330,000 and climbing from COVID (aka TrumpFlu) from a preventable with reasonable measures disease. And please don’t discount the hundreds of thousands of “survivors” with permanent impairment from the disease
Hospitals Overwhelmed by Flu Patients Are Treating Them in Tents
Across the country, medical centers are taking extraordinary measures.time.com
Hospitals were full in 2018 from the regular flu that people were treated in tents, stop buying into fear.
Remind me, what were the total deaths from all causes in 2020 compared to 2019 and 2018....?
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Almost 100 Apple Stores Closed Again, Including All Stores in California
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The problem with that number is, it doesn't work this year. How many of these total deaths are work accidents? How many from car accidents, etc.? When people are staying at home, you have to subtract these types of deaths, because they can't happen this year when people are isolated at home. So naturally, the total number of deaths would be lower this year which you have to take into the equation.
At least we can talk about this freely. In other forums I got banned for disagree with people. At least here the mods accept both arguments.
It was not the act itself that was a problem 1) COVID was already in the wild in Europe and the US when the Chinese first identified it 2) the “bans” were nothing like a ban and crammed a lot of people together on airplanes and in airports - incompetence, sheer incompetence, 3) no contact tracing, so exposed people just kept spreading it, 4) no advance preparedness even though past presidents literally left an instruction manual,5) no advance orders for critical supplies, 6) firing, downsizing and ignoring our professional staff equipped to deal with these issues, and now the big one 7) purposely trying to get Americans infected so we might get “herd immunity”. - yah they got the emails to prove it, hard to believe.
So yah, your point is taken. It was Nancy Pelosi
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It's interesting how when some hear hoofbeats the thinking not only skips zebras, but jumps directly to centaurs. Somehow it also quickly becomes such a cemented belief (or at least is presented as being supposedly so strong, for one reason or another) that not only the possibility of it just being horses is not even considered, but the mere existence of horses is basically consistently denied and argued against.
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What an absolutely ridiculous post! They absolutely should re-open stores every chance they get. Apple has no idea the what the state of the country will be in as the days/weeks/months go by so it's absolutely stupid to keep the doors closed. SMH.
It's not as if opening Apple stores caused the increase in cases. Of course they're going to open when they get the chance. I just feel bad for any business having to go back-and-forth with opening/reopening. Many of them are not going to survive (and many haven't).
How about you provide a mathematical model for your "herd immunity" in the case of Covid-19? After all, we're not living in the 18th century anymore. So how does your herd immunity work? What are the requirements, what the results?
Well maybe you don't know many people personally. I happened to have two friends who tested positive. I work at a car dealership and more than 10% of our employees are out on sick leave with COVID. Not just tested positive but are actually in the hospital.
I hope you realize that there are an S-load of people in this world just dying to find a chance to sue Apple so they can pack their pockets $$$$$$. I don't blame Apple one bit keeping as few people in their stores as possible for this precise reason. That family-owned hardware business has less than 1/10th of a percent of customers that Apple has that would want to sue them for not protecting a customer's health during shopping. 🙄
Sounds like you should make a career in medical consultation.
For some a visit there may come more unexpected than they think.
The “but I thought it’s all a hoax” sort of patient must be fun to have around.
Haha, nice way of coming up with a “death rate.”
Absolutely comical people still float this nonsense. Lol
And how many will die because they are too afraid to visit the hospital, how many more suicides will there be, how many will suffer psychologically, financially and health-wise because of the economy going down etc. etc. Yeah, that's right, go figure genius.
You lost them at "look up the definition".There are not enough facepalms for the idiotic nonsense you're spreading here. A pandemic kills 99% of the population? Maybe, just maybe, look up the definition of "pandemic".
I’m not saying there is a conspiracy — I just don’t believe the numbers. If someone was at death’s door with cancer or diabetes, and they catch the virus, and they end up dying — will the cause of death be the virus or the underlying disease they were already dying of? We don’t know the answer — but the total death count for the year we will know. That total number is what we should focus on.
Sure, that would not be the case with millions of dead people piling up on the street. Guess for some people it makes sense to be afraid to go to a hospital when most others are at home, so it's relatively safe instead of hospitals being overloaded hotspots so they can't go there at all. It's true that businesses are shutting down now that pushed bills from one month to the next, because they were never profitable enough to survive long term. Other businesses are doing great and are expanding in this crisis. No mentally stable person would commit suicide. Those who are mentally unstable need help to begin with, start by support via video conferencing. It works somewhat well in other countries, you know.
I know many companies and research institutes looking for new staff and they can't find any. Thanks for calling me genius, but there's no reason. I don't really think I'm much smarter than anyone else with a PhD in the scientific field.
What’s the correct way to come up with a pandemic virus’s fatality rate, Mr./Ms. Stock Trader?
To all the sheep that think this is a dangerous virus it’s not. Why can ppl riot fly in crapped airplanes and be crapped in long lines at the grocery stores and the mayors and governors can brake there own rules. But small businesses can’t keep there stores open and go to church. The virus was blown way out of a portion by the media and the government. Once they seen the real numbers of deaths from the China virus they would of had to open up the economy and let ppl live there lives. U subtract 94 percent then u wil get the real number of ppl that have died. The government is trying to control ppl. The flu has killed more ppl than the China virus has
Newsflash, you're already dying. I'm already dying, so is everyone else. So no one is dying of Covid-19 then? Sounds like Trump logic. And actually, we already know the answer. You probably don't, others do.
As pointed out above, that's wrong.
Well, at least sheep are much, much smarter than people who claim the virus is harmless. 😂
The number is the number — it doesn’t work or not work — it just is what it is. If the total number of deaths in 2020 is within the normal range, it was a normal year for deaths — below that range would be a good year, and above that range would be a bad year. You can’t argue with this number.
Lots of countries especially in the third world have taken almost no actions at all against the virus hoax, so where are the millions of deaths piling up in their streets?Sure, that would not be the case with millions of dead people piling up on the street. Guess for some people it makes sense to be afraid to go to a hospital when most others are at home, so it's relatively safe instead of hospitals being overloaded hotspots so they can't go there at all. It's true that businesses are shutting down now that pushed bills from one month to the next, because they were never profitable enough to survive long term. Other businesses are doing great and are expanding in this crisis. No mentally stable person would commit suicide. Those who are mentally unstable need help to begin with, start by support via video conferencing. It works somewhat well in other countries, you know.
I know many companies and research institutes looking for new staff and they can't find any. Thanks for calling me genius, but there's no reason. I don't really think I'm much smarter than anyone else with a PhD in the scientific field.
PhD? 🤣 You can put lipstick on a big, it doesn't make it any prettier.