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    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 02:26 last edited by
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    https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/man-dies-from-coronavirus-after-calling-it-a-political-ploy/

    Please love yourself.

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      89th
      wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 03:06 last edited by
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      Sometimes when you call bullshit, you get the horns. Sad.

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        brenda
        wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 03:35 last edited by
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        He said the madness had to stop. Looks like it did for him. Sad for his family.

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 11:30 last edited by
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          “Does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy? Asking for a friend. Prove me wrong,”

          The mother-of-all ‘this didn’t age well’ posts.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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            Mik
            wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 11:35 last edited by
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            If one could argue from the afterlife I suspect he would stick to his guns. Lots of barge talk going around. New World Order and all that.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              Loki
              wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 11:42 last edited by Loki
              #6

              Did we know him before he died? Best be careful what you tweet or Facebook because someone will pick over your bones.

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                Axtremus
                wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 12:18 last edited by
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                Condolences to the deceased family and loved ones.
                I hope he has not pass the virus along to other people.

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                  22 Apr 2020, 12:18

                  Condolences to the deceased family and loved ones.
                  I hope he has not pass the virus along to other people.

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                  Loki
                  wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 13:35 last edited by
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                  @Axtremus said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                  Condolences to the deceased family and loved ones.
                  I hope he has not pass the virus along to other people.

                  What percent of the planet do you think will get CV?

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                    22 Apr 2020, 11:30

                    “Does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy? Asking for a friend. Prove me wrong,”

                    The mother-of-all ‘this didn’t age well’ posts.

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                    Copper
                    wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 15:18 last edited by
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                    @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                    “Does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy?

                    Was it's origin a political ploy?

                    No, doubtful at best

                    Has it's use over the last 2 months and forevermore become a political weapon?

                    Yes, although its status as a killer remains

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                    • C Copper
                      22 Apr 2020, 15:18

                      @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                      “Does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy?

                      Was it's origin a political ploy?

                      No, doubtful at best

                      Has it's use over the last 2 months and forevermore become a political weapon?

                      Yes, although its status as a killer remains

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                      Loki
                      wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 15:36 last edited by
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                      @Copper said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                      @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                      “Does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy?

                      Was it's origin a political ploy?

                      No, doubtful at best

                      Has it's use over the last 2 months and forevermore become a political weapon?

                      Yes, although its status as a killer remains

                      The family is being victimized by this but I guess they need to reframe in their minds that this is for the greater good?

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                        Horace
                        wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 15:48 last edited by
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                        Hopefully every last person in Sweden will die. It's the only way mankind will learn. And let's face it, the irony would be delicious.

                        #DieSwedes

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • H Horace
                          22 Apr 2020, 15:48

                          Hopefully every last person in Sweden will die. It's the only way mankind will learn. And let's face it, the irony would be delicious.

                          #DieSwedes

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                          George K
                          wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 15:56 last edited by
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                          @Horace said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                          Hopefully every last person in Sweden will die. It's the only way mankind will learn. And let's face it, the irony would be delicious.

                          #DieSwedes

                          Except the girls from ABBA, of course.

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            Mik
                            wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 16:25 last edited by
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                            I think you are remembering them as they were.

                            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                              Loki
                              wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 17:08 last edited by
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                              The reality is the country is going to open up again and people are going to die.

                              What the acceptable level of death is, seems to be the only real question. The easiest way to cut down on the number of points of view I suppose is to have one for each tribe.

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                                Aqua Letifer
                                wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 18:51 last edited by
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                                I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

                                Please love yourself.

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                                • A Aqua Letifer
                                  22 Apr 2020, 18:51

                                  I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

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                                  Loki
                                  wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 19:18 last edited by
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                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                  I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

                                  Well you might have 300 million personal statements and if you pick the most extreme one we hide until a vaccine comes out. Otherwise people go out and then you will have death by definition...so it’s just a matter of how careful we build into the process. Inevitably we will hear no matter what when someone dies it was wrong.

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                                    22 Apr 2020, 19:18

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                    I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

                                    Well you might have 300 million personal statements and if you pick the most extreme one we hide until a vaccine comes out. Otherwise people go out and then you will have death by definition...so it’s just a matter of how careful we build into the process. Inevitably we will hear no matter what when someone dies it was wrong.

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                                    Aqua Letifer
                                    wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 19:29 last edited by
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                                    @Loki said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                    I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

                                    Well you might have 300 million personal statements and if you pick the most extreme one we hide until a vaccine comes out. Otherwise people go out and then you will have death by definition...so it’s just a matter of how careful we build into the process. Inevitably we will hear no matter what when someone dies it was wrong.

