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

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sparcboxbuck said:
Just another day of hand wringing and searching for links to ratchet up his anxiety levels. Just brush it off... his anxiety is going to kill / stroke him out before the virus touches him. But that’s ok, he won’t die with a positive test result so he did his part.

Wash your hands, sneeze into your elbow... wash, rinse, post links, show outrage, repeat it again tomorrow.
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One thing is certain. If this is the worst pandemic of our lives, we are in really good shape.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
Let's play a fun game. Type any three digit number into Google, followed by 'new cases' without the quotes.
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Here's what i got for the number 265:

Kentucky infant with COVID-19 dies. 265 new coronavirus cases and 8 new deaths.

Despite the emotion-bait headline, the article clearly states:

It is not conclusive that the nine-month-old, who was from Hopkins County, died as a direct result of COVID-19, state Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack said. But since she had the virus when she died, the state’s protocol is to report it as a coronavirus death.
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“In a normal world, without COVID-19, the cause of death probably would’ve been presumed to be SIDS,” or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Stack said.
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sparcboxbuck said:
Just another day of hand wringing and searching for links to ratchet up his anxiety levels. Just brush it off... his anxiety is going to kill / stroke him out before the virus touches him. But that’s ok, he won’t die with a positive test result so he did his part.
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Actually, I'd almost believe he'd be willing to kick the bucket from COVID just to prove his point.
 
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While you're typing in random 3 digit numbers and "new cases" (no quotes) don't type in 998

You're probably wasting your time going through all the numbers. Instead, do a couple... read the dates of the stories that pop up and remember this global pandemic has been a thing since January, so there's a pretty good likelihood that any 3 digit combo of numbers was the daily case count somewhere on the planet during that time.
 
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I'm experiencing Covid fatigue. New cases? I don't care. Fighting about masks? I don't care.

Every day since mid-March has been Covid this, Covid that - the joys of working in health care - and it's going to continue for months. I'll deal with it there, but otherwise, I don't care.
 
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