Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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No shit!
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No Refunds: Costco Hoarders Discover They Can't Return Toilet Paper
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/costco-hoarders-discover-th
ey-cant-return-toilet-paper
Especially if it's been used.
What are they going to do with 20 bricks of the stuff?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
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Maybe they could trade it at a small loss for some of those sweet sweet food stamps since nobody is going to be making any money for at least the next two weeks.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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6IXSTRINGJACK: "I'm not going to pretend to know that. We've been on reasonable terms with China because they've been making a fortune from us ...."
- Pretty much FOREVER, not "since Clinton gave them a seat at the big-boy's table." We've bought cheap sh*t from China ever since they could export it.
Jack: "Unlike Americans who only look 4 to 8 years in the future, China looks 100 to 200 years in the future."
- Which won't exist if their economy tanks today. Word: Nobody can safely look that far into the future - get real.
Jack: "That's simply a matter of opinion. One that I obviously don't agree with at all."
- You seem to have very little understanding of the damage he's doing inside (division) or outside of the US (respect at an all time low).
The One Great thing about Trump? How great the world will be once he's out of office. What a relief.
Jack: "That's a universal human truth."
- Another universal truth is how weak and stupid a lot of humans are - can't stay inside even when it's in their's and other's best interest. Self destructive is fine as long as it doesn't effect others.
Jack: "Feel free to live the rest of your life in fear. The rest of us have shit to do."
- Like get more milk?!? You don't have sh*t to do! You as much say so. I thought working on your house was job 1? It can wait - no one looking to buy houses now.
Live in fear??? I've worked at home for 10 years. Just another day. I miss my friends but safety for them and me says avoid them for now. We do virtual happy hours - it's all good, and we'll actually be better for this imho.
Jack: "What's your solution? Install a datajack in everyone's brain so we can do this all telepathically in the future? Maybe hook us all up to automatic feeding tubes so we never have to leave home and live the rest of eternity jacked into the matrix?"
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Yup! Give me all of those
Jack: "It's not.
Every year, Coronary Heart Disease accounts for 17 Million deaths worldwide.
Every year, Cancer accounts for 9.5 Million deaths worldwide.
Every year, 5 million people will die from a stroke worldwide.
Every year, Automobile Accidents account for 1.5 Million deaths worldwide.
Every year, 1 million people are going to die from a mosquito bite.
Every year, 291,000 to 646,000 people die from the flu worldwide.
Every year, over 378,000 people die in wars worldwide."
- Maybe you missed my posts on this, but we're a lot closer than we are apart on this particular question.
Look at the CDC numbers from the 2017-2018 Flu outbreak - one of the worst in decades. It was HIGH. We have a long way to go. Yes, there are some unusual circumstances with this virus, but the over all feeling is being stoked by MSM and the F*ckhead in chief as usual, is lying his @ss off and it ain't helping.
Jack: "But as depressing as these numbers may be, it is important to recognize them so you can put things into perspective. It does nobody any good to pretend they don't exist, especially when something like this is happening."
- It does help a bit. I think the BIG difference between the majority of those and this virus is you can catch c-19 or give it to someone else just by going out to get a jug of milk. Most of those others are self inflicted. Not much we can do on those and still preserve our stubborn but important sense of self determination, and "freedom."
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
- It does help a bit.
Good.
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I think the BIG difference between the majority of those and this virus is you can catch c-19 or give it to someone else just by going out to get a jug of milk. Most of those others are self inflicted.
Yeah... except for the 1 million people dying of mosquito bites, all of the people who die in car accidents that weren't their fault. All of the people who are old and end up dying of heart disease or cancer or a stroke simply from the fact that they're old and we all have to die of something sometime, or all of the people who die in wars and conflicts around the globe that had no choice but to be a part of them or an innocent casualty of them.
Really, not a lot of people on that list did it to themselves. Deaths attributed to smoking include those from heart disease, stroke and cancer and only account for 450,000 of those numbers.
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Not much we can do on those and still preserve our stubborn but important sense of self determination, and "freedom."
Freedom is sacrosanct.
