Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[bad dancer]

Of course it's a chubby middle-aged white guy with a goatee. These guys need a name like Karens do.

I think the name is Kevin ?

[Yonder_River]

Wow.

https://www.facebook.com/brian.k.sim...3102628927090/

I heard about this earlier, that is so fucked up, but not surprising.

[Rasputin]

Wow.

https://www.facebook.com/brian.k.sim...3102628927090/

Wow indeed, that's the most evil politics I've heard of in this country. I hope it's broadcast on the major outlets, and that those culpable are prosecuted. Damn, it's a sad day.

[SB]

[iceman]

Wow.

https://www.facebook.com/brian.k.sim...3102628927090/

Could we get an abstract please? "Wow" isn't giving me much to go on here.

[iceman]

You should just go back to posting pics of fat chicks.

[Game Over]

And comparing flu numbers from prior years with no social distancing to Covid numbers from a few months of social distancing is apples to oranges. And comparing a bug for which we have a somewhat effective vaccine every year to a bug against we have no defense other than avoiding other people is apples to potatoes.

So influenza is life threatening if you are in an extremely compromised physical state and or too fucking stupid to get a flu shot. Covid is life threatening if you are a human being in 2020. Why the hell do people continue trying to compare the 2?

Uhhh. Do we have a “Bad covid takes” thread?

Over 90% of Italy’s dead had pre existing conditions.

40-50% of covid deaths in the US are in nursing homes....

One also has to wonder what flu deaths would look like if states were to mandates all influenza patients becsebt to nursing homes...

[Game Over]

[skifishbum]

Wow.

https://www.facebook.com/brian.k.sim...3102628927090/

I don't often zuckerbitch
and I had it on mute to not wake the betters
so I aint sure what politics bros talkin bouts
but gentle giant newfs gods make me smile
thanks
well one of employees lives with a person who tested positive
hes under quarantine and gitting tested
He works on our bike side of the warehouse and I spend less time there
Monday 2/3 of us worked and we had our first bbq communal meal
I don't remember if he worked
I know I skipped sitting down at the break room tables to eat
cause I always eat and share mine at my mount bench with my newf partner
and there is only 1 person who I have daily closer than 6' for 15min contact with
I don't wear the bandana or buff all the time but I do when I enter others space
I hope it all works out for all of us
utahs been doing a banner job of contact tracing infected and slowing the potential spread and crushing the curve
our peak keeps being pushed back july or aug now so its not surpsing to see the 14% infection increase as we test more
and attempt to put people back to work
I don't eat out much but hectors reopening was the last store/resturant in the millcreek strip mall to reopen after most closed

[Benny Profane]

Bad numbers.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...opening-286143

[Benny Profane]

Our best hope is that the Trump family lines up and pulls up their sleeves for a rushed shot.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2766651

[huckbucket]

blathering bullshit

cause fuck em .... mirite?

[Game Over]

Apparently the poster above is completely oblivious to the heavy irony of his statement.

cause fuck em .... mirite?

That seems to be what Como and other governors were thinking when they ordered nursing homes to take covid patients.

[huckbucket]

. blah, blah

So I'm rite? I knew it! Fuck em all and let Dog sort it out.

[Game Over]

So I'm rite? I knew it! Fuck em all and let Dog sort it out.

No. Many suffered and died because of governors horrible policy decisions.

But I’m sure most here will ignore this fact because the majority who made the blunder are democrats.

[Bunion 2020]

Take your fucking Polyass bullshit back where it belongs and die in a trailer fire you POS. And for those quoting and replying to him, fuck you too.

[skifishbum]

everthing in moderation
well except any form of moderation
somebodies fuckin joke poli antenna must be broke

[Casey E]

Bad numbers.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...opening-286143

“At least a half-dozen states have admitted to inflating their testing figures by mixing two different types of tests into its totals, a practice widely derided as scientifically unsound.”

That’s why Venezuela’s high testing numbers are so useless (2% are PCR, the rest “rapid tests” with too-high false results). You are in good company....

https://www.infobae.com/america/vene...n-decectuosos/

“Venezuela’s Information and Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said Russia had sent 10,000 novel coronavirus test kits”

https://tass.com/world/1134429

That probably didn’t help either.

The info war is raging. This hoax blurb by Tony Robbins is circulating in Chile

COVID-19 FACTS FROM THE FRONTLINE

A PANEL OF DOCTORS, M.D.S, AND A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER UNMASK THE SCIENCE YOU AREN’T HEARING ON TV

https://youtu.be/YgP_Au5RZVw

Anybody fact check it?

[Deebased]

Reportedly up to 80% of those infected may be asymptomatic while spreading this shit.

Tough to conceive how broad the range continues to be for the asymptomatic. I've seen 25-90% as well as the postulation from MV that there its 0 and the asymptomatic are pre-symptomatic.

[The AD]

I'm not sure some people have a good grasp on what constitutes one's body...

[Deebased]

Oh are we 7 days post the last time we had to have the "it's just the flu bro" discussion?

what about "let's do Sweden"...are we due for that loop to restart or do we have a couple more days before it's been a week?

Is this where we have to remind the exact same people about the exact same facts that questioned them last week?

the facts continue to reduce the IFR and increase the asymptomatic %

But yeah bro, keep pushing a narrative thats in your own self-interest

[Benny Profane]

Somebody started a thread about you this morning.

[Mofro261]

Asymptomatic with micro-embolisms... you still don't want to roll the dice with the blood clot flu.

[Casey E]

More from my American hoaxer friends.


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...ns_143253.html

[Deebased]

It looks like COVID is around ten times more deadly than the flu even for the under 65 crowd.

According to your source for the '17/18, notably bad, influenza season IFR-Symptomatic by age group:

18-49 → = 0.02%
50-64 → = 0.05%
__65+ → = 0.9%

COVID-19 IFR percentages for New York City based on seroprevalence:

18-44 → = 0.09%
45-64 → = 0.8%
65-74 → = 2.6%
_75+ → = 7.1%


Note: If excess deaths are included then COVID-19 deaths are 16% higher. The COVID-19 percentages are also based on positive serology test results which includes the asymptomatic whereas the flu numbers are based on CDC symptomatic estimates. The flu fatality percentages are an order of magnitude smaller if the upwards of 50% asymptomatic flu infections are included.


According to the CDC people age 20 to 44 accounted for 20% of the coronavirus hospitalizations in the U.S. whereas for the '17/18 flu season people age 18 to 49 accounted for only 10% of the influenza hospitalizations. There's also a much higher percentage of people susceptible to SARS2 compared with the flu virus.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=3590771

Take it up with the CDC if you don't like those stats.

Also, taking a small snapshot (NYC) that was horrendously mismanaged and 100% non-representative of the US population much less the world does not make a point.

How is Belarus doing?