Coronavirus Outbreak...

[rogue06]

Dude, forget about responding to trolls, you ARE a troll. You even admitted it to MM.

I gotta wonder if he was trolling or if it's that his ego is so enormous he'd rather confess to trolling than admit that the position he took was untenable.

[seanD]

I gotta wonder if he was trolling or if it's that his ego is so enormous he'd rather confess to trolling than admit that the position he took was untenable.

He thinks he's that important to the thread, so he was playing the sympathy card to try and control the discussion -- when it was evident he was losing control -- by accusing his dissenters of trolling and being mean to him.

[seanD]

Fauci is the enemy.

At this point, I still agree with Tucker that Fauci's main problem is his narrow focus. But it's becoming increasingly clear that his instinct for solving problems is statism. Plus, he's been way too dismissive and resistant toward hydroxychloroquine.

It's time for Bad Orange Man to recruit some new members for the Task Force -- maybe Dr. David Katz, Dr. John Ioannidis, and Dr. Stephen Smith -- and put them in front of the camera, while Fauci stands back grimacing and rolling his eyes.

There's a weird relationship between science and statism. I find the two often exist in harmonious correlation when it's politically related.

[firstfloor]

BoJo now in the ICU.

[Mountain Man]

Fauci is the enemy.

... Plus, he's been way too dismissive and resistant toward hydroxychloroquine.

Liberals have accused Trump of having a vested financial interest in promoting this treatment. I assume Adam Schiff has the evidence and will let us see it some day.

[oxmixmudd]

Fauci is the enemy.

At this point, I still agree with Tucker that Fauci's main problem is his narrow focus. But it's becoming increasingly clear that his instinct for solving problems is statism. Plus, he's been way too dismissive and resistant toward hydroxychloroquine.

It's time for Bad Orange Man to recruit some new members for the Task Force -- maybe Dr. David Katz, Dr. John Ioannidis, and Dr. Stephen Smith -- and put them in front of the camera, while Fauci stands back grimacing and rolling his eyes.

And this kind of thinking is why it is so hard for anyone with experience and knowledge to survive in the Trump administration.

Tucker Carlson is NOT a doctor or any sort of truly knowledgeable person wrt epidemiology and the pathology of disease or the correct methods for establishing the effectiveness of a medicine to treat a disease and the reasons we have to protocols we do for evaluating drugs the way we do (e.g. so people don't die or suffer permanent damage worse than the disease itself). To let him drive policy wrt Fauci or to ignore Fauci's reluctance to jump on the hydroxychloroquine bandwagon is just ignorance. I mean, hydroxychloroquine might work, but hey a stopped clock is right twice a day too. But you'd never know when w/o a working clock.

Shooting from the hip is how we got here. Assuming you or Tucker or Trump's 'gut' is going to figure this out, or that anyone with knowledge of the situation that is reluctant to follow Trump's lead is necessarily some political paria is how we got here. Fauci is resitent because of what he knows about science and medicine. Don't play politics with medical knowledge and disease.

will you never learn?

[Mountain Man]

The manic urge to completely shut down society (an urge primarily on the left) over a virus which may or may not be more potent than the flu, and which may or may not kill hundreds of thousands vs. millions from the economic consequences really makes you wonder the intent behind it all.

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[Mountain Man]

Interesting editorial:

https://townhall.com/columnists/scot...-a-mo-n2566393

I think we can all agree that something must be done, but government thinking seems to be

Draconian government solutions are "something".
Therefore, draconian government solutions must be done.

Will the "cure" ultimately be worse than the disease?

[seanD]

Interesting editorial:

https://townhall.com/columnists/scot...-a-mo-n2566393

I think we can all agree that something must be done, but government thinking seems to be

Draconian government solutions are "something".
Therefore, draconian government solutions must be done.

Will the "cure" ultimately be worse than the disease?

It's GREAT for climate change though! Can't tell you how many news sources I've seen that tout the "silver lining" of this in how it's positively affecting the environment. Correlation is not always causation, but... just another potential incentive.

[Charles]

[...]Will the "cure" ultimately be worse than the disease?

Since you still question whether corona is worse than the common flu you must think the cure is worse... You must think Trump has gone way too far already...

[Darfius]

It's GREAT for climate change though! Can't tell you how many news sources I've seen that tout the "silver lining" of this in how it's positively affecting the environment. Correlation is not always causation, but... just another potential incentive.

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.naturenature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

[shunyadragon]

It's GREAT for climate change though! Can't tell you how many news sources I've seen that tout the "silver lining" of this in how it's positively affecting the environment. Correlation is not always causation, but... just another potential incentive.

The coronavirus has no effect on global warming.

[oxmixmudd]

The coronavirus has no effect on global warming.

Not directly. But with less people driving and for less time, fewer planes flying, that is less co2 in the atmosphere, and that affects the rate of progress for global warming. It also affects air pollution.

[seanD]

The coronavirus has no effect on global warming.

How do we fight climate change, genius? By reducing vehicle and industrial emission, correct? I'm not a scientist and I just used common sense. Guarantee I could do a google search and find a scientific paper to rebut you, but since you're just an anonymous dude on the internet, I won't bother.

[carpedm9587]

A problem with the PCR test is that it does not test for the virus specifically. It tests for material that seems to be the virus. It is by no means an exact determination. As a result, the statistics rely on messy information. I'm not sure how the COVID-19 test was developed so as to try to discern COVID-19 from other things which may not produce the same illness.

Did the tiger have a fever?

Dry cough - but that may just have been the cockatoo it had recently consumed...