This is What is Going to Happen - we need suppression, not mitigation

[ideologyhunter]

Honk if you think he'll pay a price for these statements.

 

[Elixir]

Hmm. You posted that on Thursday the 26th. A week will be April 2nd.
Half-Life will be laughing. He guarantees it:

03-16-2020, 05:37 PM


3-25-2020

This quarantine will work. I guarantee it. April 12 we will be up and running.
The cases are going to start declining in the U.S. starting around the next few days.
By April 1, we will see a steady downstream and be on our way out.

So it's going to suddenly stop accelerating any minute now. In fact, if you look REAL CLOSE at this curve and squint real hard, you can already see the beginnings of "a steady downstream", whatever kind of an incoherent mess that is supposed to mean:

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That's not fair. It's been established that Half-life is illiterate and can't read a table.

You mean he can't read as well as, i.e. is not as smart as a table? Okay.
But please don't tell me all these pretty pictures are to no avail!

 

[Jokodo]

Also, it seems that all the US states with the major outbreaks have had closure of non-essential retail establishments for at least a week. Yet, we are gonna hit 4,000 deaths within a week and 10,000 by mid-April.

Incubation period. It takes a week of shutdown before you start to see any effects.

Make that two weeks, with limited test availability and people thinking it's nothing serious for the first few days if cold- like symptoms.

 

[seanie]

Also, it seems that all the US states with the major outbreaks have had closure of non-essential retail establishments for at least a week. Yet, we are gonna hit 4,000 deaths within a week and 10,000 by mid-April.

Incubation period. It takes a week of shutdown before you start to see any effects.

Make that two weeks, with limited test availability and people thinking it's nothing serious for the first few days if cold- like symptoms.

Numbers I've been told are: an incubation period of 5-14 days, 4-5 days of deterioration before the really sick go to hospital, average death being about 2 weeks from first symptoms. Our "shutdown" was staged and even now hasn't gone as far as some, but on those numbers it might take 3 or more weeks to start to see a change?

 

[Rhea]

We all know the Dems wouldn't do anything for the people. They only virtue signal about helping the poor.

Who are, apparently, not people.

 

[Elixir]

We all know the Dems wouldn't do anything for the people. They only virtue signal about helping the poor.

Who are, apparently, not people.

Here's what Republicans are doing to us:

We have 18% of the world's COVFEFE-19 cases.
We have 2.2% of those who have recovered from it.

Tens of thousands of people will die, solely due to misinformation, lies and Half-Truths disseminated by Trump and his minions like our own little liar:

This quarantine will work. I guarantee it. April 12 we will be up and running.
The cases are going to start declining in the U.S. starting around the next few days.
By April 1, we will see a steady downstream and be on our way out.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Also, it seems that all the US states with the major outbreaks have had closure of non-essential retail establishments for at least a week. Yet, we are gonna hit 4,000 deaths within a week and 10,000 by mid-April.

Incubation period. It takes a week of shutdown before you start to see any effects.

Make that two weeks, with limited test availability and people thinking it's nothing serious for the first few days if cold- like symptoms.

Note that I said "before you start to see". The incubation period is up to 14 days, not a fixed 14 days.

 

[seanie]

Can I ask at what stage are different parts of the USA in terms of response?

From here I see Trump press conferences and stories about NY and CA, Spring Break in FL and ventilators, but there's no sense of what's happening elsewhere.

Is every state taking it seriously and ramping up measures?

 

[Bomb#20]

We all know the Dems wouldn't do anything for the people. They only virtue signal about helping the poor.

Who are, apparently, not people.

Why did you write that? Are you deliberately misrepresenting him because you're trying to get your readers to think that's what he meant, or are you deliberately misrepresenting him because it's fun to be a troll even though you expect your readers not to be taken in by your misrepresentation, or are you unintentionally misrepresenting him because you're semiliterate?

"The poor are not people" is not an even half-way intelligent gloss for you to place on his words. He claimed, obviously, that the Democrats do not actually do anything to help the poor, but only virtue signal about doing so.

Regardless of why you wrote that, you now owe Half-Life an abject apology.

 

[Patooka]

I, for one, am sorry Half-life lives in such a glass house. And his attitude towards the poor is pretty unequivocal.

 

[Half-Life]

I, for one, am sorry Half-life lives in such a glass house. And his attitude towards the poor is pretty unequivocal.

