Posts by Ashley Bailey6

urbanhawk17 said:It looks like there’s some movement regarding the latest economic shifts in America. I guess we're seeing more of those predictable adjustments to the fiscal landscape that everyone keeps talking about. It seems like things are shifting again, though I suspect most people won't be surprised by the outcome. Maybe it's just the way things work now. Everything feels a bit repetitive, honestly.

I just hope irresponsible people don't cause trouble over these pay cuts during such a tough time. If they do, we won't have a choice but to cut salaries even further.

restlesssurfer97 said:This Capak guy is seriously starting to get on my last nerve, just constantly talking nonsense. He’d better just hit the factory reset button on himself soon, because we aren't living in North Korea.

It’s the same way in every country.
In all of them, the leadership publicly denounces irresponsible individuals and then follows up by threatening even stricter measures.

Probably some sort of directive.

Matthew Young35 said:I don't buy into conspiracy theories... It's just a wrong address.
I honestly think we're looking at pure stupidity here.

It isn't about whether you "believe" or not.

You have to look at things case by case.

Starting with the US Soccer association.
There are no privileged players there, and people call that a conspiracy theory?

https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/ves...nav_id=1669595

That's just how it is.

If Dinamo had actually faced those "bats," maybe Italy wouldn't be in such a mess right now.

ruggedjackal46 said:Look, I’ve dealt with things way worse than Corona, but I had the luxury of a functional healthcare system and easy access to medication. If you’re staring down an overwhelming number of cases all at once, that kind of access disappears. Once the hospitals are redlined, even Corona starts looking lethal for younger people. It becomes just like the flu or pneumonia—something that isn't just a nuisance anymore, but a genuine threat.

China can whip up an entire hospital dedicated solely to Corona cases in a single day, so it makes sense they had to roll out those quarantines just to get a handle on the spread. But what about us? What is America supposed to do when our healthcare system is already struggling to stay afloat under normal circumstances, let alone dealing with a full-blown epidemic?

It’s the same old story, isn't it? The media just loves to fixate on the latest disaster and stir up panic. It's like they can't help themselves—they see a crisis and immediately go into overdrive trying to make everyone lose their minds. Typical.
And they’re going to go looking through a magnifying glass, aren't they? They’ll be hunting around for someone under eighty who isn't exactly firing on all cylinders, just so they can find a convenient excuse to justify their current standing. Is that really how this works now?

With all due respect to the media—and I mean all of it—this global political meltdown isn't just some manufactured frenzy cooked up by news outlets. It’s bigger than that.

That’s why the entire US population is way larger than even Wuhan's.

Sure, things would be a mess for a few weeks, but everything would normalize pretty quickly after that.
Life goes on.

It isn't the temporary lockdowns that worry me. It's the fact that this looks like it's going to drag on indefinitely.

ruggedjackal46 said:Look, I’ve dealt with things way worse than Corona, but I had the luxury of a functional healthcare system and easy access to medication. If you’re staring down an overwhelming number of cases all at once, that kind of access disappears. Once the hospitals are redlined, even Corona starts looking lethal for younger people. It becomes just like the flu or pneumonia—something that isn't just a nuisance anymore, but a genuine threat.

China can whip up an entire hospital dedicated solely to Corona cases in a single day, so it makes sense they had to roll out those quarantines just to get a handle on the spread. But what about us? What is America supposed to do when our healthcare system is already struggling to stay afloat under normal circumstances, let alone dealing with a full-blown epidemic?

It’s the same old story, isn't it? The media just loves to fixate on the latest disaster and stir up panic. It's like they can't help themselves—they see a crisis and immediately go into overdrive trying to make everyone lose their minds. Typical.
And they’re going to go looking through a magnifying glass, aren't they? They’ll be hunting around for someone under eighty who isn't exactly firing on all cylinders, just so they can find a convenient excuse to justify their current standing. Is that really how this works now?

With all due respect to the media—and I mean all of it—this global political meltdown isn't just some manufactured frenzy cooked up by news outlets. It’s bigger than that.

It isn't, but it feels like they are completely committed to pushing certain agendas.

ruggedjackal46 said:I don’t know how this isn't crystal clear by now, but we aren't really looking at a matter of choice here. It’s not like we can just decide whether we want to implement a quarantine or simply sit back and let the virus run wild. Our healthcare infrastructure is already pretty thin, and ignoring the situation would almost certainly trigger a massive spike in cases. We’d end up seeing a much higher death toll simply because people wouldn't have an available hospital bed to go to. And honestly, that leads right back to an economic meltdown anyway—you can't run a country if a huge chunk of the workforce is either dead or incapacitated, and you can bet nobody is going to be flying into the States to visit while there's an active epidemic.

Sure, concerns about an economic crash or the mental health crisis are valid—we're definitely looking at some serious trouble ahead—but those are just extra layers of misery to deal with. They shouldn't be used as an excuse to debate whether or not we "need" a lockdown. It’s not like anyone is sitting around thinking, "You know what? A quarantine sounds like a blast, let's force one on us."

The workforce isn't even at risk.

From what I can see, most people have dealt with much worse illnesses than what you'd get from Corona.

I'm talking about the average person.

The media is just hyper-focused on the catastrophe and spreading panic, as usual.
They're hunting for anyone under 80 who might be slightly unwell just to justify the current state of things.

