Texas reopens to 100%, rescinds mask mandate
03-03-2021, 04:43 PM
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At this point of spread and mutation, you are probably right, but we should still aim for 100% and then accept whatever level of elimination we get after trying our best. Probably around 70-75% at best.
Smallpox was entirely eradicated with a massive global effort. If we really wanted to, we could do the same here, but it clearly hasn’t garnered as much attention as Smallpox (probably because it lacks the completely disturbing visual side effects).
Smallpox was entirely eradicated with a massive global effort. If we really wanted to, we could do the same here, but it clearly hasn’t garnered as much attention as Smallpox (probably because it lacks the completely disturbing visual side effects).
It’s absolutely clueless thinking like this that is the reason this country may never go back to normal.
03-03-2021, 04:46 PM
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I’m not so sure about the reading comprehension levels of the people in this thread. Seems you’d rather be right and clamber over minor details than engage in a good-faith discussion about COVID.
Nowhere did I compare COVID to Smallpox
but I did say that if the WHO undertook a massive global campaign over the course of more than 20 years to rid the world of one disease, it could eventually do the same for another.
Nowhere did I compare COVID to Smallpox
but I did say that if the WHO undertook a massive global campaign over the course of more than 20 years to rid the world of one disease, it could eventually do the same for another.
03-03-2021, 04:47 PM
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Last I checked, the beauty of freedom is being able to go outside knowing there are adequate policies and procedures in place to protect you and others from senselessly contracting a virus. If your value of human life is so low that you don’t care to look out for your fellow man, maybe you’re the one who should stay inside so everyone else who actually cares about masking up and taking care of each other can go outside and get things done.
515,000+ dead in the US but all you see is 99% survival, and I bet you also claim to be “pro-life” too. There’s a fun contradiction for you, but hey, basic logic is one of your strong suits right
By the way, plenty of survivors stay in a hospital bed for months, and many more have lasting side effects from the virus, but I guess that doesn’t matter to you.
And also, since you didn’t seem to read or comprehend my point at all, it was that it’s too early to take off our masks and stop socially distancing. Not that we should remain “shut down” indefinitely.
515,000+ dead in the US but all you see is 99% survival, and I bet you also claim to be “pro-life” too. There’s a fun contradiction for you, but hey, basic logic is one of your strong suits right
By the way, plenty of survivors stay in a hospital bed for months, and many more have lasting side effects from the virus, but I guess that doesn’t matter to you.And also, since you didn’t seem to read or comprehend my point at all, it was that it’s too early to take off our masks and stop socially distancing. Not that we should remain “shut down” indefinitely.
Public health officials in several states have literally said they’re counting it as a covid death as long as they test positive. Including suicides and car accidents. That’s not a conspiracy. It’s straight from their mouths. Not mine. Flu and pneumonia deaths are at almost 0. ABC news reported a few months ago Covid had surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in 2020. Even though heart disease kills on average 600,000 per year. And this was when covid was around 300k. Bigfoot and Santa Claus are more likely to be real than for the 515,000 covid deaths to be legit. Maybe we should keep locking down. It looks like lockdowns completely get rid of flu, pneumonia, and heart disease. It just misses the mark with covid.
03-03-2021, 04:48 PM
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03-03-2021, 05:04 PM
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If it saves just one life, it’s worth causing 40 million people to be unemployed, thousands of businesses permanently closing up shop, children not going to school while their brains are still developing, millions of people with anxiety and depression, and who how knows many excess suicides.
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