MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:Bryn Mawr Eagle {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:Then go back to your personal experiences over the last several months. You don't know anybody who died of COVID. We all know people who got sick, but they recovered. If this were a true pandemic, you would have known several people who died.
Blowing off the reality of the pandemic at this point because you don't know someone who died just makes no sense, and any doctor who reads this is rolling his/her eyes. You ignore the fact that mitigation measures taken beginning in March and through present have prevented hundreds of thousands of people from getting sick or dying. (That, and the improved treatment methods developed over the past few months). Imagine what the numbers would look like if no one had been wearing masks and we all continued to have big indoor parties and gatherings these past 6 months.
Saying this is not a "real" pandemic is just as stupid as saying "shut everything down until nobody gets sick!" There is a middle way that involves reasonable mitigation measures like masking, social distancing, no big events, etc. Restaurants, business and schools can and should open with appropriate mitigation measures. And yes, BC should allow some fans for an outdoor game. But given that the school's #1 goal is to stay open with kids on campus, and anything that could impede that goal is going to get tossed overboard at this point, you aren't going to have fans in Alumni in the near future.
I am not blowing off the reality of the pandemic simply because of personal experience. I am dismissing the severity based on several things including, but not limited to: facts, statistics, critical thinking skills, knowledge of the cabal, and personal experience. I resorted to that last bit here because Frito seems incapable of using critical thinking skills and doing independent research. I have the truth and stats on my side, but any quotes from doctors or stats will be dismissed by you or Hansen for whatever excuse you want to use. As mentioned previously, there have been numerous doctors who have spoken out about this pandemic, but you'll claim they are paid off by Trump or some other ridiculous reason. Therefore, I tried to appeal to another part of hansen's brain and use personal experience to see if we could reach a breakthrough. Not surprisingly, we didn't make any progress.
I'll post this chart again and ask you, how on earth does this reflect a pandemic?
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I'm just going to respond once to this. As was said by an actor playing a Sheriff in what may be the most famous Paul Newman movie
A Cool Hand Luke writer {l Wrote}:What we have here is a failure to communicate
That is all this is, no communication. I will agree that for the 11,000+ students in school with Covid-19 who have ALL probably recovered by now, they probably don't think this is a pandemic. It was (for them) a temporary inconvenience. They were likely incapacitated for a short while, stuck at home with mom or dad or quarantined in their dorm room taking all their classes via Zoom. No partying, no drinking, no getting laid. And they are wondering why their college years (which have been advertised to them as the best years of their lives) are in anyway diminished from the full college experience. They may feel cheated and annoyed that anyone in authority can DENY them what they felt they have the freedom to do because someone ELSE dares to call this a "pandemic."
But when you are 85 (or perhaps a poor minority over the age of 60 living a very sickly lifestyle), it most certainly IS a fucking pandemic. You don't leave your house. You don't leave your trailer. You don't see your grandkids. My father-in-law is convinced that if he gets this, he is dead.
There is no communication here. Its apples and oranges. The young people are annoyed. The middle aged people see your college aged Covid-19 statistics and think this is all political. And the old people are scared they are going to die. This is not a matter of who is wrong or who is right. It IS a matter of no one being able to properly communicate what it is EXACTLY they think a pandemic should be.
I don't dispute your chart one bit. I don't think anyone here disputes it. And yes, thank God that He (in His infinite wisdom) is sparing all the young people stricken with this disease. God is calling all the old people home, calling all the sickly people home, calling all the people home who spent their decades living an unhealthy lifestyle. We get it. But the people in "authority" can't communicate what this "pandemic" is properly because no one wants to hear it like that (its too hurtful.) And even if they do say it, someone ELSE (who wants to BE in authority) will spin that communication around in a way to make the other person look TERRIBLE for saying what needs to be said.
Here in this community we can communicate it. AIDS was a pandemic for gay males. Covid-19 is a pandemic for old people. Covid-19 is a pandemic for very sick people. Covid-19 is a pandemic for poverty stricken minority people living unhealthy lifestyles. That is why Sweden and Norway (and students in their late teens to early 20s in every major American university)
during all of this, it didn't even scratch them. Scandinavia didn't give a fuck whereas Italy and Spain (with their smoking, drinking, obesity, and most importantly elderly rates) got ravaged. And young people, they weren't killed. This "pandemic" is one of demographics. But to say it like that is to be mean, cruel to be kind so to speak. And cruel that this may be, old people and sickly people oftentimes attend sporting events as spectators. And to admit them to a BC football game is to increase the "pandemic."
Feminism: Eve eats ALL the apples, gives God the middle finder when He confronts her, and has the serpent serve Adam with an injunction ordering him to stay away from her AND to provide her food and shelter because he dragged her out of the Garden.