The irresponsibility of our media.

It's getting crazy! My son is VP for a medical supply company and he told me yesterday that they are finding that alcohol doesn't kill the virus unless it is almost pure alcohol. Just yesterday, he negotiated a contract with a supplier to produce several thousand gallons of hand sanitizer but now can't find anyone to provide the containers so they can get it out to the public.

@santeesteel I love the idea of making your own!

I have a stupid question....well, I have a lot of them but...... They are saying that washing your hands does not kill the virus, just washes it away. So if virtually nothing is killing it, are our sewage systems going to be polluted with it?

 

I thank God every day that aside from the whining, protesting, pissing and moaning that you do, people like you can really only count for ONE VOTE!

 

Our governor just locked down CA. No one is laughing!

 

Yours sounds like an educated comment....thanks! It just goes to show how infantile all of this is.

 

But it's still volunteer. He said it won't be enforced by anyone other than "peer pressure" and everyone's "contract with society". What does this mean? Vigilante forces? Citizens applying physical force to carry out the Gov's wishful thinking? So it's not really a "lock down" per se' which would probably require buy in by local police and/or National Guard patrols. Nothing even close to that was hinted at. Therefore everyone is still free to do as they choose - some will abide, others won't. If I was running a street business that still had a demand and was my livelihood, I would keep it open and use caution and common sense.

All this by the Gov and yet he and the judiciary in Cali still allow the filth to line the sidewalks of major cities and have no problem with unfettered entry of anyone from the southern border regardless of their point of origin. Why should anyone listen to a politician like this trying to impose his will on the masses while continuing to turn a blind eye to other potentially more damaging policies.

 

Two questions for you my friend..... Is the governor known to the state of California to be logical? I mean most things known to the state of California are known ONLY to the state of California

And.....How are the pretty people taking this? Here in Ohio they shut down all barber shops and beauty salons, women are already losing their minds that their grey hair will show.....even though they can't go anywhere

 

He also said that he hopes he doesn't have to rely on law enforcement...….

 

Really, only to those in San Francisco.

 

He also asked the resident to send the one and only navy hospital ship to California.

 

There are actually 2 hospital ships. One is here in San Diego. I believe it is on it's way to the bay area now.

 

Ahhh....I heard there was one outside Seattle?

 

That would be the Mercy. I thought they were going to SF but, apparently, it's Seattle.

 

Then the questions remains - who will he send out - the same law enforcement that idly stood by while Antifa anarchists rioted and assaulted people and destroyed private property in DT Berkeley? I don't see how this is going to end pretty, especially the longer it lingers on. I can see perhaps the weather might keep many indoors in the midwest and northeast but out here in the fairyland of sun and fun and fruits and nuts I sense confrontations brewing. One silver lining though, Gov did declare that pot shops are essential businesses that need to stay open and thus, might help tamp down a riotous atmosphere.

 

1. I'll have to listen to the Supertramp song again to see if it offers any clues.
2. I'm thinking the prettier the person, the more of a chance that the vendors come to them in their gated guarded mansions away from the public eye. This will most likely continue discretely with the right tip jar contributions.

 

Not in the bay area! They're always looking for a chance to demonstrate/riot. Too bad for the rest of us that all of CA gets judged by what the lunatics in the west bay area and in Hollywood do!

 

I can’t decide which is funnier. The fact that you of all people is accusing someone else of whining, pissing, andmoaning. Or that it took you so long to come up with such bs.

 

A little perspective:

If the media would tell us that 49,000,000 people in the US contracted the flu in the winter of 2017-2018, and 80,000 died that year in the US alone that would help us to understand at higher level.....but it wouldn't help ratings.



If they would tell us that during the winter of 2017-2018 the mortality rate of the flu ran above 10% for four consecutive weeks, it would put the projected 1.5% - 3% mortality rate for Coronavirus in perspective....but it wouldn't help ratings.



www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.htm



Coronavirus "may" approach or even exceed the numbers of the flu epidemic of 2017-2018 and it may not; the current growth rate indicates it will not come close.....but telling us that doesn't help ratings.



As of this minute there are 27,111 cases in the US which is up 7268 in the last 24 hours, let's say the numbers grow to 50,000 new cases every day for the next 60 days....we would then be at 3,027,111 cases in two months.....the flu had 49,000,000 cases two winters ago.



As of this minute, there are 340 deaths in the US which is up 64 in the last 24 hours, let's say the number grows to 1000 new deaths every day for the next 60 days.....we would be at 60,340 deaths in two months.......the flu killed 80,000 people just two winters ago.

 

"Any-twosome Newsom" is encouraging people to narc on your neighbor by this "lockdown". Story in the paper this morning about calls police got yesterday complaining about people in a park not sitting 6 feet apart. A non-essential store they thought was open but, was just employees taking inventory...…… more to come!

 

you need to learn the difference between linear and exponential. You’re also ignoring the lack of testing.

FYI yesterday New York reported 8000 cases. Today that number is 15,000.

 

You need to learn to think for yourself instead of letting sensationalists do it for you

 

I think now is when the kids would say mic drop

 

"The most comprehendible thing about the universe is that it is incomprehensible." Albert Einstein

It's great that passions are being stretched in attempt to verbalize individual thoughts, rationale and opinions, and not just of the mega topic du jour but of existence itself. No matter what lengths anyone seems to take to "lay it all out" and 'splain things, it really does no good. Admit it - we're all entrenched no matter how correct or silly any of our thoughts or opinions happen to be. I just don't happen to see much give or even an occasional: "You know, you have a valid point, I hadn't thought of that before." We're pretty much beyond that and heavily insulated against buying in or caving in mid-stream. We all arrived at this playing field with a certain animus. We know what we believe and what we want to believe. Even when we're asked not to be political, it's still going to flow through the same veins, can't be helped. Someone once said: "There is no such thing as an 'expert', it's merely the degree by which we conceal our sources". But in this day and age the real question is the veracity of those sources since facts are so often agenda driven.