Girth Brooks
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Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa, they can’t even count. No they can’t. They can’t count their votes.
One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning, they lost, it’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people [cases of coronavirus infection] in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.
So a number that nobody heard of that I heard of recently and I was shocked to hear it, 35,000 people on average die each year from the flu. Did anyone know that? 35,000. That’s a lot of people. It could go to 100,000, it could be 27,000, they say usually a minimum of 27, it goes up to 100,000 people a year who die, and so far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States. Nobody. And it doesn’t mean we won’t, and we are totally prepared, it doesn’t mean we won’t. But think of it. You hear 35 and 40,000 people, and we’ve lost nobody, and you wonder, the press is in hysteria mode.
So being left with fibrosis in your lungs isnt bad? Also the flu shows symptoms rather quickly. This virus can be in your system up to 2 weeks before you show symptoms and by then it's too late. Also if you think this isnt bad look at Italy they did nothing and now their hospitals are being overrun and doctors are having to pick and choose who lives and dies. Would you want to be in that position? What if a doctor came to you and said sorry you're moms to old we aren't going to try and save her, I bet you'd be pretty pissed. So how about next time think before you typeThe problem with everyone saying this isnt the Flu, it’s much worse...is that while true, it’s still not bad. It kills more older people than the flu, true, but it isn’t the plague many are making it out to be. For the majority of the population that 30x deadlier than the flu number still represents a fraction of 1%. This thing targets older people with underlying conditions which the Flu does as well. Nobody wants to put people unnecessarily at risk, of course, but let’s not accomplish that by fear peddling.
I’m on the boat that social distancing is good, better hygiene is good, and even closing mass gatherings is good. I’m on board with “flattening the curve”.
However, the panic isn’t good. Buying stuff until shelves are empty isnt good. The media hyping this to something it isn’t is bad. The politicizing of this isnt good.
Stay home if you don’t feel safe. Keep your kids out of school if you don’t feel safe. This is a free country. But, the media and chicken little types spreading fear and political discontent is borderline yelling fire in a movie theater.
We’re going to be fine.
Derp.WOW-today is 3/15/2020, you expertise with the subject will be known to the entire world if by 5 april 2020 we (The United States) have 2000 dead-if not, I'll bet you come off with something akin to "we would have had that many if it wasn't for all we did...…"
The reason the cases seem to climb is simple, as more and more testing is done, we find more and more people with the Chinese woohoo virus, the vast majority may have gotten what felt like the 24 hour bug, and feel fine, didn't even know they had the virus. We shall know by 5 April if I'm correct or not.
Seriously... whatever your politics are at this point you’ve got to realize that this weird, dismissive macho attitude some have toward covid-19 is useless.The top idiot declared it a national emergency.
So being left with fibrosis in your lungs isnt bad? Also the flu shows symptoms rather quickly. This virus can be in your system up to 2 weeks before you show symptoms and by then it's too late. Also if you think this isnt bad look at Italy they did nothing and now their hospitals are being overrun and doctors are having to pick and choose who lives and dies. Would you want to be in that position? What if a doctor came to you and said sorry you're moms to old we aren't going to try and save her, I bet you'd be pretty pissed. So how about next time think before you type
Funny story about that field goal. The kicker became a friend of mine since we sat next to each other in Spanish Lab , and I helped him somewhat. He had wrecked his knee in Spring practice before the 67 season, and had surgery. He was on crutches during Fall of 67. That is when Karl Kremser took over kicking duties. In the Spring of 68, Gary Wright and I practiced kicking field goals and playing golf with Herman "Thunderfoot" Weaver. I was a much better golfer than those two.You probably remember the 1966 BAMA UT game. It was the first time I ever saw Tennessee play. The FG was good by the way.
(I guess I did get a little further away from home than Nashville)
Good news! He'll be around to lead the next round of House impeachment hearings of Mr. "not responsible at all" Trump.
It can be a problem with the availability of 24 hours "news". People turn it on and leave it going all day. They get panicked because they don't realize they need to shut off endless bad news and take a break from it. So they make another trip to the store even though they did it yesterday, and buy more crap because the news is still saying bad stuff. Then when they get up the next day, they repeat the same process.So I guess your in the camp that we should panic and go crazy? What are you saying here?
Read what I said again...take measures to flatten the curve, but we don’t need to panic. The CDC is saying social distancing, washing hands, etc. It says nowhere we need to hoard TP and clear shelves of food and essentials. If you think panic and chaos should be a part of the solution then you are part of the problem.
Perhaps you should read and then respond before just typing away.
Seriously... whatever your politics are at this point you’ve got to realize that this weird, dismissive macho attitude some have toward covivid-19 is useless.
I hope we’re able to look back in a couple of months and consider this an overreaction, but it’s per clear that a big response is needed.