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05-31-2020, 10:06 AM #19801
Nope. You're months late to the discussion. Even your posts about the serology results from Spain and France were discussed here the week before you began trolling.
The response to your arguments along with your whinging about your own victimhood, because of course you're the victim, has less to do with content and more to do with people thinking you're a giant asshole.
To add to the response below, there is and has been a wide array of opinions expressed in this thread. In spite of Ron's self congratulatory opinion of himself, he's brought nothing new to the table.
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05-31-2020, 10:13 AM #19802Banned
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I was reading the thread long before I started posting in it.
I'm an asshole because you are a sensitive bunch that don't like any disruption to the groupthink. Please find an example of me being an asshole without being provoked. I'll go away if you do, but you won't be able to find one, just like you can't find a post of mine that isn't valid.
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05-31-2020, 10:17 AM #19803A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-31-2020, 10:19 AM #19804
You will not go away until everyone stops replying and giving you your fix.
Fuck you.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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05-31-2020, 10:19 AM #19805
is it really possible to be an economic negative because you’re old? fancy nursing homes can cost tens of thousands a month on top of million dollar buy ins. seems like it’s just part of the economy that keeps people employed.
real negatives are either crooks or the supposed job creators who take money out of the system rather than circulating it like the 90 whatever percent.j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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05-31-2020, 10:24 AM #19806
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05-31-2020, 10:36 AM #19807Banned
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05-31-2020, 10:37 AM #19808
That and fulfilling the social contract is what incents people to keep working past 40. If life expectancy fell to 55 the cost to keep 52 year olds on the job would skyrocket. Same thing happens if people lose faith in the system, as they will when they see the elderly being flushed away--even if they claim to agree with the policy today, their own decisions will change going forward if they have less reason to expect to be alive much longer. I don't know much from experience on this virus thing, but I can say with certainty that if you see yourself leaving the planet before the next president leaves office your investment horizon becomes decidedly short.
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05-31-2020, 10:45 AM #19809
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05-31-2020, 10:45 AM #19810
Entire reasoning of that is based on a very unlikely combination: if those infected gain immunity it's because antibodies work (let's say we are 98% confident of that). If antibodies work and there are 100+ vaccines in development and many of those already in testing, several of which have already been shown to produce antibodies, then what are the odds that it takes until 2023 to release a vaccine? 1%? 2%?
If we don't have a vaccine on the market by this time next year the Finns would be better off picking whichever one or two they like and just approving them for domestic use without further testing than following a strategy that they estimate will kill 3000 people. This suggestion is just as speculative but much more probable.
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05-31-2020, 10:45 AM #19811Banned
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Depends where the money to pay for it comes from. If it's coming from SS and Medicare then it's a negative. If it comes from savings then it's a positive, but when you die those savings are just passed on to the heirs who use those savings in other productive ways.
You think job creators are negatives??
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05-31-2020, 10:50 AM #19812Banned
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05-31-2020, 10:53 AM #19813
JHC! Is the only value of a citizen the immediate economic benefit to they provide? Sure, Jerrod K said that but I we used to be better. And wiser.
Rob on ignore. FreedomA few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-31-2020, 10:55 AM #19814
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05-31-2020, 10:56 AM #19815
^ Also, many people assume the ratio of old to young affected by COVID is static. As people adapt to circumstance, and higher-risk people take more precautions, while lower risk people relax their vigilance, then the ratio of confirmed cases will shift towards the young, which is what we're seeing now.
The hospitalization rate and death rate to hospitalization rate will go down if new infections average younger, but it's tendentious to simply assume young people are not at risk.
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05-31-2020, 10:59 AM #19816
Ronny J.
Putting the fear and the loathing into the rat flu.
One shit poast at a time. . .
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05-31-2020, 11:01 AM #19817
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05-31-2020, 11:05 AM #19818Banned
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05-31-2020, 11:06 AM #19819
It takes a village. Really.
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05-31-2020, 11:06 AM #19820
The original idea behind shutdown was to slow spread enough that the medical system could cope and so that PPE and testing resources could be stockpiled. The first has been accomplished, the second never will be, at least under the current administration. Controlling the spread of the virus indefinitely was never the plan. All continued shutdown can do is slow the spread of the virus through the population but it can't reduce the ultimate percent of the population that is infected. The longer shutdown continues the greater the economic damage and in addition, the infrastructure of society and of our personal lives will start to break down with no means or parts to repair it. What happens when your furnace breaks down next winter and there are no parts? It seems reasonable to me to wait for the preliminary results of the current vaccine trials. If the results are sufficiently promising waiting longer would make sense; if it looks like a vaccine is still a long way off we will have no choice but to accept a significant number of deaths. Individuals, especially the retired, will still have the option of isolating themselves, although not as effectively as if everyone else was doing the same.
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05-31-2020, 11:07 AM #19821
Please, just don't. Ignore.
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05-31-2020, 11:09 AM #19822Banned
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