COVID-19

[SlickAg]

The economy and mental health in the countries that have managed the pandemic far better than we have, is either better or far better than it is here. People in Australia and New Zealand are going out to sporting events and concerts, and they aren't burying their older relatives left and right.

On your "if you are at high risk - stay home" argument, are you saying all of the dead in the nursing homes got it while out and about? Of course not.

In any community where the prevalence remains high, it ends up finding the old, the fat, the diabetic, the immune-challenged, the just plain unlucky, etc. According to @SlickAg, our attitude should be "screw'em" but I'm not so sure everyone agrees with that.

And it's the people who aren't going to die from it, or even feel that bad from it (most of them), that keep the prevalence high. The ones who for some reason feel that depriving the rest of the community of their potentially virus-laden respiratory aerosols is somehow infringing on their freedoms. Might as well argue you should be able to go around coughing right in people's faces.

I’m sure you’ve quit your job, right? It’s certainly not worth the risk that you may pose to someone. Has Penn State shut down? They ought to. Not worth the risk.

We’ve gotten to the point that if you need a vaccine, you can get one. The President said every American would have one by April 19th. If you’re unable or unwilling, isolate yourself. But April 20th marks 400 days. It’s time to get going again.

 

[SlickAg]

What state is that hot spot in, down in South Central US?

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Oh cool. What about the other states? Michigan for example, is now proof that mask mandates WORK? You can’t have it both ways hoss.

P.S. can you please find any news articles about hospitals and ICUs being overwhelmed in the Panhandle? Thanks. I couldn’t find one. Maybe you’re a better googler than I am.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

What state is that hot spot in, down in South Central US?

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Even for you that’s weak

 

[taxi1]

I’m sure you’ve quit your job, right? It’s certainly not worth the risk that you may pose to someone. Has Penn State shut down? They ought to. Not worth the risk.

No, we wear masks and follow social distancing protocols, which have allowed us to stay open and not have transmission of the virus at work.

 

[SlickAg]

No, we wear masks and follow social distancing protocols, which have allowed us to stay open and not have transmission of the virus at work.

Oh okay. So are they not doing that at other Big Ten schools...like maybe in say, Michigan?

 

[Treetop Flyer]

We’ve been through this. Masks work and if masks aren’t working it’s because people aren’t wearing masks because masks work.

The above is the obvious explanation for higher case counts in more restrictive areas or pretty much any inconvenient data regarding interventions.

 

[SlickAg]

We’ve been through this. Masks work and if masks aren’t working it’s because people aren’t wearing masks because masks work.

The above is the obvious explanation for higher case counts in more restrictive areas or pretty much any inconvenient data regarding interventions.

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it might’ve been political or something since no one is following up on the fear porn stories from over a month ago when Texas announced it was opening back up. Certainly haven’t seen many posts from the doom and gloomers on here remarking about how well it seems to have been going. Even their deity Dr. Fauci is unable to explain it.

 

[Jim123]

Regular Exercise May Help Protect Against Severe Covid (Published 2021)

People who tended to be sedentary were far more likely to be hospitalized, and to die, from Covid than those who exercised regularly.

www.nytimes.com

People in the least-active group, who almost never exercised, wound up hospitalized because of Covid at twice the rate of people in the most-active group, and were subsequently about two-and-a-half times more likely to die.

~600,000 covid deaths in the United States and it turns out the fatties die from it more than double what the health nuts do, that tells me at least a couple hundred thousand wouldn't have happened if more people would get off their asses (that and eating more vegetables and less junk food).

It's not really news but it's a respectable study that quantifies what we already knew. It's also interesting that NYT is running a story about it.

Oh, almost forgot- I will never again feel any guilt for fat shaming anyone.

 

[Conqueror’sHaki]

OCS PRO REC Y’s...

Have they pushed you to get vaccinated prior to arriving? Those who are vaccinated, did they still make you ROM? ?

 

[SlickAg]

People in the least-active group, who almost never exercised, wound up hospitalized because of Covid at twice the rate of people in the most-active group, and were subsequently about two-and-a-half times more likely to die.

~600,000 covid deaths in the United States and it turns out the fatties die from it more than double what the health nuts do, that tells me at least a couple hundred thousand wouldn't have happened if more people would get off their asses (that and eating more vegetables and less junk food).

It's not really news but it's a respectable study that quantifies what we already knew. It's also interesting that NYT is running a story about it.

