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COVID 1 in a million chance of death; as risky as taking a bath expert

llien

Banned
That's a French take, I recall. Tell me how things are going...


"Low chances to die" as in "don't be afraid or your life too much" is one thing, "low chances to die, so fuck all measures" is another. I would agree with the former.
 
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cryptoadam

Banned
Not sure what are you trying to achieve with this post

As for today covid has killed 193,000 people in US alone

Are you trying to make people to ignore the disease/ less aware with it or taking less precaution or something like that?

Im providing an intersting story. Is this twatter and FB where we can only post fear porn on here.

And not everyone is American. Where I live 20 people under 50 died over the last 7 months.
 

GHG

Member
Something about this doesn't add up here:

Around one person in 100 dies after catching the bug and another one in 100 suffer long-term effects, which translates to a one in two million chance of dying in England, Mr Harford said.

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Is this a one in a million chance for a kid, teenager, middle aged person

or someone who has underlying health issues

or even someone aged 50 and over ?

not sure that this is an interesting point and actually seems to be downplaying a horrible disease. that is ravaging almost all aspects of modern life and having impacts all over the world (and that includes those that think this is ‘just a flu’. Hint it’s not ‘just’ an anything)

although the ‘fear porn’ point is the most salient thing you mentioned
 

Airbus Jr

Banned
Is this a one in a million chance for a kid, teenager, middle aged person

or someone who has underlying health issues

or even someone aged 50 and over ?

not sure that this is an interesting point and actually seems to be downplaying a horrible disease. that is ravaging almost all aspects of modern life and having impacts all over the world (and that includes those that think this is ‘just a flu’. Hint it’s not ‘just’ an anything)

although the ‘fear porn’ point is the most salient thing you mentioned

I have fellow relatives doctors who works at the hospitals

He has no underlying disease, perfectly healthy adults and are just 38 years old

Working at hospitals might have something to do with that tho as youre constantly dealing/ most likely to get much bigger exposure there
 
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poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
This is the daily chance of dying if you don't currently have covid. It directly shows how preventing the spread the virus is the key factor in reducing mortality.
 

carlosrox

Banned
As for today covid has killed 193,000 people in US alone

How convenient! The most corrupt country in the world, the one that apparently has a clown fuck for a president "got COVID the worst".

Yeah, I totally believe that and all their phony fucking numbers. Out of allllllll the places on this planet, the US got this virus the worst. LOL right. Cute fiction!

The USA never lies!
 
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Maxwell Jacob Friedman

leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
How convenient! The most corrupt country in the world, the one that apparently has a clown fuck for a president "got COVID the worst".

Yeah, I totally believe that and all their phony fucking numbers. Out of allllllll the places on this planet, the US got this virus the worst. LOL right. Cute fiction!

The USA never lies!
Thats because you guys are moronic and never really shut down in the first place or socially distanced properly. Your country acted way to late and at times never acted at all. The reason why your cases and deaths are so high is because pf your own ignorances and not anyone else. Other places took note of what was happening in Milan, Italy and decided to act because the less deaths obviously the better.
 
Thats because you guys are moronic and never really shut down in the first place or socially distanced properly. Your country acted way to late and at times never acted at all. The reason why your cases and deaths are so high is because pf your own ignorances and not anyone else. Other places took note of what was happening in Milan, Italy and decided to act because the less deaths obviously the better.
If you measure deaths by per capita then your entire point gets flushed down the toilet not to mention places like South Korea and Sweden which did not have these aggressive measures you're talkin about. And then of course you have New York City having the most deaths in the u.s. by a disproportionate amount even though they had the most aggressive lockdown in the country. You cannot correlate aggressive lockdowns with success against coronavirus.
 

M1chl

Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I also like when it was in China, it was massive news when someone dies, everybody watch that and since it came in here, it because non-news. The issue with Covid is that we don't have a vaccine, that's why it's shit. Seasonal flu is also shit, but you can protect yourself by having an immunity and take vaccination, huge difference. However one in million chance, we, not sure about that chief, at least number does not suggest that, that would mean only 330 deaths in USA.... So I am pressing X.
 

