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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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MililaniBuckeye said:
Used the search function to check every post I made in this thread and lo and behold I never said "no big deal". Now you'll claim that I didn't use that exact phrase but said so nonetheless. Tell you what, you find where I said that the deaths of old folks don't matter, post it, and I'll fess up to it.

Folks in their 70s-80s with other conditions dying is significantly less heart-wrenching that a 12-year-old kid with his whole fucking life ahead of him who killed himself because of being cooped up.
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Yeah, you're known for fessing up to things :roll2:.

#1 was your octogenarian comment a few pages back. Not wasting my time finding the other one that I know of because everyone knows how you'll dance around how you didn't mean it that way. I already called you on it and you did your predictable Mili thing.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Yeah, you're known for fessing up to things :roll2:.

#1 was your octogenarian comment a few pages back. Not wasting my time finding the other one that I know of because everyone knows how you'll dance around how you didn't mean it that way. I already called you on it and you did your predictable Mili thing.
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Remember that time he said he would quit posting for awhile when he lost some bet on here?

That was cool.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
I don’t think that anyone really wants to just let people die. But from the very beginning of all of this, even from the medical establishment, the point was just that... regrettably, people are going to die from this virus. The shelter in place orders were designed to not overrun the capacity of the health care system. I don’t think that I’ve read anyone in a position of authority state that goals were, are, or should be to prevent mortality. Merely, the goals were designed to give the greatest opportunity to the masses as a whole.

It will be very interesting, from a management perspective, to watch how this unfolds. That is, the grand reopening...

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Aside from the obvious hope for a miracle cure, what I hope for more than anything is a metered reopening that relies on non-sensational metrics so that neither grandpa has to die and those who are out of work due to the economic retraction can put food back on their tables. Regrettably, I fear that both groups may still suffer losses... but I hope losses on both sides can be minimized with bipartisan leadership that considers all who are suffering and a populous who is willing to do their parts (see discussion related to wearing a mask in public).
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First, don't put words in my mouth, I OBVIOUSLY am rooting for death. 8D

In regards to the lockdown, unfortunately we fucked up the reaction time and lockdown plain and simple. It was too late and too many states either tried to skirt around the edges or just didn't do anything. A lot of places in the heartland are now have skyrocketing case counts due to that.

It's incredibly important that people understand that nationally, cases have only plateaued and in a lot of states they are rising. Opening back up now is just going to lead to a jump in daily cases from ~28,000+ to ~50,000 and I guess we'll see how hospitals handle that. And instead of helping businesses, I think you're just going to have an incredibly cautious public and another possible lockdown in a month.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Captain Aloha up there has said multiple times it's NBD as long as it's just old people and the already sick younger ones, so......
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I don’t think that Mili thought it was no big deal last week when he went in for testing. I also don’t think that anyone here believes that any of this is no big deal.

I do think that you see some who recognize that, even in the best of cases, there will tragically be a loss of life... and that loss of life tends to have a bias in terms of who makes it and who doesn’t.

It’s a big deal for all of us.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
I don’t think that Mili thought it was no big deal last week when he went in for testing. I also don’t think that anyone here believes that any of this is no big deal.

I do think that you see some who recognize that, even in the best of cases, there will tragically be a loss of life... and that loss of life tends to have a bias in terms of who makes it and who doesn’t.

It’s a big deal for all of us.
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Well there I know you’re wrong, when we have at least one person regularly posting still saying this is the “common cold”
 
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1926Buckeyes said:
First, don't put words in my mouth, I OBVIOUSLY am rooting for death. 8D

In regards to the lockdown, unfortunately we fucked up the reaction time and lockdown plain and simple. It was too late and too many states either tried to skirt around the edges or just didn't do anything. A lot of places in the heartland are now have skyrocketing case counts due to that.

It's incredibly important that people understand that nationally, cases have only plateaued and in a lot of states they are rising. Opening back up now is just going to lead to a jump in daily cases from ~28,000+ to ~50,000 and I guess we'll see how hospitals handle that. And instead of helping businesses, I think you're just going to have an incredibly cautious public and another possible lockdown in a month.
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Thanks for the levity, Mr. Reaper. LOL.

I’m not qualified to speak to our reaction or lack thereof. But, I’d like to see what you’re basing your statements on. I’m not, in any way, disputing you... you could be completely right and I’ve just not seen the same evidence.

That said, I’m not sure that I’m seeing reliable method of reporting such that your numbers can be supported. The (back) reporting of gross numbers without context absolutely is showing growth, but I’m not certain that they are “new cases” in so much as they are “newly reported cases.” Consider the numbers for Ohio that, on a gross number metric, jumped through the roof. Those numbers were entirely driven by the release of cases in Marion and Pickaway counties... and the penitentiaries therein. They were not new cases per se, they were just added to the gross tally and poorly attributed to the day of reporting.

Again, not saying that you’re wrong, but I’ve yet to see decent statistics on percent positive tests, nor have I seen good numbers on net new cases over time. Either of those metrics would be of value to the insight needed to speak to how this is spreading. I just don’t see those numbers being shared by anyone.
 
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