2020 Post Election MEGAthread

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Love the constant conflation of being against lockdowns with being against masks. One of us makes a very straightforward point: "How is destroying the livlihoods of hundreds of thousands of business owners, who depend on their business to feed their families, justified by the relatively minor threat posed by a disease that is marginally worse than a bad flu season?"

And the response is: "Look wearing masks isn't that hard".

No shit, you still haven't answered the first question, because you can't, because it makes no god damned sense.

Who are you talking about/to? You're calling a straw man a straw-manner. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[BarnabusCollins]

And then I remembered, my loved ones died. Therefore, I shall pour out my wrath upon Satan.

The days of the Devil at peace have come to and end.

[Jibartik]

yeah because it's a stupid question:

"whyu is stomping on baby skulls a good solutoin"

I never would argue that so why do you demand that i argue that?????????

I dont care about states shutting down it is irrelevant to me.

The reason states are shutting down are because you wouldnt wear a mask.

The reason the economy is crashing is because you wouldnt ask for a stimulus check from your president.

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah because it's a stupid question:

"whyu is stomping on baby skulls a good solutoin"

I never would argue that so why do you demand that i argue that?????????

I dont care about states shutting down it is irrelevant to me.

The reason states are shutting down are because you wouldnt wear a mask.

The reason the economy is crashing is because you wouldnt ask for a stimulus check from your president.

that guy is so dumb it's impossible to communicate with him at all. I'm here to flirt with u & Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by imperiouskitten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

that guy is so dumb it's impossible to communicate with him at all. I'm here to flirt with u & Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

doug is my best friend! he is just mixed up about this stupid covid thing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

doug is my best friend! he is just mixed up about this stupid covid thing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm best friends with dummies too don't worry [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'd never ostracize an incel! too cruel

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by imperiouskitten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm here to flirt with u & Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think that deep down, in your soul of souls, You like girls.

So much so that the attraction became obesssion, and obsession led to emulation.

Not to worry, as you plunge down Alice's rabbit hole, (literally/figuratively) you will eventually loop back around to straight.

But, having already transitioned, you will end up a lesbian.

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah because it's a stupid question:

"whyu is stomping on baby skulls a good solutoin"

I never would argue that so why do you demand that i argue that?????????

I dont care about states shutting down it is irrelevant to me.

The reason states are shutting down are because you wouldnt wear a mask.

The reason the economy is crashing is because you wouldnt ask for a stimulus check from your president.

Haha what? Jesus christ, I have stated a billion times that I have no problem wearing a mask. I'm not convinced it does very much if it's not an N-95, but I still do it.

Let me rephrase the fundamental question yet again: Covid barely kills more people than a bad flu season. We do not shut everything down and put thousands of people out of work to control a bad flu season. Why then, are we doing this for covid? What makes it magically different? All of these allegations about how I don't care about the miniscule amount of people who actually die from it are totally unfounded smears. Of course I care when people die, but life is a game of trade offs. You will never be safe from everything. I didn't hide inside my house for a year last time there was a bad flu. I find it particularly callous that you don't care about people who have spent their entire life building their own business being permanently shuttered because of a disease that kills almost nobody that it infects. This is pure insanity and completely illogical, and you guys cannot seem to answer it without baseless attacks.

I'm not hard to communicate with, I communicate completely clearly and carefully.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why then, are we doing this for covid?

I suspect a lot of governments quietly believe it potentially originated in a Chinese weapons lab. Such a belief would explain their panic, regardless of its accuracy, and it's also something they would never openly admit to for fear of creating even greater public turmoil.

Danth

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I suspect a lot of governments quietly believe it potentially originated in a Chinese weapons lab. Such a belief would explain their panic, regardless of its accuracy, and it's also something they would never openly admit to for fear of creating even greater public turmoil.

Danth

The only way to confirm it is man-made would be espionage, but I am a biologist and can confirm that the composition of the virus is very hard-to-believe unlikely, meanwhile being something within the human capacity to engineer. It is a spliced-together composite of several common viruses including HIV. The mechanism for doing this exists in the wild as well as in the laboratory; there are no novel proteins involved (humans cannot design original proteins yet). Medical professionals are loath to admit this possibility because of a prevailing aversion to conspiracy theories, but the fact is that there is an unfalsifiable and plausible possibility that this virus escaped from the Wuhan bioweapons laboratory near the initial hotspot. Whether it is manmade or not, anyone in a security position understanding that it could be would certainly be motivated to develop a protocol which can stop the spread.

I also agree that there would be a strong incentive not to admit it to the public even if it were confirmed to be Chinese-made, as it would unravel state control of the narrative and all-but-guarantee hostilities with China, not to mention giving life to tons of conspiracy theories about hidden capabilities of the virus and starting a much more difficult to control panic.