Wow.
This is about the most head-scratching (and not in a good way), and just.....flat out dumbest discussion on this (...a very serious) subject and issue as I've ever seen anywhere.
How someone can say (with what I can only imagine was a straight face while typing it) that "it's a bad respiratory virus" (which,.... just happens to have killed over a million people in the world in just 8 months,....but whatever) and then in almost the same breath immediately follow that up with "...it has many redeeming features" is beyond my comprehension and just beggars belief.
As if the fact that it seemingly doesn't as adversely affect the "young and healthy" as it does the elderly and infirm is any "redeeming" quality in any actual serious sense of the word (because, of course,....as we all know.....fuck those old geezers, pensioners and sick. Amiright?)
And put aside for moment the asinine comparisons to Flu and flu deaths - a disease for which vaccines and flu shots actually DO exist - (unlike the coronavirus), and to the extent that people do get sick and die from it might stem from the fact of a lot more people than is ideal, neglecting to get their flu shot when Flu season rolls around, among other differences in the situations.
Yes, both disease are bad, and people die from both.
Could we maybe try to reduce the number of deaths from both with all the tools we have and can develop without minimizing either just because the other just happens to exist?
And now we've actually come around down to actual Donald Trump talking points of "if we just didn't test that many people or test people all the time, then perhaps the infection rate wouldn't be so high" ....or, if we didn't do the responsible thing and test our players, we wouldn't have found Mane's or Thiago's or Shaq's infection and they'd be just fine eventually (forget the fact that in that time they'd be shedding virus and infecting a buttload of other people) - ........which is the rhetorical equivalent of a toddler believing that if we just do this....(*covers eyes with hands*)....the world stops existing.
Forget also even for a moment that the man who elevated and then peddled that silly talking point to begin with, eventually (and some would argue, inevitably) got himself infected just this past week due to his own stupidity and put his own and others' lives at risk.
Forget even for a moment that even if were to go with the view that if we didn't test our own players and know who was infected under the assumption that even if they had it, and that indeed the symptoms are probably mild and these are fit athletes in the prime of their health lives, after all,....that these players still have families to go back to (potentially and likely including very young children with possible immune-compromised conditions) and might in any case come in contact with other people who are not as healthy as they are, and perhaps maybe we might not want them to be unknowingly passing the virus to folks like those because maybe we don't want them to.....I don't know.......die?
And all this coming from a self-proclaimed medical "expert" (not really sure if he'd call himself that)....or at least practitioner.
I weep for the species.
Also, point of note :
The reason (or at least, a large likely reason) that Donald Trump may seem to be dealing well enough with it - despite his high risk factors of his advanced age, weight/obesity/health status - is because he's receiving the kind of treatment and therapeutics (and experimental, unapproved) that you and I likely would never be able to get (And which over 210,000 of his own now dead countrymen and women never were able to get), ....coupled with easy and ready access to the sort of 24/7 medical attention, care and services that the vast resources of the richest country on the face of this planet can provide for possibly the singular most significant civilian there.
And he's not even out of the woods yet.
Lest we forget, hs dear late friend Herman Cain (same age as him) also started feeling "better" and talking about improvements in his condition barely days after his infection and test result and initial hospitalization, ....only to be dead in the ground two weeks after that.
Last edited by Crimson Dynasty; 7th October 2020 at 06:51 PM.
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