You’re right Chinese people don’t frequently travel to New York... oh wait. And New York has a lot of travelers from Europe, which is where most of its cases came from. Everyone agrees it was circulating well before we realized but antibody testing has shown nowhere near the numbers to support your bizarre ideas about…

We know some basics about how contagious COVID is, and we have data on how its spread is affected by different methods of mitigation, and we know what kind of mitigation steps we took, but, right, we can never know how many people would’ve died if we did nothing to mitigate the spread... it could’ve been more than 2…

2 million dead if mitigation steps weren’t taken... That still seems very plausible.

Which models are wrong?

Common sense would be staying home until it’s safe to go out.

They’ve only held up half the bargain though—flatten the curve so that things can safely be reopened. People stayed home, but nothing was done to safely reopen, so, blame the morons who refused to take this seriously for the continuation of all this.

Why are you still here? Go on, we won’t miss you!

So, basically, you’re advocating the Early New York State Pandemic Response Method?

So... the news reports of people dying around the globe of COVID are a liberal conspiracy, but the (checks notes) Internet postings about “millions” starving to death are believable?

Car dealerships already struck me as filthy germy places, I’m not opposed to buying a new car right now, but wouldn’t go into a dealership for it. 

I have a 30-something year old bike and I fucked with the cantilevers, and then just bought the v-brakes and am very happy. And maybe I’m missing something, but if the brake cable isn’t the right length... can’t you just adjust it?

But, voter fraud isn’t a problem? It’s virtually non-existent.

Why would you want to require ID for voting? You want to encourage people to vote, not make it harder, right?

Why is riding the bus any more dangerous than driving in your car - you could be car jacked and frankly one of the creepiest places is a parking garage or sprawling parking lot. Buses have cameras and people.

Your theory goes counter to all evidence, but sure... you can still believe it.

Yeah, but why?

Actually, this is a very rational thing to do if your friend lets you borrow his lambo and then you crash it. You don’t have a good explanation. Just leave it and get a new friend.

Homegrown lettuce tastes like garbage. It’s easy to grow, but not easy to grow to taste good. 

Very very few people need one of those. But helpfully, the others can be identified as having terrible taste and too much money.