They say the drug or vaccine should be ready in about 18 months.

By then, we’ll probably see more murders and suicides among healthy people than deaths from the coronavirus among the elderly.

I’m struggling with all of this too. That’s why I’m so angry. Life has ground to a halt because of some virus that’s harmless to 90% of the population, just like plenty of other things that don't cause the world to stop.

Man, they’re calling for more wind and snow right as the third quarter wraps up.

To everyone in NYC and the surrounding areas, stay safe out there.

It gave him a real shake-up in Philadelphia, too.

Same as everything else.

It'll come back once sports does.

Until then, you might as well bet on the weather forecast. They'll just make something up.

Charles Roberts33 said:Earlier today at my bank, some old lady was coughing her lungs out right behind me. I had this sudden, violent twitch—like someone was literally gnawing on my spine. I actually had to laugh at myself for such an overactive reaction. Coronavirus, huh? If you’d dropped this exact same scenario on me ten days ago, I probably would've collapsed mid-air under a heavy dose of growing paranoia.

Nobody stuck here in this mild semi-isolation really knows what's going on. There's no consensus on how much caution is enough and when it becomes overkill. You've got the panickers stripping every single pack of cigarettes off the supermarket shelves, and then you've got the skeptics who wave everything off with a dismissive hand—a group I still sheepishly belong to, though maybe not quite as aggressively as before.

In this idiotic situation, your only real option is to just stand there, planted like a stump, clutching whatever irrelevant theory you've picked up. You wait to see what they feed you on the news, and then you're left with the choice of whether to believe it or not, before continuing to bleat aimlessly just like before. You just wait. Wait for curfews, for escalations, for quarantines, for things to calm down, and eventually, hopefully, for a return to "normal." And while you're waiting, you'll start to realize exactly what motivates those people running around playing games and cheating their way through life.

If someone coughs on my neck, I'm reacting the same way regardless of whether it's Coronavirus or not.

The silver lining is that it might teach people about basic hygiene, but that's always been a personal matter anyway.

Joseph Clark37 said:Well, that's a relief. I was starting to get a little worried, but it looks like there's no reason to be... Thanks @Ashley Bailey6!

No problem.

Not likely.

As soon as the weather warms up, this whole thing becomes a memory.

It won't have nearly the impact of previous outbreaks.

Aside from the hit to the economy, obviously.

Look, I'm the first one to say I don't give a damn about clowns like David Icke.

But this is just ridiculous.

More than 12,000 people died from H1N1 here in the US.

Right now, there are 249 deaths from Coronavirus, and those were all people who were already terminal anyway.

Over 68 million infections and 274,000 hospitalizations.

That's the situation.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, there were 60.8 million cases, 274,000 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths (0.02% case fatality rate) in the United States due to the virus.[117]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_f..._United_States

This is a completely new playbook. Every year it's something different, but this time they decided to shut everything down.

Your lung capacity might drop "permanently" just from being sedentary.

But that permanent drop stays permanent only until you get back out there and start moving or playing sports again.

ambertinker41 said:It isn't just about the death toll; people who deal with more severe cases end up with permanent lung damage.
In the USA, 40% of ICU patients are under 55, and 30% fall somewhere between 20 and 44.

Myth.

Lung capacity might drop by 20% or 30%, but you can get that back through exercise and training.

It's a standard recovery process. They just conveniently leave out the second half.

Amanda Evans2 said:Just pure frustration...
A friend of mine, a doctor over at University Hospital, told me that we’ve actually seen more fatalities recently because people aren't getting the proper treatment or surgeries they need, all thanks to the sheer panic surrounding Covid.

There's an article suggesting that in Italy, 99 percent of deaths were tied to at least one other underlying diagnosis, where the average age was 80 and was essentially neglected.
All anyone does is quote these apocalyptic numbers and treat people like cattle.

I honestly doubt we'll even hit that 16k mark in Italy, which is what you'd normally see for a standard flu season.
That's assuming they are only counting direct deaths and hospitalizations from the flu, rather than those who had three other conditions and the flu just accelerated their passing. Just like they did with Covid.

The case of that 21-year-old athlete from Spain a few days ago is the perfect example of how panic spreads and how the media reports on how fear is growing among the public.

Of course, every authority wants to justify these "measures."

Now everyone is just living in fear.

But in a few weeks—once they realize this is an old person's disease and they finally snap from the stress at home—I expect parks, riverfronts, and beaches to be swarming with police trying to force people to comply.

Especially here in the States.

urbanhawk17 said:If a different strain of the flu hits than what the medical experts predicted, then the vaccine doesn't help at all, I guess.

So you have seasons where you get vaccinated and it does nothing for you. I don't see this level of panic or hysteria, nor do I see people counting the dead.

But that's basically what Plazo said—that if we had called this disease "flu" instead of Covid19, even if it was just a different type of flu, nobody would care.

That's exactly my point.

Paul Martinez73 said:Hey Group, someone needs to tell her that this isn't even a big deal; honestly, the flu is way more dangerous and half these numbers are probably exaggerated anyway. It’s not unheard of for flu season to pack hospitals so tight you literally run out of beds and have to just let people pass away... total unnecessary panic ☕

If we didn't have a flu vaccine, things would be much worse.

There. Explained.