COVID 19 stats - ALLEGHENY COUNTY and beyond (Republic: approval, Chinese)

[prnlvsxy]

Originally Posted by gg

I saw it on the news. It looked depressing to me. Wolf and really all our leaders have most people so scared that very few people are going to return anyway. You can open restaurants at 25% and I doubt many people will go back. I know I am done for this year. I go to the grocery store, buy stuff and make it and will do so for 2020 and maybe into next year until this is figured out. I used to go to the strip to get booze, but I stopped drinking because I just don't want to deal with it. Maybe a beer now and again, but they can keep everything else for the next year or two. Florida opened up and today restaurants are at 50% capacity. People I know down there aren't going out much. Sure some, but not many. You want to scare people this much, it is going to be a very long journey back. Normal? Years away. The leftists run all media and healthcare, so people are scared ****less with the pounding and numbers as if no one has ever recovered. This is going to be devastating for a very long time. The left/stay home people won, but in the end we will see it might not be as great as people thought.

Why would you be depressed if it was pretty busy?
And why are you so scared of masks? It's a pretty simple easy way to protect yourself and others.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by gg

Red or yellow is about the same. It isn't like you are going out to eat, church, play a sport, go skateboarding at a city park or whatever. Might as well be locked up. Heck, you can't even get a haircut.

Could you bother checking the news before posting so you don't get your facts dead wrong or is that too much to ask for? The city has said it's allowing skate parks and tennis again, and churches are starting to look at resuming services. The Diocese has re-opened churches and it looking at resuming masses for the first weekend in June.

[WhoIsStanwix?]

Originally Posted by gg

I saw it on the news. It looked depressing to me. Wolf and really all our leaders have most people so scared that very few people are going to return anyway. You can open restaurants at 25% and I doubt many people will go back. I know I am done for this year. I go to the grocery store, buy stuff and make it and will do so for 2020 and maybe into next year until this is figured out. I used to go to the strip to get booze, but I stopped drinking because I just don't want to deal with it. Maybe a beer now and again, but they can keep everything else for the next year or two. Florida opened up and today restaurants are at 50% capacity. People I know down there aren't going out much. Sure some, but not many. You want to scare people this much, it is going to be a very long journey back. Normal? Years away. The leftists run all media and healthcare, so people are scared ****less with the pounding and numbers as if no one has ever recovered. This is going to be devastating for a very long time. The left/stay home people won, but in the end we will see it might not be as great as people thought.

If you can get past the title and some of the initial stuff re: how the media and big corps might try to manipulate this situation, I think this is a good perspective. In essence, this is a once in a hundred year (or more) opportunity to re-think how we live and spend our time and money without having to face the devastation and human carnage that would be a great world war.

https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for...g-6a8ce3f0a0e0

In other words, I think for as annoying as this might seem, there's a really significant silver lining if you choose to view it that way, especially if you are lucky enough to have a job or enough savings to see you through without starving.

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by WhoIsStanwix?

If you can get past the title and some of the initial stuff re: how the media and big corps might try to manipulate this situation, I think this is a good perspective. In essence, this is a once in a hundred year (or more) opportunity to re-think how we live and spend our time and money without having to face the devastation and human carnage that would be a great world war.

https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for...g-6a8ce3f0a0e0

In other words, I think for as annoying as this might seem, there's a really significant silver lining if you choose to view it that way, especially if you are lucky enough to have a job or enough savings to see you through without starving.

^^^ wow...just, wow! "once in a hundred year opportunity to re-think how we live....without having to face the devastation...that would be a great world war".

i got chills.

[szug-bot]

May 18: new infections per day, from last 8 days, starting with most distant:


8, 15, 19, 6, 31, 13, 8, 38


No deaths for two straight days, at least.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by gg

I saw it on the news. It looked depressing to me. Wolf and really all our leaders have most people so scared that very few people are going to return anyway. You can open restaurants at 25% and I doubt many people will go back. I know I am done for this year. I go to the grocery store, buy stuff and make it and will do so for 2020 and maybe into next year until this is figured out. I used to go to the strip to get booze, but I stopped drinking because I just don't want to deal with it. Maybe a beer now and again, but they can keep everything else for the next year or two. Florida opened up and today restaurants are at 50% capacity. People I know down there aren't going out much. Sure some, but not many. You want to scare people this much, it is going to be a very long journey back. Normal? Years away. The leftists run all media and healthcare, so people are scared ****less with the pounding and numbers as if no one has ever recovered. This is going to be devastating for a very long time. The left/stay home people won, but in the end we will see it might not be as great as people thought.

Giving in due to fear is no way to live.

Don’t worry. Everything will resume to green depending on who wins in November.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by erieguy

Everything will resume to green depending on who wins in November.

I mean President Trump is going to be re-elected if that's what you were asking?

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

I mean President Trump is going to be re-elected if that's what you were asking?

If Trump is re-elected Dems will do everything possible to continue the goose chase that’s been going on for 3+ years, tell people to stay scared, remain home and don’t question it, if he’s not, everything will be open green light right after unless people do it on their own beforehand.

[Knepper3]

Originally Posted by erieguy

If Trump is re-elected Dems will do everything possible to continue the goose chase that’s been going on for 3+ years, tell people to stay scared, remain home and don’t question it, if he’s not, everything will be open green light right after unless people do it on their own beforehand.

People would never go till Nov. If we were red much longer we would see much more protesting. My now 69 year old mother (had a lockdown Birthday) would have been out protesting. She even said to me that this is worse than COVID. She's been locked up for 10 weeks, she would rather MAYBE get COVID and MAYBE get a really bad version than continue like this which is a GUARANTEE that her health continues to decline in isolation. If she loses too much strength she would end up in a home which is worse that death to her.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Knepper3

People would never go till Nov. If we were red much longer we would see much more protesting. My now 69 year old mother (had a lockdown Birthday) would have been out protesting. She even said to me that this is worse than COVID. She's been locked up for 10 weeks, she would rather MAYBE get COVID and MAYBE get a really bad version than continue like this which is a GUARANTEE that her health continues to decline in isolation. If she loses too much strength she would end up in a home which is worse that death to her.

I expect that also, but I also expect the Dems keeping everything yellow as long as possible and/or trying to go back and forth as much as possible, and keep the economy lagging as much as possible until the election.