Covid 19

[47str8leg]

[confab]

Does proper freakout etiquette dictate that one runs clockwise or counterclockwise circles, while screaming and frenetically waving their arms?

[klondikekid64]

I was a bigger idiot that usual, I stried to dig a very small metal sliver out of my index finger,(with a pin laying by the computer) thought I got it, seemed fine, a day or two later my finger and half my hand swelled up and was pretty painfull, went to emergency, they sent me to plasic surgeon hand specialist, she said surgery right away to flush out the infection in the tendon sheath, (ya I dug deep) anyways, I didn't see the hospital staff running around with masks on so that tells me the skys no falling just yet, just like flying in bad weather, don't worry till the pilot starts to sweat. I keep a stash of stuff that will keep me going for a few weeks all the time anyways.

[flatman]

The grocery store I go to here was out of toilet paper completely. I guess top ramen noodles are a hot item also, as they were nearly picked clean. Was at the meat dept, it had a few empty spots. Guy comes up beside me, I tell him well we can buy meat but no toilet paper. Guy looks at me and says "well you know you can buy Cuomos book for 5 bucks" I about bust a gut!

[Hatchet54]

What's Covid 19? All I know about is the 2020 Toilet Paper Shortage.

[Davestune]

im selling toilet paper on chopperswapper 10 bucks a roll

[DoomBuggy]

We just got back from Target, that was really weird. Shelves empty of bleach, TP, paper towels, rice, and eggs. But tons of corned beef, go figure

[metalheart28]

I bought a bidet off amazon and just installed it. The wife loves it but i'm starting to think shes masturbating with it!

[farmall]

i get a lot of good stuff via industrial liquidations and estate sales. Another recession would be perfectly timed for me to finish my home machine shop (when the economy recovered so did machine tool prices). BRING IT ON! Totally worth it for the global freakout.

Just bury the dead (we all fucking die when we get old if nothing else kills us first, face death like a man because cryin' like a bitch won't save you) and move on. Meanwhile the US loses about 100,000/year to hospital borne infections and around 400K to tobacco (which, granted, is voluntary suicide) with zero fucks given.

BTW I'm a boomer and think "Boomer Remover" is hilarious and hope sensitive people die first so I can enjoy a world with fewer of them in it.

I bought a bidet off amazon and just installed it. The wife loves it but i'm starting to think shes masturbating with it!

Clean pussy and domestic bliss? Fuck yeah!

[NomadMullen]

Its all a conspiracy i think its the bastards who produce toilet paper and pasta that are behind covid 19 ������

[Revelator]

The long lived plot to emerge all Countries into a single One World Centralized Government
aka New World Order (Dictatorship) has had one huge obstacle in It's way.

The United States of America And It's armed citizens.

The U.S.A. has been under a covert attack (War of Attrition) The time is here for
the final death blow, everything is in place for Martial Law (Remember the Jade Helm Exercises?)
Followed by Your Big Brother "Savior" to administer the soon to be mandatory shot to "save " You
from certain death (From the Real or fake virus).

All that is needed now is the right Crisis, And a bio weapon germ is the perfect excuse to kick it all
off, & the masses of dumbed down, apathetic, & Scared Sheeple will be begging for It.
(Especially after the food supply chain is broken & Society goes into melt down).

Please prove Me wrong.

[farmall]

Please prove Me wrong.

That's not how debate works. Onus probandi, the burden of proof, is on the person making the assertion.
This example link supports my assertion:

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Shifting-of-the-Burden-of-Proof

Example #1:

Jack: I have tiny, invisible unicorns living in my anus.

Nick: How do you figure?

Jack: Can you prove that I don't?

Nick: No.

Jack: Then I do.

Explanation: Jack made a claim that requires justification. Nick asked for the evidence, but Jack shifted the burden of proof to Nick. When Nick was unable to refute Jack's (unfalsifiable) claim, Jack claimed victory.

The "prove me wrong" meme is so old there's a Latin term for it, argumentum ad ignorantiam (argument from ignorance). Educate yourself on how fallacies work because they're constantly used to manipulate public debate.

Deconstruct everything you are told and everything you believe using critical thinking, facts, logic and reason, especially ideas you really find appealing because they "explain" a rather random world. Both superstition/religion and conspiracy theory are comforting because they confer imagined insight into a scary world. Question everything thoroughly to weed out bullshit.

mandatory shot to "save " You from certain death (From the Real or fake virus).

Straw man argument. COVID is far from causing "certain death", and if it were "fake" then it would be a non-starter because the global medical community would have found that out instantly. Technology is magic to those who refuse to learn, but medicine is not magic in real life. Please take some time to educate yourself. You have centuries of human knowledge at your fingertips. Learn how to think instead of assuming you know, because no one magically learns advanced reasoning without deliberate effort. Humans take for granted what the mass of ignorants around them believe but you don't have to do that. Humans accept lazy defaults and tend to believe internet forwards and memes. You don't have to do that or be limited to the garbage US public school "education" which exists to turn out minimally qualified workers. There's plenty of useful information and knowledge to explore, and if you DON'T do that then other people can mind fuck you into following popular (but illogical and absurd) beliefs.

The easiest way to con someone isn't to challenge them, it's to offer them a explanation they want to believe. For example Jim Baker selling colloidal silver as a coronavirus cure is appealing to his intellectually disarmed target audience because it plays on their fears, their deliberately and desperately blind faith, and their desire to be part of an insider group who offer a solution to something which scares them. They don't know how to understand this paragraph because no one taught them logic, reason, or how to spot fallacies. Grifters are wonderful at what they do and Baker knows his targets. Someone prepared would instantly write off Jim Baker as a con man, scorn his lies, and move on. Vulnerable people don't have the philosophic "antibodies" to being tricked because those responsible for their childhood education didn't value independent thought.

Everyone can learn to think. Our current trash populist culture discourages that in the middle class and below. Religion is threatened by freedom of thought and the US is frothingly superstitious as befits a country founded by many religious fanatics. Advertisers and politicians don't want us to think. The brilliant Russian trolls find all sides in the US easy pickings because Americans were taught to be proud to be simple. (I admire those guys, they're worthy opponents.)

We study engines, gearboxes, paint and wiring because we know if we don't we'll be helpless. The rest of life is like that too. Learning is fun at any age. Explore! That will make you much harder for the bad guys to fool.

[rockman96]

Question everything thoroughly to weed out bullshit.

This goes a LONG way to determining facts,

[confab]

Anybody trade stocks? This corona paranoia is going to make a lot of people a lot of money when it finally flames out.

[49WR]

There are some silver linings to this pandemic for some people. Environmentalists have to love the fact that cruise ships and planes are idled; these are huge polluters. Liberals have to love that the State is dictating almost every facet of our lives. Conspiracy nuts have a new conspiracy to dwell on for hours as they self isolate. People can blow off visiting Nana in the rest home for a couple of months. And a lot of us can work on shit in our garages after telling our loved ones we would have loved to go out and do something fun but you know...