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RedEye9 wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 19:15:Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:59:He's on par w/this other fuckstick;
Wow, does Martin Shkreli have big balls... Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19
Our current "president" has a ‘Financial Interest’ in the manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine.
No one could have seen that one coming. /SARCASM
Drath71 wrote on Apr 8, 2020, 08:35:RedEye9 wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 19:15:Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:59:He's on par w/this other fuckstick;
Wow, does Martin Shkreli have big balls... Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19
Our current "president" has a ‘Financial Interest’ in the manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine.
No one could have seen that one coming. /SARCASM
Wait...being worth a lot of money, Trump's money is invested all over. It's called diversification. Investment companies choose where the money goes, heck it's what people normally do.
And it's already been shown his interest in this company is less than 1k. That's NOTHING. If you had any credibility, you would at least go to snopes, or one of the other many places that shows this.
But TDS victims keep putting this out there, even thought 1) they know it's inaccurate and misleading, or 2) they absolutely do NOT want to research this.
RedEye9 wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 19:15:Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:59:He's on par w/this other fuckstick;
Wow, does Martin Shkreli have big balls... Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19
Our current "president" has a ‘Financial Interest’ in the manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine.
No one could have seen that one coming. /SARCASM
Kxmode wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 20:54:
Evidence mounts COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan.
WarPig wrote on Apr 8, 2020, 00:27:Cutter wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:25:
So until this thing is actually over we won't know how bad it really was on the whole.
In that case why do you insist on constantly downplaying this with comparisons to the flu? Just stop already.
I know most people comparing CV19 to the flu are doing it to downplay CV19, which I agree is a dangerous mistake, but I kind of think of the comparison differently - not so much to downplay CV19, but as a reminder of how bad the flu can be. Having a bad flu is brutal.
Cutter wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:25:
So until this thing is actually over we won't know how bad it really was on the whole.
In that case why do you insist on constantly downplaying this with comparisons to the flu? Just stop already.
jdreyer wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 19:38:
Stanford scientists design a toilet with facial recognition for your butthole.
Early favorite for the Razzies.
RedEye9 wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 19:15:CDC removes unusual guidance to doctors about drug favored by you guess who.Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:59:He's on par w/this other fuckstick;
Wow, does Martin Shkreli have big balls... Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19
Our current "president" has a ‘Financial Interest’ in the manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine.
No one could have seen that one coming. /SARCASM
Cutter wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:25:USA Stats:
Spain: Flu epidemic wave of the 2019-2020 season has officially begun
"According to Amparo Larrauri with the Carlos III Health Institute, “It is estimated that in the last two seasons of influenza, epidemics have produced between 500,000 and 700,000 cases of mild disease treated in primary care; between 35,000 and 52,000 hospitalizations with influenza, and between 2,500 and 3,000 admissions in ICU with laboratory-confirmed influenza.
” Using population models, it has been estimated that in the last two seasons, the flu may have been responsible for up to 15,000 deaths attributable to this disease.
It is estimated that seasonal epidemics cause 3 to 5 million serious cases worldwide, and between 300,000 and 650,000 deaths related to the disease, most of which occur in people over 65 with special risk ."
Ok, so mortality is up 1% but there are far less sick people overall. That's attributable to many different factors. People generally don't remark on flu whereas this is a novel virus and a novel situation so obviously it's drawing attention that we never see in every regular flu season.
The last major pandemic - much worse than C19 - was the Hong Kong flu of 1968 - 1 million people dead with a 0.5% mortality rate. And the Asian Flu of 1958-1959 - which killed 2 million over two years with a similar mortality rate. You can bet that's all people were talking about during those as well.
So until this thing is actually over we won't know how bad it really was on the whole.
80% of Americans would get the disease. 0.9% of them would die. Between 4 and 8 percent of all Americans over the age of 70 would die. 2.2 million Americans would die from the virus itself. It gets worse. People with severe COVID-19 need to be put on ventilators. 50% of those on ventilators still die, but the other 50% live. But in an unmitigated epidemic, the need for ventilators would be 30 times the number available in the US. Nearly 100% of these patients die.Yup, same as the flu.
So the actual death toll from the virus would be closer to 4 million Americans -- in a span of 3 months. 8-15% of all Americans over 70 would die. How many is 4 million people? It's more Americans than have died all at once from anything, ever. It's the population of Los Angeles. It's 4 times the number of Americans who died in the Civil War...on both sides combined. It's two-thirds as many people as died in the Holocaust. Americans make up 4.4% of the world's population. If we extrapolate these numbers to the rest of the world (warning: MOE is high here), this gives us 90 million deaths globally from COVID-19, in 3-6 months. 15 Holocausts. 1.5 times as many people as died in all of World War II.
Blue wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:28:Cutter wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:25:
So until this thing is actually over we won't know how bad it really was on the whole.
In that case why do you insist on constantly downplaying this with comparisons to the flu? Just stop already.
Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:59:He's on par w/this other fuckstick;
Wow, does Martin Shkreli have big balls... Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19
Cutter wrote on Apr 7, 2020, 18:25:
So until this thing is actually over we won't know how bad it really was on the whole.