[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Boomer

The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population but more than 25% of global cases and also 25% of global deaths. Those numbers bother me. They are an obscenity.

To think that a deadly or life-altering disease is being politicized — for the purpose of further polarizing the country — is beyond my comprehension.

I know I won’t get an answer to this, but I have to wonder how many of the posters who keep on keepin’ on, standing in their circle, think it is “great” or even funny that quite a few of our medical people in government positions have received death threats and/or have resigned.

I am back in our home in Ohio now. We had Dr. Amy Acton as the director of the State Dept. of Health. She and the governor were receiving accolades, from voters from both parties, for how they were handling the virus, early.

Dr. Acton is from Youngstown and she is a smart and kind woman who has overcome odds that many of us cannot imagine, including having been homeless during part of her childhood.

Dr. Acton was trying to save as many Ohio lives as was possible, but she resigned when protesters showed up at her house, carrying signs that said such things as, “No Violence — Yet” and some of the angry, very angry, were carrying AK-47s.

Dr. Acton is Jewish so of course, there were anti-Semitic signs and shouts, too.

So now, this is what “Proud to be an American” is supposed to mean???

I wish those who insist upon inundating TOTV with incendiary thread-starts — with the agenda of diminishing the seriousness of the virus — day after day after day — would look up Amy Acton and see how her story makes them feel. (How I wish I did not already know the answer to that.)

Boomer

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How in the world did we ever get to the point where "strength/toughness" is measured by not wearing a mask during a pandemic of this magnitude, endangering others around you...and being totally selfish/uncaring toward your fellow American citizens?

Please, oh please, wake me up...from this nightmare.

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[GoodLife]

Since nobody (that is over 65) has posted a score lower than 20 I declare myself winner.

I am the safest, non endangering, non spreading covid 19 poster here and I don't even have a mask.

I to my greatness.

[NavyNJ]

Originally Posted by zendog3

Will you die from contacting covid-19 this week?

Calculate your death score here – bigger number means more likely.
1. Add one point for just being alive for the 7 days of next week. (No matter how careful, there is always some risk a stray wind will blow the virus on you.)
2. Add 1 point for each day another person lives in your house with you. (Hey, if you die, it will be because someone near you gave it to you.)
3. Add 5 points for every person who went with you playing golf if they stayed 6 feet apart.
4. Add 15 points for every golfer who did not stay 6 feet apart.
5. Add 6 points for every store you went into for less than 10 minutes.
6. Add 15 points for every store you were into for more than 15 minutes
7. Add 15 points for any outside meal where people were near your table.
8. Add 15 points for every person at your table.
9. Add 50 points for every movie or theatrical performance you attended.
10. Add 50 points for every meal at an inside restaurant.
11. Add 50 points for any meeting you went too with more than 5 people for more than 20 minutes.
12. Add 100 points for any political rally or protest you attended.
13. Multiply your score by 20 if you are over 60 years old. (This is not about contacting covid-19, this is about dying, and older people account for 80% of covid-19 deaths.)
14. Multiply your score by 20 again if you have heart disease, obesity, arthritis, diabetes or any immune related chronic disease. If you are old with chronic disease, you are at the highest risk of dying if you catch the disease.
If you have a high score, are you bound to die? Not necessarily. Someone near you has to be a spreader of the disease for you to get it. To find how likely that is, google: Florida covid-19 dashboard.

To find how likely you are to cause someone else to die of covid-19 do a similar calculation. By the way if you hold a political rally and 10,000 people show up, add 10,000 points to your score.

You know what you have to do to stay safe. Do it! We all want to be alive when the vaccine arrives.

Pretty decent assortment of criteria there......just as a reference point for the "large group" penalty.....similar to the political rally add-on, how would you calculate the add'l death factor number for say, attending a 25,000 person protest, that ended up secluding itself within a 6 block defined area for say, a week?? Just spitballing, but am guessing the rally would be a WAY smarter event to attend!!

[ahayward65]

Originally Posted by UpNorth

And, if you are like 98% of the people who get it, you will have little or no symptoms and will not die. A fact.

Show me the numbers-