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The theaters are opening back up. Enjoy, Covid 19 the Movie. Still making me laugh, this. Gotta love that Solium.
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6 months now.
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Sep 21, 2020 - 8:18 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I really don't know how this one is gonna pan out. We can't stay in forever. And since lifting a lot of the initial sanctions (not helped when a major UK political figure broke their own rules and got away with it), a large slice of the population seemed to decide 'F that, if he can do it, so can I', and will never go back to staying in/taking any precautions now. Facts and figures are being trotted out by both sides of the argument, to back their own point of view, and the science is changing by the hour. Plus, the UK govt plans some changes but then gives everyone 3-4 days beforehand to run amok, before implementing them. Colds and flu kill our old folks every year, when they pick up those bugs (probably from visiting grandkids and teenagers) that lead to pneumonia. Before this whole thing kicked in, 1400 people died per day, on average, in the UK. The daily/yearly death average is actually down this year in the UK. I've found myself on opposite sides of the fence, sometimes during the same day, about this whole mess!!!
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Sep 21, 2020 - 8:37 AM
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TominAtl
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There's talk of another countrywide lockdown in the UK. I hope we don't, it would push any mass outbreak into the winter & damage the economy even more. Covid is very infectious, but the overwhelming amount of people who catch it get very mild symptoms, or no symptoms at all, maybe it's time we learnt to live with it. Get out there, but be careful & sensible. Except a percentage of the population can't live with it and will die or have ongoing health issues. Should they be the sacrificial lambs in all of this? Doing some fast research in 2018-2019 26-30K people have died from the flu in America. 200K deaths in six months have been linked to Covid 19. So for those that say, we just got to live with it and move on don't realize the gravity of the situation. You are right in regards to that last statement. I have a friend who keeps insisting its only a bad as the flu and that the same number of people each die from the flu. He doesn't even fathom the number of people we had just in NYC that were swamping the ER and ICU wards to the point of overflow and discounted the innumerable numbers of personal testimonies of nurses and docs who themselves kept saying over and over, " I have never seen anything like this" and "I didn't sign up for this", etc. What really concerns me is that he is approaching 50, has high blood pressure, diabetes AND an auto immune disease...he isn't overweight but if he gets it... And just as numbers were going down, here came LABOR WEEKEND and here we go again...numbers in the midwest now are hitting record numbers there. And college towns are skyrocketing in terms of covid numbers.
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Sep 22, 2020 - 2:10 AM
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Rameau
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There's talk of another countrywide lockdown in the UK. I hope we don't, it would push any mass outbreak into the winter & damage the economy even more. Covid is very infectious, but the overwhelming amount of people who catch it get very mild symptoms, or no symptoms at all, maybe it's time we learnt to live with it. Get out there, but be careful & sensible. Except a percentage of the population can't live with it and will die or have ongoing health issues. Should they be the sacrificial lambs in all of this? Doing some fast research in 2018-2019 26-30K people have died from the flu in America. 200K deaths in six months have been linked to Covid 19. So for those that say, we just got to live with it and move on don't realize the gravity of the situation. Well if none of the vaccines work (but it does sound very hopeful on that front), like it or not, we will have to live with it, somehow find a way of living with it; no choice.
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