Absolute insistence on being an 'independent thinker' at all costs and have a contrary view.
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Oh, what crap.
I'm hardly alone, am I? I have the company of the President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief, leader of the free world (blah and more blah) articulating the same, which is the consequences of an economic and financial meltdown could prove to be more devastating than what Covid-19 might do.
He has scores of millions of heavily armed citizens to concern himself with and the prospect of a 30% unemployment rate in the months ahead.
Here in 2011 we saw how many predators are out there ready to loot even in the good ol' days.
:hehe: it’s not worth the effort
It’s like he thinks no one else thinks there won’t be a severe effect on the economy because of this. Everyone knows there will be but Italy are having a thousand deaths a day now, New York has already had more people die of Covid than they had homicides last year, the U.K. already has started having 100 deaths a day. You can’t just carry on as normal. And these are just the “direct” deaths, not counting for when the doctors have to chose who dies due to there not being enough bed/staff/equipment.
Wuhan did a total lockdown after the first 30 deaths, I don’t believe China’s exact figures but the early lock down definitely did some good.
I remember at the time thinking it was weird and archaic but there really is no other way to stop this becoming a huge issue.
It isn’t a different point of view though. It’s the truth.
If you only isolate people with symptoms you’ve got a load of symptomless carriers out there spreading it. The symptoms take 2 weeks to show, some people only show mild symptoms. This will cause exponential growth of the disease. That’s a fact, it’s literally already happened.
Do you disagree with that?
It doesn't sound like you think he is wrong though. It sounds like you think the health of the economy is more important than X number of people's lives (which has no doubt played a part in our slow reaction in the UK). The problem with your way of thinking is that everybody who supports it appears to be calculating X by sticking their fingers in their ears and looking at the overall death rate without factoring in the massive impact that an overwhelmed health service adds.
What is your tipping point? If we knew exactly how many lives we would save by locking down when would you decide that was worth it? 1 million? 10 million?
I can’t believe people think a Tory government would allow such a shit show to happen to the economy unless it was necessary.
I don't disagree.
UK government Covid-19 status remains the same today as when I posted this link https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-con...us-of-covid-19 two days back.
Do you know what high consequence means? It means the disease itself has to have a mortality rate of over a certain percent.
As said a 1000 times it isn’t the direct mortality rate with this that’s the issue. If you can’t see that after all this time I don’t know when you will.
By posting that link you aren’t being clever you’re ignoring the point of the whole thing.
As well when people keep saying the death rate is only 0.1%, even though that’s not right let’s entertain it.
If we say it’s not really that contagious and we go about our normal life and only 25% (it’s a lot more contagious than that) of the U.K. gets it (~15 million).
We would still end up with 15,000 people dying. And that’s significantly underestimating how contagious and fatal it is.
Lining up alongside Trump :hehe:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you wrote something as on-the-nose stupid as this in the broadest of broad comedies about a deadly virus it would be rejected as too ridiculous and unbelievable.<a href="https://t.co/CJuyUWE5jD">pic.twitter.com/CJuyUWE5jD</a></p>— David Schneider (@davidschneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1243816885390643200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
**** sake :hehe:
I was thinking ok, he's signing a document surrounded by lots of people with no social distancing, odd at the current time but not very funny.
Then the pens get handed out.
From the very start of this you've smugly made claims as if you know what you're talking about. You've consistently been proven wrong, often spectacularly ("it's been designed only to affect Asians, wake me up when a non Asian dies" - current infection rate over the world 614,413) and yet you still pop up and smugly make claims like you know what you're talking about. THAT'S why people won't accept they're wrong when talking to you, because you talk utter, utter shite