The thing that bothers me most, my mom is one of those feels people and the news exploits this so bad playing sob stories. Last week I tried to balance my sources a little bit so I put on CNN, Anderson Cooper was on and he had on a woman (Remotely) whose husband died from coronavirus. They read his last words on air and cried together. My reaction was “this isn’t the news, this is Oprah”. Then I looked up the guy, and he was on Dialysis before he got coronavirus.
Interesting. I kept seeing that story and clips of her and Anderson crying, they never mentioned the dialysis. Also, the guy looked very heavy. I’ve heard a high BMI can be an issue.
There have been a few people in mine and a neighboring state that died under 40. Was very intrigued so I looked them up, two had pictures in the article, found the third on Facebook. All VERY heavy, not just “might be classified as overweight”
It didn’t mention anything else about their health. I know it was a tiny scale but I found that to be an interesting correlation.
I saw an article about a younger woman that died. Deep in the article it said she was "mildly" obese. Mildly? What is mildly obese? Is that weighing 250 pounds instead of 600 pounds? If your obese, your too fat. It's like saying someone is mildly pregnant or mildly a male. The woman was OBESE.
Being overweight is a huge risk factor with this, yes. Diabetes is #1. Was he also diabetic? Obese, on dialysis, and diabetic? Not likely to survive long, even without the rona.
Next we'll hear that Judas killed himself because of CCPvirus.
For sure. America is fatter than ever. They give away so much "free" food...free school breakfasts and lunches (and in our area they started adding dinner, plus weekends, so we get to pay for that in taxes), SNAP benefits, food pantries. People are huge. I saw a stat and I am not sure if it was accurate, so I need to look into it, but it was something like 8 percent have a BMI that is considered too low. 12 Percent have a normal range BMI, and 80 percent have a BMI over 28. This was worldwide. 80 percent have a BMI over 28! How is this even possible? Do people just sit on a couch all day stuffing their faces with food?
I have been between a 21-22 BMI my entire life. I eat a lot of food that I shouldn't, but I never eat at restaurants and very rarely eat fast food (maybe once or twice a year), although I will eat healthy Subway sandwich a few times a year.
I have been relatively active my entire life.
The combination of exercise and eating out has created the large BMI's we see today. It's crazy how really inactive people are and the massive proportion of times they eat out.
The problem is the news uses numbers ONLY in a way that provokes fear. They don't say "they are expecting 30,000-40,000 deaths, which is typical for every annual flu season".
They'll say "40,000 left dead as the Coronavirus continues its reign of death all across the country".
Then they'll tell you about some 28 year old who dies of WuFlu. But they don't tell you he had leukemia or HIV or cystic fibrosis.
Everything in the media about this normal everyday flu is framed to cause fear and panic (also known as terrorism).
Great post except for your last line: please don't promote the notion that this is "normal everyday flu." It's not. It has a far higher R0, and it started as being able to attach to human lungs much better. It has mutated, and probably continues to. Most mutations are harmful to the organism mutating, and other evolutionary pressures would also make this virus less lethal as it mutates.
I doubt anyone knows what we're dealing with at this point. Fortunately it's a lot less problematic than we thought at first. That's a very good thing. This is still not "normal everyday flu." Too bad they won't let us have the medicine proven to be most effective, and more effective than the most effective vaccine ever made, for anything. (Polio vaccine takes TWO applications to achieve 90% effectiveness, Trump pills reduce death rate by 97.4% in one course of treatment)
Honestly, this is the biggest psyop we've ever seen. And it's really not that hard to see through it.
I've lost hope for this country ever turning the corner. We can all return to our normal lives when the rulers allow it. But never forget that we are being allowed to.
It can only get worse. Not better. We may have the illusion that it's better, but it won't be.
You're spreading doom porn. Snap out of it! This is how We the People fix this: The time for peaceful protest is long past, VA proved that. Time to start removing Governors from Office physically, all on the same day. See them stand trial for mass murder. (With exceptions for those few that aren't guilty) Citizen's arrest is legal if we're stopping a felony in progress. The only legitimacy any government ever had on this continent is the consent of the governed. We cannot consent to THIS! Due process allows us to charge them with their every act of tyranny, as well as file civil suits that have them die in prison as paupers. Send a clear message as to who the power is in the Country. It's always been We the People. It's absolutely essential to send that message loud and clear to any future would-be tyrants. Now we know it won't last 245 years, but it will last more than 20.
Glad you hear me! There's an old saying: "you're not ready to live until you're ready to die." Not many need to die. Preferably no one needs to get hurt. Evil prevails when good men do nothing. We have to be ready to actually do something. This opportunity is the rare moment in history when the right thing to do is also the easiest, has the best results, is the longest lasting, and the least cost. Every other opportunity that presents itself if we miss this one costs more, and gets worse results.
The thing that bothers me most, my mom is one of those feels people and the news exploits this so bad playing sob stories. Last week I tried to balance my sources a little bit so I put on CNN, Anderson Cooper was on and he had on a woman (Remotely) whose husband died from coronavirus. They read his last words on air and cried together. My reaction was “this isn’t the news, this is Oprah”. Then I looked up the guy, and he was on Dialysis before he got coronavirus.
