And the occasional whine ...Originally Posted by allblack
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And the occasional whine ...
I have very high hopes that seriousness is a reversible condition.
Dr Lester Levy
I've studied deeply in the philosophies and religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.
Leonard Cohen
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Yeah, you're missing the potential magnitude of it. Covid-19 is still not widespread... but it likely eventually will be.
Look at your own numbers:
Ordinary flu - about 500,000 deaths per 1 billion cases (death rate 1 per 2000 cases)
Covid-19 - so far 2810 deaths from 82555 cases (death rate 1 per 29 cases)
So Wu Flu kills more than 100x as many people as regular flu.
These regular flu deaths are a kind of baseline for what happens under 'normal' circumstances, when the health system is not totally swamped, when emergency care is still available for those that need it, and when much of the population has some immunity from vaccines and previous exposures.
So multiply the need for hospital care by 100 with the Wu Flu, and consider that only about 5% of those cases will actually fit into the hospitals, which will be swamped. Basically there will be practically no care available for the majority of sufferers, who will die in their homes, because there's no place for them at the hospitals.
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Just got back from Petone Pak n Save. I saw three groups stocking up, all Asian. One was in the car park trying to put bottled water into every crevice he could find, with two women yelling at him in non-English whilst waving more bottles in the air.
So that stereotype was as expected as it was laughable.
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Fixed it!
Global Warming is Mann made.
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The problems we face today are because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.
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On stuff it shows a Parkandspend chokka with Asians. The way they drive is more likely to kill them than a virus.
Its amazing how Potatoes give us chips,fries and Vodka.
Get your s*** together every other vegetable.
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Those Asians are likely more acutely aware of the scale of things in Asia, likely from feedback from family/friends in China and the surrounding countries. Yes, it's an over-reaction currently... but in time it might seem justified. But why hoarde bottled water? Taps will continue to work, and will continue to provide safe drinking water.
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"If Fawlty Towers is now being removed by the BBC then humour is dead. The puritans are winning because the establishment is weak and has no self confidence."
Nigel Farage@Nigel_Farage· Jun 12
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Pak and Save Rangiora, a very white area had half empty shelves, the checkout girl told us it had been queued down the aisles this morning which never normally happens, usually if their are two people in front of you there its deemed busy
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Belgian scientist Peter Piot (the Virus hunter) says it will get worse
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...io-coronavirus
From the original article
https://dnyuz.com/2020/02/28/ebola-d...e-coronavirus/
Not to many good things will come of this
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It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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