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re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:42 pm to
Posted by SneakyWaff1es
Member since Nov 2012
3941 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:42 pm to
Don't you already? I thought that was a widely known problem?
Posted by S1C EM
Athens, GA
Member since Nov 2007
11585 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:43 pm to
quote:

Where did I say "every doctor" or "every case"?

You backed yourself in a corner and are now putting words in my mouth that I never said just to try and get yourself out


It was implied. Don't try and play dumb now. Re-read your statement. If you want to clarify it now, that's fine. But you said what you said without any clarification or context. I have put no words in your mouth.

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I said that the 80,000 number wasn't really accurate, and you said it was.

No numbers came from me. I didn't say a percentage because my argument is based on nobody definitely knowing, and that was always my point.

They are undoubtedly classifying some of those 80,000 as COVID deaths wrongly, and your replies flat out claimed I was wrong. Which means your claim is that the 80,000 is accurate. You even said verbatim, it's accurate.

But NOW look at you. Suddenly you're saying it's not definite, and being hyperbolic and acting like I said some huge number when I never did.

You're being an a-hole here, and I'm pretty sure you know it.


As far as anyone on the outside of this is concerned, it's accurate. If 80k people have died while being COVID-positive, there's no way for us to know which ones MAY have died of something else. What we know is that they are dead and they had COVID. It is reasonable to assume that those facts are not coincidental. If you disagree, so be it.

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Well isn't that convenient.

You don't know what I've posted in this thread, but you didn't have a problem claiming all I've posted in this thread is far-right Facebook meme bullshite.

Again... you... a-hole.


Never said anything about "all you have posted". I was speaking to the post that I responded to at the time. And you still sound like a Facebook meme.

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LOLWTF?

I say the 80,000 number is merely inaccurate because doctors and hospitals and municipalities can't be 100% certain.

YOU claim it's accurate and I'm wrong.

But now you're saying doctors and hospitals can't be 100% certain.

And I'm supposedly the one off point?

WTF, man....


You didn't say they were "a little off" on the numbers. You have implied (and even here now, outright stated) that the numbers we have are the result of rampant corruption and deception in order to pad the pockets of hospital administrators. I've said from the get-go that doctors can't be 100%, but that where COVID is involved, they have, generally speaking, made reasonable connections to patients' deaths.

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Why do I have to know how to handle it?


Just tell me what constitutes a COVID death for you. That's the only question that needs to be answered here. You tell me what a person has to die of for it to be classified as a COVID death.

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All I know is there's a lot of bullshite politics going on with this thing, and those numbers getting thrown around are being used in political arguments by government officials who actually make decisions that effect our lives.

And I'm just one of the many MANY folks that's pissed off about it because our government, BOTH SIDES, along with corporatists and unscrupulous profiteers, have ZERO credibility and are most assuredly exploiting this thing one way or another for an agenda that will likely hurt people somehow.

I'm not just being cynical about it, either. Politicians, their cronies, and money-grubbing fricks have proven time and time again that they are liars, thieves, and cheats, and they will do and say anything to sustain their status or political power.

The Democrats and Doomers want so bad for that 80,000 number to sound bad and even be worse. They'd never admit it, and in fact would surely deny it, but they can't help but prove post after post that they are using it as an excuse to demean and hate on Trump and anyone that isn't "on their side".

These are the same fricking people who just spent 3+ years propagating lies and spinning bullshite to try and oust a duly elected President. They aren't honest and they have no integrity or credibility.

There freaking fraud and dishonesty everywhere all around us at all times. Droves of it as far as the eye can see. Year after year. Lie after lie. Our tax dollars essentially being stolen by lawmakers on a goddamn daily basis.



Okay, there's a lot of frustration here. I get it. I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying, but you're venturing off into tinfoil-hat-land. You say you don't care about political leanings, but I think you do. Regardless of side, you're not a fan of how the politics has been injected into this whole thing and I understand that. And I agree that it's happening. Personally, I am trying to separate and pay no attention to the politics and I'm not buying into one narrative or the other. Independent of all of that, whether it's 50k or 80k, these people are dead. As far as being accurate, 80k people tested positive for COVID and died. I have no way to reliably refute the number and I still believe that COVID+DEAD is generally not coincidental.

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And yet, in this one case, you want to believe it's all accurate and legit?

*sigh* SMH


You can't spend your entire life thinking that everyone is intentionally lying to you. I have no issue with being skeptical. But give or take, I believe the numbers being put out are a good-faith representation of what's going on until someone can produce some compelling evidence that doesn't involve anecdotal stories or outliers.

