Just what IS the point? by WISHIMAY

I haven't kept track of any of it since near the beginning. Honestly couldn't care less and it was so overblown and gross. The media has already moved on to the next big thing, so I don't imagine we're going to hear much more about The Coomph except for residual shit as everything starts to re-open.

It sounds like they even went crazier about it down in your part of the state than in mine... or we're just shopping at different stores. I do most of my grocery shopping at Aldi. Get there 20 minutes before closing and there's never any wait. I'm in and out in 10 minutes.

EDIT: Just checked the map.

My county had 485,493 people in 2019.

3,639 cases (0.75% of population).

190 "alleged" deaths (0.039% of population).

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:47 AM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

WISHI - you can click on your county at this link. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map If it has your county, not only will you see current numbers, but you'll also see a graph at the lower right that shows you how the numbers are changing over time. It makes it easier to visualize the data. Los Angeles County, for example, is zooming upward at an accelerating rate. Which means that here it's not even close to slowing down, let alone being under any kind of control.

Unfortunately, it has only a limited number of counties.

As for the "in" and "out" doors, my Trader Joe's restricts the number of people in the store at any one time. They have a person at the "out" door telling the person at the "in" door how many people left, and therefore, how many can come in. Aside from morning hours which are still reserved for seniors here, and which do have line(s) (seniors who get in early v others) waiting to get in, "in' and "out" doors aren't enforced.

But in many stores here you can't bring in your own grocery bags, which puzzles me. Cloth is very inhospitable to the virus, and your chances of picking up anything are so small as to be zero. And if they're worried about the cashiers, they could always wear gloves. Anyway, I tell them to not bag my stuff, and I bag it at my car myself.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Which means that here it's not even close to slowing down, let alone being under any kind of control.

As for the "in" and "out" doors, my Trader Joe's restricts the number of people in the store at any one time. They have a person at the "out" door telling the person at the "in" door how many people left, and therefore, how many can come in.

The "in" "out" thing makes sense for high volume shopping areas, but here you are probably never going to have more than 100 people in the store at any one time. The barriers they have here only help keep the people who are waiting in the morning from standing in the drive lane like cast members from the movie City of Angels (the angels gather at sunrise and sunset and stand around).
The rest of the day people just jump them and that is pretty stupid.

I doubt the dozen black people we have here are gonna riot, either

They are mostly Haitian immigrants and don't want to lose their jobs.

They publish our area tallies every week, so I've kept up that way, but I do think the numbers everywhere have gone through the roof in the past week.

Soon 6ix may even know someone affected by the virus and then it'll become "real"

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

190 "alleged" deaths (0.039% of population).

I'm just wondering if you think they are faking deaths around the globe just to keep up the ruse?

Good article for you.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/27/

In the end it's not really about the numbers at all, it's about the fact that no one wants to die choking and delirious because they picked the wrong shopping cart.

I've had pneumonia 4 times, and it is an agonizing thing and I didn't even have it that bad. And you can have a "not that bad" instance of Covid...and then be dead of it 3 hours later.

Unexpected death is terrifying, even when it doesn't matter to you....and it will.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 11:45 AM

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Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

190 "alleged" deaths (0.039% of population).

I'm just wondering if you think they are faking deaths around the globe just to keep up the ruse?

They aren't "faking" deaths. I have no doubt that they're actually counting actual dead bodies. But they're attributing a grossly incorrect amount of those deaths to The Coomph and inflating the numbers. Check back to 2020 when all the death numbers are solidified for the year (likely in 2 or 3 years, so you're going to have to remember to do this). You're going to see a dramatic drop from other types of deaths that remain relatively stable over the years. The only one you can't really look at will be the automobile accidents because that drop will be directly related to the shutdowns and even more pronounced if they go on for much longer or even worse come back in the fall/winter.

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In the end it's not really about the numbers at all, it's about the fact that no one wants to die choking and delirious because they picked the wrong shopping cart.

I've had pneumonia 4 times, and it is an agonizing thing and I didn't even have it that bad. And you can have a "not that bad" instance of Covid...and then be dead of it 3 hours later.

Unexpected death is terrifying, even when it doesn't matter to you....and it will.

Well... that's called fear. Our politicians and Legacy Media have become experts at weaponizing it and propagandizing the citizens with it.

Scared people are easily controlled people.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 1:49 PM

... stay crunchy...

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK
Well... that's called fear. Our politicians and Legacy Media have become experts at weaponizing it and propagandizing the citizens with it.

Scared people are easily controlled people.

Controlled to do what? For what purpose? Stay home and kill the economy? Get pissed and riot? Explain their brilliant plan.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 1:59 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK
Well... that's called fear. Our politicians and Legacy Media have become experts at weaponizing it and propagandizing the citizens with it.

Scared people are easily controlled people.

Controlled to do what? For what purpose? Stay home and kill the economy? Get pissed and riot? Explain their brilliant plan.

Selling boner pills?

