Oso planning to go pro
Unless you are old enough to have lived through either of the world wars or the Great Depression, the world has not seen anything as big as this pandemic during your lifetime.
But that's just it, there are people that do think the world is going to end because of this and that it's going to kill absolutely everyone. Just bizarre.
You're right, but the fact it's a pandemic and a virus that has brought out so much fear and weirdness in people, is what is strange to me. This isn't like a nuclear attack on the country or something where the entire world would be wiped out. But that's just it, there are people that do think the world is going to end because of this and that it's going to kill absolutely everyone. Just bizarre.
(clears throat). JB.
Correct, very ignorant to compare HIV to Covid 19.
Ridiculous.
I'm not necessarily saying they are terrified now, but at one point people WERE terrified, you said it yourself. I mean, let's be realistic here, we can do whatever we need to do to TRY to mitigate the risks(wear masks, gloves, stay home more etc), but the bottom line is, there is still no guarantee you won't get it. You could do absolutely everything right and people around you could do everything right and you could still get it whether it's from the grocery store, a church, anywhere you go.Maybe one of the better analogies I can think of is with cancer...you can live the healthiest lifestyle there is, and there's still no guarantee you aren't going to get it at some point. Hopefully you don't, but even with the best precautions/doing everything right you can possibly do, it's still no certainty. The point is, if you get it, you get it and there's not much you can do about it, that's with any disease. If you read some of the twitter comments that I have read during this, yes, there are actually people out there that are terrified, that think the world is coming to an end and getting Covid is an automatic death sentence.The thing is, 5 or 10 years from now after we have gotten a vaccine for this(hopefully there will be one), people are STILL going to have this in the back of their minds and live differently because of it. To ME(and I don't speak for everyone), that's weird.The doom and gloom and the terror people demonstrated through this is something I would more equate to if the USA suffered a nuclear attack and radiation was everywhere...now that would be a certain death sentence, and the downright fear people were demonstrating would be warranted.
They have like four guys on the team. I think they’ll be fine.
Went back and read your post. I get the scare factor comparison. But as we learned more about HIV we found, aside from blood transfusions, needle sticks and body fluid mucous membrane exposure in medical personnel, that lifestyle changes would virtually eliminate any risk of getting it. You are right though it was initially extremely nerve racking. My comment was more for people comparing mode of transmission and risk of getting the virus for the general population.
You don’t get AIDS or cancer or any of the other day ridiculous analogies by just being in the same room with people who have AIDS or cancer. Some people seem almost desperate to downplay a virus that has killed 100K Americans in 3 months and that probably would have killed 500K or 1 million of us or more had we not done the kind of mitigation that we’ve done.
[/b]You(nor anyone else) have ZERO way of knowing what the death count would have been. None whatsoever. That's like saying If I would have bought a lottery ticket I "probably" would have won it. It's just as ridiculous.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Bingo...that's one, and read twitter comments, you'll find many more.
Likely more than 100k have also died from other neglected medical conditions, lack of "elected" care, preventive or early diagnostic care, mental issues, or the effects of a devastating economy over the past 2.5 months.#overkill
Anti lockdown tweets are being driven by bots.