OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

NOW IM sad. Fuck evil humans. But innocent pets and animals?????????

 

The director of White House Office of Personnel Management abruptly resigned after barely a year on the job. Trump appointed a 29 year old with no experience over her, to verify all personnel were sufficiently personally loyal to Dear Leader. He hired three deputies, 20 year old college students whose only qualification was membership in College Republicans at their respective institutions, none had even graduated yet. She got tired of these boys constantly looking over her shoulder.

And it's not like we're in a situation that calls for experienced competent staff, right?

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_06-508.pdf

It takes a while to gather up all the data so this is from 2017, but the year really isn't the number that matters. And this is not to make light of the current situation but rather to put it in context. As of yesterday, there are around 218 deaths https://corona.help/ in the US from C-19. The #10 cause on the Top-10 list is 'Suicide' at a total of 47,173. That is #10! C-19 is currently at 4/10th of 1% of the #10 leading cause of death in this country.

Of course there are more factors that go into it and there can certainly be a discussion about something intentional versus something contagious. But just from a numbers standpoint in terms of the panic, hoarding, markets, etc, it just doesn't seem proportional.

 

I woke up with a stuffed/runny nose

this is the end

 

In this case in regards to A, response B is going to make A - A lot worse. The best thing for people who are suicidal is no human contact and social isolation...
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/05/ce-corner-isolation

 

I didn't get that from his post. He mentioned nothing about the health services, etc. He said the panic in the stores is not proportionate. Of course social distancing and what not is needed, but the panic is not.

 

Why do you not think its accurate? Because the death toll is rising from the covid?

Stats still suggest more people will die in car accidents this year than from this. Should we ban driving?

 

Fuck man, that sucks. I hope she's okay and gets through this.

 

Great, no Let's Make A Deal again today.

 

When does the response end up killing more people than the virus, or overcrowded hospitals though. It's a no-win situation. For instance, my wife is out grocery shopping none of our local stores have any food for the most part, she was told, Trucks aren't even showing up. That's going to get real, real quick for people. A lot of people will die from COVID19, a lot of people are going to end up dying from the response too. I think for all those people pushing super, super hard for like a full-on shut down and no one going outside, you gotta stop at some point and measure the very real risks to lives that are on both ends of the spectrum. Not everyone has stockpiles of food, medicine. Gotta have a balance of being socially responsible, and social distancing but while it's not an either-or, the death-rate appears to be a lot lower than the 4-5% they spoke about, especially considering there are more than likely thousands of people who have it and have 0 effects from it. I've seen countless rich people say oh I tested positive and haven't felt a thing.

Eventually, we'll have to go outside and just understand there's a new "killer" out there and learn that we should all practice better hygiene to keep from spreading this type of stuff. It's not an either-or but look at the statistics on the flu earlier this year.
https://www.contagionlive.com/news/us-flu-cases-increased-by-4-million-over-the-last-week

 

Car accidents are definitely bad but when someone dies in a car accident it's over. The next car accident is unrelated and has nothing to do with a car accident from weeks ago.

For the virus we're still in the early stages. You take drastic measures now so that this virus DOESN'T end up on that top-10 causes of death list. If you don't think it's important by the time it is near that list than it would already be too late.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Still going by this website. The death rate in the US is currently at 1.36 now, again a good trend in the numbers. It's great that we're getting a lot more people tested. I think we'll end up seeing the positive number skyrocket as testing goes up. Of course, this takes time, we may see the trend spike up as cases go on, lets hope not.

 

You have 0 way of knowing that, it's just a guess.
edit: and it really doesn't address the point that was being made.

 

It's the China Virus.