First off, I am infected, that's why I can sit here daytime during a fucking pandemic and educate you in how society works. Secondly, economy is a system of redistribution of resources. Your teenage fanfiction explanation has nothing to do with reality. Even Marx recognised that economy and ownership is the beginning and the end of society's well being. People's lives ARE real, but their lives aren't primarily threatened by the virus itself. It's threatened because of the consequences of the virus. It was true during the spanish flu, and it's true now. It's not even that hard to understand if you have basic math skills.
the conclusion that it's the virus mortality that is the main problem is simple base rate fallacy.
No, I am up playing the impact on society. Actually, I am just comparing to all other pandemics save the plague. It's been the exact same thing every time. Pandemic hits, people die, but more people die from starvation because production can't be maintained.
>I am infected, that's why I can sit here daytime during a fucking pandemic and educate you in how society works. Nope. I checked the symptoms of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and increased intelligence and knowledge was not listed
Ryder Myers
you should go out and catch a case of coronavirus and let us know, go find some chinese and ask to lick their butts
Camden Johnson
first off I don't have any reason that I should believe you are infected. Second get off your high horse.
Guess what causes the panic you fking moron. The number of infected and dead people. The economic consequence is just a symptom of that. You can rotate your view or perspective any way you want, you can't get by the fact that the best response is to limit the number of dead and infected people, thus limit the spread. Using Spanish flu is such a bad example for your arguement that it hurts my head. Spanish flu killed the most people in history. More than any plague ever. More people died from starvation after Spanish flu? nope. I would much rather be broke than see relatives/friends die or die myself. This is natural selection on a massive scale, something the system and economics is supposed to protect us from but didn't because goverments acted to slow. This could have all been avoided in the first place if certain people didn't care for economy so much.
We shouldn't care about numbers. All we should care about is, that military, police and medical staff keeps working. That food production and other crutial essentials don't stop. Goverments should pay and protect those people so that they don't stop working and shut down everything else. Put the economy on pause. lock it down. freeze it. It's not important right now.
The real reason countries acted so slowly is because the elite were afraid for their investments. and thats a hard truth to swallow. this whole capitalistic system is sick at its core.
Jeremiah Torres
those numbers dont take into account the people who are infected and have virtually no symptoms or very mild symptoms and therefore dont even know they have the virus cause they likely havent been tested meaning the death rate is way smaller than we think
David Wilson
Well, yeah.
If nothing else, its done severe damage to the entire worlds economy.
Charles Thomas
we are already dead
Nathaniel Ortiz
big shills in this thread, or just retards, the disease itself is very literally the common cold, coronaviruses are one of the most common causes of what is referred to as the common cold. It's "a new strain" but that's pretty meaningless really, it's not very deadly and mass media is just trying to profit off the fear, the government is just trying to extend control from the fear, i really feel like it was either a lab created strain of coronavirus or it really barely exists at all... It's essentially sars, similar disease to sars genetically too, really sars was much much worse, and look at sars, killed like 2 million people in china and now nobody even remembers it. I'd say it will probably kill less than 100,000 people, i feel like the media/johns hopkins/the cdc/fema are overtly lying about a lot of the numbers. Google event 201, google ID2020, their motives are clear.
Leo Ortiz
No. China tested every1 systematicly. If people resisted they were tested by force. From positive cases like 20% of them needed respirators. But China also has lots of old smokers. So there is that
