The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality

[Weatherman2020]

One of the main characteristics this thing has "exposed" is how consumed with ugly partisan politics so much of this country has become.

One end attacks everything Trump is a part of, the other end spins for it and defends it. Then they both attack each other.

Outside of the brave people who are putting their lives on the line to help the sick, there hasn't been a great deal to be proud of.

Nope.
Many conservatives are questioning the extreme response to this virus and are commenting on the lack of supporting data as well as how easily so many surrender their basic human rights.

Guess who’s running that show? Trump.
So insert your ‘partisan’ where the sun don’t shine.

Many conservatives are dumber than shit. Thanks for admittying that.

Hilarious. You called Trump Hitler for 3 years and as soon as he says give up all of your rights you snap to attention, click your boot heels and say heil Hitler, I shall comply.

 

[dblack]

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

It's not the same as the flu. This has been explained to you repeatedly, yet you cling to this excuse. Why?

 

[Weatherman2020]

It’s sad and disgusting how easily so many surrendered their basic human rights with so little facts provided.


While the experts claim that little is known about the Wuhan virus, enough is known to suggest that the response has been excessive. While there is a worrying possibility that the Wuhan virus will make a sizable impact on public health (along with the possibility that it probably won’t), the hype surrounding it has already created a huge imposition on daily life and cost the global economy trillions of dollars. Everyone must “do their part” to confront the pandemic or face the wrath of their conscientious peers.

This kind of hype and the subsequent reaction to it seems to grow worse with each year. Right before the Wuhan virus, there was President Trump’s “historic” impeachment. And before that, there was the death of General Qasem Soleimani and the possibility of World War III. And before that, in no particular order, there was the imminent climate catastrophe, Russian collusion and the Mueller report, the Amazon rainforest burning down, and periodic nuclear threats from North Korea.


People should know better by now, yet they seem to fall for the hype every time—including many conservatives. The promise of the tech age and the ubiquity of smartphones and the internet was that it would arm people with relevant information and rational courses of action. Rather, it has done the opposite—magnifying doubts and fears about everything and everyone.

In most cases, the only thing that information technology has done is cause people to become less tethered to reality. Screens now replace people’s senses, and the algorithms embedded in social media do people’s thinking for them.

As such, most people spend more time in the virtual world and less time in the real one, making them ever more vulnerable to exaggerated doomsday narratives. In particular, this retreat from reality takes a toll on a person’s memory, imagination, and common sense.

Remember swine flu? Or bird flu? Or Ebola? Or Zika? Or SARS? Each of these diseases from the past two decades was arguably worse than the Wuhan virus. In the case of swine flu, more than 1,000 people died from it before Obama declared a state of emergency. Big Tech and the mainstream news will never report this. And yet, for all their distrust of the media, people still seem inclined to believe the pundits and clueless scientists over their own experience.

This then leads to a lack of context. Everything seems new and unprecedented, and therefore unknown and scary—except that this isn’t true. Pandemics have alwaysexisted, and there are proven ways to deal with them that don’t involve shutting down the economy and putting everyone under house arrest.

The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality › American Greatness

By now, the Wuhan virus has hit home for everyone. Stores ransacked; schools closed; all large gatherings and events canceled; long-distance travel prohibited; pork-filled stimulus bills written and…

www.amgreatness.com

Only a stupid fuck would make these claims after seeing the numbers we are seeing now right here in the US>

I sincerely hope all you assholes ignore everything & gfo & hang out together, get sick & die on thev street when there is no room in the hospital.

What numbers? The 24,000 that have died from the flu this season?

As I said, go out & lick the cart handles in the return bins at Walmart. Get the virus. & when the local hospital has no ventilator, you can die in agony.


Well, the flu kills this many & gun violence kills that many & then auto accidents...... so we should not give a flying fuck because this new virus that is very contagious & for which we have no cure should be ignored.

What a fucking moron you are.

160 in the hospital in the entire State of Virginia.
More are in the hospital for kidney stones.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

It's not the same as the flu. This has been explained to you repeatedly, yet you cling to this excuse. Why?

I agree. The flu is much worse. 400,000 hospitalized and 24,000 dead this season alone.

 

[dblack]

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

It's not the same as the flu. This has been explained to you repeatedly, yet you cling to this excuse. Why?

I agree. The flu is much worse. 400,000 hospitalized and 24,000 dead this season alone.