Maxwell Jacob Friedman

leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
If you measure deaths by per capita then your entire point gets flushed down the toilet not to mention places like South Korea and Sweden which did not have these aggressive measures you're talkin about. And then of course you have New York City having the most deaths in the u.s. by a disproportionate amount even though they had the most aggressive lockdown in the country. You cannot correlate aggressive lockdowns with success against coronavirus.
Yes you can once you lock down and get community spread under control you can eventually bring your numbers low or at zero. Once everyone who got sick is no longer symtomatic and people socially distance etc you can take measures so more people dont get sick. We had zero cases where I live along with quaratine if you go to and from the province for 10 days etc. We had no active cases and as soon as we relaxed our travel regulations it sure as hell came back. As long as restrictions are put in place you can reach a zero number
 

Airbus Jr

Banned
How convenient! The most corrupt country in the world, the one that apparently has a clown fuck for a president "got COVID the worst".

Yeah, I totally believe that and all their phony fucking numbers. Out of allllllll the places on this planet, the US got this virus the worst. LOL right. Cute fiction!

The USA never lies!

So youre acusing everyone putting fake numbers am i correct?

If someone here have relatives or family members died from covid that mustve been fake news too right (according to your logic)
 
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n0razi

Member
I have a buddy who got COVID back in April with very mild symptoms and recovered "fully"; However, he still has not regained his sense of smell. So its not just death you have to worry about.
 
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Yes you can once you lock down and get community spread under control you can eventually bring your numbers low or at zero. Once everyone who got sick is no longer symtomatic and people socially distance etc you can take measures so more people dont get sick. We had zero cases where I live along with quaratine if you go to and from the province for 10 days etc. We had no active cases and as soon as we relaxed our travel regulations it sure as hell came back. As long as restrictions are put in place you can reach a zero number
The top eight countries for per capita covid-19 deaths all had strict lockdowns. One of the most notorious cases would be Peru. The most a lockdown has ever done is delay the inevitable.
 

notseqi

Member

Time to end baths NOW. If you take a bath you are a grandma killer.
Why do most countries have a speed limit again?

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The top eight countries for per capita covid-19 deaths all had strict lockdowns. One of the most notorious cases would be Peru. The most a lockdown has ever done is delay the inevitable.
I don't believe for a second that it's due to lockdown reasons.
 
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Jtibh

Banned
Not sure what are you trying to achieve with this post

As for today covid has killed 193,000 people in US alone

Are you trying to make people to ignore the disease/ less aware with it or taking less precaution or something like that?
Sure. You mean 6 percent of that number.
 

Jtibh

Banned
Why do most countries have a speed limit again?

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I don't believe for a second that it's due to lockdown reasons.
Please tell me the reason for the 110 km per hour speed limit here . I challenge you do drive from calgary to kelowna at 110 for 8 hours.
All while most vehicles have 3 plus liter v6 to v8 engines.
 
How convenient! The most corrupt country in the world, the one that apparently has a clown fuck for a president "got COVID the worst".

Yeah, I totally believe that and all their phony fucking numbers. Out of allllllll the places on this planet, the US got this virus the worst. LOL right. Cute fiction!

The USA never lies!
Between this post and the op this website has too many loons that think everything is some kind of left wing conspiracy.

Covid might be harmless to most. But if you have any other health problems it can easily fuck you, do not it isn’t just like the flu.
 

diffusionx

Gold Member
Yes you can once you lock down and get community spread under control you can eventually bring your numbers low or at zero. Once everyone who got sick is no longer symtomatic and people socially distance etc you can take measures so more people dont get sick. We had zero cases where I live along with quaratine if you go to and from the province for 10 days etc. We had no active cases and as soon as we relaxed our travel regulations it sure as hell came back. As long as restrictions are put in place you can reach a zero number

So that’s the solution, just keep ”restrictions”, and all that come with them, in place forever. Because after all, the virus is going to come back at some point, and we cant have that. All for a virus that is basically a case of the flu for the vast majority of working people. Human society has never been able to function when viruses are able to circulate.
 
