We went through this shit in the great depression and again in the great recession. Stop voting for people whose greatest worry at times of extreme hardship is that if we help keep people from destitution, that entire society will collapse because we will no longer be business-friendly or whatever bullshit they’re…

Well, my family income currently comes in large part from taking care of patients with COVID-19, and I have a very selfish interest in myself and my partner staying alive and my child not being orphaned. The faster we can bring the viral cases down, the safer my family will be - but so will everyone else’s

Unfortunately “doctors and trained people” also form a spectrum, with one end being stupid. I’m in some facebook physician groups related to COVID19, and for every useful post sharing information that can impact patient care, there are 5 posts from random dermatologists or physician assistants with bullshit…

There you go trying to use your liberal elite math and numbers to argue with people who would rather just go with their gut.

I mean, I have an MD and a PhD in cell biology plus took multiple graduate courses on vaccine development, but the fuck do I know?

There’s also the very obvious question of how strong the protective immunity is. Not all viral infections can get full protective immunity, either with vaccines or natural infections. It’s an RNA virus that should mutate reasonably quickly. I would not make any public policy decisions based on the idea of people being…

You are commenting on topics where you understand very little and you should be ashamed to show your ignorance in public. The majority of what you wrote is not based in facts and you seem to have missed the reading comprehension part of school. 

As long as the people yelling the loudest that we need to reopen are not the ones actually putting themselves at risk, it’s going to be too early. 

As long as the people yelling the loudest that we need to reopen are not the ones actually putting themselves at risk, it’s going to be too early. 

This! For some hardcore alcoholics the withdrawal can be bad enough to require ICU care. It’s not great to encourage addiction, but having people go cold turkey and use up medical resources is far worse

I think it’s more because the sweaty gross mask is breeding ground for non-coronavirus stuff that you don’t want to be inhaling all day

This must be why my wife keeps asking me if I want a rowing machine to pass the social isolation time

Yea seriously, I’m cool with reopening the economy if each of these assholes has to go work as a supermarket cashier or clear emergency rooms

Well, she’s just trying to get her racism out before she dies of the coronavirus

They’re welcome to the ones that are broken because nobody thought it’s important enough to maintain them. No health providers though - nothing to encourage self sufficiency in the American style like having to set up and maintain your own breathing support!

I can’t believe the number of people on here arguing that this is the best time to do this because of fewer people on the roads. Some areas have huge numbers of first responders already sick from the virus while trying to take care of larger numbers of emergency calls. The one upside to the lockdowns is that the EDs…

Actually if there really is a God, they all suffer terribly from COVID-19

So there were two bullshit papers that recently came out arguing that the coronavirus affects hemoglobin in some way. Hot garbage science. Immediately on a bunch of the physician COVID-19 related groups, a lot of people started speculating that maybe African Americans were getting sick more frequently and more…

So there were two bullshit papers that recently came out arguing that the coronavirus affects hemoglobin in some way. Hot garbage science. Immediately on a bunch of the physician COVID-19 related groups, a lot of people started speculating that maybe African Americans were getting sick more frequently and more…

Yes, absolutely this! They go to great length to avoid following U.S. regulations and paying their share of taxes, so it’s only fair that the financial bailout prioritizes those companies that are actually based in the U.S., employ U.S. workers, and follow the same regulations.