Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

There is nothing unnatural about the number of COVID-19 deaths in the USA. You can’t rationally compare the number of deaths in the USA with the numbers in China, as China’s numbers were very likely not reported to the international media accurately.

We have many posts in this thread already explaining the differences in the numbers of cases and deaths in various countries. There are differences in timing of public knowledge of the outbreak relative to when the virus started taking hold, differences in when mitigation measures were recommended and implemented, differences in population distribution, differences in living customs that effect how effective various mitigation measures will be, differences in when government recommended and or mandated mitigation measures were started in the course of the spread, differences in how well and how long citizens followed the recommendations and mandates, and whether policies were done on a national or piecemeal basis. Ask yourself this: how could the piecemeal, state by state, town by town, mitigation strategies work in the USA, when we have never done enough testing and contact tracing to know who is infected and who is not? The answer is that they can’t.

If the USA was targeted, why is there no evidence of that? Why were many other countries inundated with infections before the USA? Why is the entire international scientific community who investigated the origin concluding that the virus had natural origins?

Yeah, widespread weaponizing of a virus could cause chaos in a target country. So can weaponizing conspiracy theories and false information about important issues to spread fear and anger in that country, as we’ve seen demonstrated in the USA.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse

My brother is a veterinarian and said Brucellosis will make your balls swell so much you’ll need a bigger pants size. I thought he was joking.

Uh, ok. They said that about Covid less than a year ago.

The water used to be clear. But now… there’s definitely a yellowish tinge to it. Uneven approach across the nation is responsible for the mess we’re in, and that all trickles up.

You’re arguing with the wrong person, because the mind won’t be changed. We tried months ago. #COVID19 was not engineered nor purposefully disseminated. Had someone tried to do it, it would’ve happened far differently. And China would’ve been totally prepared for it, citing their “superior advanced medicine.”

NorthernHarrier

I actually think WE want the same thing. We both want clarity. You don’t have to inflate actual numbers to distort what they mean. Numbers don’t always give a complete picture. I get nervous when someone gives me numbers then says here is what you need to know. Like THEY actually know what’s best for me.

For example: When did anyone know early on what % of deaths/infections were happening in nursing homes?

Failing/forgetting to report to the press is one thing, but to hide things is another. The sad thing is, is that it happens most of the time.

“It is sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues.”
— Ten Bears

I get the impression that if I said it stands to reason that the sky is blue, someone would chime in to explain that blue skies are a fallacy and that I’ve fallen for a blue-sky conspiracy hoax.

DUDE

It’s black

:beer:

The sky is blue because the almighty one loves Penn State, everybody knows that :blush:
LOL

You’re one of them. :smiley:

Some days the sky is actually orange

Any idea which bridge that is?

Looks to me like the Bay Bridge from the SF side looking toward Angel Island

It’s the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville.

Bidwell Bar Bridge (Lake Oroville):
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/boat-motors-by-as-the-bidwell-bar-bridge-is-surrounded-by-news-photo/1228423382

Some discussion about where the picture was taken from:

EDIT
Oops, erlebo beat me to it.

Thanks everyone!

Sky is just a reflection of your own world :confounded:

Hank, it does look similar to the Bay Bridge, but fortunately, Angel Island didn’t catch fire, as far as I know.

Awesome picture! When are they going to make a “Backdraft” kind of movie about the firefighters out there? Feel bad for the people out there, wish the idiots in charge would prepare better for the fires that happen every single year