Originally Posted by
The Boz
Originally Posted by
redietz
For those interested in long-term effects:
https://www.healthcentral.com/articl...ts-coronavirus
Or you could take Boz's word for it.
Meanwhile, what I have actually said, not paraphrasing, is that mortality rates should go down for the following reasons:
1) It is not in a virus's long-term best interests to kill a lot of hosts.
2) Since many of the most at-risk have already died, by definition, the mortality rate should go down.
3) Health care professionals learn what does or does not work, so treatment and care should improve.
Having said that, to this point, the mortality rate in the U.S. has been more than 4%. As I said, directly quoting, "this is undoubtedly" high, as not much testing has been done, given the population.
The Box likes to paraphrase when he cannot find supportive direct quotes. If he had found supportive direct quotes, he would have used them.
For tips on how to watch television news, I suggest my rather disdainful blog entry:
https://theskepticalgambler.blogspot...atch-news.html
A virus has a “long term best interest”? And acts toward it, naturally in a way to justify your silly vision of it.
You truly are an idiot RED, and not just any normal idiot, perhaps the biggest idiot out there.
I don’t take the time to find quotes, because almost everyone you make is to further your agenda. Nothing more.
And as I have said many times, I’ll never understand how someone like you ended up this bitter, broke, angry old man living in TN getting off wishing for more deaths. Had to be a lot of missteps along the road of your life to end up like this. Maybe it’s typical for liberals, always looking for someone like to government to fix a lifetime of bad decisions. I do feel sad for what you have become and where you ended up.
Lesson to kids, end up like MDawg, not RED.
I like to think of myself as a fun dude.
Some further issues with The Boz's information:
If you've been following the statistic reporting in the U.S. for the last month or so, you'll notice that it has been raggedy. Sundays, for example, are routine under-reporting in both cases and deaths in most states and for the country as a whole. Deaths "catch up" early the next week. Depending on whether it's a holiday weekend, numbers gets delayed and sorted out on Mondays or Tuesdays. So when Boz cherry picks a Sunday number, that would be what one one would do if you were trying to make a case for something.
Also, interestingly, if you check the CNN "death count" as compared to other sources, CNN has been bending over backwards to provide the lower Johns Hopkins count. They are being pristine in providing the lowest end of the various tallies. CNN, in fact, when compared to other sources, has been running 1,500 to 3,000 behind. So the idea that CNN and Johns Hopkins are exaggerating numbers is very far from the truth. Don't take my word for it. Check the CNN numbers versus other tallies.
As for being broke, it's all in the eye of the beholder. Compared to Gary, for example, who's featured in some photos in my Retro Road Trip thread, I'm perpetually broke. Good thing I can pull a Thomas Magnum and borrow one of his cars when I need it. Unfortunately, there are youtube videos somewhere of me driving the Lambo and getting mercilessly ribbed for not going more than 30 mph when off the freeway. I mean, really Boz, I have a 3,000 pound library, and that's because I gave away almost 2,000 pounds of books. Do you have any idea what that library cost?