Originally posted by: David Miller
Currently their have been recorded 160,000 deaths in the U.S. Try reading what I posted. You are wrong, again.
"...compared to the 160,000 thousand deaths currently in the U.S"
Direct quote from David Miller. 160,000 thousand is 160 million.
And...it's "THERE have been recorded..." Cognitive decline. So sad.
Do you plan to honor your promise to stay away, David?
You are obtuse - Show the quote where I said 160,000 thousand is 160 million.
Originally posted by: David Miller
You are obtuse - Show the quote where I said 160,000 thousand is 160 million.
Poor little weasel. Can't even admit that you made a stupid error.
You didn't say that, and I didn't say that you did. You said "compared to the 160,000 thousand deaths currently in the U.S."
160,000 thousand is 160 million. One hundred and sixty thousand thousand. A thousand thousand is a million.
My third graders know how to say and write large numbers. I can offer you remedial lessons, at a compassionate discount.
Go fuck yourself, asshole.
Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
But how much intelligence does it take for any person to decide on his own to take precautions? Certainly the mixed messages at the top didn't help. But if half or even a fourth of the undecided or indifferent would have complied, how many fewer cases (and deaths) would have been avoided?
Ignoring the babbling of our resident Trumpers on this thread (including the one who promised he would stay away), the CDC has actually quantified this. Wearing a mask properly reduces the chance of transmission by about 40%. This includes both your risk of being infected and of your infecting others.
So let's take an interaction between two people (passing closer than six feet, for the purposes of this discussion). If those people are both maskless, we can call the risk of infection "1." If one is wearing a mask, that drops to 0.6. If both are wearing a mask, the effect is multiplicative: 0.36. So if everyone is wearing a mask, that cuts infections down by 64% even if people don't social distance. If they do behave properly in that regard, the risk obviously becomes even lower.
If you have half of the population wearing masks, the chance of a "1" encounter is 25%; the chance of an "0.6" encounter is 50%; and the chance of an "0.36" encounter is 25%. As mask compliance goes up, the "1" encounters go down and the "0.36" encounters go up. For instance, at 75% compliance, the chance of a 0.36 encounter (the best possible scenario) is just shy of 57%. At 90% compliance, 0.36 encounters happen 81% of the time.
This reasoning is what's behind the CDC's projection that 70,000 fewer people will die by the end of the year if we have 95% mask compliance. We have too many selfish, stupid Trumper yahoos and immortal teenagers to ever get close to that, but it's interesting to consider. No vaccine. No magic therapy. Just wear a goddamn mask and a football stadium full of people won't die.
Originally posted by: David Miller
Go fuck yourself, asshole.
Anatomically impossible.
Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
PJ, the only reason Boiler even brought this up is to support his ongoing idiotic plan of open up completely, no precautions at all, let's have as many deaths as possible and get it over with. He thinks that that's what Sweden did.
He smokes in public and has told us repeatedly that he will never wear a mask. He must be at least a tiny bit ashamed of his irresponsible behavior to piece together his rambling babble about Sweden. And of course, he continues to blame "liberals" for everything that's happened--without even being able to spell the word!
If he were one of my third graders, I'd flunk him. Then I'd have a long talk with the teacher who promoted him from second grade. Thank God most people have a bit more common decency and common sense than he does.
Kevin needs to pay more attention. I've explained several times that I wear a mask in all indoor public settings with the exception of the pub.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
Kevin needs to pay more attention. I've explained several times that I wear a mask in all indoor public settings with the exception of the pub.
Yes. I simply don't believe you. You're an unrepentant public smoker, and that means you don't care about your health or that of others, and you're selfish and inconsiderate.
Also, you make a supposed exception for "the pub," ignoring the fact that bars/pubs are one of the worst environments for transmission of the virus. I asked you if you were going to wear a mask on your upcoming pub crawl. Your silence tells me that you're not. Congratulations on being, in addition to a loyal Trumper, a virus enabler. People will die because of people like you.
Kevin, once again, proving himself a girlie man.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
Kevin, once again, proving himself a girlie man.
Whatever that is. You think I care if you call me some stupid name you learned in grade school?
You're just reacting to my utterly defeating you in arguments, time and time again. Throwing yourself on the floor and kicking your legs in the air. Shameful and pathetic.