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You said the number was accurate. You said I was wrong. You said I'm such a dolt that I'm just parroting rightwing Facebook memes. And now you're putting words in my mouth that I didn't say.

And you don't think you've insulted me? And you wonder why I'm a pejorative spitting fool at you?

Dude, you need some serious introspection.

I know I'm an a-hole, but only to other assholes.



The number is as accurate as far as you or I know. I have no doubt there is some variance and that what you're concerned about is happening from time to time. The difference is that I don't believe that's happening nearly as often as you seem to think it is. You may be right. But we have no way to prove that.

And let's be clear. I have not once called you a dolt. I don't even think I've called you a name yet. But I am simply making an observation when I tell you that your post, to which I originally responded, read like a Facebook meme. And I stand by that. Personally, I wouldn't get bent out of shape and uber-offended by that. You keep this up and you'll die of a heart attack and be labeled a COVID death according to your order of things.

Dude, chill out. We don't agree. It's fine. Nothing for you to raise your blood pressure over. Take a break. I am.
Posted by S1C EM
Athens, GA
Member since Nov 2007
11585 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:47 pm to
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We're good. I'm just trying to debate with a guy asking bullshite like, "Exception or rule?" as if this is an argument against "some doctors are dishonest".

You see, he made a bullshite assertion that somehow suggesting some doctors are lying for profit because they get paid more money for declaring someone a COVID death, or simply because the doctor might be a political animal and wants the number padded for that purpose, was some how incomprehensible because no doctor would "go against the Hippocratic Oath".


None of this ever happened. You know why? Because you NEVER said "some". You realize you could have saved both of us some time, right?
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64151 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 5:13 pm to
76 olympic sized swimming pools worth of syringes have been ordered by HHS.

LINK /
Posted by Lucius Clay
Member since Sep 2012
3420 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:00 pm to
I was ready to start going out to eat a week ago. The restaurants are allowed to open in Georgia. Trump says need to re-open, says testing is over-rated, and is criticizing the stay-at-home orders in a number of states.

So why can't I just stroll over to the restaurant of my choice and spend some cash tonight?

The media isn't forcing these places to stay closed. So if everyone wants to get back to normal, looks to me like they need to go for it.

I'm game...but I'm just wondering if there are some folks -- including some Trump supporters -- who don't quite trust him. Apparently some of the more elder among them would rather risk his re-election than their own lives. ???
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64151 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:11 pm to
Restaurants can't operate profitably at 20% capacity so many remain closed. They lose less money remaining closed.
Posted by IT_Dawg
Georgia
Member since Oct 2012
21842 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:17 pm to
The 2 restaurant owners I know, can't get their employees to come back to work when the government is paying them $939/week to NOT work. One told me that he would have to guarantee each employee $24/hr for 8 hours per day to even get them to consider it....

Meanwhile, the employees are off partying and going to the gym on social media, so clearly not scared of the VID...

These fricks in Washington want to extend the $600/wk from Fed until January too AND forgive all leases and mortgages until January. These owners cannot afford to guaranteed $5,500/month for all their staff. Another downfall from the "not flu" actions taken
Posted by BeefDawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
4747 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:24 pm to
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It was implied. Don't try and play dumb now. Re-read your statement. If you want to clarify it now, that's fine. But you said what you said without any clarification or context. I have put no words in your mouth.
LOL, no it wasn't.

WTF kind of rationale is this?

One of your first replies to me was you claiming I said "ALL" doctors. You even put the fricking word in caps.

Literally you came out the gate putting words in my mouth that I didn't say.

And your logic that it was implied is ridiculously flawed, which is why you're full of shite.

I said the 80,000 was inaccurate. I didn't say all 80,000 was fraud and bullshite. Which would be completely asinine. Not to mention, AGAIN, I included municipalities. Therefore, by default, this means not all doctors involved made bogus declarations because not every one of those 80,000 declarations involved a fricking MD.

Again, you do realize millions of people die every year and it didn't happen in a hospital where some MD declared time of death, right?

So it makes no sense to claim there was an "implied" "ALL doctors". So GTFO with that shite.


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As far as anyone on the outside of this is concerned, it's accurate. If 80k people have died while being COVID-positive, there's no way for us to know which ones MAY have died of something else. What we know is that they are dead and they had COVID. It is reasonable to assume that those facts are not coincidental. If you disagree, so be it.
It's not that I disagree, it's that you clearly don't understand the concept that if "guesswork" is involved, and there's "no way for us to know which ones MAY have died of something else", then this also means we don't know which ones MAY have died of COVID, either.

I don't know how much might be fraud, that's why I didn't and still won't give a guess. And I've made that point clear from the beginning, too.

