Too many threads to sift through. Anyone comment about this yet? I'm just using this crap Youtube source because it's the one that was provided to me but I know there have been a lot of people tweeting about it in the past few hours.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:29 pm
by sdoyel
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:07 pm
by Deleted User 310
Plenty of examples of that. I still refuse to gloat at the death of another person for "I told you so" purposes.
It's sad....but it should make everyone very aware that if this happens in the future with a worse/more deadly virus that some people won't react/believe it until it's too late. That makes me nervous. In my most extreme thoughts it makes me wish I knew how to hunt/grow food and lived in the middle of nowhere in case shit ever really hits the fan in my lifetime.
Far be it for me to defend anyone, but I am sorry I don't see any giddy. All I see are statement of facts: "A 60-year-old Ohio man, who called the coronavirus a "political ploy," has died of COVID-19" followed by the link to the news article.
“The unfortunate conclusion from this comparison is that the country’s actual number of infections may be 15- to 20-times higher than the reported number of confirmed cases,” the summary says.
Far be it for me to defend anyone, but I am sorry I don't see any giddy. All I see are statement of facts: "A 60-year-old Ohio man, who called the coronavirus a "political ploy," has died of COVID-19" followed by the link to the news article.
Anybody bother to ask Eric Schmitt how much money this is going to cost the state of Missouri and how much he is trying to get back from the Chinese government - that he will never see?
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:57 am
by Shirley
DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:37 am
What if -- and I'm just spitballin' here -- it doesn't really matter if we reopen?
What if the the coronavirus crisis simply revealed the seamy underbelly of America's economy?
What if three decades of nearly free money, zero risk, and immeasurable moral hazard just came crashing down, and "reopening" isn't going to make that go away?
What if the Greenspan put became the Bernanke put, which morphed into the Yellen put and is now the Powell put?
What if...
"NYU professor Scott Galloway says the U.S. government needs to give aid to people, not companies. "[Businesses] want rugged individualism and capitalism on the way up, and then on the way down, we’re socialist, and we’re all in this together, and they have their hand out.
...what happens in an economic crisis, prices, prices should drop to their natural level and people like myself in the 2009 crisis get to buy Netflix at 12 bucks a share. There was a whole generation of young people that we are borrowing money against to try to do the same thing we always do and that is keep baby boomers rich..."
(Minor detail, but for reference about what the video opens with: Shake Shack got shamed and in response, returned the money it took from PPP govt stimulus “we've decided to immediately return the entire $10 million" so restaurants that "need it most can get it now.")
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:32 am
by twocoach
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:07 pm
Plenty of examples of that. I still refuse to gloat at the death of another person for "I told you so" purposes.
It's sad....but it should make everyone very aware that if this happens in the future with a worse/more deadly virus that some people won't react/believe it until it's too late. That makes me nervous. In my most extreme thoughts it makes me wish I knew how to hunt/grow food and lived in the middle of nowhere in case shit ever really hits the fan in my lifetime.
I read the article. There is not a single word that sounded like "gloating". It reported the facts of his situation.
Producing stories such as this and then sharing them is an attempt to show people that this is not a political ploy, it is a deadly disease. I have seem way too many stories like these just as I have seen way too many stories about hospital workers and their families who have died as a result of going to work and doing their job.
I don't sit here saying "good, that moron fucking deserved it". I just sit here wondering if one of his last thoughts were "well, I sure got that wrong" and what that frustrating, embarrassing coming-to-terms moment must have been like.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:55 am
by sdoyel
/\ This.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:47 am
by DCHawk1
Oh, fuck off.
Neither of you "share" these stories because you want "to show people that this is not a political ploy, it is a deadly disease." There is no one on this board who needs convincing or will be convinced. And you know it.
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:07 pm
Plenty of examples of that. I still refuse to gloat at the death of another person for "I told you so" purposes.
It's sad....but it should make everyone very aware that if this happens in the future with a worse/more deadly virus that some people won't react/believe it until it's too late. That makes me nervous. In my most extreme thoughts it makes me wish I knew how to hunt/grow food and lived in the middle of nowhere in case shit ever really hits the fan in my lifetime.
I read the article. There is not a single word that sounded like "gloating". It reported the facts of his situation.
Producing stories such as this and then sharing them is an attempt to show people that this is not a political ploy, it is a deadly disease. I have seem way too many stories like these just as I have seen way too many stories about hospital workers and their families who have died as a result of going to work and doing their job.
I don't sit here saying "good, that moron fucking deserved it". I just sit here wondering if one of his last thoughts were "well, I sure got that wrong" and what that frustrating, embarrassing coming-to-terms moment must have been like.
it’s a service to the ignorant that are of a similar mindset to the deceased