kungfoodude

We're saying the same thing. We have just normalized insanity.

In fairness we have been fuged for a long time and much longer than you've been alive. Look at it this way, you might just get to tell people you saw the end of it.

I believe that you believe math is fake. That checks out.

If you don't believe in math, sure.

Head in the sand politics at it's finest.

Here is some American exceptionalism for you, the US has roughly 4.3% of the world's population yet 25.7% of the Rona worldwide deaths and 25.8% of the worldwide Rona cases.

Well, they get to go see Jesus though. Isn't that what they all claim to want?

I have never had the flu vaccine. Just had the flu once in my life. I will probably start doing it when I get older and am at a higher risk.

I still believe that a good vaccine is going to lag significantly behind what people's expectations are. Hopefully I am wrong about that.

Mask usage in Detroit/Ann Arbor/Grand Rapids is pretty low. There are still places that require them to enter but the overall usage has dropped visibly in the past 3 weeks. As I said, people are just over it.

The temp checks are only relevant if you are running a fever and that is probably too late.

Oh, this was FOR SURE predictable. Some people were going to be replaced anyway. You can't lay people off now because of optics. But next year will be a gold mine because even if these companies aren't actually struggling they now have a perfect excuse to jettison employees by saying, "Oh the stress from the Rona dun it to us! If we hadn't had that, we'd be able to keep all of you!" Meanwhile we underwent another gigantic wealth transfer from the government to corporations and shareholders.

Anti-vaxxer. Fully out.

Ouch. Now that is disturbing. Garden variety greed and corruption. Now that I could buy.

Oh poo....I'm out. Those people are dumb.

Eh....leans conspiracy theorish but it's hard to discount anything. NC had their rest homes get WRECKED with the CoronAIDS too. I did see a couple of articles recently on how bad it had been at reat homes in general. Super susceptible population, crammed in and exposed to health workers that had high probability to come in contact with it. TBH, they are kind of breeding grounds for it.

I drank heavily during that period so I believe that made me immune. I have sponsored a recent study that proves keeping a certain BAC level will kill the virus. Should be published soon in Whiskey Quarterly.

Jesus H. Buttfuging Christ....that is 70 minutes long. What is the Cliff's Notes?

I have heard umpteen different stories across 5-6 states about people being sick as fug in Dec/Jan. At the same time, this illness mirrors a lot of other common illnesses that would be floating around at that time.

I never tried to get one. They were required to work on site. I didn't seek them out nor pay for them. They literally set up a temporary testing spot at our workplace.

Nope. It was the company that arranged all of it. They paid the Ford hospital a bunch of money to do exclusive testing for us at the job site. Got tested once a week for three weeks. One antibody test and three COVAIDS tests.

Well I have gotten three tests so far and some people here have gotten as many as six. Think that probably warps the data too?

We are actually 30th in the world in tests per capita. But, yeah, we are going a little overboard IMO. I have stayed pretty much on point with that throughout the whole episode. It's funny because a lot of people in this thread were freaking out at me.

Well, the real quandary is what is the value of human life in the "big picture?" We number over 7 billion by most estimates, right? So, is the value of "overall" human life as great as we are it? I'm honestly on the fence about that. Perhaps that is just being jaded by seeing what we are instead of what we could be.

That is just reality, though. And we don't have the systems in place to weather the storm. I am not sure we ever will, TBQH.