I've never seen so much fear and anxiety. Aspirin kills more people a day than this ever will. — Shawn
I don't know what your position is. Anyway, thinking nowadays is becoming so hard to do that I just lay in bed and relax and hope I go to heaven with my small piece of sanity. — Shawn
Thanks for joining and promptly existing the discussion. Your contribution has been noted and catalogued. I will ask you later if you still think your island is the sane one, once consequences enter your personal sphere it should be easier to judge; hands on learning and all that. — boethius
I think most of this is self-inflicted. I observed the plunge in the stock market, and it prompted me towards the conclusion that people are rather not worth dealing with. — Shawn
What would you call a disaster? The only truly deadly pandemic has been HIV/AIDS with 32 million people dead.I hope I'm wrong, I have relatives there, but I expect Trumpmerica is more likely to walk itself blindly into a disaster than do what's necessary, which is a total and extreme shutdown. — Baden
You’re seriously under selling your point with those stats. — I like sushi
There is little doubt in my mind that Coronovirus is being exploited mercilessly as a profit generating idea, based on fear, anxiety, and hopelessness. — Shawn
, stupidly I'm just presuming Alex Jones's anti-coronavirus toothpaste doesn't really work and the spread in the U.S. will be similar to other countries who failed to take the virus seriously enough when they had time. — Baden
I asked my kids if they are suffering because they know there is suffering in the world. They said, "No. There is also happiness in the world that wouldn't be realized if there wasn't some suffering". Smart kids.
— Harry Hindu
That makes no sense actually. Do you pine over the happiness not being realized by the non-existent aliens on Mars? — schopenhauer1
You mean like how the religious signal their bona fides to each other? I'd agree. Their hatred has reached a religious fervor. It's sad to have your mind dominated by the acts of Trump (Satan or the Anti-christ in their mind), because of the bubble they allow themselves to be put in.t seems that Trump has succeeded in getting into every socialist-in-liberal-clothes' heads. Trump is all they think about to the point where almost every philosophical topic turns into an opportunity to bash Trump. That's pretty sad when that is what dominates the thoughts in your mind.
It’s how they signal their bona fides to one another. — NOS4A2
No.It seems that Trump has succeeded in getting into every socialist-in-liberal-clothes' heads.
— Harry Hindu
The notion that liberals are closeted socialists is another sticky idea, apparently. — praxis
I took as example equivalent pandemics. When they find out that heart disease is caused by an infection, that will be the day.You’re seriously under selling your point with those stats. — I like sushi
Exactly.Corvid ... at worst it may, just possibly, nearly compete with cancer this year. If I’m being honest I think it’s more realistic to view it as maybe competing with malaria. — I like sushi
Sound like we'll have more opportunities to buy Apple and Microsoft stocks at discount prices. Nice! Sounds like a good reason for the media to fan the flames of some crisis.So this might be the new normal if and when there are pandemics, even less dangerous ones. — ssu
I took a look and the statisticians are suggesting that the mortality due to heart disease is around 650,000 per year,22,000 people in the US have died of the flu THIS YEAR already. HIV? How about heart disease which kills nearly 20 million a year. Cancer, around 10 million. Malaria, 1 million. Corvid ... at worst it may, just possibly, nearly compete with cancer this year. If I’m being honest I think it’s more realistic to view it as maybe competing with malaria.
The real issue is what will happen when the next strain comes around. That could be terrible - they’ve been warning about this for years already.
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