilots.

The falsehoods that present data on a national level, as opposed to recognizing the vast regional differences within large nations. It's a lazy analysis that muddles the data and contributes to the panic porn. Case in point, to continue with fear-mongering, NYT this morning decided to list all of Europe as an area that's experiencing a rise in cases. That may be factually correct, but it totally ignore the critical data points of where the increases cases are happening. Of course the point of the hit piece is to double down on the warnings that the US is doing everything wrong to fight the virus.

Congratulations grave dancers, you're getting your wishes. When will enough be enough?

Nobody is arguing that the virus is fully gone. But the sane people want to bring the discussion back to the reality of the trade-off that occurs when you lock down a region. The virus is less prevalent and is far less dangerous than what it was in March. And you have a rising number of deaths and correlated ills by maintaining strict lockdowns. If the virus was exhibiting these exact features in March, there's no chance in hell you would have a lockdown. That's the question that needs to be answered, what's the likelihood of the virus returning to March form in areas that were already hard hit? The evidence so far is clear, there's been no resurgence in any areas that were previously hard hit.

The Hasids are an old world insular sect of Judaism that's concentrated in Williamsburg (Brooklyn). It's a very close knit community that still thinks it's 19th century Hungary. Given their lifestyle and housing arrangements, this virus should have wiped them out. Yet despite the high early cases, and the Nazi mayor's best efforts, they remain very much alive. NY kids have flouted all social distancing rules ever since the bars started curbside orders. No social distancing, no masks. It's been proven that the prevalence of the spread is in the home, and that's why the worst hit neighborhoods were the ones with the largest household sizes (not poverty). Therefore, if the virus was still lingering in NY, there would have been a massive resurgence starting in mid-June. None of that is happening in any scale in tristate, no matter what you think.

Air travel is down 90%. there are still thousands non-tristate vehicles entering NYC daily. If your theory is correct, it doesn't matter where the virus comes from. Yet, if NJ & CT huddled with NY and there's no increase in cases despite tristate being wide open to them, what does that say about a viral resurgence?

Yeah, let's worry about the 50 passengers who arrive at the airports and ignore the million who cross the bridges and tunnels by car. please enlighten me of the army of tracers that are working in Astoria and Lower East side every night. Moron.

And none of that is happening in NYC. Thanks for the daily confirmation.

Yes comparing Sydney to Melbourne is important because it shows the increasing spread in a region that didn't get hit before. That repeats the pattern of another diverse and geographically huge country. Of course cases can rise, but from my vantage point, NY has been out of lockdown for 2 months, you have thousands of kids getting hammered nightly and then bringing whatever virus home to their high risk parents, and there's been no meaningful increase in cases. Never mind the hundreds of thousands that have been out protesting in 2 months. And of course my favorite petri dish, the Hasids of Williamsburg. Why did they stop dropping like flies in mid-April. You seem to be reasonably educated on this virus. Please tell me of a theory on why cases aren't rising in the world's biggest hotspot, despite the loose behavior?

Makes you wonder if there's an alterior motive?

There's no celebration in pointing out that a virus does viral things. That's why we keep hammering away at the falsehoods that you like to perpetuate. How much data and cases do you need to see that show how this virus spreads and using a single country analysis is useless, especially for a populous country with widely spread out population centers? What's going to be the next scare story when AZ, CA & TX show negligible new cases in about 1-2 weeks?

It's as if a virus wants to do viral things. The most important news from Australian outbreak is that the cases are growing in Victoria state Melbourne), which was largely spared in the first wave, which hit New South Wales (Sydney). There is a slight uptick in New South Wales cases, but nowhere near the April levels. If there was a true resurgence of COVID in Australia, Sydney would get hit as badly as Melbourne. But it's not ... That critical piece of information is missing from nearly all press accounts, and what leads many morons to simply parrot country wide data, without regard to the particulars of a given country's geography and where the "resurgences" are happening. That's why you have people in NY tristate still cowering in fear, despite overwhelming evidence that the virus isn't a huge threat in that region.

From NYT email today

These are the things you say when you've lost any sense of perspective

And the Communists we're flower sniffing peacenicks. Idiot.

But it is Friday afternoon.

What makes you think the arrests aren't legal?

How else are people arrested?

You forgot drinking fish tank cleaner in your list of hoaxes. You're slipping.

All government programs are accounting entries. There are no specific SS bonds. The government raids all tax generating programs to pay current expenditures, and issues new bonds to cover the annual funding deficit (in addition to issuing new bonds to replace maturing bonds from the accumulated deficits).

That's only if you believe that those receipts are specifically set aside for those programs. They're not.

This is some really funny stuff

You're back to testing? What was increased testing going to do with a virus that was fully established in NYC for about a month?