[Marine1974]

I didn’t know hospitals starting reporting and giving out personal medical information on other patients. Did they tell everybody in the ER about your condition ? I thought Hippa was still a law .

[drducat]

Was Fauci correct when he said each positive test counts as a case? So if one person tests positive 10 time in 10 days that counts as 10 cases.........Each positive test = 1 case.....................wrong way to track....no wonder the data from the beginning up until now is garbage.

[ex34449]

Seriously, people still care about this thing? Mask up get sick, social distance get sick, mask up and social distance and still get sick. Shoot a social experiment in your arm on top of all or part of the previous and still get sick.
No one knows where this thing will be in 2 days much less 2 months or 2 years.

[Dana1963]

Originally Posted by Marine1974

I didn’t know hospitals starting reporting and giving out personal medical information on other patients. Did they tell everybody in the ER about your condition ? I thought Hippa was still a law .

Some people make stuff up

[Marine1974]

Calling other Americans sheep isn’t that like bullying with a key pad ? Should not be allowed on TOTV .
The Covid cases reported are understated as many people with Covid
never get tested . Officials report the numbers are in reality double.

[ex34449]

Originally Posted by Marine1974

Calling other Americans sheep isn’t that like bullying with a key pad

You're serious aren't you.

[dougjb]

We all share a social compact to care about our fellow human beings. We can either listen to the doctors and epidemiologists using science as their touchstone...or we can listen to the "experts" on TOTV who use....ummmm...their own twisted logic.

I think we can all agree that if one wished to play in traffic on I-4 during rush hour, it is your right to do so. But, does one have a right for those wishing to play on I-4 to drag others onto I-4? I think most of us would say, that is not your right to do so. So, if you are unvaccinated or unmasked, it is your right. But, you have no right to go about and infect others just like you have no right to pull others onto I-4 to play if that is what you want to do.

I think the President of France had it right. It is time to emmerder those who are unvaccinated or unmasked. That verb means to immerse in excrement.

It is time that the unvaccinated and unmasked stay home.

They made their choice. Now, be subject to the consequences.On the other hand, those who abide by the social compact to care for their fellow human beings by masking up and getting vaccinated should be allowed to play as much as they want.

This is a public health issue and those who want to belittle the numbers of Covid deaths or hospitalizations or illnesses need to be emmerder.

[Ptmckiou]

FACTS and DATA are NEVER fear mongering.

Fear mongering comes from YOUR perspective.

[cherylncliff]

Originally Posted by tmbozoki@gmail.com

Shameful scare mongering by the media and sheep people easily corralled. Based on the aforementioned number 5% were hospitalized (no mention how long) and .002% death rate. Meaning you have 99.98% chance not to die! This is how media should report COVID, not just a grand total total cases with no qualifications is shameful.

People should educate themselves and stop listening to this media ratings whoring hysteria.

You know, I am sure, that hospitalization lags case increases by several weeks and deaths lag behind hospitalizations by several weeks. Also, there are long term effects even if you were to recover. The article does not mention how many of the hospitalized were unvaccinated, but that would be a useful fact to have. This is not fear mongering , it is a reporting of facts so that we may be well informed and therefore make informed, intelligent decisions.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by Ptmckiou

FACTS and DATA are NEVER fear mongering.

Fear mongering comes from YOUR perspective.

Not really!!
However the minority report is duly noted!

[drducat]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Agree---here are the numbers from the article:

"As most Villagers know, The Villages spans through three different counties. Here are the number of new COVID cases as of Jan. 12, according to the CDC website.

In Lake County, there have been 4,107 new cases over the last week. 190 of those cases were admitted to the hospital, and less than ten resulted in death.

In Marion County, there have been 3,127 new cases. 178 of those cases were admitted to the hospital, and less than ten resulted in death.

In Sumter County, there have been 823 new cases. 50 of those cases were admitted to the hospital, and no deaths were reported."


Note that the majority of cases and hospitalizations and all of the deaths were in Lake and Marion Counties, of which The Villages compromises an insignificant number of the population. That brings us to 823 "cases" in Sumter County---a case being a positive test without regard to whether or not the person is sick. And then to 50 admitted to a hospital---whether because of or incidental to COVID. No need to hide under your bed yet, and another example of media hysteria.

Originally Posted by dougjb

We all share a social compact to care about our fellow human beings. We can either listen to the doctors and epidemiologists using science as their touchstone...or we can listen to the "experts" on TOTV who use....ummmm...their own twisted logic.

I think we can all agree that if one wished to play in traffic on I-4 during rush hour, it is your right to do so. But, does one have a right for those wishing to play on I-4 to drag others onto I-4? I think most of us would say, that is not your right to do so. So, if you are unvaccinated or unmasked, it is your right. But, you have no right to go about and infect others just like you have no right to pull others onto I-4 to play if that is what you want to do.

I think the President of France had it right. It is time to emmerder those who are unvaccinated or unmasked. That verb means to immerse in excrement.

It is time that the unvaccinated and unmasked stay home.

They made their choice. Now, be subject to the consequences.On the other hand, those who abide by the social compact to care for their fellow human beings by masking up and getting vaccinated should be allowed to play as much as they want.

This is a public health issue and those who want to belittle the numbers of Covid deaths or hospitalizations or illnesses need to be emmerder.

This latest variant is our ticket out of this...as long as they don't try another booster aimed at it...that will kill off any remaining chance of herd immunity...The reason for all the media hype on this right at this moment is the EUA is up Jan. 15....which means no more emergency use...bring on the lawyers...time to file your claims against the vaccine makers.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by tklloop

How is it media hysteria when they post the facts & data?? It’s only hysteria when people decide what they want to do with the data. Don’t blame the messenger!!

It's media hysteria for several reasons, but the biggest is that they posted high numbers in Lake and Marion Counties as if that reflected the population of The Villages, which it does not. A media out could go as far as posting nothing but facts (like that would ever happen), but by choosing which facts they put out there they induce bias.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by dougjb

We all share a social compact to care about our fellow human beings. We can either listen to the doctors and epidemiologists using science as their touchstone...or we can listen to the "experts" on TOTV who use....ummmm...their own twisted logic.

I think we can all agree that if one wished to play in traffic on I-4 during rush hour, it is your right to do so. But, does one have a right for those wishing to play on I-4 to drag others onto I-4? I think most of us would say, that is not your right to do so. So, if you are unvaccinated or unmasked, it is your right. But, you have no right to go about and infect others just like you have no right to pull others onto I-4 to play if that is what you want to do.

I think the President of France had it right. It is time to emmerder those who are unvaccinated or unmasked. That verb means to immerse in excrement.

It is time that the unvaccinated and unmasked stay home.

They made their choice. Now, be subject to the consequences.On the other hand, those who abide by the social compact to care for their fellow human beings by masking up and getting vaccinated should be allowed to play as much as they want.

This is a public health issue and those who want to belittle the numbers of Covid deaths or hospitalizations or illnesses need to be emmerder.

Some truth in that post, but in no way can anyone equate vaccination with "masking up"

[Cliff Fr]

Haven't you heard? It's been proven that vaccinated asymptomatic people can still spread the virus

[B-flat]

Originally Posted by tmbozoki@gmail.com

Shameful scare mongering by the media and sheep people easily corralled. Based on the aforementioned number 5% were hospitalized (no mention how long) and .002% death rate. Meaning you have 99.98% chance not to die! This is how media should report COVID, not just a grand total total cases with no qualifications is shameful.

People should educate themselves and stop listening to this media ratings whoring hysteria.

The fear mongering is by design!