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

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buckeyebri said:
We’re such a litigious society that I can see the potential for it. I would say there was a lot of ignored compliance.
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Absent willful transmission (e.g. purposefully coughing / spitting on someone), I think it will be difficult sledding to convict in the case of a criminal charge or in the favor of a plaintive in a civil suit. With a criminal charge I think that reasonable doubt would be pretty easy to establish (“I didn’t know I was sick” or “I didn’t have a temp...” or even “prove it was me...”); for a civil case I think you’d have to demonstrate intent and damages... damages being the easier of the two.

But yeah, litigious society that we are, it ain’t gonna stop the suits from being filed.

That said, if anything is uncovered suggesting that data at the state or federal level was knowingly withheld or misrepresented, into the fan the shit will be thrown. I’m starting to see some noise around the (implied willful mis)representation of data in Ohio...
 
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buckeyebri said:
Asking people who already hate your spouse if they know who you are is the best way to get moved to the back of the line....

The Gov says it was a failed attempt at humor....Yeah right
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You know who I am, right? LOL.

Asking anyone in that state to do a solid for someone related to the governor is like playing Russian Roulette with a 9mm and a full magazine. It’s just not going to end the way you were thinking it would.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
Sources are cited.
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Sometimes, sometimes not. Some of that article is carefully sourced, some says just as vague stuff like “new studies” without any citation at all, much like they accuse the Governor/Acton of doing. There were also a lot of “anonymous sources”, and in the case of politicians, I don’t believe them when they are speaking to a camera, I sure as hell won’t take their word for it when they won’t even identify themselves. Bottom line: if data are being suppressed, then they sure as fuck have to answer for it. But there will always be those who think this was the pandemic of a lifetime, and there will always be those who think this was all bullshit entirely. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle...but we don’t get the truth anymore, if we ever did.
 
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"Hind sight is 20-20".
To a point those governing can only react to what is known. If you start with "knowing" little you may assume the worse. When lives are assumed to be at stake what do you do? You're cautious. Good governance would adjust as facts are gained. In theory that is. In the real world what happens? A mix of good and bad judgement. If you are responsible for the lives of 12 million people what would you do?
 
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"We now have really clear evidence that wearing masks works"

"We now have really clear evidence that wearing masks works -- it's probably a 50% protection against transmission," Dr. Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "And so, what happens in the next month or two is very much in the hands of how people respond."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
 
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