Rush to the rescue. Perception is everything.

[Dave007inVegas]

Folks, panic is… I don’t know. I’m not panicked. I am ticked off like you cannot believe,
and I am really having a conversation with myself about how far to go in explaining why
I’m mad, ’cause I’m mad about the politics of this. For example, let me give you some
statistics.

How many of you even remember the swine flu 2009, 2010? I don’t remember it. I mean, I
remember we had it. But I don’t remember any panic about it. I don’t remember a thing
about the swine flu.

I went back and looked at the stats and I was stunned. Are you ready for this? The swine
flu outbreak in this country in 2009 and 2010, 60 million Americans were infected. Do you
remember that? Sixty million were infected. Dr. Siegel, one of the Fox doctors was on TV
explaining this last night. He was not my primary source for it, but he ended up confirming it.
Sixty million people were infected.

Do you know how many people were hospitalized in 2009-2010 with the swine flu? Three hundred
thousand were hospitalized. So 60 million people infected, 300,000 hospitalized. And nobody even
remembers it.

And why? Well, because we had a different president. We had a Democrat president by the name of
Barack Obama, and the news then was how wonderfully well Obama was handling it, how expertly well
Obama was dealing with it.

There wasn’t any media panic. The Republican Party did not politicize it at all. They made not one
single effort that anybody can find or remember to try to make political hay out of it. It was
treated as a health issue from top to bottom.

The numbers with the coronavirus are not even close. They are barely a fraction of a percentage
compared to the swine flu.

Chew on that for awhile. popcorn-eatinggif

 

[HamGlaze]

Ditto!

 

[Michelangelo]

This is a perfect example of the feminization of America.

The country now needs a mother. Why? Because mothers no longer stay home to care for a sick family. They go to work and overreact because of the guilt they feel for not being traditional mothers. Throw the guys in there too. The women now control the narrative in Western Civilization.

Pathetic how the country has overreacted to this.

 

[festeringZit]

Spot on Dave

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Spot on Dave

[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]I don't want to pooh-pooh this hole thing but it's garnering way too much attention.

It's a flu not the bubonic plague for crying out loud. I suppose all this quarantining
is helping containment but by how much? The panic level is over the top. People fighting
over toilet paper and hoarding all kinds of thing is ridiculous.

The uproar over the lack testing kits is silly. Lets assume you test positive, so what?
All you do can is isolate yourself from other people. And what about all the people you
came in contact with before? Should they be tested also? And what about the people they
came in contact with? You see where I'm going with this?

While I appreciate Trump jumping all over this I question it's impact.

I'm also disgusted with Pelosi trying to pork out the funding. Typical Dem move, never
let a crisis go to waste.

On the bright side, a couple of months from now this will all just a blip on the radar. [/FONT]

 

[SheriffJoe]

R̶u̶s̶s̶i̶a̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶

O̶b̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶

2̶5̶t̶h̶ ̶A̶m̶e̶n̶d̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶'̶s̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶

i̶m̶p̶e̶a̶c̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

Wuhan virus

 

[Dave007inVegas]

R̶u̶s̶s̶i̶a̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶

O̶b̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶

2̶5̶t̶h̶ ̶A̶m̶e̶n̶d̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶'̶s̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶

i̶m̶p̶e̶a̶c̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶

Wuhan virus

[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]Where there's a will there's a way. They just haven't found it yet.

One positive is it keeps them from passing legislation. [/FONT]

 

[SheriffJoe]

Screw the politics, all I know is they've taken away all my sports and I am SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF!

China - another shithole country! This is what happens when people eat disgusting animals! :>(

 

[rolltide]

The uproar over the lack testing kits is silly. Lets assume you test positive, so what?
All you do can is isolate yourself from other people.

yeah, it doesn't fucking matter whether or not you have a test kit. in fact it's WAY BETTER if you don't go to a hospital or clinic to get tested as you'll just infect more people. if you're in the high risk category AND you're feeling exceptionally poor, like difficulty breathing, then of course go to a hospital but otherwise the symptoms are identical to a bad cold or mild flu. It's a bit more contagious (1.3 vs 2.3) than a flu and certainly more deadly for the at-risk folks but we've all had the flu many times and worried about "test kits" to verify this exactly ZERO times.

what happens when you test positive? nothing. they send you home and tell you to stay the fuck in your house which is what you should have done in the first place.

 

[rolltide]

Where there's a will there's a way. They just haven't found it yet.

One positive is it keeps them from passing legislation.

well, unfortunately, they are passing legislation and part of it is economic relief for covid patients. but, i'm sure you will have to be formally diagnosed to get this relief which means they'll make you go to a hospital or clinic so you can infect another couple people that are there for a broken arm or ass warts and will be back next week for the virus

 

[Dave007inVegas]

well, unfortunately, they are passing legislation and part of it is economic relief for covid patients. but, i'm sure you will have to be formally diagnosed to get this relief which means they'll make you go to a hospital or clinic so you can infect another couple people that are there for a broken arm or ass warts and will be back next week for the virus

I wonder what that means? Does it mean you get a nickel for every time you test positive?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Screw the politics, all I know is they've taken away all my sports and I am SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF!

China - another shithole country! This is what happens when people eat disgusting animals! :>(

[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]That's a bummer. No doubt about it. [/FONT]

 

[roadreeler57]

We had to fill out a questionaire at work.....I answered yes last week I had a cold with a cough so therefore I cant go to one of the shippers I serve.....Blown way out of proportion this corona virus is like a mild cold not bubonic plague....This country had gone either nuts or gay & Trump isnt helping by playing along with this silly ass crap....

 

[mountain]

Has the Tom Hanks/Rita Wilson service been set yet? Last I heard he had the sniffles and she had a few chills but that was a few days ago..surely they are gone by now.

Jeez, what a fiasco