I'm going to take it from your reply that you're really happy about how well 2020 is going so far then.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 3:39 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

How well, or badly, 2020 is going has nothing to do with anybody faking anything - either in the US OR around the globe, JACK.

Do YOU think 'just a little flu' Bolsonaro is faking anything with a figure of 526,447 cases and 29,937 deaths? Because if you do, you're loonier than I thought.

But, what the hell, JACK. Escape into your own little fantasy where COVID-19 is fake, nobody is dying, and, once you've written everyone else off ... too old ... too young ... too sick ... too much of a democrat ... you're the only person valuable enough to be worthy of survival.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 8:48 PM

Nobody cares anymore Karen.

If you weren't constantly bumping your little Coomph thread it would be scrolling off the front page of the RWED.

But by all means, keep talking to yourself.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 9:27 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

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Nobody cares anymore Karen - except all the first-page major internet media, of course.

I post such stupid things because I'm an idiot ... along with my mindless and completely pointless coda:

Do Right, Be Right. :)

And I like being laughed at

fify

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 10:05 PM

I am quite amused when idiots laugh at me. This is true.

Do try not to drool on your keyboard.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 10:27 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

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I post such stupid things because I'm an idiot ... along with my mindless and completely pointless coda:

Do Right, Be Right. :)

And I like being laughed at

fify

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 3:17 AM

... stay crunchy...

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK
Well... that's called fear. Our politicians and Legacy Media have become experts at weaponizing it and propagandizing the citizens with it.

Scared people are easily controlled people.

Controlled to do what? For what purpose? Stay home and kill the economy? Get pissed and riot? Explain their brilliant plan.

Selling boner pills?

I'm going to take it from your reply that you're really happy about how well 2020 is going so far then.

What a weak dodge.

Come on - you keep saying you're so smart:

Controlled to do what? For what purpose? Stay home and kill the economy? Get pissed and riot? Explain what you think their brilliant plan is.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:12 AM

Sowing discord? Escalating racial tensions and further dividing the people? Weakening America? Selling Boner pills?

Pick one.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:15 AM

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Nobody cares anymore Karen - except all the first-page major internet media, of course.

I post such stupid things because I'm an idiot ... along with my mindless and completely pointless coda:

Do Right, Be Right. :)

And I like being laughed at

fify

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I find it HILARIOUS that anybody who DARES use the #WEARAMASK now get piled on by the box wine Karens on Twitter for being racist. Suggesting that people should stay at home now and maintain social distancing is the new Muh Nazi.

Local news didn't even mention The Coomph once in the last two evenings.

It sure didn't take long for that to change, did it?

I'll be handing out I Told You So's all week.

Here's yours, Karen.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:44 AM

... stay crunchy...

6IXSTRINGJACK: Sowing discord?
- for what purpose?

6IXSTRINGJACK: Escalating racial tensions and further dividing the people?
- To what end? To accomplish what?

6IXSTRINGJACK: Weakening America?
- Is that what he means by MAGA?

6IXSTRINGJACK: Pick one.
- No. You're the supposed smart guy - you pick ANY one and explain.

Or keep running away...

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 12:14 PM

All of them. And they're self explanatory.

If you don't get it, ask your mom why.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 12:35 PM

... stay crunchy...

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All of them. And they're self explanatory.

If you don't get it, ask your mom why.

You have no clue and we all know it.

If they're self explanatory you should have no problem explaining them, any of them. Give it a shot!

Here's an explanation: Jack embarrasses himself by stepping in his own sh*t again. Nuthin' but another big mouth with a small brain.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 1:27 PM

I don't bother trying to explain anything to shit for brain weirdos who think in sound bytes and mindlessly parrot what their Legacy Media masters program them to think and to do.

My name isn't Morpheus. It's not my job to feed you a red pill.

Go read a book, idiot.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:18 PM

... stay crunchy...

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't bother trying to explain anything to shit for brain weirdos who think in sound bytes and mindlessly parrot what their Legacy Media masters program them to think and to do.

My name isn't Morpheus. It's not my job to feed you a red pill.

Go read a book, idiot.

Worthless as usual - way to keep your streak alive, Jack.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:37 PM

Your opinion means A LOT to me.

lol

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, July 26, 2020 4:34 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Go read a book, idiot.

Oh, the irony!

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Saturday, August 15, 2020 4:42 AM

— Walmart will stay open later at most of its stores in the United States, joining other large chains that have started to stay open longer than they did during the early days of the pandemic. ... By Monday, more than than 4,000 of its 4,700 US stores will start closing later, the company said Friday.

YAAAAY.

I can go back to evening shopping.

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Saturday, August 15, 2020 9:13 AM

Don't give the employees any shit.

We all know you're a Karen.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, August 15, 2020 9:56 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give the employees any shit.

We all know you're a Karen.

I'm sure they run when they see you coming, Kevin.

BTW, ever seen Daria? Kevin is a totally appropriate name for your lack of character, lol.

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Saturday, August 15, 2020 10:00 AM