It's no surprise that "educated" Democrats are always among the first to give it away for safety and free shit. Always.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Got a cardvelope in the mail today from the CDC.
The title iz
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S
CORONAVIRUS
GUIDELINES FOR
AMERICA
I jiveth ye not.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.7532020.com .
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Quote:6ix, you are an imprisoned person repeating talking points mouthed by Texas Republicans, maybe all Republicans:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good.
Yeah... except for the 1 million people dying of mosquito bites, all of the people who die in car accidents that weren't their fault. All of the people who are old and end up dying of heart disease or cancer or a stroke simply from the fact that they're old and we all have to die of something sometime, or all of the people who die in wars and conflicts around the globe that had no choice but to be a part of them or an innocent casualty of them.
Really, not a lot of people on that list did it to themselves. Deaths attributed to smoking include those from heart disease, stroke and cancer and only account for 450,000 of those numbers.
Freedom is sacrosanct.
It's no surprise that "educated" Democrats are always among the first to give it away for safety and free shit. Always.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
What Democrats are Up Against
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/covid-19-sacrifice-old-people-for
-the-economy
I wanted to write in with a different perspective than the one I’m seeing take hold among progressives. I work in oil and gas and, as such, I interact with conservatives all the time. It’s interesting watching the conservative id coalesce as it does.
Initially, they have some diversity of opinion as new facts come to light and then they all eventually fall in line behind the command and control structure that is the conservative mind meld.
In the beginning, I saw a lot of what I think most people assumed was mainline conservative thinking: that the virus wasn’t a big deal; that it was just another H1N1 and we should just ignore it.
But, there was a second group that more closely aligned with this new Trump/Dan Patrick (Texas Lt. Governor) thinking. The comments I heard went something like this, “This is going to sound bad, but 2% really isn’t that many people and it’s mostly old people anyway. They’ve lived a good life. Overpopulation is a major problem and it will also help with social security.”
I’m writing in because I fear we are treating this as a more fringe idea than it actually is. I don’t think this is Trump reacting to his properties being forced to close or to a Fox News segment he saw. I think this has serious legs. …
It’s part Ebeenezer Scrooge morality; part inability/unwillingness to comprehend the scope of horror coronavirus is capable of inflicting on us. Of course, implicit in their thinking is that it won’t affect them.
We must be clear-eyed about what we’re up against. These people absolutely do not give a shit if 2.2 million people die. And they lack the imagination to understand what exceeding our hospital bed capacity by 30X looks like.
I really don’t think this is Trump sending out a trial balloon by himself. This is mainline Republican thinking and we should act accordingly.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Jack's feeling pretty isolated and immune from this, so he's more than happy to flush everybody who dies from this, no matter how few or how many.
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Modern conservative politics is remarkable. Two days ago it felt like everyone was totally on board with school closings and quarantines and social distancing. It was the new reality. Then Donald Trump announced that he didn’t really believe the experts after all and wanted to re-open the economy. Within 24 hours I swear that practically every conservative in the country was suddenly in agreement—or seriously considering it at the very least. All Trump had to do was open his mouth to produce a right-wing U-turn so violent you could almost hear the necks snapping.
How has Trump done this?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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It was the same with 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, but it wasn't just right-wingers who were on board.
After rhetoric like "dead or alive!", "smoke 'em out!", "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists!" - and getting everybody (90% approval) rabidly foaming at the mouth to get bin Laden - after a few months all dubya had to say was "I don't really think about him very much" and it was as if the previous months were totally erased.
The pivot to Iraq was as if it was on a frictionless pin.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
It was the same with 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, but it wasn't just right-wingers who were on board.
After rhetoric like "dead or alive!", "smoke 'em out!", "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists!" - and getting everybody (90% approval) rabidly foaming at the mouth to get bin Laden - after a few months all dubya had to say was "I don't really think about him very much" and it was as if the previous months were totally erased.
The pivot to Iraq was as if it was on a frictionless pin.
lol.
Yup. Only you're so blind to the fact that you're terrorized by a virus right now and they're playing on your fears.
I've never seen so many frightened little sheep before in my life. It's rather amusing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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