Malacka11

You have to think though, is a mild winter really a disaster? By 2020 standards, would it not be more likely that it snows like twenty feet so that everyone can act like the world is ending?

Weenie mode has more or less been activated by now. I know it's still early, I really do, but I'm pretty much foaming at the mouth in anticipation of at least some sort of forecastable snow.

Might have to organize a neighborhood Christmas party just to watch the new How the ALEK Stole Christmas movie. Just playing dude, I agree with you 100% percent.

That's actually super cool man

That's actually really sad. RIP

Oh! Cool then! Never mind, crisis solved. The extra 1k from Covid can go fuck themselves I guess! That's totally awesome that we can just stop caring about Covid now. Really appreciate it, Jonger! Hey, while we're at it, how about we do away with those pesky speed limits? You could probably get up an extra five minutes later before work if you could only drive there faster, right?

I did a double-take for a second when I saw a pro-Biden comment quoted from dta and then I realized it was mine actually lol It's just annoying that one of the guys "majorly lolled" at that statement without actually explaining why. It's not even a pro-Biden thing, literally any president with half an ass would figure things out if they were in office after covid.

That part about 300 million firearms is the single most neck-bearded thing I have ever read.

This is talking about 26,000 people in 25 countries. In the US, it feels like the number of Covid denialists is far far higher.

Just gonna leave this here. https://www.psypost.org/2020/10/trump-support-predicted-intentions-to-defy-social-distancing-norms-during-early-stages-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-58368 Those of you who believe Trump's actions do not directly impede efforts to curb Covid are a bunch of colossally ignorant morons.

Whatever happens with Covid, it's already too late to walk away saying that as a country, we did as well as we should have. I know that Biden won't be able to pull a miracle out of his ass and solve the crisis, but I firmly believe that he will ensure that should a situation like this ever arise again, we will be much better prepared for it.

Okay but here's the thing with that argument, right: we've already established that it's common sense that a facemask will help prevent the spread of water droplets from your airways. You can prove this by simply trying to blow out a candle while wearing one. We're not talking about faking the moon landings here, you put the damn thing on and can see for yourself that the logic is there. I seriously would like to know who you think is at fault for politicizing this pandemic. I am firmly of the belief that those not wearing the masks are the ones doing the politicizing. I'm not talking about shutdowns or stimulus checks, I'm just referring to the jerk-offs that regard PPE as useless because "they infringe upon my rights and only like 1% of people die from the China Virus anyway".

This is either gonna be a completely valid point, or someone's gonna try and hit it out of the park. But last time I checked, the population density of virtually any European country is far greater than that of the States. Just saying.

If it's impossible then why has it been done in other countries? Don't tell me it's because they're smaller, because you'd be the first to say that they're also poorer.

That's an interesting site with cool information. As a complete newcomer to actually sifting through data like this, I'm looking forward to checking out the previous years. Thanks

For the life of me I can't wrap my head around how the hell Boeing takes priority over every single small business in the country. I know this point has been brought up countless times, but the shameless pandering to rich companies in this nation makes me sick. Forgive my radicalism, but it's really about time that Americans kick all of these damn politicians to the curb and take back our country. They've shown time and time again that we are not their priority.

What would it take to get us there?

That storm ~150 hours out... If only it could pull its shit together just a little bit

Sadly

I think we're all going to be watching faithfully to see if these predictions come true. Given your uncanny track record, my hopes are high they they will. Please, Mother Nature, just give us one nice white Christmas.

Please elaborate.

The chances of me sticking my fingers in a socket increase every time I read one of your comments. Yes, I do realize that you can disagree with something and still do it. What I want to know is what exactly am I supposed to be questioning? What do you think, exactly, that I just sit here and drool onto my desk and listen to everything? Cause that's not the case. What I choose to question are people who deny the truth of science. I really am rather confused by all of your comments about "following blindly". What big hoax am I unaware of that you're not?

If I, personally, claim that I don't like fingers in my butt, but openly suggest that all people with nice butts put fingers in theirs, then I am clearly in favor of people having fingers in their butts. Either grow a pair and mean what you say or just stop. It's so hard to actually say shit on here because every time someone tries to, you just say "STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH". The words may not be in your mouth but if they're tattooed on your forehead, then it's fair game dawg.

Okay. If we're gonna play the "google sites and link them and call it effort" game, then here you go. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/09/872441984/modelers-suggest-pandemic-lockdowns-saved-millions-from-dying-of-covid-19 "In addition to the paper from Bhatt and his colleagues, Nature also published a separate study from the Global Policy Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. That study analyzed lockdowns in China, South Korea, Iran, France, Italy and the United States. It found that the lockdowns in those six countries averted 62 million confirmed cases." The WHO article you linked states immediately before your quote that "WHO recognizes that at certain points, some countries have had no choice but to issue stay-at-home orders and other measures, to buy time." The WHO article you linked states immediately after your quote that "Governments must make the most of the extra time granted by ‘lockdown’ measures by doing all they can to build their capacities to detect, isolate, test and care for all cases; trace and quarantine all contacts; engage, empower and enable populations to drive the societal response and more." Let's analyze that last bit there. In your opinion, exactly how good of a job did the United States Government do of engaging, empowering, and enabling populations to drive the societal response to Covid-19? Let there be no mistake. If it weren't for the "shutdown" that our country entered into at the start of this pandemic, we would have had a ton of overflowing hospitals. I don't care how many articles you can find that argue otherwise, that's just sheer common sense. You're right, I must admit that ideally, the lockdown wouldn't have gone on for nearly as long as it had to, because ideally we would have been unified by this threat like we were by 9/11 or a catastrophe of that sort rather than being divided. But we, the American People, chose to fuck ourselves instead.

Please explain to me how you know that "wide scale lockdowns" didn't work. Are you the Flash? Did you travel to a different timeline to check what things would be like without the safety measures we put in place?