NoiseInsideMyHead

He's basically untouchable. Widely respected, has FU money, and not afraid (obviously) to be provocative.

We should have adopted The Price is Right model...all projections have to be close without going over. #ShowcaseShowdown

It was inevitable that there would be a pandemic in the jet age and in the globalized economy. Modern medicine has advanced so far in the past 100+ years, and I submit we would have weathered it societally and economically just fine. It's just unfortunate that it happened in the information age, as well. Too many people given too much information and far too great a platform to spout nonsense and create vulnerabilities for people-pleasing or image-conscious policymakers.

But who would stack their chips against illness and death, especially among the old and infirm? Sucker’s bet if ever there was one.

Actually, it's great. Because a bunch of false negative results means the death and serious illness rate is much lower for COVID+ individuals than reported.

One of the Twitter thread commenters literally wrote, "Well, so much for separate branches of government." I wonder if he knows how ignorant he sounds. Separate branches of government is EXACTLY what happened here. That's how the whole 'checks and balances' system works. I can't believe so many people graduated HS with absolutely no knowledge of basic civics. The warm embrace of indefinite, overly broad executive lockdown orders scares me to this day.

She said the economy would never die But that changed once she found out 'bout that Fauci guy Oh but it's just a cold Wouldn't hurt her if she stayed at home, 'cause When it infects too much You lose your sense of touch I got the Wuhan flu I got the Wuhan flu 'Cause when the chest is tight, vent's gonna run all night I got the Wuhan flu She's got a heart condition, death rates are up and down Tried to get tested but got the runaround COVID keeps this place a ghost town. I know last night I heard a cough or two Now there's no one left to make love to you I got my face covered up I can't go out too much I got the Wuhan flu Yeah I got the Wuhan flu 'Cause when the chest is tight, vent's gonna run all night I got the Wuhan flu Yeah I got the Wuhan flu Oh when the chest is tight, vent's gonna run all night I got the Wuhan flu (to the tune of "Run to You" - and apologies to Bryan Adams)

Good for heard immunity.

"Temporary." Deja vu all over again. As with lockdowns, maybe it's the indefiniteness that really bothers people. Just as there appeared to be no real end game for lockdowns, there's also no stated or objective criteria for when the masks might come off. Why can't people who choose to wear a mask simply give it a rest on judging those who don't?

-B-Dubs

In addition to having completely failed to address any of my comments about the real world effect of COVID on the much bigger picture of life and death for everyone, you lack perspective. You're in too deep to be objective. In a nation of 328M, 1M is about 0.3%. It doesn't move the needle. If 1M die tomorrow, that leaves 99.7% of the country to pick up the pieces of a shattered economy and figure out some way to undo the trauma of pandemic fear mongering. Sorry, but your cherry picked value of "300% critical care capacity" hardly proves anything. In fact, it may be far more suggestive of a capacity that was too low for a densely populated urban area to begin with, rather than signaling some bellwether moment for public health in the United States for the vast majority of people who aren't even sick, who are unlikely to get sick, and who are extremely unlikely to die.

Daily reporting of COVID statistics is one of the worst things that could have ever happened to mankind.

Let's talk mortality for a second. Does anyone think that life expectancy for a NYC resident has actually shortened due to COVID? Say, one year ago, a 45 year old male had X% likelihood of dying within 12 months from a communicable disease, as opposed to all other causes, or to none at all (i.e, survival). Today, that likelihood is X*Y, wherein Y is a multiple representing an appropriate adjustment for COVID. What is Y? Is it even perceptible? Same exercise for a 55 year old, and a 65 year old. What are their Y values? Does anyone honestly believe that the actual danger of dying has increased in any appreciable way? And then throw wearing a mask into the equation, just for kicks. Perception is a powerful tool, but I like my chances sticking with math.

Wrong, and wrong. I moved nothing. If people in NYC woke up in March, or April, or May thinking that they are somehow more vulnerable to the human condition, then that's their problem. We're all on the same ride. NO - the odds of a human being dying are, and always have been, 100% Period. End of Story. The only part of the story that has yet to be written is the middle. It saddens me that so many people are in complete denial of their own mortality. It really is liberating to realize that nothing else matters. Live your lives, folks. Your COVID could be right around the corner.

