Poll of the Day > I love how most people think CoVid is over

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What do you mean a long time? Some countries literally beat it and very quickly.

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Collat posted...

WTF? Thats not a reason.

It actually is so deal with it.

Like defying all logic gives their life purpose.

Getting on with your life is the more logical than getting hot and bothered about what others do.

Saying its not going to go away when some places have gotten rid of it shows your ignorance.

Yet it's still very much a global pandemic. It's cute you try though.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

What do you mean a long time? Some countries literally beat it and very quickly.

what countries?

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wwinterj25 posted...

It actually is so deal with it.

Nope. Could probably get you fined in some places too.

wwinterj25 posted...

Yet it's still very much a global pandemic.

Could have been gone by the summer. Where I live, its practically non existent. Just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

Wanded posted...

what countries?

The countries that had very little cases to begin with. Laos comes to mind.

Collat posted...

Could probably get you fined in some places too.

I'll believe it when/if I see it.

Could have been gone by the summer. Where I live, its practically non existent. Just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

Good to know but that changes nothing about what I said.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Good to know but that changes nothing about what I said.

You said that its not going to go away and I proved that it could.

redline65 posted...

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 MILLION people every year and we have a vaccine and treatment for it.

And whenever there's a TB outbreak anywhere in the developed world, you see a lot of the same quarantine and contact tracing measures that have been employed for Covid in an effort to keep it under control. In TB's case, it's more because the disease is so dangerous than because it stands a real chance of overwhelming health care systems with uncontrolled spread (since, as you say, there's a vaccine to slow the spread and treatment that doesn't consist of plopping you in an ICU bed for a month and hoping for the best), but the same principles are applied. It's almost like public health officials have dealt with airborne infectious diseases before and know what they're talking about!

Lokarin posted...

Based on the stats provided in this topic, China's "very aggressive response" back in last December where they had military secret police walling off Wuhan for several weeks is what kept their numbers down.

Odds are, China's numbers are substantially worse than they've let on, because China, but that definitely helped the situation. Having a pre-existing culture of wearing masks to slow the spread of airborne infectious diseases also helped a lot. China didn't have to worry about entire counties refusing to suffer the horrible pain of wearing a bit of cloth on their face.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Funny how they stopped travel from Wuhan to the rest of China at the time, but if you wanted to fly anywhere else in the world, the world was your oyster. Its almost as if China unleashed this plague upon the world intentionally, but far be it from me to accuse the glorious and above-reproach PRC and CCP of any fuckery where this pestilence in concerned. That would just be xenophobic.

Eh, I wouldn't say that it was intentionally spreading it so much as it was protecting themselves while not caring about other places/not wanting to admit they had such a problem. Callously destructive self-interest seems a lot more in line with the CCP's usual behaviour than some grand conspiracy to spread a terrible virus to the rest of the world for no reason.

Wanded posted...

there is no way their numbers are not fabricated

There isn't, but I'd consider their numbers only slightly less trustworthy than America's, given Trump's "our numbers will look better if we just slow down testing!" and subsequent decision to stop letting the CDC report stats independently (which corresponded suspiciously well with a drop in reported case numbers). In truth, most countries have fudged their numbers in some way or another, since it's really not a good look to be struggling to control this.

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adjl posted...

Callously destructive self-interest seems a lot more in line with the CCP's usual behaviour than some grand conspiracy to spread a terrible virus to the rest of the world for no reason.

I wouldn't say "no reason". Think of all the businesses and real estate they're going to be able to snatch up for pennies on the dollar by the time is said and done. This is biological and economic warfare, which I wouldn't put past the CCP for a second.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

I wouldn't say "no reason". Think of all the businesses and real estate they're going to be able to snatch up for pennies on the dollar by the time is said and done. This is biological and economic warfare, which I wouldn't put past the CCP for a second.