Moron.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

It's not the same as the flu. This has been explained to you repeatedly, yet you cling to this excuse. Why?

I agree. The flu is much worse. 400,000 hospitalized and 24,000 dead this season alone.

Moron.

Poor snowflake got melted by facts again.

 

[dblack]

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

It's not the same as the flu. This has been explained to you repeatedly, yet you cling to this excuse. Why?

I agree. The flu is much worse. 400,000 hospitalized and 24,000 dead this season alone.

Moron.

Poor snowflake got melted by facts again.

It's just propaganda. And you know it. You're simply trying to steer public opinion, with no regard for, with actual contempt for, the facts. Trump's sleazy sales tactics have bled through to his pathetic followers.

Trump’s Dangerously Effective Coronavirus Propaganda

The president’s effort to play down the pandemic is being amplified by a coalition of partisan media, digital propagandists, and White House officials.

www.theatlantic.com

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit".

 

[Cecilie1200]

It’s sad and disgusting how easily so many surrendered their basic human rights with so little facts provided.


While the experts claim that little is known about the Wuhan virus, enough is known to suggest that the response has been excessive. While there is a worrying possibility that the Wuhan virus will make a sizable impact on public health (along with the possibility that it probably won’t), the hype surrounding it has already created a huge imposition on daily life and cost the global economy trillions of dollars. Everyone must “do their part” to confront the pandemic or face the wrath of their conscientious peers.

This kind of hype and the subsequent reaction to it seems to grow worse with each year. Right before the Wuhan virus, there was President Trump’s “historic” impeachment. And before that, there was the death of General Qasem Soleimani and the possibility of World War III. And before that, in no particular order, there was the imminent climate catastrophe, Russian collusion and the Mueller report, the Amazon rainforest burning down, and periodic nuclear threats from North Korea.


People should know better by now, yet they seem to fall for the hype every time—including many conservatives. The promise of the tech age and the ubiquity of smartphones and the internet was that it would arm people with relevant information and rational courses of action. Rather, it has done the opposite—magnifying doubts and fears about everything and everyone.

In most cases, the only thing that information technology has done is cause people to become less tethered to reality. Screens now replace people’s senses, and the algorithms embedded in social media do people’s thinking for them.

As such, most people spend more time in the virtual world and less time in the real one, making them ever more vulnerable to exaggerated doomsday narratives. In particular, this retreat from reality takes a toll on a person’s memory, imagination, and common sense.

Remember swine flu? Or bird flu? Or Ebola? Or Zika? Or SARS? Each of these diseases from the past two decades was arguably worse than the Wuhan virus. In the case of swine flu, more than 1,000 people died from it before Obama declared a state of emergency. Big Tech and the mainstream news will never report this. And yet, for all their distrust of the media, people still seem inclined to believe the pundits and clueless scientists over their own experience.

This then leads to a lack of context. Everything seems new and unprecedented, and therefore unknown and scary—except that this isn’t true. Pandemics have alwaysexisted, and there are proven ways to deal with them that don’t involve shutting down the economy and putting everyone under house arrest.

The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality › American Greatness

By now, the Wuhan virus has hit home for everyone. Stores ransacked; schools closed; all large gatherings and events canceled; long-distance travel prohibited; pork-filled stimulus bills written and…

www.amgreatness.com

You can lead people to knowledge, but you can't make them think.

 

[Cecilie1200]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

Drama Queens to feed you sheeples. More die from the flu in NYC. 965 deaths for the entire State.

You are behind, they broke the 1000 mark. And that has been only in the past 3 weeks really.

cool how fast did they break 1000 with h1n1? got that data?

No idea, and why do you ask that?
4000 Americans died of H1N1 in 2009, out of 22,0000,000 infected.
That is about 1 in 5,500.
So far in basically just 3 weeks, America 142,000 infected with almost 2,500 deaths. That is 1 in every 57.
Can you add?
If 22,000,000 people contracted Covid, which is more contagious than H1N1 - then it is reasonable to say 392,000 people would die.

Simple math

You DO realize that your "simple math" is simply off, because your "Americans infected" isn't the actual number infected. It's just the number who've actually been tested and come up positive. So MAYBE the death rate is 1 in 57, or maybe it's 1 in 4,000, or 2,500, or something else entirely.

 

[WEATHER53]

It’s sad and disgusting how easily so many surrendered their basic human rights with so little facts provided.