Interesting. I kept seeing that story and clips of her and Anderson crying, they never mentioned the dialysis. Also, the guy looked very heavy. I’ve heard a high BMI can be an issue.
You’re right. Anderson is Oprah.
There have been a few people in mine and a neighboring state that died under 40. Was very intrigued so I looked them up, two had pictures in the article, found the third on Facebook. All VERY heavy, not just “might be classified as overweight” It didn’t mention anything else about their health. I know it was a tiny scale but I found that to be an interesting correlation.
I saw an article about a younger woman that died. Deep in the article it said she was "mildly" obese. Mildly? What is mildly obese? Is that weighing 250 pounds instead of 600 pounds? If your obese, your too fat. It's like saying someone is mildly pregnant or mildly a male. The woman was OBESE.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/defining.html
AC seems way too robotic to be doing sob stories.
Doesn’t strike me as the compassionate type
But then again, CNN
He and Jimmy Kimmel cry all the time lately. I think their meds are off or something.
Being overweight is a huge risk factor with this, yes. Diabetes is #1. Was he also diabetic? Obese, on dialysis, and diabetic? Not likely to survive long, even without the rona.
Next we'll hear that Judas killed himself because of CCPvirus.
He definitely cried, but I guess it could’ve been like actor crying.
high BMI is always an issue, wuflu or no
and yes, fuck CNN
For sure. America is fatter than ever. They give away so much "free" food...free school breakfasts and lunches (and in our area they started adding dinner, plus weekends, so we get to pay for that in taxes), SNAP benefits, food pantries. People are huge. I saw a stat and I am not sure if it was accurate, so I need to look into it, but it was something like 8 percent have a BMI that is considered too low. 12 Percent have a normal range BMI, and 80 percent have a BMI over 28. This was worldwide. 80 percent have a BMI over 28! How is this even possible? Do people just sit on a couch all day stuffing their faces with food?
I have been between a 21-22 BMI my entire life. I eat a lot of food that I shouldn't, but I never eat at restaurants and very rarely eat fast food (maybe once or twice a year), although I will eat healthy Subway sandwich a few times a year.
I have been relatively active my entire life.
The combination of exercise and eating out has created the large BMI's we see today. It's crazy how really inactive people are and the massive proportion of times they eat out.
The problem is the news uses numbers ONLY in a way that provokes fear. They don't say "they are expecting 30,000-40,000 deaths, which is typical for every annual flu season".
They'll say "40,000 left dead as the Coronavirus continues its reign of death all across the country".
Then they'll tell you about some 28 year old who dies of WuFlu. But they don't tell you he had leukemia or HIV or cystic fibrosis.
Everything in the media about this normal everyday flu is framed to cause fear and panic (also known as terrorism).
Great post except for your last line: please don't promote the notion that this is "normal everyday flu." It's not. It has a far higher R0, and it started as being able to attach to human lungs much better. It has mutated, and probably continues to. Most mutations are harmful to the organism mutating, and other evolutionary pressures would also make this virus less lethal as it mutates.
I doubt anyone knows what we're dealing with at this point. Fortunately it's a lot less problematic than we thought at first. That's a very good thing. This is still not "normal everyday flu." Too bad they won't let us have the medicine proven to be most effective, and more effective than the most effective vaccine ever made, for anything. (Polio vaccine takes TWO applications to achieve 90% effectiveness, Trump pills reduce death rate by 97.4% in one course of treatment)
Honestly, this is the biggest psyop we've ever seen. And it's really not that hard to see through it.
I've lost hope for this country ever turning the corner. We can all return to our normal lives when the rulers allow it. But never forget that we are being allowed to.
It can only get worse. Not better. We may have the illusion that it's better, but it won't be.
You're spreading doom porn. Snap out of it! This is how We the People fix this: The time for peaceful protest is long past, VA proved that. Time to start removing Governors from Office physically, all on the same day. See them stand trial for mass murder. (With exceptions for those few that aren't guilty) Citizen's arrest is legal if we're stopping a felony in progress. The only legitimacy any government ever had on this continent is the consent of the governed. We cannot consent to THIS! Due process allows us to charge them with their every act of tyranny, as well as file civil suits that have them die in prison as paupers. Send a clear message as to who the power is in the Country. It's always been We the People. It's absolutely essential to send that message loud and clear to any future would-be tyrants. Now we know it won't last 245 years, but it will last more than 20.
Upvoted man. I hope you can see why I'm demoralized about it. I hear you.
Glad you hear me! There's an old saying: "you're not ready to live until you're ready to die." Not many need to die. Preferably no one needs to get hurt. Evil prevails when good men do nothing. We have to be ready to actually do something. This opportunity is the rare moment in history when the right thing to do is also the easiest, has the best results, is the longest lasting, and the least cost. Every other opportunity that presents itself if we miss this one costs more, and gets worse results.