Oh, almost forgot- I will never again feel any guilt for fat shaming anyone.

And instead of reinforcing healthy lifestyle choices and habits, all of the “experts” put all of their eggs in the vaccine basket. Shut down the gyms, stop people from exercising in parks and lock them in their homes, depriving them of the sunlight. Shame anyone who posits HCQ as helpful because orange man bad. Force people to exist on drive through and delivery meals. Perhaps making them turn to alcohol or other substances to help cope with loneliness and isolation. Sacrifice kids’ mental health and shutting down their schools for an illness that hardly affects because “it’s for their own good”. Force parents out of the work force in order to stay home and care for their children. That didn’t cause any health issues from income loss and even if it did, the stimulus more than made up for it! And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Classic state of American medicine and public health. Rather than address the underlying issue, they look for the quickest “fix” possible.

 

[FrankTheTank]

Not mad emoji at you. Mad emoji at the Cornavirus scam against the American people! I have been reading a lot lately on PCR testing and the unreliability and how it doesn’t even actually test for the Coronavirus. Makes me wonder how many of those asymptomatic may have not even had the virus at all but something else or nothing at all. But hey, science.... ?

 

[scoolbubba]

People in the least-active group, who almost never exercised, wound up hospitalized because of Covid at twice the rate of people in the most-active group, and were subsequently about two-and-a-half times more likely to die.

~600,000 covid deaths in the United States and it turns out the fatties die from it more than double what the health nuts do, that tells me at least a couple hundred thousand wouldn't have happened if more people would get off their asses (that and eating more vegetables and less junk food).

It's not really news but it's a respectable study that quantifies what we already knew. It's also interesting that NYT is running a story about it.

Oh, almost forgot- I will never again feel any guilt for fat shaming anyone.

If protecting someone's health is now my civic duty by wearing a mask, stand the fuck by for a lot of fatasses to get a cheeseburger, coke, and cigarette slapped right out of their grubby little hands.

Welcome to your new normal, fat bodies!

 

[SlickAg]

Not mad emoji at you. Mad emoji at the Cornavirus scam against the American people! I have been reading a lot lately on PCR testing and the unreliability and how it doesn’t even actually test for the Coronavirus. Makes me wonder how many of those asymptomatic may have not even had the virus at all but something else or nothing at all. But hey, science.... ?

Several years from now, when people are able to maintain some sort of objectivity about everything that’s happened and honest history can be written, I think the absolutely disastrous public health messaging, blind obedience to the “experts” and “science” and resultant silencing of any counter-thought by mainstream media and Big Tech oligarchies, and the reliance on PCR tests to keep the casedemic going will be the highlights. Not to mention throwing away our Constitution, but that goes without saying.

Either that or we’ll be so deep in this Orwellian nightmare we’ve created for ourselves that “They” would never allow the truth to be published.

Edit: just for good measure, can anyone help explain the science on South Korea with 99% mask compliance? Any Penn State folks, perhaps?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1382411181634199552

 

[taxi1]

We’ve been through this. Masks work and if masks aren’t working it’s because people aren’t wearing masks because masks work.

Yup

At this point in the game, anyone who thinks masks don't work is a moron.

But agree with you about the inside/outside thing. Outside? Not needed.

If protecting someone's health is now my civic duty by wearing a mask, stand the fuck by for a lot of fatasses to get a cheeseburger, coke, and cigarette slapped right out of their grubby little hands.

Welcome to your new normal, fat bodies!

I'm for that.

But I've got a neighbor and a grad student who are still doing chemo, a close friend battling rheumatoid arthritis and so on immune suppressants, and know of others immune compromised for things out of their control. It pains me to see so many people not give a shit about them.

 

[SlickAg]

Yup

At this point in the game, anyone who thinks masks don't work is a moron.

But agree with you about the inside/outside thing. Outside? Not needed.

I'm for that.

But I've got a neighbor and a grad student who are still doing chemo, a close friend battling rheumatoid arthritis and so on immune suppressants, and know of others immune compromised for things out of their control. It pains me to see so many people not give a shit about them.

So those people can get the vaccine, wear masks, and stay home and leave their house for only essential trips, right?

Also, if 99% of South Koreans are wearing masks, why are their cases continuing to rise?

Also, do lockdowns work too?

P.S. I’m not sure if you realized it, but I think @Treetop Flyer was being sarcastic.