SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

Missed the point of the article, didn't you?

Why would someone buy them?

Sadly people don't look to scientists for their information. Most people have never seen an academic journal or paper.

@Forbin has summed it up in a sense here:

People want answers, but they are presented with so much rubbish the average person doesn't know where to look.

Once upon a time the population lacked access to information, now we have too much and most of us lack the context to differentiate.

I do believe that's been a major factor in political life over the past few years, the overwhelming wall of shit that passes for information and it's not surprising people without academic backgrounds would look to influential sounding sources like, y'know, the fucking White House or Downing Street to be worth listening to.

Okay Ms. world famous author & literary genius - in your opinion what was "the point" of the article? That people in flyover country are gun owning violent rubes? If so, color me SHOCKED that you would come to that conclusion. But I'm sure that there is another point than that, because you would certainly never stereotype people based on your limited experience with said people.

whatever! But you know I'm not wrong. Leftforge is very much a "shoot the messenger" group when anything disagrees with their worldview.

Read the article. It's only two paragraphs; it won't break your brain.

I read the article. Now answer my fucking question please. Since I'm not the educated woke genius you are (good lord who is?) why don't you tell me what my takeaway should have been after reading the article. Type slowly please, it might break my brain reading your response too quickly.

That some people are so threatened by having to wear a mask in the grocery store that they're threatening to shoot somebody.

So other than that bit of irony the article really had no point. It would be the type of "local news story" that results in my being mocked for posting. Got it!

The irony is that in gun-crazed Murica the first instinct is "I kill you!"

really? There are thousands of gun owning (and hundreds of concealed carry gun owners) in my mostly Republican county. My county's murder rate is in the basement compared to the U.S. in general. Apparently their killer instincts are not sharply honed. Once again you are talking out your ass.

I said "gun-crazed Murica," not Georgia. It wasn't about you. Again, I can't help noticing how you've bitched about your locale in the past, but suddenly it's paradise. Maybe it's just that there are fewer cars on the road. But the shift in your thinking is interesting.

My county (low murder rate) is not Augusta, it's adjacent to Augusta (much higher murder rate). Anyway if Georgia isn't "gun-crazed" what part of Murica is? Let me guess....anywhere guns are very common, whether they have a low murder rate or not. Inner cities with daily shootings are of course not gun-crazed because...ya know...Democrat mayors and all that.

For someone as interested as you are in other people's grammatical errors, you've missed an egregious one in that paragraph.

egregious? Do you use that word in normal daily conversation? If so, it fucking figures.

Eat shit and die.

When she can't argue against something, she resorts to attacking the poster, invariably focusing on their grammar and spelling. It's a desperate attempt to validate her belief that she possesses a superior intellect.

goodness what an astute yet witty retort! Brains and a sense of humor? You are the full package missy....but can you cook? Asking for a friend!

Vegan dishes only.

No wonder you're always so angry.

I wouldn't trust his vegan dishes either. Who knows how he prepares a zucchini? I ask because he does act like he has something up his ass all the time - okay, no more than the average lib I guess.

I can't read the article since I don't have Twitter. But indeed, turnout at businesses has been slow. I am eating crow because I thought businesses & consumers would go ape shit when things opened back up.
But I did not factor in the extra precautions many businesses have to take in order to open up. For example a movie theater has to meet FORTY STANDARDS to be in COVID compliance!

When the Georgia governor dropped that bomb (Pearl Harbor was less of a surprise) businesses were not prepared and many still are not. Also many employees have quit or are enjoying their gub'mint paid unemployment staycation. Many can't get enough cleaning supplies or training to be in full COVID compliance. My hat's off to the governor for at least giving businesses the opportunity, but not many are taking him up on the offer.

Many businesses are waiting until mid May (unless that date changed again) when the restrictions are throttled back a little more.

Lastly many business & consumers are cautious and don't want to rush into anything - I don't blame them. As for the businesses if it costs more money to open up under too many restrictions than what they bring in from too few customers, what choice do they have but to wait it out? Small business owners of course are really taking it on the chin, as are many millennials and underprivileged minorities who typically hold low paying service jobs. What is the long term effect going to be on them? It may be months or years to really know what the deep down ramifications will be on them -which will affect all of us eventually.

You don't need to have Twitter, clink the link at the top where it says yikes.

This might be a glimmer of good news.

A number of reported cases of coronavirus patients relapsing after overcoming the disease were actually due to testing failures, South Korean scientists say.

Researchers at the South Korean centre for disease control and prevention (CDC) now say it is impossible for the COVID-19 virus to reactivate in human bodies.

I hope they're right.

This disease keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Sooo... Dubya suggested a pandemic might be a good time to set aside partisan politics, and Donnie-boy's response was essentially "fuck you":


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...ge-w-bush-for-call-for-coronavirus-unity.html

I don't understand the resistance here to the possibility that it came from Mars, or is a virus genetically engineered by sentient dinosaurs living in the Earth's crust so that they may retake this planet.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ant...curate-gets-emergency-clearance-by-fda-2020-5

New antibody test with 99.8% specificity has been cleared. Finally (assuming there's widespread randomized testing) we can get some hard numbers on how many people have had this thing. Test 40k random people in a metro area, and we should have an accurate idea of how much it's spread there.

How many time I got to tell you, Plebians.

Polls show most Americans would rather open up later than necessary than too early. Only a very vocal small minority is pushing for rapid reopening. Even in Georgia where Trump has a lot of sway folks are proving too smart too risk their lives for some Chili’s Babyback Ribs.