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#21,851
0nelilreb said:
Are you saying rural America doesn’t have cell phones and 50 inch TVs with cable / dish ? I think they understand just fine , they understand the difference in living 20 mins from the nearest store , school or hospital . I believe they also understand and will tell you in a second that this is the very reason they don’t live packed up like rats in a city .
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I saw an article how nervous rural people are about this because of lack of hospitals. I’m sure the guy in Iowa living two miles from his nearest neighbor is laying awake at night worrying.
 
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hog88 said:
They will be suing employers because an employee “got it” at work. They will be suing retailers, restaurants ext because a customer “got it” at the establishment. I wouldn’t doubt landlords will be sued, it will be litigation out the wazzu.

Plus bankruptcies.
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Good, maybe they will be to "busy" to share their insights on here.
 
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I40flyer said:
WhAT??? Trump has guided the country through this mess, it's almost over. The new treatments are going to crush this thing, with a vaccine coming within a year-don't forget Trump pushed for the "new" drug treatment. We are getting close to spring time-LOTS of UV LIGHT is going to help. Thank you President trump. I like my doctor, thanks for helping me keep him.
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Lots of UV light in South Florida the last time I looked. The virus is running through that part of the state like a hot knife through butter.
 
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evillawyer said:
Lots of UV light in South Florida the last time I looked. The virus is running through that part of the state like a hot knife through butter.
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Really? Not disagreeing but not sure where that is being reported. It would be nice to find numbers that are in context too, not just “confirmed cases are x”.
 
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evillawyer said:
Lots of UV light in South Florida the last time I looked. The virus is running through that part of the state like a hot knife through butter.
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I agree with you except we don't know a few things that might be worth knowing. 1) How many of those cases originate from elsewhere? New York for example. 2) How many of the cases are from people who spend no or very little time outside? Nursing home or other elderly folks who spend almost all their time indoors.

We just need to know a lot more. Its one of the reasons I am hesitant to jump to conclusions until more time has passed and we have meaningful sample sizes for all these theories out there.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I defy you to find 10 people amongst the hundred million-plus that you are talking about who said, prior to this, that avoiding a world pandemic is why they chose to live where they do.
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There you go complicating it again with the pandemic . Simplified ..urban city ). if you have one box with ten rats in it , with ten houses in the box and two rats get sick what is the probability that the other 8 will get sick without separating them? Now rural life ) . 10 rats that live 5 miles apart in 5 different homes . One rat gets sick , the other 9 will be fine unless the one rat is sneaking into the other homes at night licking their cheese . That’s just one reason why rural folks live out in the country ( there are many reasons)
 
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0nelilreb said:
There you go complicating it again with the pandemic . Simplified ..urban city ). if you have one box with ten rats in it , with ten houses in the box and two rats get sick what is the probability that the other 8 will get sick without separating them? Now rural life ) . 10 rats that live 5 miles apart in 5 different homes . One rat gets sick , the other 9 will be fine unless the one rat is sneaking into the other homes at night licking their cheese . That’s just one reason why rural folks live out in the country ( there are many reasons)
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Of course there is a lower chance of infection if you interact less with people. No one would take issue with that.

Where I disagreed with you was in bestowing on those folks any notion that they saw this coming and that this is why they elected to live there.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Of course there is a lower chance of infection if you interact less with people. No one would take issue with that.

Where I disagreed with you was in bestowing on those folks any notion that they saw this coming and that this is why they elected to live there.
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I never said any of us saw this coming . That however doesn’t negate the fact that choosing to live in rural areas doesn’t have is advantages, Id give up being able to have my pizza delivered and live in the country vs being crammed in an urban setting right now . How many wouldn't if they are being honest ?
 
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VolnJC said:
You mean 2300 cases for 21 million population or 0.01% that hot butter enough for ya?
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Less than 10% of the people tested are even positive. I agree, that is hardly a hot knife through butter.
Also, overwhelming percentage of cases are confined to the nasty Miami area. Population density is the problem.
I've heard that many are coming south and renting places to get away from the densely populated areas.
 
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Roustabout said:
Less than 10% of the people tested are even positive. I agree, that is hardly a hot knife through butter.
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You gotta look at the rate of increase. We've seen how quickly this spreads. Look at how quickly it's increasing in another one of the US' UV light hot spots (Louisiana)

 
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0nelilreb said:
I never said any of us saw this coming . That however doesn’t negate the fact that choosing to live in rural areas doesn’t have is advantages, Id give up being able to have my pizza delivered and live in the country vs being crammed in an urban setting right now . How many wouldn't if they are being honest ?
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I live in a fairly rural area, relatively speaking. Not 5 miles apart, mind you. But its all relative.
 
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evillawyer said:
You gotta look at the rate of increase. We've seen how quickly this spreads. Look at how quickly it's increasing in another one of the US' UV light hot spots (Louisiana)

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Is Louisiana Governor a Republican or Trum splurper and resisting efforts to go to shutting down non essential businesses?

Asking for a friend.

Also, is this is his profile pic?

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DancingOutlaw said:
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Lots of things would work: martial law, curfews, and the military shooting violators would drastically curb the spread. At what point is the cure worse than the disease?
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Shooting people dead is not the same as enforcing curfews or restrictions that prevent people from leaving a geographic region.

In this case the point where the cure is worse than the disease in when the "cure" kills more people than the disease itself. I really don't know what point you're trying to make, I simply noted that that shooting people is a strawman to the argument that martial law would be an effective way to "flatten the curve". Were you being facetious?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I live in a fairly rural area, relatively speaking. Not 5 miles apart, mind you. But its all relative.
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We both know that if a bad slice off the number 3 tee box can break your bedroom window .. it’s not really that “ rural “ . 😂
 
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