Quote from: morpheus on March 26, 2020, 06:10:21 PM

I encourage you to attend large group gatherings immediately!

 
I takes a special kind of slim to wish sickness and/or death on anyone. What's sad is that based on your past behavior, I'm not surprised.   There are more appropriate places besides a bowling forum to pander your specific views.

Quote from: milorafferty on March 26, 2020, 01:57:25 PM

If you think this is all just media hysteria, read this first hand account.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/26/coronavirus-scares-me-severe-unpredictable-no-cure-icu-doctor-column/5078810002/

I’m channeling my inner ignite bowling, ahem:

“ThAtS jUsT mEdIA MaSS hYsTeRiA aNd FeAr MoNGeRInG, lOOk aT ThIS dORky cHaRt sUpPorTiNG mY ClAimS”.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

We have great depression era  unemployment now.
how tens of  millions of people are going to pay their rent and afford food, no one knows.
For most businesses, you have expenses just for existing (rent, phone, marketing, employees, insurance, etc...)
For many small businesses, 1 to 3 months of being forced closed can be enough.

If anyone is planning on using gov't stimulus money on bowling balls, you clearly are not a small  business person, or living paycheck to paycheck. Many Americans can not afford a $400 emergency.

Unemployment and poverty lead to sickness and death is so many ways. This lockdown will surly kill more than it saves.

The CDC just released a report that now 1 in 54 children are autisic, no national emergency on what is causing that.

How long can the economy sustain this - I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine before the riots start.

Are people supposed to stay at home until they are evicted and then shelter with stupid masks and gloves in gov't run shanty towns for the economically destroyed.

Just be happy if your bowling alley doesn't go under over this.

"bullshit"

So you just think it's just back to normal?

You don't think the struggling bowling industry will just be the same. For years reading about all the houses closing. But hey, having customers with jobs (or no jobs) doesn't matter.

People keep contrasting the victims of coronavirus to people suffering from heart disease or autism.  Afflictions such as that are not contagious.  People having those conditions can be out and about and not pass them on to others.

Coronavirus is highly contagious.  You can get it from simply touching a door handle, or gas pump, or shopping cart, or from particulates in the air from the person walking in front of you who just sneezed.  Then you take it home and unknowingly pass it to your family, who then unknowingly go out and pass it along to their friends who then pass it to their family and so on.

Influenza is comparable, however there is an annual vaccine for that that less than 50% of the public gets.  If more people would get a flu shot, there would be fewer deaths from the flu.

Until a vaccine is developed for this COVID-19 virus, we all have to be responsible.  True, we cannot lock ourselves away forever, but hopefully the new way of doing things (social distancing, staying home when feeling sick, ultra frequent surface cleansing and hand washing, etc.) will stay with everyone moving forward and become a regular thing and not just a fad.  Then, when the vaccine is available, people will actually go get it and not brush it off like the flu shot.

No no no, would you like to know what this is?

Follow along with me now. This was a #showerthought and is usually how I think when alone for more than 5 minutes lol.

The planet is sick. Global warming is basically the planet having a fever. What is the human bodies reaction to an infection? Fever. Then the antibodies race in and try to fight the infection.

Our way of life is the cause of the infection. Look at how much pollution has decreased in just 2 weeks. This is the planets way of fixing itself.