BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

uziq wrote:

ah, yes, xi jinping and the supreme leader/president of iran, going to the same schools. 'the elite'! pah! 'experts', who needs 'em!

you are beyond stupid. you are literally, literally beyond stupid.

the 'elite' didn't spread the disease. do you know who took it to italy? chinese factory workers. wuhan is a logistical/transport hub, not a fucking ski resort for the global 1%. it's denver, not aspen. it's a working town. a lot of people fly to china for business and everyday commerce, jay, not international banking elites and bilderbergers.

i thought you were a fan of the spirit of enterprise? independence? the rational guiding hand of the market? that's why wuhan is immediately connected to the outside world: trade and commerce. not because of a jet-setting elite.

Ok uzi.

Jay wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Still avoiding followup on that part where you sagely told us all it was just the flu and not to overreact, every chance you get to avoid it.

It's a grind, and it's going to stay a grind, but throwing your hands in the air and having everyone just resume life as normal has to be about the worst plan for ongoing pandemic strategy that I could imagine. Apart from literally spraying down entire municipalities with aerosolized COVID-19 or whatever just to "get it over with already."

What point are you trying to make? I still think you have major, major OCD. I think this is the one time in your life you feel like you've been vindicated for all the extra precautions you take in your daily life and you're walking around saying I told you so to everyone that has given you shit. Guess what? You still have OCD.

Do you even know what OCD is or will you check with Tyler Durden first?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Jay wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Still avoiding followup on that part where you sagely told us all it was just the flu and not to overreact, every chance you get to avoid it.

It's a grind, and it's going to stay a grind, but throwing your hands in the air and having everyone just resume life as normal has to be about the worst plan for ongoing pandemic strategy that I could imagine. Apart from literally spraying down entire municipalities with aerosolized COVID-19 or whatever just to "get it over with already."

What point are you trying to make? I still think you have major, major OCD. I think this is the one time in your life you feel like you've been vindicated for all the extra precautions you take in your daily life and you're walking around saying I told you so to everyone that has given you shit. Guess what? You still have OCD.

Do you even know what OCD is or will you check with Tyler Durden first?

Oh, did you latch onto something else you think you can make fun of? Are you going to use it 75 more times, thinking you're being witty each time?

A lot of good stuff these last few pages.

Please continue.

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

keep drinking the kool-aid u dum fuk.

Why do you insult me with every post? Do you try to bully everyone in your life that disagrees with you? You've got issues, kid.

i've honestly never met anyone in real life who is as dense as you are. then again i hang around with the university-educated who have acquired basic critical thinking skills.

No, you live in an echo chamber.

Jay wrote:

Oh, did you latch onto something else you think you can make fun of? Are you going to use it 75 more times, thinking you're being witty each time?

I don't exactly have to go out of my way here. You call this "just the flu," went off on a wild tangent about kleenex boxes on feet (?) in specific mockery of my hand washing or whatever, and now here you are 30 pages later with fake articles written by an imaginary friend from Fight Club, screaming about it being too late for any action, and finally telling us to wash our hands. You are an enigma.

e: I think I'm being fairly reasonable after you told me I was delighted at the chaos, misery, and havoc. Fuck you by the way.

uziq wrote:

no, i don't, jay. i interact with people with a broad range of political opinions. conservatives and leftists.

you think that the world's leaders are all singing from the same hymn sheet because they want to kill 'the little guy'. you literally have painted the communist party of china, the islamic republic, and the government of france with the same brush as 'panicked liberals' or 'chummy elites'.

by that point you're so far off the deep-end of reality that you may as well be calling into alex jones' infowars show.

you're a classic of example of the self-fancying 'critical thinker' who couldn't reason their way out of a crossword puzzle.

So let me sum you up. I've been on this forum for what? 11 years? In that time I've given you a hard time for roughly the entire time. Why? Because you're arrogant, you're a bully, and you're largely insufferable. You built up a small cult of personality around you with people that would fawn over you in an attempt to avoid your wrath and receive a bit of praise (newbie being a great example). No one ever challenges you because you're a fucking prick. I guarantee people avoid conversation with you in person because you are that guy that always has to be right and belittles any opposing opinions.

We clash because I'm similar, and I give zero fucks what you think about me. Literally zero. And that's why you hate me so much.

But back on topic, you do live in an echo chamber. Your ego would never allow you to fraternize with the help or seek out their opinion on anything. You fancy yourself a member of the Elite because you went to a mid-level British university and studied a largely useless subject. You care tremendously about how others perceive you, from the way you dress to what fucking headphones and keyboard you use. You curate your reading tastes in such a way that no criticism can be leveled at you for daring to be provincial in your tastes. You play at being the socialist for the shock value at gatherings (but it's no longer shocking when everyone has the same opinion, is it?). Basically, you're the fakest person imaginable. You are a construct designed to please a very, very small portion of the population while being a snob towards the rest.

So, please, tell me how the working class guy with kids and a mortgage feels about being impacted by this mess. Tell me about your very deep, personal conversations you've had with the doorman in your building.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Jay wrote:

Oh, did you latch onto something else you think you can make fun of? Are you going to use it 75 more times, thinking you're being witty each time?

I don't exactly have to go out of my way here. You call this "just the flu," went off on a wild tangent about kleenex boxes on feet (?) in specific mockery of my hand washing or whatever, and now here you are 30 pages later with fake articles written by an imaginary friend from Fight Club, screaming about it being too late for any action, and finally telling us to wash our hands. You are an enigma.

e: I think I'm being fairly reasonable after you told me I was delighted at the chaos, misery, and havoc. Fuck you by the way.

zerohedge is a website that has been around a long time. It's primary purpose was to expose high speed trading and their ability to induce flash crashes. Now it's a mixed bag of Russian propaganda, financial news, alternative news, and some nonsense. Sometimes they have gems. They affected the Tyler Durden byline because when the site started they were working at wall street firms and didn't want to be fired for whistleblowing.

Fight Club is or at least was my favorite movie for a very long time. It hasn't aged well though. It is a good load of Boomer pessimism and entitlement. The protagonist was upset he had a boring life with a big condo and office job. It's as if the people who made media from the 80's to early 2000's had no idea most Americans flipped burgers or picked up garbage for a living. The boring middle class lifestyle Hollywood boomers resented is a fucking privileged by millennial standards.

fight club has had a second life with the 4chan/alt-right/breitbart/incels brigade. it was so popular and so bad a cliche that it became a wojak meme, 'the doomer'.

I love the way Jay still isn't getting it...

It's not even like the flu in that sneezing and runny noses aren't symptoms. It's a dangerous lung infection. Is more like tuberculosis than anything else. That's one reason I don't call it Wuhan Flu anymore. We aren't dealing with a seasonal flu. We have a new disease that we might have to do mandatory vaccination for like we do with TB and other stuff.

There are already 15,000 COVID cases in NYC. In a week there will be at least 100,000.