heh, well-played.
I was going through the thread trying to find the first idiot saying "the flu kills more people than covid-19"
Ding. Here is that idiot. Color me shocked.
or depending on what CC was going for on Jan 31:
60% contract virus, middle of WHO estimates, 310M*.6 = 180M
2% death rate 180,000,000 * .02 = 3,600,000
Forty-five times more deadly.
Since we are all about perspective.
My guess is that the rate will fall a bit as we get better data and widespread testing, due to a lot of "have it but no symptoms" people never getting tested. Even so, we are in for many many more deaths than Trump party idiots will want to admit.
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Politically speaking, Democrats are kind of crushing it. Republicans are flip-flopping between mild concern and flippant denial.
Joe just made a rote speech yesterday that looked Churchillian compared to Trump's disastrous address.
Nancy just gave a "testing, testing, testing" sound bite that's going to stick.
Trump's gonna have to play catchup.
They're playing politics which like I said is good. Proves that it's not that serious.
So, knock yourselves out.
Watched a bit of er Carlson last night.
The spin is that Democrat's solution is "get rid of racism", to play into audience culture war paranoia and confirmation bias.
Which is easily countered.
It's serious. They are just not taking it seriously.
Actually, Joe just gave a bland ass speech and Nancy simply said what is in her bill.
What have you been watching?
Fox News?
Here is your ticket to the stupid mother er room. Please run along. Cosmored is starting to get on Nathan89's and Darrin's nerves. Maybe you can break the monotony.
Democrats: [serious policy responses]
Republicans: [nothing to see here, blame democrats for not doing anything]
Nathan89: [dur dee dur]
Sure man. You go with that.
Trump party response is to cut payroll taxes to starve Social Security and Medicare, totally cashing in on a wet dream, but which won't actually do anything.
But Trump is blameless, right?
Why Trump-Friendly Christian Leaders Are Feeling Totally Fine About the Coronavirus
Countdown to the Apocalypse: Why ISIS and Ebola Are Only the Beginning, Robert Jeffress described a world on the brink of chaos.
Its le is “Is the Coronavirus a Judgment From God?” Jeffress strongly suggested to me that
the answer is no: “Many times illness is just a consequence of living in the fallen world.”
John Hagee warning that the 2014 Ebola outbreak was God’s punishment for President Barack Obama’s Israel policy.
“The Lord showed me the end of the Coronavirus,” Shawn Bolz, a prominent self-declared prophet in Los Angeles, announced last week. “The tide is turning now!”
the United States would be minimally affected because “Trump honors Israel.”
several participants at a Florida gathering received messages from God that suggested he would “mitigate” the outbreak.
many charismatic leaders who participated in a “global conference call” of prayers to stop the coronavirus
God will spare the United States the worst of the virus’s impact because of the
Trump administration’s policies on Israel and abortion, among other policies.
. “But where the administration is saying, ‘We’ve got it under control, there’s nothing to be afraid of,’ they’ll fall in line with that.”
Even, it seems, when a global pandemic is involved.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/why-trump-friendly-christian-leaders-are-feeling-totally-fine-about-the-coronavirus.html
The con is that no matter how bad it gets, these grifting, lying, snake-oil sellers will use a sliding scale to say
"it could have been much worse. God intervened to save USA"
If you're critically sick or dead, it's your own goddamned fault.
incoming deflection in 3....2....1....
Eyup. Funny that a virus that ends up disproportionately affecting the aging, will impact evangelical congregations and faith healers flocks.Why Trump-Friendly Christian Leaders Are Feeling Totally Fine About the Coronavirus
Countdown to the Apocalypse: Why ISIS and Ebola Are Only the Beginning, Robert Jeffress described a world on the brink of chaos.
Its le is “Is the Coronavirus a Judgment From God?” Jeffress strongly suggested to me that
the answer is no: “Many times illness is just a consequence of living in the fallen world.”
John Hagee warning that the 2014 Ebola outbreak was God’s punishment for President Barack Obama’s Israel policy.
“The Lord showed me the end of the Coronavirus,” Shawn Bolz, a prominent self-declared prophet in Los Angeles, announced last week. “The tide is turning now!”
the United States would be minimally affected because “Trump honors Israel.”
several participants at a Florida gathering received messages from God that suggested he would “mitigate” the outbreak.
many charismatic leaders who participated in a “global conference call” of prayers to stop the coronavirus
God will spare the United States the worst of the virus’s impact because of the
Trump administration’s policies on Israel and abortion, among other policies.
. “But where the administration is saying, ‘We’ve got it under control, there’s nothing to be afraid of,’ they’ll fall in line with that.”
Even, it seems, when a global pandemic is involved.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/why-trump-friendly-christian-leaders-are-feeling-totally-fine-about-the-coronavirus.html
The con is that no matter how bad it gets, these grifting, lying, snake-oil sellers will use a sliding scale to say
"it could have been much worse. God intervened to save USA"
If you're critically sick or dead, it's your own goddamned fault.
‘Faith-healing’ megachurch cancels hospital sessions over coronavirus fears[clicky-click for linked article-RG]
Blamless like the swamp monsters, Repug hacks, Trash sycophants, corporate lobbyists who silenced, purged FDA and CDC (the entire Exec branch) of career professionals, hated experts.
Didn't realize Biden didn't want to prevent travel from the virus epicenter. The tweet also shows he was against the China ban. #votebluenomatterwho
But Trump is blameless, right?
UT Austin just shut down. The wife of the university president tested positive.
Are we going to have to live our lives in bunkers?
I wish he would push precautions to be taken more. I also wish he didn't compare this virus to the flu.
Shutting down travel from China and now Europe were good moves though. Apparently leading Dem, Biden, disagrees though.
Trump President not Biden. His response has been pathetic and self serving and you're too much of a shill to admit it.
Nathan89 still waiting
*Except the UK, because.... Boris Johnson? Who the knows?
People are still coming in from Europe.
Sorry.
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