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Bofferbrauer2 on 28 March 2020
Snoopy said:
John2290 said:

After all this, you still don't understand the fundamental issue. Shame on you Snoopy.

You don't understand the fundamental issue, we are going to have a lot more deaths than the coronavirus if the economy goes under. Im saving people, while you try to sabotage everyone's life.

And why does the economy go under? Because the US don't have any social safety net like virtually the entire rest of the world because that sounds like communism to some people there.

And you're not saving people. You're just trading one group of people for another. Mainly, you would trade a couple depressed for lots of poor people who won't be able to afford treatment for Covid-19.

So yes, you really don't understand the issue at hand. Worse, you think a minor issue is bigger than this one because you can't grasp the whole extent of it.



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COKTOE on 28 March 2020
Metallox said:
This shite is killing the restaurant industry in my city, and there are only 8 cases so far. My mother's cafeteria is getting deserted, though there's been a substantial increase in UberEats and to go orders. I never imagined the virus would've such an impact this early into the pandemic.

I'm also growing anxious because my mother has rheumatoid arthritis and a very poor immune system, if she caught the thing, complications would surely arise, I think.

Good to hear she's still getting business. Considering her health, the transition to take-out and delivery is only a good thing.

For what little it's worth, I hope she's OK.



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haxxiy on 28 March 2020
John2290 said:
Snoopy said:

You don't understand the fundamental issue, we are going to have a lot more deaths than the coronavirus if the economy goes under. Im saving people, while you try to sabotage everyone's life.

And if you let the virus run rampant or even fail to contain it within a certain margin the health system goes -> essential workforce dies -> essential services suddenly drop -> Economy crashes -> Civil unrest -> Billions die in the course of a year. The problem is two sided, we are on one side right now and I know the otherside well enough to see the danger. Fact is the moment the virus got out of control we started walking a tightrope of survival and we have a certain amount of time to cross before we get fatigued, there is no speeding things up and we can't go back the other way. We either balance across or well fall. Your suggestion that society lets the virus have it's way just gets us destroyed faster, a global depression is preferable over instant collapse and we can only hope that that is the worst of it. We are at natures mercy wheter you accept that or not it doesn't change the rwality of it. 

Calm down dude. It's an epidemic of pneumonia for the unlucky few, not the goddamn Black Death. On all likehood, no business is losing more than 1% of its workforce, and even if every worker would get sick at once, most would be back within 7 - 10 days.

Back in 1918, economic effects were negligible in most places and it took literally a third of all adults dying in the worst affected place of all we know - Samoa - to cause a minor famine the next year (since it was a rural, manual subsistence economy), and that was it in the end.

If you are that worried, why don't you go and catch the virus on purpose? To do your part and face the 0.2% death rate in your age group to be able to go back to normality certainly sounds preferable than the risk of "billions dying" you envision.



 

 

 

 

 

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JRPGfan on 28 March 2020
John2290 said:
^ The fuck is a twix. Sounds like a niche sexual term.

Its like a copy product of a Kit-kat candy bar.

Its a european product? I think, its great, tastes better imo.



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Chris Hu on 28 March 2020
John2290 said:
^ The fuck is a twix. Sounds like a niche sexual term.

Twix is a candy bar made by Mars Inc. its pretty much a global brand like Coca Cola and Pepsi.  I'm pretty sure they sell them in stores where you live also.



EricHiggin on 28 March 2020
Chris Hu said:
John2290 said:
^ The fuck is a twix. Sounds like a niche sexual term.

Twix is a candy bar made by Mars Inc. its pretty much a global brand like Coca Cola and Pepsi.  I'm pretty sure they sell them in stores where you live also.

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Swinger's I tell ya...



PS1   - ! - We must build a console that can alert our enemies.

PS2  - @- We must build a console that offers online living room gaming.

PS3   - #- We must build a console that’s powerful, social, costs and does everything.

PS4   - $- We must build a console that’s affordable, charges for services, and pumps out exclusives.

PRO  -%-We must build a console that's VR ready, checkerboard upscales, and sells but a fraction of the money printer.

PS5   - ^ -We must build a console that’s a generational cross product, with RT lighting, and price hiking.

PRO  -&- We must build a console that Super Res upscales and continues the cost increases.

JRPGfan on 28 March 2020
LurkerJ said:
Eagle367 said:

And very useless in calculating the mortality rate and other rates but everyone's doing it and the media is spreading panic across the globe using flawed stats. Surely we can agree the masses aren't looking at these numbers and saying "oh that's not an accurate number but it's useful in identifying hotspots", puh lease. 

Oh and I am very calm, with post-covid immunity and all. 

14 days ago, there was ~2700+ cases of confirmed infected in the USA.
Now 14 days lateron, and the USA is at 122,273 confirmed infected.

14 days and it went from 2700 -> 122,000 (in the US).

Want to take a guess where it goes from here, if you pick economy over trying to use social distance + shutdown + aggressive testing to put it out?

How many in the USA get it, 2 months further down the road, if you dont try to stop its spread now?

Theres still states in the US, that arn't even in full lockdowns yet (22 out of the 50, from what I read a day or two ago).


Your really not worried at all?

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