In later years the college/parlor game of "you've got a one use time machine. Do you go back and shoot Hitler? When? Or do you have a better change?" may well prominently feature politicians alive today.
When you concentrate high-risk people (relatively speaking - 5.4% mortality rate versus 0.5%) together in a building, it will kill a lot of people in that building. Anyone with a modicum of common sense, understands this. Cuomo, obviously, has zero common sense.
It is not killing our nation.
It is not killing our population.
It does not justify closing down our economy, our schools, or our businesses.
Stay in your basement and hide if you want, but quit spreading lies and trying to spread fear.
Basement and hiding will not help, coronavirus will get us everywhere, we are doomed.
You're right - most of us will likely catch it.
And one of us might die from it, out of every 5,000 people who catch it. That's the math, for a 99.98% survival rate.
If that scares you? You have a problem. Seriously. You, and everyone like you, need to get the hell over it and move on with life.
More importantly, you (and those like you) need to let the rest of us get on with OUR lives. Get your damned noses out of our business, and let us get back to a normal daily life, normal daily jobs, and normal daily routines.
Sure. Always have been. The Civilization killing asteroid is overdue. The Super-volcano eruption is due. ( the last one killed so many that every human left alive is related to one woman. One guess is less than 7000 humans left, 70 k years ago. )
And there's this little problem of the upcoming Ice Age, and we've got no plans to deal with that, at all. ( there's certainly someone in multiple countries that's written up a plan to protect a few cities with nuclear powered steam pipes and build icebreakers & greenhouses in Brazil. But they're considered nuts )
But doomed by Xi's Breath? Nah, it's just a really deadly cold.
Unless you live in Seattle. Then you really are doomed. When the tsunami hits and the murder hornets swarm, there won't be anyone left below the high water mark.
( there are so many "Cascadia" quake videos... I couldn't pick one. Feel free to post the most crazed )
My little brother died Thursday from cancer so I drove down to Texas for his funeral. I left Colorado Sunday and arrived at my folks place last night. Mom’s 88 and pop’s 89. Both have COPD.
Pop told me that my mom was in the hospital and that she tested positive for covid. Three hours ago we were tested and pop is positive. I will get tested again when I get home as I tested negative. This feels like a bad acid trip.
This country will survive, I believe, but there’s a tough road ahead.
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 04:16 pm:
Zack, Sorry to hear about your brother, and hope your folks beat Covid. Sending prayers your way and have a safe journey home. I'm still enjoying fond memories of my sister, who I lost six years ago now.
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 05:54 pm:
Zack:
Just a note too remind you that the collective cosmic force of Badweb is behind you. You’ve always been the first to step up when folks needed to bond together in tough times.