Random Rant Thread

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It was my own stupidity but for better or worse I'm now almost 100% healthy. Well, life never makes it easy for you so of course there are many other things making me feel like shit right now (it's not COVID related btw) and I would really love to be able to talk about it. I was never the type to talk openly about his problems though. Maybe someday I'll be able to.

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Glad to hear you're out of the woods.

Well, this is a "rant" thread, so spit it in whenever you feel like it. None of us will judge you for that, lol.

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These people are pretty good at political ads, but shit like this should remind every single Democrat/liberal of the fact that they are just allies of convenience in this particular juncture, and that you shouldn't give them any stick for them to hit you on the head with in the future.

Like Trump, they aren't quite interested in facts either.

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I think thousands and thousands of Covid deaths have already been baked in in many European countries, particularly bigger ones like France and the UK, and of course even more in the US. The trajectories of new cases and hospitalizations in those places unmistakably point in that direction, and unfortunately those people can't be saved anymore.

Not as horrible as the spring outbreak overall, but you should probably discard the idea that this one will be substantially less horrible. It's pretty bad, and unfortunately might persist for longer than the first one.

Lockdown is probably necessary to mitigate the damage. NO half-assed measures. It's too late for those thousands who have already been baked in, but not for those who aren't infected yet. Captain Obvious, I know, but the situation is as dire as that. There are zero reasons to believe, or even hope it isn't because you need to act now and a hope would get in the way.

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I don't know who spread the idea that going to a bar or club with friends is bad, but inviting them to a home party is good.

The latter can easily be WORSE in actuality. It's an enormous public health messaging failure.

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I didn't mention home parties in this thread either, but come on. It should've been a no brainer. It's multiple people eating and talking and laughing and even singing in a closed, relatively small, poorly/unventilated space. Their guard would be a LOT lower at a home party than they would be in a bar too.

The governments absolutely failed to educate people on *WHY* bars and restaurants indoors aren't good.

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All the last (and truly last) presidential debate showed is that Biden is Biden and that Trump is now a boring Republican shit politician who is slightly more honest and a lot more obnoxious, narcissistic and lazy than average. In other words, the confirmation of everything that we (by which I mean me and you reading this thread long enough specifically) knew all long, and thus a huge waste of time... except one thing:

Biden: “The founders were smart. They allowed the federal government to deficit spend to compensate for the United States of America.”

Biden, traditionally one of the biggest deficit hawks in the Democratic party, dismissed the austerity zombies. We'll see if he really means it, but he said it on record, which isn't nothing.

GOOD.

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It's actually hilarious that the British epidemiologists and virologists at fancy universities who got things so wrong back in the spring have been getting increasingly unhinged. What a bunch of losers.

Credentialism is bad, folks. You shouldn't pay attention to them.

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Why do they pretend that contact-tracing is viable on any meaningful level when you have thousands of new cases every day?

Would you need to be any kind of an expert to see the absurdity of it all?

They keep up that nonsense because they probably don't even understand what you actually do in contact tracing.

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Tedros said too many countries were now seeing an exponential increase in infections, “and that is now leading to hospitals and intensive care units running close or above capacity - and we’re still only in October”.

He said countries should take action to limit the spread of the virus quickly. Improving testing, tracing of contacts of those infected and isolation of those at risk of spreading the virus would enable countries to avoid mandatory lockdowns.

No, they wouldn't. Contact-tracing is impossible now in those countries. Even South Korea had its health officers overworked when there were hundreds of new cases every day, not to mention Japan.

Those European countries' numbers are almost two orders of magnitude higher.

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Also, who in the US spread the idea that Europeans, "unlike Americans," embrace mask-wearing?

Many US states had MUCH higher mask-wearing rates than most European countries.

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The problem with the ongoing round of Covid-19 is very, very simple: The falling fatality rates thanks to the drastically improved treatment and perhaps other factors will be largely - if not fully - offset by the sheer volume of infected people.

There will simply be too many people with Covid-19.

You'd have to be really sick or very old to be admitted in the hospital now, which is most likely to produce many people with permanent organ damage.

Quantity always trumps quality.

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Belgium has been incredibly, incredibly slow to react throughout this pandemic. It's quite astonishing, really.

They are now implementing measures that they should've mandated WEEKS AGO.

It's just baffling. They are acting like a country with 300 new cases a day, when the actual figure is 50 times as high.

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Can I gloat a bit about how Trump completely stopped talking about the "Law and Order" shit? I told you that the strategy would backfire and only help Biden. I was right.

Again, all those pundits and columnists who all but assumed that the riots and whatnot would give Trump a massive boost should go out and look for a real job. Obviously not cut out for political analyses.

Trump is now saying Biden is "too tough on crimes," lol.

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There were 83,000 new cases reported in the US. A new record, beating the previous one by thousands.