Rants and Raves

[QUOTE=BusyLurker;4784698]Since COVID-19 is a hoax and it's safe to go out, let's agree that those who want to go back to work, school, church, play, etc. Can do so. However, when they get sick, they have to self-treat. You don't get access to our emergency rooms, you don't get our medicines, you don't get to infect our doctors and nurses, you don't get a ventilator and you damn sure don't get it all for free at Grady.

Since it's all a hoax anyway,
[/QUOTE]No one here is saying it is a hoax, no one. What is being said is the overreaction is totally uncalled for and Un-American. Too many people may die from lack of proper medical treatment because they have been scared by the false reporting and are now afraid to go to an emergency room when they need to. If we end up back in a full blown depression, people will die from lack of food and shelter. Let's find an answer somewhere in the middle.

[QUOTE=SgtLurker;4785378]No one here is saying it is a hoax, no one. What is being said is the overreaction is totally uncalled for and Un-American. Too many people may die from lack of proper medical treatment because they have been scared by the false reporting and are now afraid to go to an emergency room when they need to. If we end up back in a full blown depression, people will die from lack of food and shelter. Let's find an answer somewhere in the middle.[/QUOTE]Everyone who says we the shut down is not necessary and that we should go back to business as usual, or with just a handful of cautions, is saying that the medical experts' warnings on the seriousness of this virus is a hoax.

You can't have it both ways. You don't believe a single person will die from lack of food and shelter. You don't believe that Fauci and Brix and Gates are providing false data. You don't believe that many people are dying from lack of proper medical treatment because. CNN.

Screaming about your need to go bowling or have your nails done or get a beer in a bar or crowd a Target or McDonald's is the same as calling this pandemic a hoax. How many seniors and children are you willing to kill so you can open the economy again? If you say opening back up isn't going to finally overwhelm our health care system, kill countless people and send us back inside for an even worse second shutdown, you're saying this is a hoax.

Which side of your mouth were you typing out of when you made that last post?

Forsyth County COVID-19, deaths 11.

Age Sex Underlying medical condition.

59 Male Unknown.

60 Male Unknown.

69 Female No.

71 Male Unknown.

71 Female Yes.

73 Male Unknown.

74 Female Unknown.

81 Female Unknown.

83 Male Unknown.

85 Male Yes.

87 Male Unknown.

I like my odd.

I'm very impressed by how smart this virus is. It won't infect you at a liquid store, Lowes or Home Depot. Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Sam's Club or Whole foods. It does seek you out in church, nail & Hair salons. Bowling alleys any restaurant other than Waffle House and any mall. I'm not sure we are going to be able to outsmart such a clever virus.

[QUOTE=SgtLurker;4785378]No one here is saying it is a hoax, no one. What is being said is the overreaction is totally uncalled for and Un-American. Too many people may die from lack of proper medical treatment because they have been scared by the false reporting and are now afraid to go to an emergency room when they need to. If we end up back in a full blown depression, people will die from lack of food and shelter. Let's find an answer somewhere in the middle.[/QUOTE]I'm all for a person doing what they will. Except when you potentially harm others. This virus is real as hell. I've lost an aunt, a friend in his 50's and 2 neighbors since March. This is not imaginary. Being selfish is un American. Now you lurk, jerk and twerk til your heart's content, but catching and spreading the Rona is a real risk. Not to be hard hearted, but if you choose to assume the risk, keep it in the crowd that thinks this is concocted for political purposes. I'll keep my distance.

[QUOTE=AaronHamlet;4784356]...the fucking WHO... lthe fucking deadly bat virus...
Fucking experts ...[/QUOTE]You are nothing if not eloquent Do you only know the one adjective?

[QUOTE=HotPole;4785477]I'm all for a person doing what they will. Except when you potentially harm others. This virus is real as hell. I've lost an aunt, a friend in his 50's and 2 neighbors since March. This is not imaginary. Being selfish is un American. Now you lurk, jerk and twerk til your heart's content, but catching and spreading the Rona is a real risk. Not to be hard hearted, but if you choose to assume the risk, keep it in the crowd that thinks this is concocted for political purposes. I'll keep my distance.[/QUOTE]Stevie wonder can see what all the blue state govs, Nancy and her crew, and most all the cdc nih people ie gov bureaucracy, are doing.

