I’m showing all sides here, and I’m NOT a healthcare professional, so the deciding as to what’s what is up to the reader.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California because of the 114 reported cases of the coronavirus in the state of 40 million residents. Was this to play into the hand of the media, which has hyped the flu virus as the next plague, particularly because every year, tens of thousands of people die of that season’s flu?
Common human coronaviruses cause mild to moderate upper respiratory symptoms, including the common cold, while more severe types can cause pneumonia and death, NPR reported.
“Let’s call it Trumpvirus,” a New York Times opinion writer said. Cable news hosts wear their most dire faces while reporting on the coronavirus flu, as though the United States has never seen or dealt with an outbreak.
An Associated Press article was equally dramatic and hysterical: “Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone Friday, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.”
Conspicuously missing from the AP article is the important distinction that being “infected” for nearly everyone is not life-threatening, and most people don’t even know they had the virus.
Not trying to fear monger but I’m hearing scary stuff going on. Anybody else wondering about what’s going to happen to society, education, the economy, … life in general in the foreseeable future?
Some students will be ecstatic, others will be very worried about their opportunities and future. These are unprecedented times…
Since I’ve been DIY’ing for a long time, I’m totally out of the loop of what’s going on with vape shops. We have a law that prohibits online purchasing so we have to physically go to vape shops. But now we also have another law that only vital businesses can stay open (food, medications, gas, …).
With this Corona crap, is there anyone who’s unable to get supplies for vaping out there? What are you doing? Do you need help?
Yeah my middle son (I have a few) was drinking all day and partying on the beach for the last 2 days… but he kept his distance from everyone… Made a 6 ft pole… carried it around. Sent me a few vids… gesh…
(he is in the young 22 age range!) I told him he was a walking germ factory! )
I am in Barcelona, Spain. The situation here is terrifying. Politicians leave it up to employers to decide whether or not employees work. The subway, every day full of people, without masks, without protection, in addition there are no tests, only “important” people. Meanwhile, people are getting infected, and taking the virus home, and the elderly are dying … The problem with cov19 is its high rate of contagion …
In addition, it seems that the recovered lose their ability to have children …
Kill the elderly, leave the others childless … Not even in the best dreams of the liberals would they have imagined something like this … Or maybe if … Mrs. Lagarde, director of the international monetary fund, said long ago that the old people live too long … Bill Gates leaves Microsoft and dedicates himself to its foundation, which coincidentally makes vaccines, for those who can pay for them, of course …
I don’t know, everything smells bad …
I am a conspiracy, I know, but I am very angry, more than usual, with governments, and with capitalism, because money seems more important than people.
Here the doctors are working without protection, many have already been infected, they are recruiting doctors who did not pass the final exams, others who have not finished their degree …
Excuse me, I write in a jet, without rereading it … The supposed experts say things that are denied in two days, and they say more things than the non-experts already see that they will be denied again …
Do not believe anything from the experts, they take us for idiots … Prepare for the apocalypse.
Greetings to all and take good care of yourselves.
It is the hubris of the adolescent that is causing these silly young people to organize spring break parties. We were all young and foolish at one time, and many of the young us’s did things that defied logic and disgust the old us’s. I’d like to stand here and say I would have been more responsible and sensical, but an 18 year old kid having a chance to cavort with a bunch of pretty, drunk girls in bikinis? If I had the means, I probably would have gone. OK, definitely.
Regardless of their feelings on the severity of this outbreak, I tend to look less favorably on the parents than the drunken teens. Parents should be wiser and should be curtailing these activities. Put your foot down, mom and dad. Knowing this is serious yet not wanting to disappoint your kids is not helping. Many of these kids likely do not have the funds or autonomy to enjoy these respites, and require permission and funding from mom and pop.
Another angle is clearly “Yeah this is definitely dangerous, but it won’t happen to me.” I’m confident a lot of that sentiment is going around too. As someone mentioned up a little ways, maybe the kids on spring break won’t get sick, and maybe their parents won’t either, but they could easily spread this to an at-risker who could very possibly die. That’s just not right.
Wonder how long stuff like that would continue if they started prosecuting these people for terror offenses.
I was wild and doing my own thing too when I was young but at no point in time did I do anything this stupid. Endangering yourself, finding the limits in life is all part of growing up for many but the line has to be drawn when you’re endangering innocent people.
They should put these morons to work in hospitals, cleaning bedpans and such. I’m sure they will be happy with the extra hands.
They can lock them up later…