What I do know is the government is untrustworthy and has an absurdly long track-record of exploiting situations like this for an abusive political and economic agenda, there's a clear political narrative exploiting this situation permeating the Left and Leftwing media in favor of that number hopefully being as large as possible so it can be used as a narrative weapon, and there is a consistent tens of billions a year in healthcare fraud by doctors and hospitals who took the Hippocratic Oath.

For Christ's sake, NYC had a day a few weeks back where they added 3,700 cases out of the blue to their COVID death total number, and then admitted these were just "presumed COVID deaths", and that many of the people had simply been found dead at their homes/nursing homes/on the street(homeless) and weren't even tested and had not even seen a doctor for treatment.

The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive. - The New York Times

But yeah, so accurate. 3,700 un-fricking-tested, no doctor-seeing, "presumed" COVID deaths.


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You didn't say they were "a little off" on the numbers.
I didn't say ANY number, you jackwagon.


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You have implied (and even here now, outright stated) that the numbers we have are the result of rampant corruption and deception in order to pad the pockets of hospital administrators.
No I fricking didn't "outright state" shite. And I never used the word "rampant" either.

I even explained to someone else that there was 3-10% attributed to fraud in healthcare by the FBI and OBA. In what fricking universe is 3-10% "rampant" and implies "ALL"?

And you don't think you're putting words in my mouth???

You got a fricking screw loose, dude.


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Just tell me what constitutes a COVID death for you. That's the only question that needs to be answered here. You tell me what a person has to die of for it to be classified as a COVID death.
Why do I have to do this? WTF does this have to do with me saying the 80,000 number is likely inaccurate and you insisting I'm wrong for saying that?

I clearly pointed at people with pre-existing conditions and people with extenuating circumstances (car accident, homeless, morbidly obese, 95 years old... remember my examples?). This alone is more proof that I wasn't possibly implying "ALL", as it's obvious not every COVID death involved a person with pre-ex or extenuating circumstances.

If you're accusing me of "implying" anything, look no further than there, where I very obviously listed sub-standard examples.

Because you know what that implies? It implies I'm only talking about fricking sub-standard examples, and not "ALL".


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You can't spend your entire life thinking that everyone is intentionally lying to you. I have no issue with being skeptical. But give or take, I believe the numbers being put out are a good-faith representation of what's going on until someone can produce some compelling evidence that doesn't involve anecdotal stories or outliers.
Again with the hyperbole.

I don't think "everyone" is intentionally lying to me.

Why are you constantly using extremes to try and make your arguments?

I believe the Left is trying their best to inflate the number of COVID deaths because they think they can use that to demean Trump and anyone who doesn't side with them.

I believe not all doctors and hospitals are honest and there absolutely is exploitation of the CARES Act for profit. And btw, by saying "not all" does NOT mean I'm saying the extreme opposite. It just means "not all". So don't be a tard and make a bullshite "you implied" claim again.

And I believe the government, especially the Democrats and anti-Trumpers, are trying to make this entire situation appear and feel worse than it really is because they think it will allow them to propagate a negative narrative and hopefully get rid of Trump in November.

And if Trump wins again, I am 1000% certain they will try to use something in this to manufacture another set of hearings and possibly impeachment trials. So they need this shite to appear as bad as possible. And if you watch the Lefty media, it's beyond obvious they are trying to do this. Which means none of these number can definitively be trusted, and calling them inaccurate is perfectly reasonable.


And for anyone to act like this is unreasonable or conspiratorial is naive as frick. They'd have to have been asleep the past 3 years, or they're simply a dishonest leftist hack.


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And let's be clear. I have not once called you a dolt. I don't even think I've called you a name yet. But I am simply making an observation when I tell you that your post, to which I originally responded, read like a Facebook meme. And I stand by that. Personally, I wouldn't get bent out of shape and uber-offended by that. You keep this up and you'll die of a heart attack and be labeled a COVID death according to your order of things.

Dude, chill out. We don't agree. It's fine. Nothing for you to raise your blood pressure over. Take a break. I am.

LOL, don't you worry about me. There are people on this forum who know me IRL, and they laugh everytime they see me post because they no "angry Beef" is just my Rant shtick.

You're not the first to get the wrath of my profanity laced rage posts and you certainly won't be the last.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64151 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 8:33 pm to
Tucker highlighted tonight-

Georgia "opened" almost 3 weeks ago. (we know it wasn't a full opening, but stick with me here...)

All of the pundits said Georgia would be stacking up bodies in 2 to 3 weeks. Even Trump said Kemp went too far. Trump had personal calls with Kemp to scold him.

