Rants and Raves

[QUOTE=WillB.Hard;4876637]It's the protests.[/QUOTE]It's not, though. The protests (to my surprise) have resulted in very few infection cases, I assume because the protests are outside.

The new infections are because of reopenings, in particular of bars, and from social gatherings in general (eg. Parties.).

The real "stewpot" of infection is a social gathering indoors where people spend 15 minutes or more in the presence of an infected person. It's a pretty specific model, actually.

It's almost breathtaking, the degree of incompetence with which the USA (and some states, including Georgia) have "handled" this pandemic, which literally could have been stamped out in a month.

This is definitely the American Virus at this point; we've earned it.

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Just like he did once before when he ran for President and had to step down, his whole, "build American, buy American" came straight out of Trumps campaign in 2016. It is freaking hilarious.

You really cannot argue with the statistics before COVID of lowest unemployment among all demographics in US history. I for one, who is semi-retired, watched my portfolio increase at a much faster rate in the first three years under Trump than the entire 8 years under Obama. Plus, as I have stated before, as a result of the CPI-W increase which measures country-wide economic growth, military retirees and SS recipients got in the first 3 years of Trump about 75% pay raises we saw in the miserable 8 years of Obama.

Biden is a boondoggle. They are hoping to keep everyone locked down so he cannot speak off teleprompter.

[QUOTE=TMeister;4875995]This is the most nonsensical bunch of Fox Fake News lying and propaganda I've seen on this board. 100% deception spewed by a conspiracy theorist right wing nutjob.

Biden is probably one of the MOST competent statesmen we've had in the last 100 years of American politics. Served with honor and distinction under our great and beloved President Obama. Has been a leader in the Senate for over 25 years. Oversaw landmark legislation that improved the lives of everyday Americans and not the upper 1% and corporations that the GOP are enslaved to.

Best of all, in over 50 years of public life Mighty Joe has NEVER once been implicated in shady dealings with foreign enemies like Russia and North Korea to compromise our national security for his own personal gain like Commie Donnie. Trump is all too eager to appease his Communist masters like Putin and Kim Jong in exchange for some dollars and meddling in our free elections. This is the worst kind of treason any President can commit, and Trump does it easy as breathing. Joe Biden will make him pay dearly for these crimes against the American people.

As far as Pelosi and her powerful Democrat allies, they will have a fun time dismantling the evil Trump Crime Syndicate once Big Joe siezes power and rules America as God intended. The stupid wall is coming down on Day One, for starters. It will hilarious watching all the right-wing idiots down at the border crying as the bulldozers knock that fascist wall of shame down as America cheers! America will ALWAYS welcome hard-working immigrants to this country. We need them more than ever since Trump's Deplorables are too busy sitting in their trailer parks cleaning their AR-15's for the race war they desperately want.

BTW, Trump has increased the national deficit by OVER 4. 7 TRILLION DOLLARS since he took office. He's already charged the taxpayers over 272 MILLION to pay for his weekend golf trips. That is how a six-time bankrupting business clown operates. Trump has poisoned and destroyed every business venture he has ever started and managed, and now he's doing it to the USA Economy and laughing at all you right-wing Deplorables who will pay for his abuse of office with your kids and grandkids futures. Well done, traitors.

America NEEDS a morally pure and incorruptible patriot like Joe Biden more than ever. The soul of our country is at stake, and we can't allow a Communist puppet like Trump to destroy everything proud Democrats have worked centuries for. That is why every Republican I know is voting for Biden in November. They all admitted their grievous mistake voting for Liar Donnie in 2016 and are eager to repent and vote for the right man this time to make America great again and drain the putrid Trump Swamp of all the RATS.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Ozymandias;4877040]It's not, though. The protests (to my surprise) have resulted in very few infection cases, I assume because the protests are outside.[/QUOTE]That's bullshit

[QUOTE=Ozymandias;4877040]It's not, though. The protests (to my surprise) have resulted in very few infection cases, I assume because the protests are outside.

The new infections are because of reopenings, in particular of bars, and from social gatherings in general (eg. Parties.).
[/QUOTE]Happened all over US.

[QUOTE=AaronHamlet;4877667]Happened all over US.[/QUOTE]It might be hard to tell from the picture, but they are all 6 ft apart. So these protest were safe.

Nobody walks in L. A.
https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1282812142689955840?s=20

[QUOTE=SgtLurker;4877298]You really cannot argue with the statistics before COVID of lowest unemployment among all demographics in US history. I for one, who is semi-retired, watched my portfolio increase at a much faster rate in the first three years under Trump than the entire 8 years under Obama. Plus, as I have stated before, as a result of the CPI-W increase which measures country-wide economic growth, military retirees and SS recipients got in the first 3 years of Trump about 75% pay raises we saw in the miserable 8 years of Obama.

Biden is a boondoggle. They are hoping to keep everyone locked down so he cannot speak off teleprompter.[/QUOTE]Obama took office in January 2009 when unemployent was a whopping 11.8% and took it down to 4. 3% when he left office. Quite an amazing feat and a grateful nation is forever indebted to him for that accomplishment.