No. The virus wasn't concocted for political purposes, but if you don't think they are taking advantage of it, for political purposes then they are blind.

[QUOTE=BusyLurker;4785425]Everyone who says we the shut down is not necessary and that we should go back to business as usual, or with just a handful of cautions, is saying that the medical experts' warnings on the seriousness of this virus is a hoax.

You can't have it both ways. You don't believe a single person will die from lack of food and shelter. You don't believe that Fauci and Brix and Gates are providing false data. You don't believe that many people are dying from lack of proper medical treatment because. CNN.

Screaming about your need to go bowling or have your nails done or get a beer in a bar or crowd a Target or McDonald's is the same as calling this pandemic a hoax. How many seniors and children are you willing to kill so you can open the economy again? If you say opening back up isn't going to finally overwhelm our health care system, kill countless people and send us back inside for an even worse second shutdown, you're saying this is a hoax.

Which side of your mouth were you typing out of when you made that last post?[/QUOTE]It won't overwhelm the healthcare system.

If you don't believe "all the experts" could be off exponentially in their predictions.

Then, well I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

But life has to go on, the virus will be here or it won't,but we just can't hide in our homes forever.

So far it hasn't been enough to just flatten the curve.

If you go back and watch, it's never enough.

[QUOTE=Bullett64;4785523]You are nothing if not eloquent Do you only know the one adjective?[/QUOTE]You're over 70. Have a heart condition. You're part of the 99% of all who contract China Virus something bad happens to and you want the remaining 1% to lockdown quarantine for your benefit.

Fuck you, you selfish, greasy, fear mongering prick of an old man. Do you find that a better, more eloquent adjective usage?

[QUOTE=Jims2321;4784962]I never said keep everything shutdown. What I said is that opening everything up like its Mardi Gras is insanity. But your claims have of cases going down clearly does not match what the GPH, or even Florida's numbers. But you go on living in your dream world. Please go out, honestly the only way you will start realizing your world is a lie, is either when you are on a ventilator or you lose a loved one. But you do you.

Here is the Florida covid hospitalization chart. Tell me its going down.[/QUOTE]You're babbling now, Jims, your syntax makes no sense. Your charts and graphs make no sense either. Did you get them off of the CNN website? Doesn't matter. I have you. All you can do is sputter little inanities at me like a little child who has had his cookies taken away from him. My "dream" world is one of common sense that benefits the most people possible and I never have advocated for opening up like it's Mardi Gras. But I know that little talking point makes you feel better about yourself so do what you have to do. What you fail to see is that your fearful proposals DO encourage pervasive shutdown, something that might make you and other tremblers like you feel better about yourselves but does nothing for the common good. By the way, I do go out, whenever possible. I know people who have tested positive and the only thing it meant for them was that they tested positive. They didn't get sick, they didn't die. You can threaten me all you like with the grim news of death from the virus but the facts remain that not only will the overwhelming majority of people NOT die but they won't even get SICK. I know this is not what you want to hear but I am not going to get sick and I certainly am not going to die from this virus even if I do get sick, and I am in the age group of the so-called "most vulnerable". People like you have killed us with your nanny-state, hovering, mindless fear. Probably the thing that bothers me the most is that you and others like you refuse to understand what your myopic, self-righteous groupthink has done to the rest of us. But you don't care. It's all about you and your feelings of "safety". One day you will understand what you have done to the rest of us but by then it will be too late. You think that you are "protecting" the masses out there? What you are really doing is sentencing millions to the slow, painful death of economic starvation. But you don't care. It's all about you and your narcissistic fears. Go do what you must do but you are wrong, I promise you.

[QUOTE=AaronHamlet;4785736]You're over 70. Have a heart condition. [/QUOTE]Incorrect, as usual.

You remind me of the old adage that says you should never wrestle with a pig. You both get filthy, but the pig enjoys it.

If that was too advanced for you, you are the pig.

