Comments on: Why panic is popular

By: Griffin

Griffin — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:06:07 +0000

Neo,

Yes, and the NBA player Rudy Gobert was going to play in the game tonight.

By: neo

neo — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:02:41 +0000

Griffin: Fortunately, the way he describes it, Tom Hanks and his wife have symptoms that sound like a rather mild case of flu. Hopefully, they will heal uneventfully. Interesting that they caught it in Australia. Australia doesn't have that many cases - at least, diagnosed cases.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:47:59 +0000

Now it’s all hitting the fan. Tom Hanks has it (in Australia by the way) so now it’s hit a celebrity which hits the low information crowd.

And an NBA player so they suspended there season. My earlier prediction that the country would be shut down by Friday may have been off. It’ll be tomorrow.

By: om

om — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:47:30 +0000

Bryan and Griffin:

Glad not to live around the Sound (though I enjoyed living in Enumclaw back in 1983/84).

Our Jay is a hero indeed! 😉

By: Bryan Lovely

Bryan Lovely — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:18:13 +0000

On the “pharmaceutical imports by value” argument, it occurs to me that the US probably “specializes” in the extremely high-cost items.

One $10,000-per-dose super chemo treatment made in the US pulls the average value way up in comparison to the $0.50-per-dose antihistamine made in China, but the second one is still lifesaving medicine.

By: Bryan Lovely

Bryan Lovely — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:14:23 +0000

Griffin,

Well, that’s obviously because all of our social distancing efforts like work-from-home orders (and now our heroic Governor banning public assembly of more than 250 people) worked.

I love a good unfalsifiable hypothesis in the morning.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:39:28 +0000

Heard an interview with a doctor here in Pierce County, Wa today and he commented that one of his colleagues is an ICU doctor and his comment was ‘where are all the patients?’ If there are so many sick people out there untested shouldn’t a portion of them already be hospitalized?

By: Delilah

Delilah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:31:48 +0000

The media and the left are intentionally fearmongering as yet another means of trying to bring Trump down. As Neo notes in another posting, the Wuhan virus is just the flu/pneumonia that kills 10s of thousands every year — and no one panics. This panic – now resulting in schools and colleges closing, mass events being canceled, businesses telling their employees to telework — all of these have significant negative economic effects. The Dem primaries were turning into such a clusterf*ck and a Trump re-election a near certainty, that the left and MSM “pounced” on the Wuhan virus .

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:24:02 +0000

According to the chielf health officer of California,85% of people who get Covid-19 don’t even know they have it. That means both the hospitalizaton rate and the death rate are much, much lower than the 3.5% reported.

By: neo

neo — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:07:11 +0000

Artfldgr:

Changed in what direction?