The Coronavirus

[Kinser79]

(05-17-2020, 06:45 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-16-2020, 10:53 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(05-16-2020, 03:52 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-16-2020, 03:39 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-15-2020, 07:39 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I consider myself pretty blue with respect to the virus.  I mean, nothing that Rachel Maddow and Governor Cumo said last night made me want to double check.  And yet, with this guy, I didn't recognize myself at all.  His idea of what the blue mind set was simply didn't touch me.  That made me believe his mind set was made in la la land.  His news source would be mostly lies, and his beliefs thus bogus.

If you find the video at all relevant, you are likely of the same level of not reality.

I've seen this idiot before, some years ago.

I'm not convinced he is an idiot.  His way of looking at things is well thought out, but his ideas on how blues think are way off.  That means he managed to create a view of the world which has nothing to do with reality.  

That is likely necessary to justify what he wants to justify.  If your thinking has a particular answer first then creates an image of the world based on justifying what you have already decided, you wind up with weird ideas that don't fit anything real.

Or perhaps Bob the issue is that the Blues are not connected to reality.  I doubt that ever crossed your mind for even a millisecond.

You are right.  It didn't. Considered for a moment. Dismissed it.

I see. Then you are then perhaps as connected to reality as Eric is. Given that it seems he lost vital brain cells smoking LSD during the 60s or something that doesn't bode well for our future together.

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(05-16-2020, 10:53 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(05-16-2020, 04:04 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Last night Rachel put on a clip of Trump saying that if you test, you find someone contaminated with the bug, which is bad.

That sort of reminds me of a western, I think it was Dances with Wolves, where one chief used a magic spell centered on if you closed your eyes, they couldn't see you.  You became invisible.  In the movies, it worked.  They walked out of a massacre that way.

I just have the feeling this isn't the movies.  You can't make bad things go away by closing your eyes.

And Trump is right.  If you do enough tests you'll eventually find at least one person to be positive for that test.  Movie or not.  Testing in and of itself isn't particularly useful.

That shows how much you have been following the issue.

It doesn't require obsessively watching the legacy media or even more modern media to determine that a test can only tell you if you have X, and does nothing to say cure or treat X. My point stands testing in and of itself is not very useful. After all we aren't talking about using tests to quarantine infected persons, instead the Blue solution is to quarantine everyone and wish the disease away. Strangely in Governor Carona's New York 2 out of 3 new cases are arising from people "sheltering in place".

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/...story.html

Conclusion the lockdown is obviously not working. Further it is damaging the economy as well as not working. Those sorts of results would make most people question if opening back up and letting it run its course is not a better option. Maybe if there was some country that tried that. *Glares at Sweden*

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(05-16-2020, 10:53 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(05-16-2020, 09:34 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-16-2020, 04:04 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Last night Rachel put on a clip of Trump saying that if you test, you find someone contaminated with the bug, which is bad.

Good to see that Maddow is trusting Trump now.

Maybe this is one of those rare instances where reality overrides ideology for the Blues.  Somehow I doubt it though.

More likely it is a case of Warren being as truthful as usual.

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This isn't very clear. Are you calling the man a liar or something less severe?

Mind you in my mind there is a difference between someone spreading nonsense they heard (shit my mother hears all kinds of nonsense from the Legacy Media that she tells me about--which almost always turns out to be false, or not the way she said it, or something) and someone deliberately spreading untruth. Lying requires a mens rea.