Coronavirus

[franklin2]

Our country is effed until the electoral college dies and the two party system is revamped so that the best of humanity has a chance to win votes instead of the "chosen" two by a secret party system.

Hey guess who said that before being elected based on the electoral college and a party he wasn't a part of until the democratics denied him? Our country would literally be better off without a president at this point.

He's not a leader, he's a megalomaniac who cannot survive without attention. Our country is in shambles because of him. And he is still grandstanding about how awesome he is and how great we are doing. THIS IS NOT GREAT YOU DAMN MORON!

Hey but at least he's happy kim jun un is doing ok... they are in love afterall. His words not mine.

Yea, get rid of the electoral college so the people in the big cities run the country? Not very smart.

People who live in big cities are different than people that live out in the country. People that live in the big cities like other people living right against them. They have no room to have anything. No generators when the power goes out, no room for a garden to grow their own food, rules and regulations so they can't go out and tear down their ranger in their driveway and fix it themselves. They totally depend on the government when anything bad happens and are the first to start hollering when something does happen.

People that live in the country have a more self sufficient lifestyle, and view the government with suspicion. Our fear is after all this has happened, the city people are going to start moving out into the country. It's already happening, California is driving people out with all their regulations, people from the northeast are coming down and ruining Va where I live.

 

[Dirtman]

Yea, get rid of the electoral college so the people in the big cities run the country? Not very smart.

People who live in big cities are different than people that live out in the country. People that live in the big cities like other people living right against them. They have no room to have anything. No generators when the power goes out, no room for a garden to grow their own food, rules and regulations so they can't go out and tear down their ranger in their driveway and fix it themselves. They totally depend on the government when anything bad happens and are the first to start hollering when something does happen.

People that live in the country have a more self sufficient lifestyle, and view the government with suspicion. Our fear is after all this has happened, the city people are going to start moving out into the country. It's already happening, California is driving people out with all their regulations, people from the northeast are coming down and ruining Va where I live.

You obviously don't understand what the electoral college is or how it functions. You go read up... I'll wait.

 

[Dirtman]

When obama won...

When trump won...

 

[Dirtman]

Odd how that works...

 

[franklin2]

It may have many different functions. The one function I recognize, it gives more voting power to states that do not have a high concentration of people. If you did not have it, New York, Los Angles, all the states with large population cities would decide who was elected.

As I was writing this your last post came across. What Trump said then and now makes no difference in this discussion. Whether you like Trump or not is not the issue.

 

[Snoranger]

As I was writing this your last post came across. What Trump said then and now makes no difference in this discussion.

The electoral college discussion doesn’t actually belong in a coronavirus thread, but here we are.

 

[Dirtman]

Either does me pooping in the furnace! But here we are!

 

[franklin2]

The electoral college discussion doesn’t actually belong in a coronavirus thread, but here we are.

My take on the virus thing. I think most everyone is going to get it. Some people will get it and not know it. Some people will get sick. Some people will get really sick and go in the hospital. Sorry to say, some people get it and not make it. They have never came up with a cure for the common cold which is a type of this virus. They have never had a cure for the flu. They try every year, but most of the time it doesn't work and people get sick and die anyway.

I don't know what they are thinking, that they are going to come up with cure for this thing, Their track record is not very good.

As things open up, cases are going to naturally go up. Like I said, the virus is out to stay alive, as long as their are people out there who do not have anti-bodies, it will keep going. Once it gets to everyone it can possibly get to, it will finally go away. That is my theory on it.

 

[Dirtman]

And as a doctor with many years experience in the study of virology I respect your opinion very much.

 

[franklin2]

And as a doctor with many years experience in the study of virology I respect your opinion very much.

I might be a Dr. with all those degrees who likes Rangers and Bronco II 's

 

[RonD]

No you wouldn't like Rangers or B2s, you would like Volvo's or maybe a Mercedes if no one was looking

 

[19Walt93]

I watch a lot of news and read a lot, like you guys do,it sounds.
*China has a lab studying viruses in Wuhan that has been accused of having lax security standards. Working on vaccines to sell to the world,possibly?
*The outbreak started 8 miles from the lab in an open air market selling live animals for food which were often butchered and wrapped on the spot. Ever see an open air market with running water to wash your hands or utensils?
*As soon as the virus started China locked down Wuhan( because they knew the cause and how serious it was) so people couldn't travel to other parts of China BUT THEY ALLOWED PEOPLE TO FLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO SPREAD THE VIRUS AND STIFLED ANY RELEASE OF INFORMATION FOR MONTHS.
*China's capitol, Beijing is virus free, as is Shanghai their industrial center. Look at Russia, Italy, Spain,U.S.,etc.
*Today there was a story that China had delayed release of info so they could hoard PPE, either for their own use or to sell other countries at much higher prices once the infection spread.
* I don't think China created the virus and I'm not certain they released it deliberately, but once it was released they deliberately allowed it to become a pandemic by hiding information and allowing people to fly to other countries.

 

[franklin2]

I watch a lot of news and read a lot, like you guys do,it sounds.

You know, none of us know anything by direct experience seeing it or being there. We all get our info second hand from different places. Thus becomes the problem. A lot of places tend to bend the truth a little bit, and we just repeat what we hear. You can tell some people listen to certain news places, and other people listen to other news places.

And then we come out of that being experts. Interesting isn't it? The "experts" debating on the news shows are no different.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

China is making fun of us.

I've wondered how other countries view our actions and reactions to this pandemic, and then saw a news story today about this video.

I laughed.

 

[franklin2]

I laughed.

You realize that is some sort of news place from China? China is not a very nice place.