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37 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

 
He didn’t say that, you’re reading that into the comments. You have to make an assumption about the severity of some schools closing for a time and the unstated affects on public transportation to even come close to thinking its “insane”. But in the clip he gives an example of what he is referring to with schools being closed for a couple of days, so that gives a baseline for what he is talking about.


And given what we’ve seen with containment efforts so far, ‘a few days’ looks like a rather naive prediction. 

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1 hour ago, PaladinSolo said:

I mean coughing doesn't mean anything, I had the flu last week and still dealing with some post nasal drip that's been making me cough a lot from my sinuses draining. 

True but it's just...well I can't even put it into words.  Your on fucking TV talking about going through the quarantine and he's got his kid while coughing on them and touching the shit that's in their mouth and then drinking their water.  You shouldn't be doing that even with a simple cold.  His a fucking moron, it looks extremely bad.  Like have some common sense. 

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3 minutes ago, Chris- said:


And given what we’ve seen with containment efforts so far, ‘a few days’ looks like a rather naive prediction. 

Maybe, but his entire premise here is that Covid doesn’t seem to be as harmful as other viruses we’ve dealt with and so the response doesn’t necessarily have to be as strong as things like SARS or MERS. But the situation is developing and the facts could certainly change.

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3 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Don't worry, the American population has the virus under control.

Reminds me of years ago when i posted an article on facebook about a poll where a large number of respondents said they should have warnings on their food to tell them that it contained DNA and mocked those people and my Aunt responds all pissed off that people should know whats in their food, lol....

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14 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Maybe, but his entire premise here is that Covid doesn’t seem to be as harmful as other viruses we’ve dealt with and so the response doesn’t necessarily have to be as strong as things like SARS or MERS. But the situation is developing and the facts could certainly change.


I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that showing nonchalance toward such unknowns - especially when thousands of lives could be at risk - can be categorized as ‘insane’. I’m at work so I haven’t watched the actual clip, but everything I’ve read about his appearance indicates he was completely blasé, and that doesn’t seem sane in light of a potential pandemic with a potential 2% mortality rate. 

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11 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

So apparently 5 of the passengers from that quarantined Cruise ship have died.

Surprised it’s not higher given the average age of cruisers. I’ve been on 5 cruises and had some old person die on three of them :o

 

2 minutes ago, Chris- said:

I haven’t watched the actual clip


Ok Riley, let’s start there then :p

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Just now, sblfilms said:

Surprised it’s not higher given the average age of cruisers. I’ve been on 5 cruises and had some old person die on three of them :o

 


Ok Riley, let’s start there then :p


So are you saying he displayed the proper amount of alarm and solemnity based on what is (and isn’t) known?

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6 minutes ago, Chris- said:


So are you saying he displayed the proper amount of alarm and solemnity based on what is (and isn’t) known?


I would say he acted appropriately and wasn’t downplaying or up-playing it either way, he was comparing it to other notable viruses (the annual flu, Ebola, SARS, and MERS) to give people a sense of how to evaluate the situation as we currently understand it.

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The thing that makes this worse than SARS and MERS is that its not primarily being spread in hospitals, those weren't as contagious so its spread was largely clustered in healthcare facilities, this virus is spreading through populations simply by close contact like the flu or the common cold.  Basically despite having a lower mortality rate than SARS which was 9.6%, its already killed 3 times as many people.

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7 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

The thing that makes this worse than SARS and MERS is that its not primarily being spread in hospitals, those weren't as contagious so its spread was largely clustered in healthcare facilities, this virus is spreading through populations simply by close contact like the flu or the common cold.  Basically despite having a lower mortality rate than SARS which was 9.6%, its already killed 3 times as many people.


Mulvaney explicitly notes how contagious it as a big issue.

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"At this point, the hospital called the CDC requesting permission to perform the COVID-19 testing. The CDC denied the request on the ground that I did not have the most life-threatening symptoms: chest pain and shortness of breath. According to everything I read it's very likely not to have these symptoms if you're in your 30's and relatively healthy.

 

And... that was that. They discharged me, said I don't have Corona virus, since they didn't test me for it, and said I can ride the subway, return to work, do whatever I want."

 

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52 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

They're really gonna try and Baghdad Bob their way through a pandemic. My god.

A decent number of people are going to die because of this. It is sick and disgusting that not hurting dear leader’s feelings matters more to these people.

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