Commie Donnie took unemployment down another measly 1. 1% from Obama. Barely a tiny scratch. Once he decided to foist the lie that the worst global pandemic since the Spanish Flu of 1918 was just a "hoax", unemployment skyrocketed to 33% within a month and is now still hovering at 14 or 15% with likely to go up as the COVID economy is a choke and sputter restart that isn't going so well and the markets are becoming more worried for the latter part of 2020 and early 2021.

Trump is a one term FAILURE and his only legacies will be the Trump Virus and Trump Great Recession. Very telling since 99% of Americans think he's a viral disease upon our country and our values, and he has a lot of experience destroying every business venture he manages. It's no coincidence that American economies thrive under Democrat Presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Democrat leaders provide the stability and stimulus that Wall Street investors crave. Republican kooks like Dubya and Trump always find a way to wreck it and then cut and run and have a smart Dem clean up the mess. I honestly feel that once Texas and Florida turn reliably blue in 2020 and for many years to come, we will no longer be stupid enough to put an incompetent Repuke into the White House. The GOP is going extinct because they only cater to the whims of old white men, who are rapidly becoming the least important demographic in American society.

[QUOTE=Ozymandias;4877040]This is definitely the American Virus at this point; we've earned it.[/QUOTE]It will rightfully be remembered as the "Trump Virus" for hundreds of years in the history books.

Harry Truman famously said "the buck stops here". Trump is POTUS and has to take full ownership of a deadly virus that killed over 140,000 Americans on his watch and because of his incompetence and lies. Can't pass the buck. He owns it and it's his legacy.

Hospitals get $15-30 k for ea death labeled as China Virus.

'Officers Marus and Cindy Nieves fired 11 shots at Cardona — striking him seven times to his lower body, cops said. /.

The city's Medical Examiner ruled he died from the coronavirus "complicated by underlying health conditions and gunshot wounds. ".

[URL]https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/nyc-man-who-tried-suicide-by-cop-succumbs-to-coronavirus/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Ozymandias;4877040]It's not, though. The protests (to my surprise) have resulted in very few infection cases, I assume because the protests are outside.

The new infections are because of reopenings, in particular of bars, and from social gatherings in general (eg. Parties.).[/QUOTE]I've been a lefty my whole fucking life and this is complete and total bullshit fabricated by CNN and MSNBC to further an agenda. There was no magic that kept people who were spending hours in tightly packed crowds screaming their lungs out that prevented them from infecting others and puh fucking lese don't get me started on how they didn't because they were wearing a paper mask from wally world. Of course they caused the spikes that occurred two weeks to the friggen date of the beginning of the protests. Most of the states had opened 6 weeks before the protests and there wasn't any explosion of cases until the protests. And just like they don't want to take responsibility for demanding that the economy got destroyed they don't want to be responsible for the spike in cases.

It's no big deal though because the death count continues to drop, week after week, month after month. The "surge" in cases is testing. Corona already took the majority of people it's going to take just like it did everywhere else. A rapid increase in deaths as the elderly and infirm succumbed to the virus then steadily decreasing. If it wasn't an election year it would already be over. Back in April when people were dying all you heard about was "death count" now that hardly anybody (and yes, 1000 people a day in the USA is hardly anybody) all you hear about is case count but they report it as if all those people were already dead. They don't ever say "27 young people who went to a covid party have since become positive and most likely all of them will be fine and not require hospitalization nor medical treatment. ".

I can't wait until November when this is all over.

[QUOTE=NuGuy36;4876299]All you, rebut this.

A chart from Johns Hopkins tracking COVID cases by country. Is this US LEADERSHIP?

[URL]https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases[/URL]

We cannot ignore the actions Trump has taken from day one. Trump's actions are analogous to a drunk man, stumbling around in his sleep, trying to find another can of beer. Trump's actions are far from an example of leadership you would wish on your worst enemy.

Trump is lost. Admit it! He has absolutely no idea how to handle a crisis of this magnitude. His actions also show how selfish he is and how he cares more about himself than he could ever care about the American people.



Dispute that![/QUOTE]It's a virus without a vaccine and an R0 greater than two, of course it's spreading and it should, that's what viruses do.

Here's the thing that NOBODY in team lockdown is talking about.

If it's so bad why is the death rate in the basement? If covid is overwhelming the medical system in Texas why are only 10% of the ICU cases in Travis County (Austin) and 12.5% of the ICU cases in Harris County (Houston) covid cases?

How are 8,000 hospitalizations overwhelming a system with 85,000 beds?

Why do they keep talking about "lucky to survive" when the CDC says the IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) is only. 26%? (that means that 99.74% survive).

What exactly needs to be done about a virus that 99.74% of the people who catch it recover in 5-7 days?

And please don't talk about the "unprecedented" shit like refrigerated trucks for morgues and hospitals running out of beds because that all happened in 2018 as well and nobody including you gave a shit?

This is politics, its all politics because everybody on team lockdown are using articles like you posted to make this "We cannot ignore the actions Trump has taken from day one. Trump's actions are analogous to a drunk man, stumbling around in his sleep, trying to find another can of beer. Trump's actions are far from an example of leadership you would wish on your worst enemy. " seem more real.

