News Is coronavirus a wild card?

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  1. LSUpride123

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    I dont really give a shit what you call anyone or me. I do whatever the fuck I choose...

    The government cannot make me wear a mask in public. I'll see their ass in court.
     
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    Be funny if your judge was wearing a mask.

    The government can't make you not drive when you're drunk but you'll see them in court.
     
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    realize when someone is trying their best to fuck with you.
     
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    So I have a question about Coronavirus that isn’t political. We’ve now learned that the first certified deaths were in California weeks before the ones in Washington state. These two in California didn’t come from China. There’s also evidence that it’s been in the US possibly since before the first of the year. Finally there’s a Stanford University report that many more people have been exposed than previously thought.
    So why has there been this exponential rise in serious cases as shown by the hospitalization and death numbers? Regardless of any quibbles about absolute numbers it’s obvious that beginning in March or so cases exploded. We saw an exponential rise in serious cases that threatened to overwhelm our health care system.
    To my uneducated eye that seems to show two contradictory pictures. Can someone who is a medical and/or an epidemiologist explain this? What does it bode for the future? Serious answers only. Political response the either blame or absolve Trump, the Democrats or anyone show you’re not serious.
     
  6. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    It means it's been here a lot longer than some thought. It also means all the panic, the shut down and crippling of our economy was not necessary.
     
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    1 infects 2. 2 infects 4. 4 infects 8, etc...Due to the low rate of serious cases, it took months to overload the system. It took getting into a nursing home to highlight the situation. It took an overcrowded city like NYC to exacerbate the situation. It took Mardi Gras to infect a whole bunch of people at once in La. Louisiana would not be as bad as it is without that.

    500 dead in Texas. We have not felt anything. It is more a news story than a real life situation where I live.
     
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    Have you seen or heard enough of his remarks, yet? It’s all over the legitimate news this morning. No need to apologize, but you need to see/hear what the president has to say.
     
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    Did you watch the full thing? It’s pretty clear he didn’t mean that you should inject yourself with disinfectant.
     
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