That's it, they're just estimates. The death rate projections have declined from reports of almost 2 million initially to 60K or so when all said and done. Any death is traumatic and sad but I refuse to listen to the network "experts" who seem hell bent on continuing to spread fear and their "projections" on what will happen next. Common sense will hopefully prevail in the end.
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That's it, they're just estimates. The death rate projections have declined from reports of almost 2 million initially to 60K or so when all said and done. Any death is traumatic and sad but I refuse to listen to the network "experts" who seem hell bent on continuing to spread fear and their "projections" on what will happen next. Common sense will hopefully prevail in the end.
Yep, all computer models have overshot. Labeling a death counter caused by COVID even if it wasn't the cause of death. I personally think all of this has been blown out of proportion. This article has been what I felt was happening for quite some time now.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/28/covid-19-turning-out-to-be-huge-hoax-perpetrated-b/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/28/covid-19-turning-out-to-be-huge-hoax-perpetrated-b/
For clarification, my stat came from the CDC. Most of the projections the media is reporting come from legitimate sources, but what we know changes constantly as we learn more. The news is bad because the news is bad news, and we can shoot the messengers all we want to, its not going to change what it says on the message.
If I could criticize the news media for something, its spending too much time reporting and haggling and debating over the absurd shit the president says, while essentially giving his administration a pass on abdicating their leadership responsibility in managing a national crisis. People want to keep comparing this to WW2, so here's the comparison: it would be like the President going on TV and telling states "we know the Nazis are out there, we know they pose a threat, this is truly an existential crisis for our country, but its up to you as states to mobilize and fight them individually, and here's a helpful PowerPoint with tips on raising an army..."
My biggest fear of the states-go-it-alone approach is that without Federal intervention on behalf of rural states, the rebound will occur solely in the largest metros. We need the Federal government to bolster our states and keep us solvent, now that our economies have essentially been reduced to subsistence - providing goods and services to each other, locally, with limited to no exports. It will be one of the more unfortunate ironies of this situation, that the states who most support the President will suffer the most from this approach.
The mainstream media are dicks. They report what they want to report regardless if it’s factual or not. I am not politicizing it at all but there is just a much good news on the COVID front as bad yet we rarely hear that as it doesn’t fit with their narrative. They’d lose ratings if they couldn’t portray this as the worst virus to ever affect the earth and its people.
I think of it as our fault - we are consumers of fear, so that's what they sell us.
One of my biggest memories of 9/11 was the "FOX NEWS ALERT" and "CNN BREAKING NEWS" hot red freakout chyrons that came about because of it. On that day, it was up all day, and I was like "man, this is a bad day." And then it was up every day from then on, no matter how weak the story.
CNN BREAKING NEWS: Whitney Houston dead
FOX NEWS ALERT: Pecan allergies on the rise
People complain about how we're fed the news, but it's what makes money. Sensationalism sells.
Definitely. So does trolling, especially here recently.
People want avatars to throw blame at, so we say its the media or the government, without ever considering that those entities are made up of humans, giving humans what they ask for. The most disliked division of our government is the Legislative Branch, and its the only one that directly represents the people. No coincidence.
You get the government you demand and hold accountable, its why WV has always been a shitshow. We have a lazy population (yeah I said it) that doesn't want to piss clean to work at Toyota, so they keep working on cars at Mike's Repair Shop making $25k a year, complaining about how immigrants are taking all the good jobs picking strawberries in California. Jesus I'm bitter these days.
Keep those donations coming. That’s the only way we will survive. We can’t rely on the state any longer. MH and JS need to ramp up those donor efforts.
The landscape of college sports may very well be on the verge of collapsing like the house of cards that it is... Look for G5 leagues (and yes I mean you too AAC) to move back toward regionality if/when leagues default. Back to where teams can travel by bus, cut down on hotel nights, etc.
It would make a lot of sense for MU to end up in some sort of league with say... Liberty, ODU, ECU, App State, Navy, Temple, Cincy, Toledo, Ohio, Kent, Akron, Miami Oh... Bus trips for everyone, except maybe the trip to Philly.
And we can sit on our high horse and look down at the SoCon all day... But they are better than CUSA in mens basketball and at least on par in many of the olympic sports. The only knock on the SoCon is it isn't FBS football.
Agree. i like the idea of a compact regional league. Better than the current CUSA on all fronts.
The MAC schools you mentioned will not leave the MAC. There is no reason to do so. Cincinnati will never play in a league with Liberty