While the experts claim that little is known about the Wuhan virus, enough is known to suggest that the response has been excessive. While there is a worrying possibility that the Wuhan virus will make a sizable impact on public health (along with the possibility that it probably won’t), the hype surrounding it has already created a huge imposition on daily life and cost the global economy trillions of dollars. Everyone must “do their part” to confront the pandemic or face the wrath of their conscientious peers.

This kind of hype and the subsequent reaction to it seems to grow worse with each year. Right before the Wuhan virus, there was President Trump’s “historic” impeachment. And before that, there was the death of General Qasem Soleimani and the possibility of World War III. And before that, in no particular order, there was the imminent climate catastrophe, Russian collusion and the Mueller report, the Amazon rainforest burning down, and periodic nuclear threats from North Korea.


People should know better by now, yet they seem to fall for the hype every time—including many conservatives. The promise of the tech age and the ubiquity of smartphones and the internet was that it would arm people with relevant information and rational courses of action. Rather, it has done the opposite—magnifying doubts and fears about everything and everyone.

In most cases, the only thing that information technology has done is cause people to become less tethered to reality. Screens now replace people’s senses, and the algorithms embedded in social media do people’s thinking for them.

As such, most people spend more time in the virtual world and less time in the real one, making them ever more vulnerable to exaggerated doomsday narratives. In particular, this retreat from reality takes a toll on a person’s memory, imagination, and common sense.

Remember swine flu? Or bird flu? Or Ebola? Or Zika? Or SARS? Each of these diseases from the past two decades was arguably worse than the Wuhan virus. In the case of swine flu, more than 1,000 people died from it before Obama declared a state of emergency. Big Tech and the mainstream news will never report this. And yet, for all their distrust of the media, people still seem inclined to believe the pundits and clueless scientists over their own experience.

This then leads to a lack of context. Everything seems new and unprecedented, and therefore unknown and scary—except that this isn’t true. Pandemics have alwaysexisted, and there are proven ways to deal with them that don’t involve shutting down the economy and putting everyone under house arrest.

The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality › American Greatness

By now, the Wuhan virus has hit home for everyone. Stores ransacked; schools closed; all large gatherings and events canceled; long-distance travel prohibited; pork-filled stimulus bills written and…

www.amgreatness.com

Only a stupid fuck would make these claims after seeing the numbers we are seeing now right here in the US>

I sincerely hope all you assholes ignore everything & gfo & hang out together, get sick & die on thev street when there is no room in the hospital.

What numbers? The 24,000 that have died from the flu this season?

As I said, go out & lick the cart handles in the return bins at Walmart. Get the virus. & when the local hospital has no ventilator, you can die in agony.


Well, the flu kills this many & gun violence kills that many & then auto accidents...... so we should not give a flying fuck because this new virus that is very contagious & for which we have no cure should be ignored.

What a fucking moron you are.

160 in the hospital in the entire State of Virginia.
More are in the hospital for kidney stones.

Bring up those hard numbers and get cussed at as a cultist. Don’t have any numbers and be told you are a moron
Liberals are all in on this and dont want any stats. They are emotionally distorted and will weepingly maintain that saving an 85 year old grandmothers life whose “best case possibility” is she will live 6 more months due to her cancer is More Important than putting millions out of work and destroying somewhere between 30,000-100,000 businesses.

 

[Shrimpbox]

It speaks volumes to the value of having a leader as the head of your nation.

We have a lying whoremonger who holds daily lie-fests that even his most ardent followers do not even try to defend any more.

During other crises we had stable, adult leadership with whom you could disagree or agree but you had the feeling that someone was at the wheel of the ship of State. The blob is several fathoms out of his depth; it shows in his bizarre daily briefings, with the conflicting advice from the agencies he runs and the conflicting advice from the podium where the blob stands during his lie-fests.

He looks, at long last, as though he may be actually listening to the adults in the room. I think that since it was Sunday, he didn't have the usual cadre of handlers around him and he actually took competent advice for once.

