More than fair, absolutely. Elizabeth Warren wears her “wall st sheriff” badge like a real badge and can get a little too over the top.
So she is certainly piling on a lot with hindsight. I think the “do the right thing now” which is what she says when she speaks is where she should have...
First I’d like to just point to the fact you’re being a little condescending to others just because they read something in a different perspective than you. You are speaking as if your opinion of what Elizabeth Warren said is factual. Everything regarding politics is way too aggressive.
My take...
Yes - this exactly.
The problem with so many peoples perspective on this is “it’s not impacting me” but as soon as you lose just 1 person it goes from “it’s no big deal” to completely devastating.
So far we’ve lost a million people globally. So that’s approximately a million...
Your “point” was 99.6%. Which is very different from 97%.
If 100 million people get it, your point was “only” 600k will die (which is an unfathomable number of deaths...). But the fact is if 100 million people get it, it’s 3 million who will die. An even more unfathomable number.
The reason...
The Spanish Flu completely changed the landscape of Public Health across the world. It had incredibly far reaching impacts to every corner of the world, changed the way people thought about infectious disease, and there is a reason it’s been 100 years since an outbreak of that magnitude. Also...
Asthmatic here. I’m legitimately terrified. I haven’t left the house in almost 3 weeks, son as been home from daycare for almost 2, we only do delivery groceries and wipe down everything we bring into the house. Still just terrified that something somehow will slip through the cracks...
Yep - I’m the same age, an asthmatic, and it just scares me so much. Let alone some of my older family members who have COPD and other health conditions.
It’s so scary, so sad.
At no point in time did I mention anything to do with the US regarding H1N1, not once did I say anything about it. The global deaths were roughly 500k, on nearly 1 billion people.
Also, I misspoke, I meant a global healthCARE concern, meaning there was no risk to healthCARE systems - as in...
People seriously need to stop thinking of this as H1N1. The two are not similar. Not even close.
If we’re lucky enough to get out of this in the end with number of total deaths around H1N1, it’ll be because of the drastic, draconian measures taken. At this point the entire global economy is...
Because the death rate of H1N1 was an estimated .01% to .05%. That means if 1 billion people got it, roughly 500k people died.
The death rate of this is 3.5% (and closer to 10% in Italy) meaning if 1 billion people get it, 35 million will die. That’s a substantial difference.
This is also...
Not sure if this is already being discussed elsewhere or other things already in place, but I’m seeing so much on social media of college students in help and desperate right now. The hashtag #CPHelp has a lot of students scared right now. (I searched this site and didn’t see any results for...
I understand it's obviously an incredibly difficult decision because of
You are correct, for about 80% of people who get it, it will not be much more than a mild inconvenience and that's great.
However for about 10% of people it will be severe, needing hospitalization in "normal"...
I suppose I don’t really know why the perks are that important to me. It’s not even really financially because I don’t think we’d use it enough to breakeven.
i guess it’s just a fear with the continued crackdown or limiting of perks to non direct buyers I worry long term not being an “official...