                                    Let's start with pie in the sky stuff: If everyone wore a mask, and I mean everyone, the R0 would be so far under 1 there'd be no problem at all with opening up tomorrow.

                                    Here are the hangups with that plan: (1) folks who can't wear a mask due to the physical logistics of their job, health reasons perhaps, etc., and (2) fuckasses who refuse.

                                    There are still a lot of things we can do for the folks in group #1 to keep them safe at work and in public. There's no excuse for group #2 but the problem is, they put everyone they meet at risk with their dumbfuckery.

                                    So I say drop executive hammers down on #2--because it's either that or prolonged and indefinite quarantine, choose your tyranny to whine about, assholes--and let's open the country back up.

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      Horace
                                      wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 19:31 last edited by
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                                      In the imaginary world where we exactly knew the risk, why wouldn't the people who advocate for accepting the risk have blood on their hands when someone died, regardless of what that risk was? At what point does this rhetorical stuff about "real people dying, maybe someone you love, maybe you", actually stop being convincing? Accepting known exact risk is an impossible ideal for both sides of this discussion.

                                      Education is extremely important.

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                                        22 Apr 2020, 19:31

                                        In the imaginary world where we exactly knew the risk, why wouldn't the people who advocate for accepting the risk have blood on their hands when someone died, regardless of what that risk was? At what point does this rhetorical stuff about "real people dying, maybe someone you love, maybe you", actually stop being convincing? Accepting known exact risk is an impossible ideal for both sides of this discussion.

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                                        Aqua Letifer
                                        wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 19:33 last edited by
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                                        @Horace said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                        "real people dying, maybe someone you love, maybe you", actually stop being convincing?

                                        I don't know what you mean by that. "Convincing" in terms of how helpful it is making policy, or "convincing" in terms of you actually don't care?

                                        Please love yourself.

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                                        • A Aqua Letifer
                                          22 Apr 2020, 19:29

                                          @Loki said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                          @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                          I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

                                          Well you might have 300 million personal statements and if you pick the most extreme one we hide until a vaccine comes out. Otherwise people go out and then you will have death by definition...so it’s just a matter of how careful we build into the process. Inevitably we will hear no matter what when someone dies it was wrong.

                                          Let's start with pie in the sky stuff: If everyone wore a mask, and I mean everyone, the R0 would be so far under 1 there'd be no problem at all with opening up tomorrow.

                                          Here are the hangups with that plan: (1) folks who can't wear a mask due to the physical logistics of their job, health reasons perhaps, etc., and (2) fuckasses who refuse.

                                          There are still a lot of things we can do for the folks in group #1 to keep them safe at work and in public. There's no excuse for group #2 but the problem is, they put everyone they meet at risk with their dumbfuckery.

                                          So I say drop executive hammers down on #2--because it's either that or prolonged and indefinite quarantine, choose your tyranny to whine about, assholes--and let's open the country back up.

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                                          Horace
                                          wrote on 22 Apr 2020, 19:36 last edited by
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                                          @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                          @Loki said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                          @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, in Ohio...:

                                          I wish the folks who talk about "life is precious is nonsense" and "acceptable level of death" would actually get specific on what's acceptable for them personally, and how comfortable they are throwing themselves and their loved ones into the lottery. Because it sounds like they're using the fact that there are going to be many more casualties as an excuse not to really care all that much, because economy.

                                          Well you might have 300 million personal statements and if you pick the most extreme one we hide until a vaccine comes out. Otherwise people go out and then you will have death by definition...so it’s just a matter of how careful we build into the process. Inevitably we will hear no matter what when someone dies it was wrong.

                                          Let's start with pie in the sky stuff: If everyone wore a mask, and I mean everyone, the R0 would be so far under 1 there'd be no problem at all with opening up tomorrow.

                                          Here are the hangups with that plan: (1) folks who can't wear a mask due to the physical logistics of their job, health reasons perhaps, etc., and (2) fuckasses who refuse.

                                          There are still a lot of things we can do for the folks in group #1 to keep them safe at work and in public. There's no excuse for group #2 but the problem is, they put everyone they meet at risk with their dumbfuckery.

                                          So I say drop executive hammers down on #2--because it's either that or prolonged and indefinite quarantine, choose your tyranny to whine about, assholes--and let's open the country back up.

                                          That sounds like a good plan to me. Everybody wears masks, shaming and other more official punishments for those who don't. But that's still more risky than quarantining, and more people will die. It's just that the number of people using the "life is priceless" rhetoric will decrease. they will quietly choose to stop saying it, using internal calculations they probably couldn't put numbers to even if they wanted to.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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