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Arbitrary!? This is nonsense. Are you suggesting that if this illness had all the same characteristics -- long hospital stays, long-lasting damage to the body,
by inyourtenement 6y ago
Arbitrary!?
This is nonsense. Are you suggesting that if this illness had all the same characteristics -- long hospital stays, long-lasting damage to the body, highly transmissible -- but didn't kill, then we would not be "shutdown"?
- blmsjw 6y agoYes Arbitrary. Why 100k? Why not 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 1,000,000? Oh because 100k makes the stats look the best for your argument.
- inyourtenement 6y agoIt's per 100k people in the state. It makes no difference if it's 100 or 100k. The comparison was state-to-state. The absolute numbers don't matter.
- blmsjw 6y ago"total cases per 100k" you need 100k because otherwise you numbers would be insignificant. You'd be saying 0.003 people per 1000 which shows how asinine this shutdown really is. It's only when you deal with populations larger than a small city can you see statistical difference and there are too many additional error factors such as quantity/quality of tests at play that far exceed what ever trend you were trying to draw.
- blmsjw 6y ago"Are you suggesting that if this illness had all the same characteristics -- long hospital stays, long-lasting damage to the body, highly transmissible -- but didn't kill, then we would not be "shutdown"?" YES, THIS IS THE PRECEDENT FOR LITERALLY EVERY OTHER FUCKING ILLNESS KNOWN TO MAN. Why didn't people care about AIDS this much?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Why didn't people care about AIDS this much? Because it disproportionately affected (and was popularly portrayed as doing so even more than it actually did, reinforcing this) homosexuals and intravenous drug users, populations a large portion of the rest of the country actively wanted to die.
- blmsjw 6y agoDo you really believe that most American's are like that? It's funny how liberals think a socialist utopia is feasible while simultaneously thinking the worst of people.
- inyourtenement 6y agoBecause it was not transmitted by breathing. jfc.
- blmsjw 6y agoH1N1, Ebola, and Zika, can be transmitted through the air and they are all are more deadly than Covid. Thank God Barack Obama had that miracle cure to prevent mass panic and shutdown...
- inyourtenement 6y agoWhat is it that you think is actually going on? What conspiracy?
- blmsjw 6y agoEasy. Incumbents always win during re-election and a stable economy. To beat Trump, you have to first tear down the economy. I know you aren't this naïve... Why do you think they always called it coronavirus instead of SARS-Coronavirus-2? They didn't want you to know it's just a mutation of the same thing we saw in 2004.
- m0zg 6y agoWrong hill to die on, bud. 60M people got infected with Swine Flu, and nobody even thought of shutting anything down. Why? Because it was about as deadly as regular flu. So yes, deaths are the right metric to track.
- inyourtenement 6y agoCompletely irrelevant. There were an estimated 274k hospitalizations from swine flu, over the course of that year. So swine flu did not have the characteristics I specified. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...
- blmsjw 6y ago"estimated 274k hospitalizations" - remind me again how widespread the swine flu tests were in comparison to COVID?