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

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  1. yankeesince59

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    My goodness...how is it "fake news"? You said a week or two ago that "hospitals are just fine" and that we should "open everything back up"...and few days later for reasons known only to you, you decided to double down by asking "are the hospitals overwhelmed yet". And now that you've been presented with facts that disprove your stance, like Trump, you go into denial mode and scream "fake news".
     
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    tlong will say anything that gets him to his preferred conclusion, that everything should open up and life should go back to normal.
     
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    Everything should reopen!

    And life should go back to normal!

    After we get the virus under control.
     
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    I think it's safer if we just surgically attach masks to everyone's faces permanently. After all, there will be future diseases. And the flu (i.e. the OG coronavirus) is always lurking.
     
  5. yankeesince59

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    Needless to say, this virus is HUGE inconvenience to everyone, worldwide. But the inane sense of entitlement by some is just mind-numbing to me. We ALL wanted to "get back to normal" but we'll never get there by being selfish and foolish. And people who either refuse to wear a mask in public or deny that we actually have a serious problem are being both selfish and foolish.
     
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    tlongII Legendary Poster

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    Unfortunately you folks don't appear to know how this works. There are clearly hospitals in Florida that are NOT at full capacity. If a patient needs to be moved to one of those that is what happens.
     
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    Wait, now your claiming that you're one who truly knows "how this works"?...seriously?

    So now you're moving the goalposts once again by claiming that the hospitals won't be really "overwhelmed" until EVERY hospital in Fla is completely full?



    C'mon man...I gotta believe that you're smarter than this...just accept the reality of the facts/truth and the full gravity of the situation.
     
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    Mike Pence claims there are 'early signs' Texas, Arizona and Florida are flattening coronavirus curve as cases top three MILLION - but pleads with medical staff to re-use PPE
    • Pence made the statement as the U.S. hit 3 million infections
    • Texas had 10,000 new cases Tuesday
    • Florida has seen cases jump after an early push for reopening
    • Pence spoke at the Education Department where he pushed for reopening the nation's schools
    • Trump has repeatedly pitched reopening schools on Twitter and criticized CDC guidelines
    • U.S. topped 3 million cases Wednesday
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ona-Florida-flattening-coronavirus-curve.html
     
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    Sad part is, pence isn't any smarter than trump.
     
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    lol, me thinks you are the one that doesn't know how it works. Hospitals are under seige again. We just had another record day of corona virus cases. Numbers are going up which means there will be more hospital cases. Last thing you want to do is have to transport ICU patients throughout the state to find ICU rooms for those that need it. Doctors and medicasl workers are very concerned. I trust their opinion over a blinded trump supporter like you. It's an issue and like trump says, you just need to deal with it.
     
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    Well, that exchanged stressed me the fuck out! Thanks!
     
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    I think when Trump says reopen schools he's talking about re-education camps...Mao did this with the red guard....they will be taken from their parents and brainwashed into sending their parents to prison or to be used for free labor for the state....so much winning! In one fell swoop he can have an army of children!
     
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    Exactly.

    @tlongII I just think there's zero shame in saying, "wow, things are way more fucked than I thought they'd be" or whatever you see fit, instead of continuing to downplay the magnitude of this thing we're facing. Transporting patients all over states is madness.

    On a connected sidenote. CHECK THIS OUT!!!! Florida has had 224k confirmed cases with thousands new cases every day.

    JUST FLORIDA!

