BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Jay, you have a Jewish personality.

Bleeding-heart liberal sarcastically whining on social justice twitter:



Allergic to fun.

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

so good for the hasidim too, right? for also ignoring the best scientific guidance?

wow we might finally be getting somewhere.

or is going for a beer at a bar more important than going to your place of worship?

You pick some funny battles. You're defending a politically powerful, yet universally reviled segment of the New York City population. No one likes them uzi. My Jewish friends despise them because they make other jews look bad. Our last race riot was caused by one of them running over a black teenager and trying to cover it up. What point are you even trying to make?

who cares? i’m asking you why your views make no fucking sense.

you can’t dismiss all scientific advice, ridicule experts, flout the rules, lambast everyone here for being ‘cowards’ and ‘wrong and afraid to backtrack’ ... and then unload on the hasidim for behaving exactly as you recommend.

everything you just said is irrelevant. i am not a NYC public defender in a case for a hasidim hit and run. i literally do not care. i am asking you to make sense in your own views. you look a little bit contrary over there.

is breaking lockdown good? independent?
or is it willingly endangering the community? reckless?

when people go to bars it’s good. for pissing off the mayor, owning the libtards, etc.
when hasidim ignore the public health guidance, you wring your hands and tut tut.

you do know that viruses are completely blind, right? and don’t play your asinine games of blogosphere political argument? the end result is exactly the same. either that sort of behaviour endangers the health of the community, or it doesn’t. i can't exactly say that i understand dilbert's bizarre fixations and peeves, but at least his thinking on this matter joins up: he's all on-side for public health and good science, and the religious only anger him doubly so. you, however, make no sense.

make up your fucking mind. it’s not difficult.

Last edited by uziq (2020-05-18 02:01:01)

nice to see we agree and scorn should not be reserved exclusively for the orthodox-religious.

Obama set up universal healthcare then released the virus to punish hard-working american taxpayers.

yOu KnOw iTs thE tRutH

interesting visualization, thanks.

100 million are back under lockdown in china, due to new clusters. same with korea, which shut down its recently re-opened nightlife hubs.

this is going to be the new normal for the foreseeable.

the rest of the world encouraged china to join the global community, and has taken advantage of the economic asymmetry for a good portion of the 20th century.

australia is the most vociferous actor in this 'world vs china' thing. i'm not sure what sort of local regional grandstanding and economic co-dependency there is going on there, but the rest of the world doesn't share the appetite for total rejection of china. a formal enquiry into the origins of covid, yes, certainly, that seems only prudent considering the ginormous costs. but to make china a global pariah? fat chance.

here are some more graphs, from the british office for national statistics.

seeing as jay, our resident statistician and modelling guru, likes data. he should enjoy these. they've labelled the axes this time and everything, so we can avoid the confusion (understandable) caused by the 'flattening the peak' graphs.







remember, it's just as deadly as swine flu!!!

Last edited by uziq (2020-05-19 10:44:02)

I don't think he is actually taking it. I think he just lied about it in hopes it convinces people he is right.

I have antibodies already, so why not?

uziq wrote:

the rest of the world encouraged china to join the global community, and has taken advantage of the economic asymmetry for a good portion of the 20th century.

australia is the most vociferous actor in this 'world vs china' thing. i'm not sure what sort of local regional grandstanding and economic co-dependency there is going on there, but the rest of the world doesn't share the appetite for total rejection of china. a formal enquiry into the origins of covid, yes, certainly, that seems only prudent considering the ginormous costs. but to make china a global pariah? fat chance.

You consistently underestimate the views, will and the effect of the average person, Brexit, Trump's election, Johnson's election, you're regularly wrong.

The average person is not going to forget this, they'll certainly remember the lost money and hardship.
Even without ill-will to China they're facing 10-20-30% reduction in GDP
With ill-will it could be 50%.

Is the average person anywhere in the world going to buy Chinese if they can avoid it?
Is anyone going to want to be seen in a Chinese car or with a Huawei phone?

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-05-20 00:50:35)

Its very likely that these rapidly developed tests are giving dubious results, I wouldn't trust them.

The average person is in control of their buying habits, when my sisters hairdresser is talking about taking away China's manufacturing there's something going on.