This shutdown is far deadlier than the virus

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27 Apr 2020, 3:59 pm

what’s probably most important is establishing who is immune.

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27 Apr 2020, 3:59 pm

Why no vaccine for the cold? For the same reason why many people in third world country die from disease and we don't work on those diseases. It is much easier to get rich doing easier stuff, like making stuff for the military.

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27 Apr 2020, 6:36 pm

A rather deadly possibility is a breakdown of supply and food production which could have rather dire consequences. Lets hope these effects will be minimal.

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27 Apr 2020, 9:22 pm

ironically the healthcare infrastructure is collapsing because clinics and hospitals have stood empty too long

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27 Apr 2020, 9:25 pm

One of my co-workers died of COVID19. He would not have died of the normal flu.

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27 Apr 2020, 9:37 pm

lock downs have always been incomplete. i had to drive into the city yesterday and there was a lot of traffic even tho it was a sunday. half the population and business is locked down, the other half is still all over the place.

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28 Apr 2020, 3:21 am

lliam420 wrote:

Yeah, we had to go out in the car yesterday (Monday): in our little corner of England it looks like the amount of people about in vehicles or walking was around 25-30% of what I’d see normally.
So complete lockdown is probably the wrong phrase for what I meant: “maximum level of lockdown deemed necessary by whichever relevant authorities are applicable to ones location” would be more accurate.

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28 Apr 2020, 3:58 am

i got what you were saying and i agree. i was commenting on the government plan to phase into partial lock downs, saying even their full lock down was only partial

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28 Apr 2020, 6:02 pm

blackicmenace wrote:

The point of the shutdown was and has always been to slow down the spread and possible contain it in some parts of the world to buy time for a vaccine.

The person in charge of finding a vaccine was fired by the baboon commander n chief so I highly doubt they'll be any vaccine until sometime after the baboon's 2nd term in office ends. Guess our economy will be shut down for at least 5 more years.

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28 Apr 2020, 6:14 pm

nick007 wrote:

The person in charge of finding a vaccine was fired...

WRONG.

ONE person was fired by Trump. There are still tens of thousands of researchers trying to find a vaccine, a cure, or even just an effective treatment for people who have contracted the virus.

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28 Apr 2020, 6:44 pm

Fnord wrote:

nick007 wrote:

The person in charge of finding a vaccine was fired...

Plus, I'm pretty sure the vaccine doesn't need to be discovered by an American in order to work.

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28 Apr 2020, 7:41 pm

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... I'm pretty sure the vaccine doesn't need to be discovered by an American in order to work.

I'm sure the Canadians are devoting all the time they used to spend at Timmy's to solve the problem, eh?

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28 Apr 2020, 9:29 pm

Oh my, yes! We've been putting off going to Timmy's, harvesting maple syrupm and dog sled racing while wearing our tooks so we can spend extra time with our pet beaver quarantine buddies!!

Idiots.

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28 Apr 2020, 9:36 pm

Fnord wrote:

IsabellaLinton wrote:

... I'm pretty sure the vaccine doesn't need to be discovered by an American in order to work.

I'm sure the Canadians are devoting all the time they used to spend at Timmy's to solve the problem, eh?

I'll let University of Toronto and McGill know.

https://reporter.mcgill.ca/quebec-based ... reenhouse/

Last I heard, some countries existed outside of North America too.

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