This for example from yesterday:

PRES. TRUMP: IT IS COMMON SENSE. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE MASSIVE DEPRESSION, MENTAL DEPRESSION, DEPRESSION IN THE ECONOMY ALSO AND MENTAL DEPRESSION FROM PEOPLE, LARGE NUMBERS OF SUICIDES, TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS IN A HORRIBLE RECESSION OR WORSE. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TREMENDOUS SUICIDES BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE YOU WILL HAVE DRUG ADDICTION. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE DYING ALL OVER THE PLACE FROM DRUG ADDICTION BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE A WONDERFUL JOB OR OWNED A RESTAURANT. I SPOKE TO GREAT PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB. ONE DAY AT THE TOP OF THEIR BUSINESS CELEBRITY SHIPS, THEY HAVE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RESTAURANTS AND THEY'VE GOT WIPED OUT. ONE DAY FROM OUR ENEMY, THIS INVISIBLE, HORRIBLE SCOURGE. SO WHEN YOU ASKED ME THAT, IT IS SO EASY TO FIGURE THAT. MASSIVE DRUG USE, MENTAL DEPRESSION, MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SUICIDE. ANXIETY CAUSES DISEASE THEY SAY. A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU WILL HAVE TREMENDOUS -- HOPEFULLY WE WILL NOT HAVE THAT BECAUSE HOPEFULLY WHAT WE ARE DOING WE GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Hardly anyone knows what the hell he's talking about. The virus may be worse, less severe, or equal to ones in the past. We can't know. What we do know is that the blob is incredibly incompetent. I'm sure there will be others making excuses to try to prop up this disgrace. All the more pity.

I understand just what he is saying. You work at not trying to understand. Your blob has assembled one of the highest quality teams in the country to fight this scourge. He has done as good a job as anyone in the shortest amount of time. Your party called him racist when he shut down travel from China, that is how incompetent they are. Rachel Maddox, your twin I guess, said it was impossible to get the hospital ship in New York harbor this week, that trump was peddling false hope, but he did it and she was once again wrong, just like you. Trump is doing the best to mix hope with reality and assure the American people. He is as transparent as is possible with news conferences every day, he takes every question unlike the guy who can’t answer a question with notes in front of him. All you do is bitch candy. But just as most Americans see what a great job trump is doing his approval goes up every week, while your hate grows louder every week. The more successful he is the louder your group cries he has blood on his hands. nothing is going to change with you thank god we don’t have to depend on your kind for leadership in a crisis.

 

[Likkmee]

Check this thought out ! How would an EMP work out about right now ?

 

[candycorn]

It speaks volumes to the value of having a leader as the head of your nation.

We have a lying whoremonger who holds daily lie-fests that even his most ardent followers do not even try to defend any more.

During other crises we had stable, adult leadership with whom you could disagree or agree but you had the feeling that someone was at the wheel of the ship of State. The blob is several fathoms out of his depth; it shows in his bizarre daily briefings, with the conflicting advice from the agencies he runs and the conflicting advice from the podium where the blob stands during his lie-fests.

He looks, at long last, as though he may be actually listening to the adults in the room. I think that since it was Sunday, he didn't have the usual cadre of handlers around him and he actually took competent advice for once.

This for example from yesterday:

PRES. TRUMP: IT IS COMMON SENSE. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE MASSIVE DEPRESSION, MENTAL DEPRESSION, DEPRESSION IN THE ECONOMY ALSO AND MENTAL DEPRESSION FROM PEOPLE, LARGE NUMBERS OF SUICIDES, TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS IN A HORRIBLE RECESSION OR WORSE. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TREMENDOUS SUICIDES BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE YOU WILL HAVE DRUG ADDICTION. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE DYING ALL OVER THE PLACE FROM DRUG ADDICTION BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE A WONDERFUL JOB OR OWNED A RESTAURANT. I SPOKE TO GREAT PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB. ONE DAY AT THE TOP OF THEIR BUSINESS CELEBRITY SHIPS, THEY HAVE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RESTAURANTS AND THEY'VE GOT WIPED OUT. ONE DAY FROM OUR ENEMY, THIS INVISIBLE, HORRIBLE SCOURGE. SO WHEN YOU ASKED ME THAT, IT IS SO EASY TO FIGURE THAT. MASSIVE DRUG USE, MENTAL DEPRESSION, MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SUICIDE. ANXIETY CAUSES DISEASE THEY SAY. A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU WILL HAVE TREMENDOUS -- HOPEFULLY WE WILL NOT HAVE THAT BECAUSE HOPEFULLY WHAT WE ARE DOING WE GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Hardly anyone knows what the hell he's talking about. The virus may be worse, less severe, or equal to ones in the past. We can't know. What we do know is that the blob is incredibly incompetent. I'm sure there will be others making excuses to try to prop up this disgrace. All the more pity.