I do not hate the poor. I understand that people have to do the menial jobs. But, it's the uneducated and lazy who do those jobs. As it's been pointed out many ties, if you are 40 years old still working the cash register at a fast food place, then it's obvious you don't have many life skills and/or aren't the most intelligent person in the world. People who are educated and motivated do not work those jobs. They have better jobs. No one says, "I have a major in mechanical engineering. I guess I'll go work the register at McDonald's instead." Obviously, this happens some times because the job market is bad, but eventually the person would leave and be in his qualified position. They are outliers.

For the most part, if you walk into a fast food place and see a 40 year old ringing you up with a depressed frown on his face, you know he's not very smart or educated. He knows it, too. But, I do not hate them. I feel sorry for them that they have to work such crappy jobs with customers who always yell at them. But at the same time, they put themselves in that position.

Everyone sees the 40 year old working a cash register and thinks to themselves, "What went wrong in this guy's life?" It's a natural bias. Anyone who says they never think that is lying.

I once saw a customer berate a stocker at Walmart because he was trying to fit the items on the shelf and couldn't do it. The customer went up to them and said, "Here, turn it at an angle so they can all fit." The customer then stocked the stuff for the employee and said, "I guess that's why you stock shelves for a living. You're not very bright."

Was that justified to say? No. But, I understand where it was coming from.

 

[Patooka]

Cool story, bro.

 

[Half-Life]

Cool story, bro.

The alternative to my facts is that when you see a 40 year old cashier you say to yourself, "This guy seems like a real go-getter!"

Is that what you think when you see one?

I also think, "This guy isn't even smart enough to be a truck driver?" Truck drivers are pay a good living and you need no qualifications to work that job, either. I usually think, "This guy can't even be a truck driver or a public transit driver???"

The human mind is a fascinating thing to dive into.

 

[Patooka]

Cool story, bro.

The alternative to my facts

Umm...you didn't provide any.

is that when you see a 40 year old cashier you say to yourself, "This guy seems like a real go-getter!"

Nope. I generally think "second job", because the 15 years I spent in retail confirms that assumption more often than not. I've lost count the amount of times I've been in charge of people who have a better tertiary education than me or were significantly more qualified in a trade than I would ever be.

I also think,

I'm gonna stop you right there. Just...rephrase that. Please.

"This guy isn't even smart enough to be a truck driver?" Truck drivers are pay a good living and you need no qualifications to work that job, either. I usually think, "This guy can't even be a truck driver or a public transit driver???"

Is this another one of your "facts"? I'm now going to teach you something for free. Facts normally aren't prefaced with "I think" or "I believe" or "What if" or "Let's say". You're welcome.

The human mind is a fascinating thing to dive into.

Your arguments are proof the human mind is a devout follower of Sturgeon's Law.

Finally, none of this disproves that fact you believe poor people just sit around getting drunk or smoking weed all day.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

We all know the Dems wouldn't do anything for the people. They only virtue signal about helping the poor.

Who are, apparently, not people.

Why did you write that? Are you deliberately misrepresenting him because you're trying to get your readers to think that's what he meant, or are you deliberately misrepresenting him because it's fun to be a troll even though you expect your readers not to be taken in by your misrepresentation, or are you unintentionally misrepresenting him because you're semiliterate?

Is it possible to misrepresent a Half-Life post and make it appear worse?

 

[bilby]

Cool story, bro.

The alternative to my facts is that when you see a 40 year old cashier you say to yourself, "This guy seems like a real go-getter!"

Is that what you think when you see one?

I also think, "This guy isn't even smart enough to be a truck driver?" Truck drivers are pay a good living and you need no qualifications to work that job, either. I usually think, "This guy can't even be a truck driver or a public transit driver???"

The human mind is a fascinating thing to dive into.

You go get a heavy vehicle drivers license, and then come back and tell us all how you need no qualifications to work that job.

Operating a vehicle with an eighteen speed constant mesh transmission is a skill that not everyone can master.

 

[Elixir]

Operating a vehicle with an eighteen speed constant mesh transmission is a skill that not everyone can master.

Yabut ignorant squawking about it takes no skill whatsoever. Lucky for us, we have someone here with exactly that.

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In the case of the poster addressed herein... all of it, I'm sure.

 

[Elixir]

The human mind is a fascinating thing to dive into.

Yeah - whatthehell drives people to say shit like:

This quarantine will work. I guarantee it. April 12 we will be up and running.
The cases are going to start declining in the U.S. starting around the next few days.
By April 1, we will see a steady downstream and be on our way out.

Well, April is day after tomorrow... is this what you're seeing? Or are you laughing too hard?