Jay wrote:
uziq wrote:
Jay wrote:
We're all in lockdown, moron. It's not stopping anything.
it's been the number one news story globally for over a month and jay still fundamentally doesn't understand how viruses work.
i mean you could read a précis that pops up on youtube or gmail when you open the app at this point and get a better understanding.
the numbers aren't going to drop within a week of adopting a lockdown because
people who got infected weeks ago are still presenting at hospitalsyou require 3-4 weeks of intensive care ventilation to recover from second-stage severe pneumonia.
'what the heck? we went into quarantine 6 days ago and the death rate is still climbing?!?'
but viruses can't be exponential, sensei!!!
No, you don't understand. People are ignoring it. They're going about their business. They're piling into subway cars. They're playing sports in the parks. They're traveling to other parts of the country and bringing it with them. The white collar people are all sitting at home in self quarantine and the poor are going about their business without a care in the world. They released a few hundred thousand ghetto teenagers from schools with nothing to do. Think they're gonna sit in front of an ipad all day? No, they're out playing basketball and spreading this shit.
Like I said above, social responsibility is nil. We've got idiots coughing on each other because they think it's funny. I asked one of my clients at work the other day if he's feeling sick at all and he coughed on me on purpose and said he's fine. Someone purposely coughed on $25,000 worth of groceries at a supermarket because they wanted to be a dick. This country has a very small part of the population that actually gives a fuck about anything and pulls everyone else along, and a vast majority of grifters and assholes. Our government is incompetent and filled to the brim with the latter.
You all keep giving me a hard time about my libertarian views, but it's because of shit like this that I hold them. I am a socially responsible person. I care about the well being of others. I go out of my way to help people. I want to be left alone because I'm tired of getting fucked over by the rest of the idiot population and their shitty government that lets them be careless and dependent.
every other country in the world has managed to follow its government's advice just fine.
the problem is that the messaging from the white house has been mixed, if not negligent. for weeks trump was denying it was a problem. he was insisting it would 'just go away'. he has questioned the advice of the experts and frequently publicly disagreed with his head scientific advisor. denialism of the problem has merged with official incompetence and lack of action in public health. all the while, fox news, like a faithful mouthpiece, was telling its large and faithful viewership that the coronavirus was a 'liberal panic', a 'hysteria', a plot foisted by 'upper-east side elites' on the poor average joe. all completely against the official advice of medical experts. fox persisted in this line for weeks.
the first news of 'social distancing measures' were met by crowds of trump-followers gathering together to 'trigger the libs'. people were rejoicing about new york being the epicentre of the outbreak. great! those elites are getting wiped! you can't make up this level of stupid. what causes people to behave this way, when they didn't anywhere else in the world? hmm, make u think!
the change in fox news' messaging and its u-turn on coronavirus came weeks too late. now, a month on, you are seeing the consequences. your weird little right-wing echo chamber are responsible for this. the medical staff rang all the right alarms, the WHO made all the right recommendations, they tried to instruct you on testing measures -- you ignored all of it. your administration is directly culpable for this, and the right-wing media that service them have raised suspicion, doubt, and confusion in the populace.
amazing how easily you glide from accusing the libs of blowing everything out of proportion to some faux-wizened bullshit about 'human nature being limited', 'we are stupid creatures', 'this is why i'm a libertarian', blah blah blah. it would be hilarious if it wasn't so moronic and harmful. you really can't see how your own dunderheaded thinking and your cult of personality around your venal and inept president have directly led to this mess.
Last edited by uziq (2020-03-27 05:48:03)