    That is more than following places:

    Saudi Arabia
    South Africa
    Turkey
    Germany
    Bangladesh
    France
    Colombia
    Canada
    Qatar
    Mainland China
    Argentina
    Egypt
    Sweden
    Indonesia
    Iraq
    Belarus
    Ecuador
    Belgium
    United Arab Emirates
    Kuwait
    Kazakhstan
    Netherlands
    Ukraine
    Philippines
    Oman
    Singapore
    Portugal
    Bolivia
    Panama
    Dominican Republic
    Poland
    Afghanistan
    Israel
    Switzerland
    Bahrain
    Romania
    Armenia
    Nigeria
    Ireland
    Honduras
    Guatemala
    Ghana
    Azerbaijan
    Japan
    Austria
    Moldova
    Algeria
    Serbia
    Nepal
    Cameroon
    Morocco
    South Korea
    Denmark
    Czechia
    Côte d'Ivoire
    Uzbekistan
    Sudan
    Norway
    Australia
    Malaysia
    El Salvador
    Kenya
    Kyrgyzstan
    Venezuela
    Senegal
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    North Macedonia
    Finland
    Ethiopia
    Haiti
    Tajikistan
    Bulgaria
    Gabon
    Guinea
    French Guiana
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Costa Rica
    Mauritania
    Djibouti
    Palestine
    Luxembourg
    Hungary
    Central African Republic
    Kosovo
    Greece
    Croatia
    Madagascar
    Thailand
    Equatorial Guinea
    Albania
    Somalia
    Mayotte
    Paraguay
    Maldives
    Cuba
    Mali
    Nicaragua
    South Sudan
    Sri Lanka
    Estonia
    Lebanon
    Iceland
    Malawi
    Lithuania
    Slovakia
    Guinea-Bissau
    Slovenia
    Zambia
    Sierra Leone
    Republic of the Congo
    New Zealand
    Cape Verde
    Hong Kong
    Yemen
    Benin
    Tunisia
    Jordan
    Latvia
    Libya
    Rwanda
    Niger
    Mozambique
    Eswatini
    Cyprus
    Burkina Faso
    Uruguay
    Georgia
    Uganda
    Liberia
    Chad
    Andorra
    Montenegro
    Jamaica
    Zimbabwe
    São Tomé and Príncipe
    San Marino
    Togo
    Malta
    Suriname
    Namibia
    Réunion
    Western Sahara
    Tanzania
    Taiwan
    Syria
    Vietnam
    Angola
    Mauritius
    Isle of Man
    Jersey
    Myanmar (Burma)
    Botswana
    Comoros
    Guyana
    Guernsey
    Martinique
    Mongolia
    Eritrea
    Cayman Islands
    Burundi
    Faroe Islands
    Guadeloupe
    Gibraltar
    Bermuda
    Brunei
    Cambodia
    Trinidad and Tobago
    Northern Cyprus
    Monaco
    Aruba
    The Bahamas
    Barbados
    Lesotho
    Liechtenstein
    Seychelles
    Bhutan
    Sint Maarten
    Antigua and Barbuda
    French Polynesia
    The Gambia
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    Macao
    Saint Martin
    Belize
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Curaçao
    Timor-Leste
    Grenada
    Saint Lucia
    Fiji
    New Caledonia
    Åland Islands
    Laos
    Dominica
    Saint Kitts and Nevis
    Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
    Greenland
    Vatican City
    Montserrat
    Papua New Guinea
    British Virgin Islands
    Caribbean Netherlands
    Saint Barthélemy
    Anguilla
    Saint Pierre and Miquelon
    Bouvet Island
    British Indian Ocean Territory
    Turkmenistan
    Svalbard and Jan Mayen
    Solomon Islands
    Christmas Island
    Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    Cook Islands
    French Southern and Antarctic Lands
    Federated States of Micronesia
    Heard Island and McDonald Islands
    Kiribati
    Marshall Islands
    Niue
    Nauru
    Norfolk Island
    Palau
    Pitcairn Islands
    Samoa
    South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
    Antarctica
    Tokelau
    Tonga
    Tuvalu
    United States Minor Outlying Islands
    Vanuatu
    Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
    Wallis and Futuna


    (I took North Korea off the list) But jesus christos, we suck at this.

    EDIT: I just wanted to add that Florida doesn't even lead the nation in confirmed cases. It is 3rd behind NY and CA and will likely be passed up by TX soon.
     
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    FAKE NEWS
     
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    You've become so jaded you don't know real news when you see it.
     

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