Rants and Raves

**NewDude** · 06-29-20 02:41

Originally Posted by Ozymandias [View Original Post]

Not sure where you go that number? Covid deaths are 500,000+.

Eventually they'll be a million, and so on.

Still, 500,000 is a major war. I mean, the USA has lost 125,000, which is much higher than the toll of the Vietnam war.

But let's follow the logic, that 275,000 deaths doesn't merit a response.

9/11: just 3000 people died. We should have just ignored it, and really, ignore all terrorism (which kills, what, a few thousand people each year, tops? )

The Boeing Max crashes were nothing, like a few hundred people died, and we grounded the WHOLE FLEET? Just let them keep flying. Even if there are ten crashes a year, that's what, maybe 2000 people? Doesn't even register an impact.

Helmets on motorcycles? How many motor cycle crashes even are there? Screw those guys; there are a million better things to do than make bikers wear helmets. Maybe a couple hundred die a year, globally, tops!

How about something like the Rwandan genocide? Kind of a thing, like maybe a million people killed, but that's, what, 0. 01% of the world population? It's practically a non-event. I don't see why it was even covered in the news. They even made a movie about it! Pretty silly.

I mean, what's the calculus here? At what point do we say "hey, that's not nice, we should do something! Ten million? Fifty? A hundred million?. What's a hundred million people, like 1. 25% of all people! That leaves 98.75%. That's an A+ in school, and who isn't satisfied with an A+?

O.

The craziest thing about This pandemic is the people who first screamed it's not a big deal and H1 N1 was worse now changing their stance and saying since 1 million people didn't die this is an election year hoax. Hell, the entire country shut down with no where to go and 125,000 people still died. Without a shut down how much higher would that number be? 300 k, maybe even 500 k people. How can someone compare the death rate of a virus that's killed 500 k in six months to anything we've seen before? You can't unless you're seriously retarded. How many people would die from car wrecks if we shut down national rodes and restricted people from driving? I'm sure it'd be a lot less than 125 k in four months.

**Almanac** · 06-29-20 00:29

Originally Posted by TMeister [View Original Post]

Just feels sooo right to call it the "Trump Virus" when he's the evil person allowing it to run rampant in our country and kill 130,000 souls with more bodies piling up.

He has to own it forever.

Interesting. And all this time I thought states, cities, and people had a say in it. I had no idea the president could just dictate everything and make society open up or shut it down.

In any event, I'll be glad when Follie's opens and I can decide for myself whether I want to risk going there for the rewards.

**Worf359** · 06-28-20 21:46

A report today said that 500,000 world wide have died from the coronavirus. That is still less than 1%. Fact unless you have a underlying health condition or are predisposed to heart failure lung disease or other preconditions there is a 95% chance (and that number is low) of you surviving the disease. I have friends in the medical field here in Atlanta and they are not seeing bodies piling up in the intensive care unit they're not having to stack them like cordwood in the morgue. ICU capacity is somewhere around 37%. While the local TV stations only reporting cases and not the number of deaths if this was the black plague like main stream media is saying it is they would be lined up at every hospital entrance watching the bodies come out on a conveyor belt. Should people take Sensible precautions yes. Should we hide in our homes for fear of going outside destroying our economy destroying the lives of millions of people? No. I have worked the entire time. Even had the antibody test a week ago I've not even come in contact with it. This is being used for fear mongering by one side and one side only the side that doesn't give a fuck how many people go hungry how many people lose their homes how many people lose their jobs for one reason and one reason only is they are trying to get one man out of office that's un-American that's bullshit.

You need to update your information. The overall IFR (Infectious Fatality Rate) for covid which includes all the old overweight people with diabetes and heart disease is .26% according to the CDC which makes the overall survival rate 99.74% not 95%.

I can't speak for Atlanta but the ruckus they are making in Texas about the hospitals being close to over full is bullshit, there are 4,000 hospital cases of covid in Texas and 80,000 staffed beds in the state. In Houston and Austin they are talking about the ICU shortage a lot yet in Houston only 12% of the total ICU cases are covid and in Austin that number is 10%.

It's election year bullshit, covid isn't nothing but it's nowhere near what they are making it to be.

A2

**TMeister** · 06-28-20 21:38

Originally Posted by Almanac [View Original Post]

The Trump Virus. (eye roll) Just can't be non-political.

Just feels sooo right to call it the "Trump Virus" when he's the evil person allowing it to run rampant in our country and kill 130,000 souls with more bodies piling up.

He has to own it forever.

**Ozymandias** · 06-28-20 20:15

Originally Posted by Worf359 [View Original Post]

World Population 7,787,924,177. Covid19 deaths 275,238. (0. 004% This is what we shut the world down for?

Not sure where you go that number? Covid deaths are 500,000+.

Eventually they'll be a million, and so on.

Still, 500,000 is a major war. I mean, the USA has lost 125,000, which is much higher than the toll of the Vietnam war.

But let's follow the logic, that 275,000 deaths doesn't merit a response.

