Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 18 2020 09:33am)

those numbers are far too high imho.

but yeah, with realistic numbers, that might still mean a net margin loss of 500k or so voters for Trump (half of the 1m you came up with). and more importantly, pivotal states like Florida could be hit particularly hard.


still... in an electoral sense, the deep recession is a much bigger problem for Trump than the effect of his electorate dying at disproportional rates from the coronavirus.

Quote (Saucisson6000 @ 18 Mar 2020 15:25)

In my very reasonable news:


Some countries take the risky gamble of collective immunity


WHO is calling on European countries to take bolder action against the Covid-19. But not all countries have the same strategy. Some such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are taking the risky gamble of collective immunity. Collective immunity is when there have been enough people affected by an infectious disease to protect the entire population. It sounds paradoxical but in fact it is quite simple. If you get sick, and you heal, you develop the antibodies that cause even if you get sick again, it won't affect you and you won't infect others. If there are enough people like you in the population, the virus can no longer find a host to infect and the epidemic gradually ends.

A contested strategy, however:

In the case of Covid-19 there is no vaccine yet and before embarking on this strategy, it is important to know the disease. Are you really immune once you catch it? This question is still pending. In addition, this strategy means that there are sick and even dead people in the most vulnerable. In the case of Covid-19 it could go up to3% of infected people tell us some epidemiologists. In addition, on the European continent, if some countries let the virus spread, they cancel the efforts of those who seek to contain it by confining their population. This is why this health strategy is controversial.

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Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 18 2020 09:24am)

I think when i get introspective i know if i couldn't die, i'd selfishly choose to live on forever. even if quality of life diminished greatly i'd likely hold on in the hope they fix that as well. and i dont like the idea of not being able to stop myself from that. i think even if i wanted to die deep in my heart there would also be a fear of death so great id never pull the trigger. ive known for a long time im incapable of suicide, even as i know i dont want to live forever. i dont fear death at an old age, i only fear it at a young age.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 18 2020 09:49am)

I get that, but I really think that at some point in my mid 30's I'll have a bout of depression so bad that I'll probably commit suicide by automobile. Just a matter of getting that one really really bad flare up. It's also the reason why I'm personally fine with taking guns away from people with mental illness, even though I know constitutionally we can't do that without due process.

Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 18 2020 09:54am)

you should instead build an elaborate Rube Goldberg suicide machine in your basement that takes several minutes to complete. giving you ample time to get out of the chair before a series of dominoes release a ball which pulls a trigger on a crossbow.

ive actually felt my whole life like one day i might pull the wheel and end it, not because im suicidal tho. its just a thought that constantly crosses my mind.

Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ 18 Mar 2020 16:01)

Sen. Douglas Mastriano is demanding that the governor of Pennsylvania push trump to suspend HIPAA laws so they can release names and locations of patients.

Ooof. I've seen some bad ideas, but that one really takes the cake.

Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ Mar 18 2020 10:01am)

Sen. Douglas Mastriano is demanding that the governor of Pennsylvania push trump to suspend HIPAA laws so they can release names and locations of patients.

Ooof. I've seen some bad ideas, but that one really takes the cake.