The COVID pandemic is a topic that has far more emotion than facts. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has a responsibility to speak to the hard data and assess risk. (LINK BELOW)

This is pretty much what I have been saying since the beginning.

I no longer see oriental providers, strictly Anglo-Amercans.

"CDC says 35% to 50% of us already have COVID but most don't have and will never have serious symptoms. "

You do know that South Korea actually did lock down in a lot of places and shutdown a number of activities. It's not like we we going to not lock anywhere down or not shut some things down. The bigger problems seems to be we took both those actions way too soon in some places and late in others.

New York  never even used the Javitts center that was converted to a huge hospital at Trump's direction and they barely used 10% of the beds on the hospital ship that Trump sent there to help New York.  

I did not change anything I did that I had control over.  I only wore a mask someplace if I couldn't get in without one.  If a store required one, I wore it.  I thought it was a better option than killing the guy at the door.  

I've been wearing my mask (even back in March when Fauci said they aren't effective) and haven't been "living in fear" despite living in the epicenter. I pretty much stopped working though, but I think from now on I will only taking guys under 35...you know, for "safety" reasons.  

Why?

"Prepare for the worst. Hope for the best." It's a nearly universal principle. If you screw up the picnic preparations and run out of potato salad, it's a minor nuisance. If you fail to properly prepare for a pandemic PEOPLE DIE.

I think you will find, that once most people have "truth or facts" in their head, its tough to change their thinking even with the data that proves without a doubt we were hoaxed.    

I think anyone who trivializes covid has a right to do so.

every time I see something like that my mind changes it around and makes me say:  

Bill Gates has spoken about how we were not ready for a virus pandemic years ago:

He probably also stopped eating Chinese food.

is rancid, you might also die, so you just don't eat it.  A bigger threat is the ants eating YOU while you nap.  

You haven't just run out of potato salad for one person's picnic, you risk the EVERYBODY going hungry.

That 35-50% is more than I expected!

...stopped eating chinese food too, virus infection way too high with anything dealing with orientals imo.

The longer we "lock down" the more people are going to end up on the street, the more businesses are going to fail, the more jobs are going to be lost, not to mention the more people who are going to put off other necessary medical procedures in order to avoid hospitals??? The list goes on and on.

This has turned out to be a FAR less fatal event than first led to believe. For people under 60, this is the flu, fatality wise.

you know, for "safety" reasons.

While I personally believe the "real" number is 10-20 times higher than the official count of COVID cases, nowhere have I seen any legitimate source claiming the number is anywhere near as high as 35-50%, NO WHERE.

A better analogy would be, the job that you depend on for your livelihood requires you to cross the street in order to get to it. Do you take the one in five hundred chance that you might get hit by a car, or do you take the 100% chance that you and and your family will be living in the street with a MUCH higher than 1 in 500 chance of getting hit by the very same car  if you refuse to cross the street because you're scared?

Hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis against the virus.  That the same way we took it in the military so you wouldn't get malaria in the first place.  I took it before and I would take it again if it was easier to get.

WHAT?!! We cannot live safely like this forever? CRAP!!!! What do I do now! lol

I just call them Chinks. ROR

with social distancing as that seems more driven by underlying health concerns and not entirely (or perhaps even largely) driven by access to treatment.

I wouldn't disagree if the data was there, but I haven't heard or seen any data that suggests a higher incidence along ethnic lines.   (I realize for politically correct purposes, this sort of data would not be readily broadcast, but none the less, we can't just assume it to be true.)

We aren't "locked down" except in a very few remaining places. Almost everyone who HAD locked down started opening up to some degree last weekend. So take your head out of your ass and stop lying about it.
And who said we had to wait for a COVID vaccine in order to end the lockdown? No one. We're not doing that.  So again you lie.
And here's another whopper: "we still have an infection rate of 5-20%." We do. And WHY? "MILLIONS of people" catch it each year because they're too dumb to get vaccinated. Yep, more lies from you for ignoring that.

Spread rate slows as partial "herd immunity" grows.  It's not a brick wall function.  That's why you can open up before you reach the immunity level needed for it to stop spreading at all.  The spread rate will be slow enough to not over-run hospitals.

This institution has been compromised, so it's data is suspect. The virus is here, it's not a "Hoax" but it's something I've learned to maneuver around. I'm still out and about still doing my thing. So my outlook is the same.It's the effects of the current circumstances that have limited me in my travels and that limits my "playing" time.But I'm seeing the light at the end of tunnel and I have plans coming up....So I'll and we'll be ok.