9/11: just 3000 people died. We should have just ignored it, and really, ignore all terrorism (which kills, what, a few thousand people each year, tops? )

The Boeing Max crashes were nothing, like a few hundred people died, and we grounded the WHOLE FLEET? Just let them keep flying. Even if there are ten crashes a year, that's what, maybe 2000 people? Doesn't even register an impact.

Helmets on motorcycles? How many motor cycle crashes even are there? Screw those guys; there are a million better things to do than make bikers wear helmets. Maybe a couple hundred die a year, globally, tops!

How about something like the Rwandan genocide? Kind of a thing, like maybe a million people killed, but that's, what, 0. 01% of the world population? It's practically a non-event. I don't see why it was even covered in the news. They even made a movie about it! Pretty silly.

I mean, what's the calculus here? At what point do we say "hey, that's not nice, we should do something! Ten million? Fifty? A hundred million?. What's a hundred million people, like 1. 25% of all people! That leaves 98.75%. That's an A+ in school, and who isn't satisfied with an A+?

O.

**Almanac** · 06-28-20 19:12

Originally Posted by TMeister [View Original Post]

Glad to see Follies opening back up. I've been missing that cute Cuban ass in the VIP rooms.

Just hope we don't get the Trump Virus during our play time.

The Trump Virus. (eye roll) Just can't be non-political.

**TMeister** · 06-28-20 13:44

Originally Posted by PhilMe143 [View Original Post]

The DJ said this is the day that they are opening. I'm not sure if many girls will be there though. I follow quite a few of them, the vibe isn't right.

Glad to see Follies opening back up. I've been missing that cute Cuban ass in the VIP rooms.

Just hope we don't get the Trump Virus during our play time.

**Worf359** · 06-28-20 07:41

World Population 7,787,924,177. Covid19 deaths 275,238. (0. 004% This is what we shut the world down for?

**TechSticles** · 06-27-20 23:20

Originally Posted by HobbyMan51 [View Original Post]

You are a genuinely nasty sonofabitch. Keep waiting, putz. You will be waiting for a very long time. We'll see who is gasping on Nov. 3.

And you are a genuinely real-world dipshit. You are a fucking poster child for everything that represents the "alternative facts" universe. Believing, with no expertise whatsoever, that you are smarter than people that spent their lives studying problems. Fortunately, you only represent about 30% of the US population, and it's becoming clear every day that folks are sick of the stupid shit you spout.

We'll see, alright.

BTW, go fuck yourself.

**HobbyMan51** · 06-27-20 11:50

Originally Posted by TechSticles [View Original Post]

So get out there hugging, kissing and going to trump rallies. Happy to wait until you're all gasping away. Then I'll come out and we can handle things quite nicely. Without you. Dumbass.

You are a genuinely nasty sonofabitch. Keep waiting, putz. You will be waiting for a very long time. We'll see who is gasping on Nov. 3.

**Sgt Lurker** · 06-27-20 09:29

Originally Posted by TechSticles [View Original Post]

I'm interested in why that's a data point for you.

Have you hugged your anti-mask, covid-is-a-hoax friend today? If not, please do.

Because it was their actions that cause so many unnecessary deaths, spread like wildfire through those places. Gov. DeSantis ordered them not to take the Covid patients and their death rate in those types of places was considerable less. Facts are Facts.

**TechSticles** · 06-26-20 23:36

Originally Posted by SgtLurker [View Original Post]

I wonder if we removed the unnecessary deaths from Cuomo and his ilk forcing Nursing Homes and Rehab facilities from taking COVID patients, what would the total tally be right now?

I'm interested in why that's a data point for you.

Have you hugged your anti-mask, covid-is-a-hoax friend today? If not, please do.

**Sgt Lurker** · 06-26-20 22:46

Originally Posted by TechSticles [View Original Post]

So get out there hugging, kissing and going to trump rallies. Happy to wait until you're all gasping away. Then I'll come out and we can handle things quite nicely. Without you. Dumbass.

I wonder if we removed the unnecessary deaths from Cuomo and his ilk forcing Nursing Homes and Rehab facilities from taking COVID patients, what would the total tally be right now?

**TechSticles** · 06-26-20 21:31

Originally Posted by HobbyMan51 [View Original Post]

Ourselves, dumbass. Please hide in your basement and never come out again. We can handle things quite nicely without you.

So get out there hugging, kissing and going to trump rallies. Happy to wait until you're all gasping away. Then I'll come out and we can handle things quite nicely. Without you. Dumbass.

**PikManz** · 06-26-20 17:18

Originally Posted by BBLove [View Original Post]

So, I'll have a PhD in about another year from Ga Tech. Will I be more creditable then?

Now I don't usually engage in trolling, but this pandemic BS seems like the emperor's new clothes. You have been to 2 COVID funerals? You are the first person that I have heard of attending one. I am sorry for your loss.

I am not saying that COVID doesn't exist. Of course it does, what I am saying is that it's threat is greatly exaggerated. Exponentially More young healthy people die in car wrecks than because of COVID. We aren't staying home and not driving because the impact to our daily life is greater than the risk of death by auto accident. Same with COVID. It isn't the government's responsibility to protect us from each other's cooties

Yo, there are other grad stuents here. Looks like the stipends are being put to good use.