Fact #1- The % of positive covid results are lower than they were 3 weeks ago.

Fact #2- The # of daily new covid hospitalizations are lower than they were 3 weeks ago.


As optimistic as I have consistently been, documented in this shitshow of a thread, from day one, not even I thought we'd see lower numbers after a soft opening. I thought we'd see those number rise, but for the better.

The fact these numbers are actually lower is very encouraging.

So let me ask the next question... with such happy, awesome, encouraging numbers, why are most media outlets and social media gimps still shitting on everything and demanding lockdowns?

I have a theory: those people don't give a frick about you, healthcare, economy, life, or death.

Posted by TMDawg
Member since Nov 2012
5374 posts
Posted on 5/14/20 at 8:51 pm to
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I have a theory: those people don't give a frick about you, healthcare, economy, life, or death.
I’m 100% sure you didn’t just now come to that conclusion. That or I hope you didn’t just now come to it.
Posted by SneakyWaff1es
Member since Nov 2012
3941 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:30 am to
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why are most media outlets and social media gimps still shitting on everything and demanding lockdowns?
When you fully buy into an idea, right or wrong, you go all the way. People here think wearing gloves in public helps prevent the spread.
Posted by FaCubeItches
Soviet Monica, People's Republic CA
Member since Sep 2012
5875 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 5:04 am to
Posted by FaCubeItches
Soviet Monica, People's Republic CA
Member since Sep 2012
5875 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 5:23 am to
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
29712 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 8:38 am to
quote:

So let me ask the next question... with such happy, awesome, encouraging numbers, why are most media outlets and social media gimps still shitting on everything and demanding lockdowns?



there IS an agenda, and the best interest of regular people IS NOT a consideration

even if cases had risen in GA, Kemp did the right thing

some of us cherish freedom & liberty more than we fear death

and this virus is not anywhere near as scary as we have been led to believe

when the "experts" shite on a treatment that works (HCQ) and say it is DANGEROUS, even though we have been using it for 3/4 of a century and then turn around and tout a highly expensive miracle cure that they have a financial interest in; then it is time to ignore them or revolt

Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64151 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 10:59 am to
the gimpalong gang is still awaiting orders from the jungle obelisk, the obelisk is trembling and humming..
Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
25720 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 2:14 pm to
It is my expectation that as of 7PM today, Georgia will have the 14th most deaths in the country from covid19.

Why is this significant?
When Kemp announced opening up the state (and when he was dogged by the media and trump to some extent), Georgia was 11th in the country.
Not every state is the same. The projection of the media (located in NY, NJ, CT areas) is that every one is NY but we just don't know it yet. And despite the media spin/wants, that cant be further from the truth.

Posted by IT_Dawg
Georgia
Member since Oct 2012
21842 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 2:27 pm to
quote:

It is my expectation that as of 7PM today, Georgia will have the 14th most deaths in the country from covid19.

Why is this significant?
When Kemp announced opening up the state (and when he was dogged by the media and trump to some extent), Georgia was 11th in the country. Not every state is the same. The projection of the media (located in NY, NJ, CT areas) is that every one is NY but we just don't know it yet. And despite the media spin/wants, that cant be further from the truth.


How about the fact we are the 8th most populated State in the Union with the busiest airport in the country as well...Seems like Kemp has done a better job than most...
This post was edited on 5/15/20 at 3:05 pm
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64151 posts
Posted on 5/15/20 at 3:46 pm to
quote:

The 2 restaurant owners I know, can't get their employees to come back to work when the government is paying them $939/week to NOT work. One told me that he would have to guarantee each employee $24/hr for 8 hours per day to even get them to consider it....



Seems like there's ways around this. Open with limited menu with limited staff and use your PPP to bonus the worthy employees who come back. They could still open.

Like in bar rescue they always trim down the menu to just a couple things that are quicker to turn around with just 1 schmuck in the kitchen, then the owner waits the tables and pours drinks (20% capacity). Seems doable.

Put up help wanted sign, cut off the benefits of the shite people.
This post was edited on 5/15/20 at 3:53 pm
Posted by djsdawg
Member since Apr 2015
33040 posts
Posted on 5/16/20 at 7:20 pm to
quote:

I said the 80,000 was inaccurate.


Some have been erroneously missed, some have been erroneously included. The real number could very well be higher than the current number shows, maybe its lower, or maybe its about right where it really is.
Posted by djsdawg
Member since Apr 2015
33040 posts
Posted on 5/16/20 at 7:34 pm to
quote:

There is nothing incorrect with saying no one could have handled the situation to your liking.




Trump could have easily handled it good enough to my liking. He didnt.
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