I understand just what he is saying. You work at not trying to understand. Your blob has assembled one of the highest quality teams in the country to fight this scourge. He has done as good a job as anyone in the shortest amount of time. Your party called him racist when he shut down travel from China, that is how incompetent they are. Rachel Maddox, your twin I guess, said it was impossible to get the hospital ship in New York harbor this week, that trump was peddling false hope, but he did it and she was once again wrong, just like you. Trump is doing the best to mix hope with reality and assure the American people. He is as transparent as is possible with news conferences every day, he takes every question unlike the guy who can’t answer a question with notes in front of him. All you do is bitch candy. But just as most Americans see what a great job trump is doing his approval goes up every week, while your hate grows louder every week. The more successful he is the louder your group cries he has blood on his hands. nothing is going to change with you thank god we don’t have to depend on your kind for leadership in a crisis.

The ship should have been there weeks earlier, When Your blob was talking about miracles shrimp brains

 

[candycorn]

It speaks volumes to the value of having a leader as the head of your nation.

We have a lying whoremonger who holds daily lie-fests that even his most ardent followers do not even try to defend any more.

During other crises we had stable, adult leadership with whom you could disagree or agree but you had the feeling that someone was at the wheel of the ship of State. The blob is several fathoms out of his depth; it shows in his bizarre daily briefings, with the conflicting advice from the agencies he runs and the conflicting advice from the podium where the blob stands during his lie-fests.

He looks, at long last, as though he may be actually listening to the adults in the room. I think that since it was Sunday, he didn't have the usual cadre of handlers around him and he actually took competent advice for once.

This for example from yesterday:

PRES. TRUMP: IT IS COMMON SENSE. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE MASSIVE DEPRESSION, MENTAL DEPRESSION, DEPRESSION IN THE ECONOMY ALSO AND MENTAL DEPRESSION FROM PEOPLE, LARGE NUMBERS OF SUICIDES, TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS IN A HORRIBLE RECESSION OR WORSE. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TREMENDOUS SUICIDES BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE YOU WILL HAVE DRUG ADDICTION. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE DYING ALL OVER THE PLACE FROM DRUG ADDICTION BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE A WONDERFUL JOB OR OWNED A RESTAURANT. I SPOKE TO GREAT PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB. ONE DAY AT THE TOP OF THEIR BUSINESS CELEBRITY SHIPS, THEY HAVE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RESTAURANTS AND THEY'VE GOT WIPED OUT. ONE DAY FROM OUR ENEMY, THIS INVISIBLE, HORRIBLE SCOURGE. SO WHEN YOU ASKED ME THAT, IT IS SO EASY TO FIGURE THAT. MASSIVE DRUG USE, MENTAL DEPRESSION, MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SUICIDE. ANXIETY CAUSES DISEASE THEY SAY. A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU WILL HAVE TREMENDOUS -- HOPEFULLY WE WILL NOT HAVE THAT BECAUSE HOPEFULLY WHAT WE ARE DOING WE GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Hardly anyone knows what the hell he's talking about. The virus may be worse, less severe, or equal to ones in the past. We can't know. What we do know is that the blob is incredibly incompetent. I'm sure there will be others making excuses to try to prop up this disgrace. All the more pity.

I understand just what he is saying. You work at not trying to understand. Your blob has assembled one of the highest quality teams in the country to fight this scourge. He has done as good a job as anyone in the shortest amount of time. Your party called him racist when he shut down travel from China, that is how incompetent they are. Rachel Maddox, your twin I guess, said it was impossible to get the hospital ship in New York harbor this week, that trump was peddling false hope, but he did it and she was once again wrong, just like you. Trump is doing the best to mix hope with reality and assure the American people. He is as transparent as is possible with news conferences every day, he takes every question unlike the guy who can’t answer a question with notes in front of him. All you do is bitch candy. But just as most Americans see what a great job trump is doing his approval goes up every week, while your hate grows louder every week. The more successful he is the louder your group cries he has blood on his hands. nothing is going to change with you thank god we don’t have to depend on your kind for leadership in a crisis.

Meanwhile back in reality your blob called and asked Thailand for assistance...only to learn that a shipment of medical supplies from the US was about to dock in Thailand.

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