Ciao.

[QUOTE=Bullett64;4785923]Incorrect, as usual.

You remind me of the old adage that says you should never wrestle with a pig. You both get filthy, but the pig enjoys it.

If that was too advanced for you, you are the pig.

Ciao.[/QUOTE]Okay. 68-72 and a recent stroke victim. Still puts you in the 99+% risk group. Still a fear monger. Still a selfish prick of an old man.

[QUOTE]Trump: “We have the best testing in the world. Could be that testing’s, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated.”

He added: “We have more cases than anybody in the world, but why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. They don’t want to write that. It’s common sense. We test much more.”[/QUOTE]A complete Lunatic at the helm. Like Joe Stalin once said, "It's not how many bodies get buried that counts, it's who does the counting".

I am curious about those of you who want to continue to hide in your homes because of what certain (not all) health care "experts" are touting. Do you do absolutely EVERYTHING your medical professional tells you to do? Did you stop smoking? Did you start exercising? Have you lost or are losing the weight to get to where they want you to be? Absolutely everything to the nth degree? If not, you really have nothing more to say. You do not listen to your own personal medical professional, you listen to their advice and then you choose which you will and won't do.

I do not follow everything they say either, as I said before, they ask me once a year if I am taking a Flu Shot and already know my answer is no. I have not lost all the weight he wants me to but I have lost some. We hear and we choose what we will do and take responsibility for our own actions.

[QUOTE=HobbyMan51;4785749]You're babbling now, Jims, your syntax makes no sense. Your charts and graphs make no sense either. Did you get them off of the CNN website? Doesn't matter. I have you. All you can do is sputter little inanities at me like a little child who has had his cookies taken away from him. My "dream" world is one of common sense that benefits the most people possible and I never have advocated for opening up like it's Mardi Gras. But I know that little talking point makes you feel better about yourself so do what you have to do. What you fail to see is that your fearful proposals DO encourage pervasive shutdown, something that might make you and other tremblers like you feel better about yourselves but does nothing for the common good. By the way, I do go out, whenever possible. I know people who have tested positive and the only thing it meant for them was that they tested positive. They didn't get sick, they didn't die. You can threaten me all you like with the grim news of death from the virus but the facts remain that not only will the overwhelming majority of people NOT die but they won't even get SICK. I know this is not what you want to hear but I am not going to get sick and I certainly am not going to die from this virus even if I do get sick, and I am in the age group of the so-called "most vulnerable". People like you have killed us with your nanny-state, hovering, mindless fear. Probably the thing that bothers me the most is that you and others like you refuse to understand what your myopic, self-righteous groupthink has done to the rest of us. But you don't care. It's all about you and your feelings of "safety". One day you will understand what you have done to the rest of us but by then it will be too late. You think that you are "protecting" the masses out there? What you are really doing is sentencing millions to the slow, painful death of economic starvation. But you don't care. It's all about you and your narcissistic fears. Go do what you must do but you are wrong, I promise you.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=SgtLurker;4786703]. Do you do absolutely EVERYTHING your medical professional tells you to do?

Sadly, no.

Did you stop smoking?

No. I never started.

Did you start exercising?

No again, as I never stopped.
Have you lost or are losing the weight to get to where they want you to be?

You got me again. I am at the weight I want to be.

Absolutely everything to the nth degree? If not, you really have nothing more to say.

Wow. I admit to not flossing as well or as often as I should. I guess that means I have lost all voice about a global pandemic?


You do not listen to your own personal medical professional, you listen to their advice and then you choose which you will and won't do.

I guess my opinion that we should take some basic precautions, like wearing masks in public and maintaining social distancing has been rendered silent by my shortcomings in dental hygiene.

As for hiding in my house, I'm not. I'm going about my life as best I can, being ever mindful of the health and safety of others. For that, I have been called "selfish."

I can live with that. Or I could become more "generous" and do my best to insure that the pandemic lasts as long as possible and creates the most misery for society.

Please reconsider your stance on vaccinations. Its a team effort, and as a human being, you are on the team whether you like it or not.[/QUOTE]Good health.