Rant... you can’t fix stupid

[Ketchup]

1 hour ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

The title of this thread says it all.  It got super informative when it went down the path of comparing to tick bites.🤣

Hey, he had a valid point. Im thinking that ticks with the china flu are biting humans, and causing a new strain of tickidis

[Al Agnew]

1 hour ago, Smalliebigs said:

There is more than one strain of Covid Al. One gives you a very mild case if anything at all. Another which seems to be a little more rare now is a killer. My family has been exposed to it and none of us were even sick really. Hell my wife has had people in hospice who get Covid while there to die and recover from the Covid before they succumb to the illness that put them there. That has happened 4 times now since August. It is a weird virus that has given a Golden ticket to government officials to do anything they want to you and your families in the name of saving people from it. Also there is no good science on this as of yet so don’t even pretend to convince any of these fisherman that there are some sort of solid facts on this virus because there isn’t.

There is plenty of good science on it.  With all the resources across the world that have been going toward understanding this virus and then doing something about it, you have to believe that everybody working on it is totally inept to think there isn't plenty of good science by now.  Do we know everything we need to know about it?  Nope.  Do we know enough to have an idea of how to combat it?  Yep.  

I hate to get into the political weeds, but this whole "government control" thing just seems patently ridiculous to me.  What the heck do you EXPECT the government and government officials to do?  Apparently, many expect them to do absolutely nothing, and let us wallow in our freedom to be stupid and selfish until a few million die and a few more tens of millions of gravely ill totally wreck our whole health care system along with our economy.  Do you honestly think that government officials seeing the kind of stuff that is happening to our hospitals (and funeral homes) are doing things just so that they can be petty tyrants?  Please tell me, what do they really have to gain?  What is their end game if they are doing this to "control" us?  Oh, gee, they are gonna make sure we wear masks forever?  Maybe some of what has been done has been the wrong thing to do, ineffective, non-sensical.  But I know darned good and well that if I was a city or county or state government official, I wouldn't be standing by and watching people die and hospitals be completely overwhelmed without doing SOMETHING...and listening to the experts and not doofuses who don't have a clue but do have an agenda.

The best argument against "strains" is that people who are exposed in the exact same way, whether family members or groups of people going to the same wedding or other big event, are having vastly different outcomes.  There may be strains--certainly, as I said, there have been mutations.  But they aren't the reason for the widely different outcomes of people getting this virus.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

The title of this thread says it all.  It got super informative when it went down the path of comparing to tick bites.🤣

I thought the tick bite analogy was pretty spot-on.   

How rediculous was it, actually?    

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6 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I thought the tick bite analogy was pretty spot-on.   

How rediculous was it, actually?    

Good one!  I get it.  Tick, Spot.  😂

[Chief Grey Bear]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I thought the tick bite analogy was pretty spot-on.   

How rediculous was it, actually?    

Well, there’s #2!

All in one week!

2020 is crazy for sure!!

[Flysmallie]

32 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

 

How rediculous was it, actually?    

I thing the term scholars use is f’ing retarded. 

[Basfis]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

.  What the heck do you EXPECT the government and government officials to do? 

IMO the line was crossed with financial incentives. Paying people to stay home was detrimental and poorly timed. DC needs to stick to the right elevation. 

Local recommendations (at least in Greene county mo) have been prudent. DC is a circus on both sides of the aisle. 

[Basfis]

35 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

How rediculous was it, actually?

Ridiculously ridiculous. Like the spell check on your device....

[fishinwrench]

43 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

I thing the term scholars use is f’ing retarded. 

How so?  

Thousands get bitten by ticks....and a few die, or get extremely ill.

Thousands get infected with Covid.....and a few die, or get extremely ill.   

Relating the infection to the amount of severe reaction isn't really THAT insane, is it?   If everyone in the country played in the woods equally then the numbers would likely be parallel.     You REALLY think I'm crazy for thinking that?      Seriously?   🤔

[Ketchup]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

How so?  

Thousands get bitten by ticks....and a few die, or get extremely ill.

Thousands get infected with Covid.....and a few die, or get extremely ill.   

Relating the infection to the amount of severe reaction isn't really THAT insane, is it?   If everyone in the country played in the woods equally then the numbers would likely be parallel.     You REALLY think I'm crazy for thinking that?      Seriously?   🤔

Dont ask that question. Sometimes the answer could hurt your feelers.