Don't get me wrong, I think Trump is a shitstain and an embarrassment to the office of the presidency his entire life has been built on lies and hustle. I'm don't write Democrat as DemocRAT like some of the idiots here, I've voted lefty my whole life but what the left is doing now, using corona to destroy the worlds economy in order to win an election because the best people they could convince to run was Biden is fucking heinous. Worldwide 10's of millions of people are going to starve as a result of it.

It's fucking shameful.

Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you with all those facts.

[QUOTE=Admin2;4877871]It's a virus without a vaccine and an R0 greater than two, of course it's spreading and it should, that's what viruses do.

Here's the thing that NOBODY in team lockdown is talking about.

If it's so bad why is the death rate in the basement? If covid is overwhelming the medical system in Texas why are only 10% of the ICU cases in Travis County (Austin) and 12.5% of the ICU cases in Harris County (Houston) covid cases?

How are 8,000 hospitalizations overwhelming a system with 85,000 beds?

Why do they keep talking about "lucky to survive" when the CDC says the IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) is only. 26%? (that means that 99.74% survive).

What exactly needs to be done about a virus that 99.74% of the people who catch it recover in 5-7 days?

And please don't talk about the "unprecedented" shit like refrigerated trucks for morgues and hospitals running out of beds because that all happened in 2018 as well and nobody including you gave a shit?

This is politics, its all politics because everybody on team lockdown are using articles like you posted to make this "We cannot ignore the actions Trump has taken from day one. Trump's actions are analogous to a drunk man, stumbling around in his sleep, trying to find another can of beer. Trump's actions are far from an example of leadership you would wish on your worst enemy. " seem more real.

Don't get me wrong, I think Trump is a shitstain and an embarrassment to the office of the presidency his entire life has been built on lies and hustle. I'm don't write Democrat as DemocRAT like some of the idiots here, I've voted lefty my whole life but what the left is doing now, using corona to destroy the worlds economy in order to win an election because the best people they could convince to run was Biden is fucking heinous. Worldwide 10's of millions of people are going to starve as a result of it.

It's fucking shameful.

Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you with all those facts.[/QUOTE]Oh shit, Oldti on another rant that confuses even himself.

[QUOTE=Admin2;4877857]I've been a lefty my whole fucking life and this is complete and total bullshit fabricated by CNN and MSNBC to further an agenda. There was no magic that kept people who were spending hours in tightly packed crowds screaming their lungs out that prevented them from infecting others and puh fucking lese don't get me started on how they didn't because they were wearing a paper mask from wally world. Of course they caused the spikes that occurred two weeks to the friggen date of the beginning of the protests. Most of the states had opened 6 weeks before the protests and there wasn't any explosion of cases until the protests. And just like they don't want to take responsibility for demanding that the economy got destroyed they don't want to be responsible for the spike in cases.

It's no big deal though because the death count continues to drop, week after week, month after month. The "surge" in cases is testing. Corona already took the majority of people it's going to take just like it did everywhere else. A rapid increase in deaths as the elderly and infirm succumbed to the virus then steadily decreasing. If it wasn't an election year it would already be over. Back in April when people were dying all you heard about was "death count" now that hardly anybody (and yes, 1000 people a day in the USA is hardly anybody) all you hear about is case count but they report it as if all those people were already dead. They don't ever say "27 young people who went to a covid party have since become positive and most likely all of them will be fine and not require hospitalization nor medical treatment. ".

I can't wait until November when this is all over.[/QUOTE]There were massive protest outside prior to the BLM protest were people didn't even wear masks and they also didn't cause a spike. It's funny how you chose your protest like it's not clear you're full of shit. Japan shut down a few hours ago to get rid of trump too? Brazil is just fine and there is panic in the streets there right? The whole goddamn world and any country with a semi competent leader shutdown because CNN and MSNBC want to get rid of trump? Your're delusional as fuck man, and the lefty thing is just hahahahaha. Also funny, no mention from you on Trump rolling on the Ga governor after reopening even though he "demanded" Michigan open up.

For anyone interested, I'm in the medical field. Delusional Americans and republican ghouls are asking you to trust a conman, and people who admit they're not a news organization, and ignore scientist, doctors, and other medical personnel that see what's going on. It's getting bad here in Atlanta guys, and it will be very bad in the next 30 days if a legitimate treatment is cleared soon. Remdesvir is barely better than a placebo at this point without more data to analyze. Be very careful, and don't listen to any idiot that tells you to ignore the people that decided to study science and pay an outrageous amount of money for secondary education only to get raped by taxes in the US, all so they can treat and help sick people. We will all know why China was burning bodied very soon if people continue to be idiots.

[QUOTE=NewDude;4878045] don't listen to any idiot that tells you to ignore the people that decided to study science and pay an outrageous amount of money for secondary education [/QUOTE]Only listen to the educated idiots who went in debt $100,000's for an education. Fauci, exec staff at CDC, NIH, WHO, etc.