Covid-19

curious2garden said:
This didn't require all people to listen. We didn't get full compliance on any other emergent health crisis. We simply needed an unfettered CDC.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Stalin
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I think people could have done more.........you see this happening and think it's not a tidal wave coming across the world......and you just stand there. But so many are blind and just see what's in front of them.
 
DarkWeb said:
I think people could have done more.........you see this happening and think it's not a tidal wave coming across the world......and you just stand there. But so many are blind and just see what's in front of them.
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Yeah but the CDC has protocols to deal with a situation like this. Right up until the Executive interfered, to our collective detriment.
 
I think a lot of what is to blame is how everybody completely underestimated how much and how fast the whole world is connected now. "Oh fuck, you mean I should care about the well-being of complete strangers on another continent because it could affect my own health!"

The internet is quite polarizing on the issue. It's either the worst health crisis since AIDS out of Africa or its the government's final solution.
 
neosapien said:
The internet is quite polarizing on the issue.
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I miss the days of my youth when presidents (i.e. Eisenhower, Kennedy) had 70% approval ratings after election cycles were over, there were 3 networks who reported the same news (without commercials), and people generally trusted government (even though they did do stupid things like setting off nukes in Nevada once a month).

You looked up to government back then. They did cool things based on science like going to the moon, 'not because it is easy, because it is hard'.

And they actually did it while we watched in awe.

Now, they aren't even worth talking about.

If somebody wrote a science fiction novel in 1962 about the politics of a 2020 pandemic based on the political reality of today, nobody would have read it.

Too unbelivable, people would never really act like that.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.
 
tangerinegreen555 said:
I miss the days of my youth when presidents (i.e. Eisenhower, Kennedy) had 70% approval ratings after election cycles were over, there were 3 networks who reported the same news (without commercials), and people generally trusted government (even though they did do stupid things like setting off nukes in Nevada once a month).

You looked up to government back then. They did cool things based on science like going to the moon, 'not because it is easy, because it is hard'.

And they actually did it while we watched in awe.

Now, they aren't even worth talking about.

If somebody wrote a science fiction novel in 1962 about the politics of a 2020 pandemic based on the political reality of today, nobody would have read it.

Too unbelivable, people would never really act like that.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.
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Without commercials? How else would you know what Fred Flintstone smoked


Edit.. only 31 lol
 
tangerinegreen555 said:
You looked up to government back then. They did cool things based on science like going to the moon, 'not because it is easy, because it is hard'.

And they actually did it while we watched in awe.

Now, they aren't even worth talking about.
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I remember how cool Popular mechanics and Popular electronics of the time was, it educated the world!
I still love looking at archived copies of those mags from the days of valves.
 
I had to go to the hospital the other day because of a drunken qtip accident. The doctor told me "Yeah, I thought we were gonna be NY, but it has mostly passed over. Just did 20 tests, all negative. Most of our cases were ages ago, nothing to worry about." He also had on a disposable smock and gloves, not one but two masks, and examined my ear via selfie stick. Maybe not the last part. Think he might have been bullshitting me though. I had a hand sanitizer shower just to be sure.
 
I went into our busiest Hospital on the North side of Houston. Coral Snake, Ya'll know the story. I was alone. When they got me they wanted to keep me for 24 hrs. I said Hell noooo. Told my Girl to not let them tag me as COVID..... I unplugged everything and left..... Still kicking but for some reason Eastern Coral Snake Venom make me think about Boobies all the time......
 
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