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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19


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Just now, jrober38 said:

 

I can't.

 

One side says stay home for another 4-8 weeks and numerous lives will be saved.

 

The other wants to put lives in danger because they're bored.

 

Once people are dead they're dead. This is literally life and death for a lot of people, like yourself. 

 

"MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO DIE!"

 

* Jrobber -- just a few weeks ago... 

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2 minutes ago, Gary M said:

 

But was in necessary to fill in skate parks, ban the sale of garden seeds, arrest a surfer and chase a jogger?

 

That is what the protests are about, the authoritarianism is out of control.

 

Yes, I buy that, absolutely. There should be some oversight of what a Governor can get away with during a State of Emergency. People can protest overtly, or the politician can pay the price on Election Day. Either way, citizens must be able to express their voice, and so I won’t be criticizing them. 

 

And with that being said, I’m typing this from my dining room table instead of from my office. I see that there are places that need to go through this pain right now.  The mayor of the city in which I work is talking about remaining shut down into July.  I’ve got a rainy day fund, but I may be down to cat food tins by the time this is over, and I won’t be getting those rainy day funds back.  People without those funds can’t go into July without starving.  

 

I wont blast anyone on either side of this (Governors or protestors).

 

 

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Just now, jrober38 said:

 

I can't.

 

One side says stay home for another 4-8 weeks and numerous lives will be saved.

 

The other wants to put lives in danger because they're bored.

 

Once people are dead they're dead. This is literally life and death for a lot of people, like yourself. 

 

I stay away from people, but I guess the point is here that I can't do it forever.

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4 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

 

Again, we've been told to do this for 6 weeks now.

 

People are still dying. Nursing homes still being decimated by the virus all over the country. 

 

These are great ideas if every single person practices them, which will absolutely never happen. 

 

Do you understand the difference between cause and effect, and leading and lagging indicators?

 

Are you actually proposing imposing the same standard of behavior across the entire country because some nursing homes have awful sanitary conditions? 

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2 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

 

I can't.

 

One side says stay home for another 4-8 weeks and numerous lives will be saved.

 

The other wants to put lives in danger because they're bored.

 

Once people are dead they're dead. This is literally life and death for a lot of people, like yourself. 

 

Because they are bored? Talk about lacking empathy for those suffering financial hardship during this time.

 

You know who else is bored? Those many thousands of people waiting in miles long lines to get food from charity pantries, so that they can put food on their families table.

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Just now, Hedge said:

 

Because they are bored? Talk about lacking empathy for those suffering financial hardship during this time.

 

You know who else is bored? Those many thousands of people waiting in miles long lines to get food from charity pantries, so that they can put food on their families table.

 

It's a blue ribbon level post for stupidity. 

 

@jrober38 has been wrong about every single panic induced post he's ever made down here. On every topic. 

 

Because fear makes you dumb.

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I recently returned to PPP after about a 12 month hiatus. 

 

I was still frequenting TBD on the football side and I saw this guy JRober's football posts and thought to myself "Man, this guy has some of the worst football takes"

 

I see that he is universally consistent on all topics with his takes.

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7 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


I think you are gonna see more than a few suicides today.  The oil market has tanked (no pun intended).  People will not be able to cover losses, bankruptcies will happen... And, when all is said and done, the little guy is going to be out of business as the giant oil corporations end up with a near monopoly.  And think of all those jobs those small oil companies generate.

That is going to be the long term result of this lock down. Some would say that is an unnecessary loss of life due to lack of jobs that pay the bills, feed people, keep roofs over people's heads.


 

 

Capitalism works until it doesn't. 

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4 minutes ago, Hedge said:

 

Because they are bored? Talk about lacking empathy for those suffering financial hardship during this time.

 

You know who else is bored? Those many thousands of people waiting in miles long lines to get food from charity pantries, so that they can put food on their families table.

 

The US has been one of the hardest hit countries in the world because their social programs are so horrible compared to the rest of the developed world. 

 

This is what you get when you have a government that's more interested in corporate bailouts and corporate tax rate cuts than they are about protecting their citizens. 

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Just now, jrober38 said:

 

The US has been one of the hardest hit countries in the world because their social programs are so horrible compared to the rest of the developed world. 

 

:lol: :lol: 

 

Serious question... is there ANYTHING you are actually informed about? Any single topic? 

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Just now, jrober38 said:

 

The US has been one of the hardest hit countries in the world because their social programs are so horrible compared to the rest of the developed world. 

 

If the social programs are so horrible..................

 

then why does the rest of the world want to come here?

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Just now, njbuff said:

 

If the social programs are so horrible..................

 

then why does the rest of the world want to come here?

 

I think "the rest of the world" is hyperbole.

 

Maybe people living in squalor in Central America, but certainly not the whole world. 

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3 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

The US has been one of the hardest hit countries in the world because their social programs are so horrible compared to the rest of the developed world. 

 

This is what you get when you have a government that's more interested in corporate bailouts and corporate tax rate cuts than they are about protecting their citizens. 

 

Holy lack of reasoning, Batman!  Not sure how you got that conclusion. 

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