Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)

[Entropy]

That's good - it's been a week since I've been to the store so maybe they've been emphasizing it more. Or maybe there's a difference store-to-store, I've been going to the Mt Vernon Rd Store.

Definitely differences depending on store you go to.
Fareway - hardly anyone wearing masks, maybe 10%. Almost no precautions being practiced.

Target - About half the people wearing masks. Plastic barriers up at check out counters, gloves worn by people doing the check out, all carts being sanitized.

 

[simply1]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...f-thousands-of-children-in-2020-idUSKBN21Y2X7

There is little evidence that shutting down the economy actually helped.

And it’s a guess how bad the downturn would have been with an uncontrolled pandemic.

 

[alarson]

There is little evidence that shutting down the economy actually helped.

This is complete ********. We've seen the marked change in the curve after countries have enacted shutdown measures. We know things would have been much worse had things been allowed to go on unchecked and hospitals were overwhelmed.

Also, newsflash for you: a whole fuckload of people dying would also have led to an economic downturn. It was coming either way, by shutting down on our own we did it while saving a bunch of lives.

 

[madguy30]

We are already getting close to the point of herd immunity by my estimation. Many studies have shown this is 50-80x more prevalent than the number say. Which also means it's far less deadly than they would like you to believe.

Need it on a mass 'study' everywhere, also need concrete evidence for how long someone is immune for.

 

[FOREVERTRUE]

Definitely differences depending on store you go to.
Fareway - hardly anyone wearing masks, maybe 10%. Almost no precautions being practiced.

Definitely a different Fareway than the one I go to where they were asking if you want a cart or basket when you walk in and sanitize the handle and top basket for you, most of the employees wearing masks about 50% of the customers and the checker scrubbing down the keypad between each customer.

 

[Cyclonepride]

This is complete ********. We've seen the marked change in the curve after countries have enacted shutdown measures. We know things would have been much worse had things been allowed to go on unchecked.

Also, newsflash for you: a whole ****load of people dying would also have led to an economic downturn. It was coming either way, by shutting down on our own we did it while saving a bunch of lives.

An epidemiologist in England asserted that the peak there may have happened before the lockdown.

Also, 80,000 people died from the flu last year. I don't remember that crashing the economy.

 

[madguy30]

Is it a sure thing that it will ever be gone?

Is it a sure thing that people are immune enough or for long enough to just start things back up without disrupting life from sickness?

 

[Cyclonepride]

And it’s a guess how bad the downturn would have been with an uncontrolled pandemic.

We had an uncontrolled pandemic for about 6 months.

 

[bawbie]

It doesn't, but at some point, it has to become just another one of the myriad of things that can kill you, and you move on and live your life.

I'm not going to a movie theater or a fair or any other crowded place until I know I'm immune or I have a vaccine. I'm guessing millions and millions of other Americans are in the same place. It's not "just another thing" that can kill you until it's under control - it's the thing that's killing people at a rate faster than anything else since, what, the civil war?

 

[Entropy]

I'm not going to a movie theater or a fair or any other crowded place until I know I'm immune or I have a vaccine. I'm guessing millions and millions of other Americans are in the same place. It's not "just another thing" that can kill you until it's under control - it's the thing that's killing people at a rate faster than anything else since, what, the civil war?

I'd say the 1918 influenza epidemic.

 

[bawbie]

An epidemiologist in England asserted that the peak there may have happened before the lockdown.

Also, 80,000 people died from the flu last year. I don't remember that crashing the economy.

Christ on a cracker - not this **** again.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I'm not going to a movie theater or a fair or any other crowded place until I know I'm immune or I have a vaccine. I'm guessing millions and millions of other Americans are in the same place. It's not "just another thing" that can kill you until it's under control - it's the thing that's killing people at a rate faster than anything else since, what, the civil war?

Then it seems likely that millions and millions of you will be staying at home for the foreseeable future. Not the life I'd choose, but okay.

 

[alarson]

An epidemiologist in England asserted that the peak there may have happened before the lockdown.

I'm not too familiar with UK data, but that would probably be because they locked down

Also, 80,000 people died from the flu last year. I don't remember that crashing the economy.

We would have been far over that number had we done nothing. We will probably hit that number with everything we've done.

We've had over 40,000 deaths here in a matter of weeks. Not a full year. Weeks.

 

[alarson]

We had an uncontrolled pandemic for about 6 months.

No we did not. This has been proven false. Turn off the right wing brain rot.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I'm not too familiar with UK data, but that would probably be because they locked down



We would have been far over that number had we done nothing. We will probably hit that number with everything we've done.

We've had over 40,000 deaths here in a matter of weeks. Not a full year. Weeks.

Actually, their cases began to fall dramatically before the lockdown somewhere around March 27th.

 

[Cyclonepride]

No we did not. This has been proven false. Turn off the right wing brain rot.

Lol, facts are hard

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-wuhan-1498566

 

[madguy30]

An epidemiologist in England asserted that the peak there may have happened before the lockdown.

Also, 80,000 people died from the flu last year. I don't remember that crashing the economy.

You don't remember that because 40,000 didn't die in a month's time and hospitals weren't having to fill vans with bodies like in NYC.

 

[alarson]

Actually, their cases began to fall dramatically before the lockdown somewhere around March 27th.

False.

 

[3TrueFans]

Actually, their cases began to fall dramatically before the lockdown somewhere around March 27th.

This doesn't seem right.

 

[alarson]

Lol, facts are hard

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-wuhan-1498566

Last i checked we were talkiing about the US.