Except that, if this was a global killer, there'd be a lot more dead people. Everywhere. I haven't seen anyone characterize this virus as a global killer. Persons who died "from" COVID were going to die. They were susceptible to a virus; some more classically so than others, but I think their deaths are proof. If not this one, then possibly the next one. But to ignore the SURVIVAL rate is to discount human resilience altogether. Not all of us will succumb to this virus, any virus, or any pathogen. It is delusional to think that one susceptible to COVID will miraculously survive merely by delaying infection. Among the sick and infirm, what is the efficacy rate for vaccination going to be? Death has a 100% success rate, COVID does not.

Here's what I can't believe...that people honestly think that life on planet earth is more dangerous to humans today than it was a month ago, 2 months ago, 3 months ago, 4 months ago, 6 months ago, one year ago, two years ago.

Also wasn't much of a fight.

Not Indian, but in today's climate it seems noteworthy for a non-humanoid nickname to be dropped in favor of a humanoid, let alone one with ethnic implications. https://www.stcloudblizzard.com/breaking-the-st-cloud-blizzard-is-proud-to-announce-effective-immediately-its-new-name-change-and-rebrand-to-the-st-cloud-norsemen#.XrMUtBIxayI.link

But within commuting distance of how many millions of people who won't need to adjust to the cost? You can't tell me there isn't plenty of untapped hockey coaching talent, with ACHA, AAA, Tier 1, HS. Just like SoCal, if you're from the area or been there for a while - riding the never-ending housing wave, it's far easier to get by than for a transplant.

Here’s a thought exercise. Let’s say the media never picked up on a “new” virus and it didn’t have a name. And nobody ever invoked the p-word. Instead, they just reported generically on trends, data, and observations about respiratory viruses, illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths in the aggregate. Would 2020 just have gone down as a “really bad flu season”? I mean, who has even even paid attention every other year in modern history when such things have been announced? Who here hasn’t just shrugged at stories of ‘norovirus on a cruise ship’ or ‘Asian flu’? We’re pretty desensitized and resilient, after all. Yet, there are now armies of armchair epidemiologists out there who couldn’t begin to tell you how many died last year, or the year before, or in any year from any cause, but who seem to know for a fact that “this one is bad.” Nearly none of them have witnessed it first hand, mind you. Rather it’s what they’ve heard. Over and over. No panic. No economic upheaval. Some deaths, sure, but mostly in assisted living facilities and tightly packed urban areas. Gentle reminders to wash hands, stay home if you’re sick, see your doctor. Pharma could have quietly worked up a vaccine, and rolled it out in due course with the usual seasonal admonition to ‘get your flu shot.’ Nobody ever reads those labels anyway. “Oh, a bigger needle this year? Okay.” Or, “Two shots this time? Oh, well, what’s my co-pay?” Maybe we can learn something about the perils of too much information in the Information Age. Maybe being human and vulnerable isn’t really the problem. Maybe putting too much information in the hands of those least equipped to deal with it is the real culprit.

Yes, I will literally go out of my way to frequent businesses that do not require masks. And I will withhold patronage from those that do whenever possible. You can't put any of this "in a tube." It's a virus (hardly the only one), we are living organisms, we are social by nature, and some of us will succumb to pathogens. That's literally the way it has always been and will always be. I weep for the future of mankind if this is the best we can do. Scaring people into staying home and wearing a mask in public. Shaming people for living their lives. Life is all about risks and choices.

The very notion of an immunity/health passport is laughable. Exactly which condition(s) - past, present, future - are elevated to passport-level? And how is that decision going to be made? What about genetic predispositions...gonna screen for those, too? Will there be armed checkpoints? Brain scans? Exploding restraint collars? The dystopian future is NOW.

Does this include respecting people who choose not to wear a mask? Because being told to wear a mask is not something I'm prepared to tolerate. It seems like overnight the smug, pompous crowd has shifted from "you stay at home" to "you wear a mask." Yet, nobody is out here telling them they must leave the house, or they cannot wear a mask.