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

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Taosman said:
The loss of American lives that were preventable from any cause is sad.
This is the loss of more American lives than the Korean War and Vietnam combined! And we mourn and honor those lives lost don't we! And this has only been 5 months of the pandemic! We are now looking at 200,000 Americans going to die. That is a fact not some conspiracy theory. I honor those who have died and those we will lose in the pandemic by acknowledging them here.
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what made the loss of life ‘preventable’??
Stoping someone from eating a bat?
Stoping a government from letting the man made virus get free?
stopping the world for 3 years to find treatments and vaccines?

otherwise, the virus was going to do this and no amount of ‘OMG’ was going to prevent it.
 
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Honor&Glory said:
what made the loss of life ‘preventable’??
Stoping someone from eating a bat?
Stoping a government from letting the man made virus get free?
stopping the world for 3 years to find treatments and vaccines?

otherwise, the virus was going to do this and no amount of ‘OMG’ was going to prevent it.
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Eh. Decisions were made that were less than smart. Keeping people in nursing homes probably killed a good number that didn't need to die.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Eh. Decisions were made that were less than smart. Keeping people in nursing homes probably killed a good number that didn't need to die.
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I think it’s safe to say no one had a playbook for this and decisions were made with incomplete information. Some of those, in retrospect, were good and some were bad.

A global pandemic was going to kill a disturbing amount of people. In hindsight some lives could have been saved and some economic destruction could have been prevented.

hopefully, moving forward, as the number of tests goes up and the inevitable number of cases goes up with it, we’ve learned enough to take a middle course with respect to comorbidities and don’t let the media whip our leaders into another virtue signaling lockdown.

Operate with a scalpel, not a rusty spoon.
 
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Honor&Glory said:
what made the loss of life ‘preventable’??
Stoping someone from eating a bat?
Stoping a government from letting the man made virus get free?
stopping the world for 3 years to find treatments and vaccines?

otherwise, the virus was going to do this and no amount of ‘OMG’ was going to prevent it.
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Wait...what? Did it occur from someone eating a bat or was it a man made virus from a lab? You're mixing up your dog whistles because it can't be both.
 
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Honor&Glory said:
what made the loss of life ‘preventable’??
Stoping someone from eating a bat?
Stoping a government from letting the man made virus get free?
stopping the world for 3 years to find treatments and vaccines?

otherwise, the virus was going to do this and no amount of ‘OMG’ was going to prevent it.
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There's no "OMG" that's just you. But why don't you want to honor the dead? Surely, you can do that small thing?

At this point only an ignoramus would espouse that the virus was "man made".

You are the one talking about "stopping the world for 3 years". I have urged patience like Dr Fauci.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I think it’s safe to say no one had a playbook for this and decisions were made with incomplete information. Some of those, in retrospect, were good and some were bad.

A global pandemic was going to kill a disturbing amount of people. In hindsight some lives could have been saved and some economic destruction could have been prevented.

hopefully, moving forward, as the number of tests goes up and the inevitable number of cases goes up with it, we’ve learned enough to take a middle course with respect to comorbidities and don’t let the media whip our leaders into another virtue signaling lockdown.

Operate with a scalpel, not a rusty spoon.
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Hard to "use a scalpel" when you are flying blind because your government is in denial.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Eh. Decisions were made that were less than smart. Keeping people in nursing homes probably killed a good number that didn't need to die.
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It wasn't keeping people in nursing homes per see, but rather purposely letting in COVID-positive patients into those nursing homes/assisted living facilities. The whole country was in lockdown mode, and those facilities by their nature are somewhat in that mode by default, and yet Cuomo decides they can't deny new residents who are still COIVD-positive. It wasn't a decision that was "less than smart", it was fucking criminal.
 
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Taosman said:
Hard to "use a scalpel" when you are flying blind because your government is in denial.
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which is a comforting refrain if you want to blame everything on Trump as a course of you r natural everyday life.

when you look around at the rest of the worlds results you see our Bond villain led government didn’t get it any better or any worse than other world leaders on average.

I think the guy is a clown myself but this being so much worse because Trump argument makes you and others look bad. If the American experience was significantly worse than the rest of the world then sure, but all in all of it was middle of the road you’re tilting at windmills.

I know it’s only good where governors were involved and only bad where Trump was involved or whatever but again, not completely true. Some of these governors overstepped big time.

so all in all our governments response was a mixed bag. I know that pains the ardent a trump haters to no end but there is no changing minds on that topic so, have at it.
 
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