it's so depressing...

I dunno ... the virus got loose in the local nursing home here and killed off about 25 % of the residents . A good chunk of the employees working there tested positive. That messed things up because there weren't enough people to do the job of running the place. Then it got out into the community and made a bunch of people sick.

Best case seems to be that you test positive without any symptoms. Then you have to go sit in the timeout chair for two weeks. That's two weeks lost pay if you don't have any sick days built up.



On the other hand .... maybe you do come down sick and have to go to the doctor or the hospital. That's anywhere from 500.00 - 100,000.00 $ in medical bills you have to pay out.

It's not really about the death rates ... you see ?

I'll be glad when this Covid-19 thing is a distant memory. It's been a royal PITA. Maybe 2021 will be a better year.

Originally Posted by hills

I dunno ... the virus got loose in the local nursing home here and killed off about 25 % of the residents . A good chunk of the employees working there tested positive. That messed things up because there weren't enough people to do the job of running the place. Then it got out into the community and made a bunch of people sick.

Best case seems to be that you test positive without any symptoms. Then you have to go sit in the timeout chair for two weeks. That's two weeks lost pay if you don't have any sick days built up.

On the other hand .... maybe you do come down sick and have to go to the doctor or the hospital. That's anywhere from 500.00 - 100,000.00 $ in medical bills you have to pay out.

It's not really about the death rates ... you see ?

I'll be glad when this Covid-19 thing is a distant memory. It's been a royal PITA. Maybe 2021 will be a better year.

Nursing home by me it killed 34 of like 80 residence there. For the general population obviously it is much lower. Lots of people losing grandparents and parents over it.

I really dont think most people will care about the rona until it is their loved ones who die. And even then some still call it all a hoax.

Originally Posted by kss

Nursing home by me it killed 34 of like 80 residence there. For the general population obviously it is much lower. Lots of people losing grandparents and parents over it.

I really dont think most people will care about the rona until it is their loved ones who die. And even then some still call it all a hoax.

Well ... it hasn't been a very good year for civility in politics. JMO, but the powers that be should never have made the pandemic a political issue. I've been following this whole thing pretty closely since it all began. It seems that we have two sides, each with their talking points. When a discussion comes up, those of each side,hurl those talking points back and forth at each other and nothing gets accomplished. Neither side is really willing to listen to what the other is saying. It's just a big argument.

I was kinda hoping that they would tone down the rhetoric after the election but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Next best solution would be to achieve herd immunity by some means or another. That way there's one less thing for them to be fighting over.

Maybe in 2021.

Originally Posted by hills

Well ... it hasn't been a very good year for civility in politics. JMO, but the powers that be should never have made the pandemic a political issue. I've been following this whole thing pretty closely since it all began. It seems that we have two sides, each with their talking points. When a discussion comes up, those of each side,hurl those talking points back and forth at each other and nothing gets accomplished. Neither side is really willing to listen to what the other is saying. It's just a big argument.

I was kinda hoping that they would tone down the rhetoric after the election but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Next best solution would be to achieve herd immunity by some means or another. That way there's one less thing for them to be fighting over.

Maybe in 2021.

With the combo of vaccinations and people who already had it, I think we should be fine by the end of 2021

Originally Posted by t00nces2

They will never give up the control gained by scaring the population into being a herd of cows. There will constantly be the next WooHooFloo we will have to "fight".

Eh idk about that. This was the first instance of something like this in my lifetime. We have had things before (mad cow, swine flu, ebola, etc), but it had never been made a big deal of like this. Why would this time be so different than all the other times if they were all manufactured things for us to "fight". Was the government we had this time to blame? We never fought any of the other ones like this, why this one now? I think this will pass and there will be news headlines in the future like "is this the next coronavirus?!?" to try and get click/ratings, but I think this one was unique and that we won't see another scare like this for a while. That is my hope at least.

Originally Posted by kss

Eh idk about that. This was the first instance of something like this in my lifetime. We have had things before (mad cow, swine flu, ebola, etc), but it had never been made a big deal of like this. Why would this time be so different than all the other times if they were all manufactured things for us to "fight". Was the government we had this time to blame? We never fought any of the other ones like this, why this one now? I think this will pass and there will be news headlines in the future like "is this the next coronavirus?!?" to try and get click/ratings, but I think this one was unique and that we won't see another scare like this for a while. That is my hope at least.

Our government has shut down the greatest engine for personal freedom and wealth creation the world has ever known over a cold that 99% of the people actually affected by it survive. They are going to eat this up like the war on drugs. Freedom to live life is gone.