I don't doubt that they'll find a way to take advantage of it (because, let's be real, everyone's been doing that whenever the opportunities have arisen), but there have just been too many variables involved in getting to this point for me to believe that it's all been according to any great plan. It's just too chaotic a situation to make any real predictions.

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Collat posted...

You said that its not going to go away and I proved that it could.

You "proved" nothing and clearly can't read. It's laughable you call other "ignorant" and get on your soapbox due to this.

wwinterj25 posted...

This virus isn't going away anytime soon. Even with a vaccine it's going to be something that we will probably end up living with just like we do the flu or any other common virus.

This is what I actually said and it's very clear I'm talking about the global pandemic and not a country that had little cases to begin with now not having it. Also these countries can always get more cases of it as you know the virus is still a thing. Again what you posted changes nothing.

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Some weiners here wore Zorro/Green Lantern/whatever masks to the bar and ruined it for everyone... Mandatory "face coverings" ... someone had to go out and change all the posters

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wwinterj25 posted...

Collat posted...
You said that its not going to go away and I proved that it could.
You "proved" nothing and clearly can't read. It's laughable you call other "ignorant" and get on your soapbox due to this.

We went from 1000 cases down to zero. How does that not prove that you can get rid of it?

The only reason it's still around is because people do not want to do their part.

Collat posted...

-snip-

Now you're boring me and are deliberately been obtuse. End of chat.

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wwinterj25 posted...

I've had you down as a alt or joke account for sometime. This just makes me double down on that.

Good to know you don't have a counterargument. It's almost like "wearing glasses is a good reason for not wearing mask" is one of the stupidest takes ever posted on this board or something.

But your ad hom misdirection against someone who's been an active user for ten years is funny.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

one of the stupidest takes ever posted on this board or something.

Alt confirmed.

Gaawa_chan posted...

But your ad hom misdirection against someone who's been an active user for ten years is funny.

... because making alts is a new thing right. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*.
Let's give you the benefit of the doubt though. You've not been posting on PotD for that long and when you do it's just joke posts so whatever the case I'm not taking you seriously.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Now you're boring me and are deliberately been obtuse. End of chat.

Hide in your safe space and ignore the facts then.

Collat posted...

We went from 1000 cases down to zero. How does that not prove that you can get rid of it?

The only reason it's still around is because people do not want to do their part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOUOLzjPOc&t=0s

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I'm more concerned about the people that outright deny it exists.

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https://www.newzealandnow.govt.nz/why-choose-nz/compare-new-zealand/usa

I want free healthcare 6 weeks of paid vacation and $17.70 minimum wage. Also no covid. Fuck Americans' cable news logic backflips.

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adjl posted...

I don't doubt that they'll find a way to take advantage of it (because, let's be real, everyone's been doing that whenever the opportunities have arisen), but there have just been too many variables involved in getting to this point for me to believe that it's all been according to any great plan. It's just too chaotic a situation to make any real predictions.

China can afford to play the long game. Numbers are on their side. They are literally the reason you don't start land wars in asia.

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Yellow posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOUOLzjPOc&t=0s

guss is great

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

China can afford to play the long game. Numbers are on their side. They are literally the reason you don't start land wars in asia.

That's more to do with the terrain and climate than any specific country. Large swaths of Asia are pretty inhospitable.

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adjl posted...

That's more to do with the terrain and climate than any specific country. Large swaths of Asia are pretty inhospitable.

Large swaths of Asia also contain a third of the world's population, and the vast majority of them are brainwashed peasants.

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Wasn't aware that there were so many epidemiologists on PotD.

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wwinterj25 posted...

You've not been posting on PotD for that long

*shrug* I've been posting here long enough that I remember when the What Poll? joke started. Your inability to recall is irrelevant.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

*shrug* I've been posting here long enough that I remember when the What Poll? joke started. Your inability to recall is irrelevant.

I mean if this name is close to your main, I wouldn't remember it too.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

Your inability to recall is irrelevant.

Just as your posts.


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