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frostyxc

Member
I have a buddy who got COVID back in April with very mild symptoms and recovered "fully"; However, he still has not regained his sense of smell. So its not just death you have to worry about.
Temporarily losing your sense of smell is worse than death? That's a fresh take!
 

Dthomp

Member
Not sure I enjoy GAF these days anymore. The fact that human lives have been lost all over the world and people just want to shrug them off as stats to keep their precious economy moving, or push their political agendas, or just be dicks is beyond disgusting. This thread is dumb, we get it, you don't believe COVID is anything (Easy to feel that way from a country not ravaged by it), but saying people being concerned are fear mongering is just dumb. This is a possible once in a lifetime bad event and we should just ignore it and fuck off the people who have died/will die.

Don't bother quoting/arguing, I'll be blocking this stupid thread anyway.
 

#Phonepunk#

Banned
Thats because you guys are moronic and never really shut down in the first place or socially distanced properly
Yes the entire country shut down you ignorant foreigner. no school no restaurants no movies no churches what the fuck do you think shut down means?

Do you get all your info from CNN or somehing? Cos you sound like an idiot NPC pulling bullshit out of thin air and pretending it’s real.

I know people that were barred from going to a family funeral. So fuck whatever bullshit fantasy America you constructed in your bigoted small mind.
 
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Mobius_

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Mainstream Media, where a decade old story is new again in order to make Trump look bad:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This has been on YouTube for almost a decade...<a href="https://t.co/AYsXikomYI">https://t.co/AYsXikomYI</a> <a href="https://t.co/chhHIevUGh">https://t.co/chhHIevUGh</a></p>&mdash; JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="">September 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Welcome to politics? This literally happens to every politician come election cycle. If Trump can peddle birther nonsense about Obama why can't people make stuff up about Trump?
 

Ar¢tos

Member
Not sure what are you trying to achieve with this post

As for today covid has killed 193,000 people in US alone

Are you trying to make people to ignore the disease/ less aware with it or taking less precaution or something like that?
Does that mean that 193,000 people died from taking baths in the US since Covid started?
 

#Phonepunk#

Banned
It’s funny how people are so divided you can’t have an opinion without them shoving you into the “Denier” category. Nuance is just not allowed at all. Forget about looking at second opinions of scientists and doctors we already made up our mind. If you have some narrative built up that there are all these evil deniers you get triggered by any story that doesn’t support what you want. It’s amazing.

Like you do realize someone can think this is real and also think there is a lot of misinformation? That is possible! In fact it is the objective truth.
 
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CrapSandwich

former Navy SEAL
It’s funny how people are so divided you can’t have an opinion without them shoving you into the “Denier” category. Nuance is just not allowed at all. Forget about looking at second opinions of scientists and doctors we already made up our mind. If you have some narrative built up that there are all these evil deniers you get triggered by any story that doesn’t support what you want. It’s amazing.

Like you do realize someone can think this is real and also think there is a lot of misinformation? That is possible! In fact it is the objective truth.

Welcome to American society, where everything is politicized and everyone is either a good guy or a bad guy.
 

Cycom

Banned
It’s funny how people are so divided you can’t have an opinion without them shoving you into the “Denier” category. Nuance is just not allowed at all. Forget about looking at second opinions of scientists and doctors we already made up our mind. If you have some narrative built up that there are all these evil deniers you get triggered by any story that doesn’t support what you want. It’s amazing.

Like you do realize someone can think this is real and also think there is a lot of misinformation? That is possible! In fact it is the objective truth.
We’re well beyond having to need nuance. It’s clear that the covid response has been a complete disaster.
 

Dracor

Member
A misleading article that is preying on people’s limited understanding of statistics. They are multiplying the chance of getting COVID times the rate from dying from it and comparing that against _only_ the rate of death from taking a bath. An unfair comparison. That’s like me saying only 0.001% of Americans die in the military using a calculation of multiplying the chance people join the military against the chance of dying in the military. It’s technically accurate... in a way... but obviously misleading, especially when it’s compared against other numbers which don’t use the same context.

Do you really think over 188,000 Americans have died from baths this year? If you do please educate yourself because the real number is less than 350.
 
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