Of course the data does NOT support any claim that oriental people are more likely to get, or did from Corona, the data actually has found that Black people and to a slightly lesser degree Latinos are the most likely to both come down with and to suffer more serious cases which includes dying from COVID.  

There is no way 35%-50% of the population of the US has been infected already

Reliable stats are still hard to come by.  But in the end, it's about how fearful people will be to venture out...and start reenergizing the ecomony.  If say 60% are willing to go to restaurants, shops, beaches, sports events, etc then that leaves 40% still hobbling the economy leading to more bankruptcies, layoffs, evictions.  So IF the reopening is too aggressive, it could backfire on all the painful gains made so far.    

...and have always used the term orientals...not sure why it's offensive, perhaps you can enlighten me?
Certainly oreintals is not as bad as nips or gooks lol!

If the spike hits primarily the young and healthy, no cause for alarm there as 99.9% or so will survive and be just fine. We have to make sure the spike doesn't crush the elderly and/or sick if we have another wave.

The key word you start with is "if"...and the stats of the "if" depend on what you believe - on either side of the debate.  If you're in the more fearful camp, I'll bet you'll believe the stats that reinforce your fear. And vice versa.  

I think the more likely explanation is that 35-50% OF CASES are asymptomatic. That would mean you would add some percentage to the number of cases (but we don't know how many asymptomatic people have been tested).  

the Dems were pushing back and calling him our for considering quarantines.  Remember Pelosi on Feb. 28th walking through Chinatown in SF without a mask, telling the public to come on down, its completely safe?  Or Cuomo saying New Yorkers were tough and don't need to stay home.  He urged them to go to their favorite bars and restaurants for a night out on the town?  This was after some states had already gone to masks and stay-at-home orders.  These Democratic imbeciles were getting all of the news coverage from the MSM.  Nice try at blaming it on Trump.  

I don't know why it's offensive either. Oriental means "eastern." It doesn't have any other meaning.

Just like the word "negro" which is Spanish for "black". the word "oriental" is the Spanish word for "Eastern" Speaking as someone with slanted eyes myself, I honestly don't know who or why some dipshit decided one day that the term was offensive. I can almost guarantee you it was some stupid white person, maybe one of  YOUR relatives? lol

You gonna claim him off waivers???

...the same with the word "redskin." White liberals decided it was offensive despite several polls showing native Americans  are overwhelmingly fine with the term. I believe the number was approx 90%.

Well actually "mick" is not really a complete word. The complete word is "Drunken fucking mick" but same thing I suppose. lol

The head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health believes Norway could have brought the coronavirus pandemic under control without a lockdown, and called for the country to avoid such far-reaching measures if hit by a second wave.

I actually have a tracking spreadsheet for the area I live that includes a calculation for the chances of crossing paths with someone that is contagious. Where I am that has been about 25% chance. So on that my world is that (if nothing changes too soon) once every 4 days I will cross paths with someone that could infect me.

Let's take masks for example. Until just recently wearing masks was actually DISCOURAGED by the CDC, then they did an about face on the subject and all of a sudden Planet Stupid decided "without evidence" as they like to say about anything POTUS has to say on any subject, that masks are now the holy grail against COVID.

Never particularly liked the language barrier with the oriental providers...throw in the china wuhan flu angle and well that's that, I'm out!

Started but turns out the micks already know they are a viewed as a bunch of fucking drunks. Those requesting the poll then retracted the project as they realized they could not then use it to raise the awareness among the drunken fucking micks that there were being called drunken fucking micks.  

But what's wrong with being a drunk?

Asiannyc, I think you misunderstood something on the CDC website.  It does not say that 35-50% of the population has had the infection. There have been a number of serologic testing studies in several urban areas and they all seem to indicate that approximately 5% of the general population have had the infection. Even in Spain the study showed about 5%. The exception is in NYC where the study showed approximately 20% of the population has had the infection. You are correct that the mortality risk in the younger (under 60) and healthier population is very low. But the point is that most of us have not yet faced that risk, ie we have not yet rolled the dice, or spun the wheel. And the reality is that we’re not all playing with the same rules.  I think there are a fair amount of hobbyists in the high-risk groups. So you all stay safe out there.

$50 in anything other than recyclables that you have pulled out of trash cans, I would take your bet.  

and I think that is exactly what has been done.  

NY, one of the first states to open beaches

I thought the rule was you're not drunk till you fall off the face of the earth. So micks are never drunk, just a wee bit tipsy at times.

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