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It's like they want to maximize their potential to look like morons.

Every time I hear someone blame "leftists" for the coronavirus, I want to stick a fork into the electrical outlet in my garage. Your ability to ignore reality in order to play the blame game with us is unreal.

I know that the Covid thread may just seem like a bunch of childish bickering to those not directly involved in it, but for almost its entire existence, it has been a great and reliable source of information for me. Posters like Hoosier have done a fantastic job of continuously bringing up new Covid-related content day after day. I'm aware that this is American WEATHER forums, and I'm very thankful that space has been made for us here to discussing the Rona, but at the same time, I find it childish that people are actually disheartened by the fact that the Covid thread is always the hot news. Like Chicago Storm said, nobody's forcing anyone to go in there and read it. Also, it's not like we'd be talking about weather were it not for that thread; AFAIK, very little in the way of discussion-worthy weather has occurred recently. Edit: Let me also say this: I believe myself to be on the younger and more hot-headed end of the age/maturity spectrum in this forum. That said, I have never had a political discussion with someone that was so heated that I couldn't value their input on other subjects. If you go into the Covid thread on one of its off days, see someone post something political, and are unable to look beyond whatever differences you and them may have, then chances are, you're the problem. Being able to rationalize the fact that everyone has different social and political beliefs (to an extent) is a life skill, not something to shy away from.

The issue is that at this point we're stuck in this state of acceptance, so unless things get really bad again (maybe not even then) we're not going to be able to convince people to take Covid seriously enough. If things are going to change, in my opinion it's probably going to have to happen at the federal level... Maybe next January at the earliest.

Ooga booga. Politics bad.

Tonight was the first night where I went outside, and was genuinely surprised by how winter-like the cold felt. Something about the echo-ey road sounds, the frost on the hood of my car... It was just different tonight.

Exactly. If we look at Trump's previous political tactics, he's always tried to circumnavigate the topic of coronavirus. So for him to suddenly fake having it would be very odd. The fact that we're even a little bit skeptical of this situation is, in and of itself, a very, very sad thing.

The fact still remains though, that the "RIP" comment was, at a minimum, at least on topic; regardless of whether it was respectful, it was a commentary on the fact that Trump taking dexamethasone isn't a very good sign. All your comment was aiming to do was try to piss people off.

Oh. I missed that. Whoopsies.

I'm sure this will get removed, but hopefully you'll see it before that happens. Your comment had absolutely nothing to do with Covid, and was purely trash talk against Biden, who has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. Not ONE post in here is "ripping" Trump; we are stating facts about his response to this epidemic. Don't play this bullshit victim card.

And that's exactly why we shouldn't sugarcoat the possibility of him not making it out of this alive. I'm not hoping for him to die, but I'm sure as hell not going to sit around and pretend that it wouldn't be ironic as all hell. Trump has shown that he doesn't care about those that have died from Covid every time he downplays the virus and mocks science. Until he contracted it himself, he called it the "China Virus" in order to deflect blame, but the second he got it himself, it became "the plague" or the "Coronavirus", even. Just because he's the president doesn't mean this isn't a healthy dose of karma; the issue is, he still hasn't learned.

Here's a higher resolution photo. He's not even writing his signature, just his last name.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/wh-releases-photos-of-trump-grinding-away-at-work-while-in-hospital Dude. This is the pinnacle of WTF. You can clearly tell that the two photos in the tweet were taken ten minutes apart, in different rooms, with Trump being dressed differently in each. In the screenshot, you can LITERALLY SEE that he's using the world's fattest Sharpie to sign a BLANK PIECE OF PAPER. The fact that they're endangering the life of a photographer for this shit is pathetic.

This is playing out like last winter's trend of "weaker and south". It shouldn't be so predictable, but it is anyway. Thanks for the info lol

I just woke up, what's going on?

There's your definitive proof. If that's true, that they edited out his cough, then it's kind of over. That has lots of implications, not that I need to tell you that. I wonder if it's going to be talked about in official media.

It may not be definitive evidence, but what little information has been made available certainly supports Stebo's conclusion. Firstly, I highly doubt Trump would have received oxygen supplementation, let alone Regeneron, if he wasn't doing at least somewhat poorly. Secondly, we have four years of Trump's presidency to suggest that were he doing fabulous right now, the tone of his videos/tweets/the WH in general would be a LOT different. You know as well as I do that if Trump were doing really well, he'd be the first one to let the world know. And sure, everyone is saying that he's doing decent; but they aren't really selling it, for the above reasons.

I wonder if the timeline thing is the reason he's doing so bad. Maybe he/they took so long to get the situation addressed that by the time Trump did come in, he was already kind of screwed (not that there's a whole lot of preventative measures out there anyway, to my knowledge). Supposedly his fever lifted, so I guess he has to be doing okay, at least for now. Unless that's complete bullshit, because I'm starting to think it likely is.

Facts. I don't know why the WH has to play this whole "ride the middle" game. Either tell us every last detail, or don't tell us anything. Obviously the first option is the only option but what they're doing right now is just plain confusing.

At no point did Stebo say anything about what you personally do. Wearing a mask is the bare minimum and doing so does not save you from having poor ideas about how the government should manage this epidemic. There's no need to claim that people are "living in terror" because they value increased social restriction over saving the economy.

I didn't look into this super deeply, but if you're comparing people who get pneumonia from a rhinovirus vs people who get pneumonia from influenza , there's probably an underlying reason why more of the rhinovirus patients end up dying (i.e, they're much weaker). In general, I doubt that common cold viruses can kill anywhere near as many old people as Covid can.

Interesting, thanks!

My friend said it was hailing decently in Glendale Heights. I don't know a whole lot about how this stuff works, so don't bake me for my speculation, but do the relatively cool temperatures impact how easy it is for updrafts to generate hail?

Rhinoviruses also tend not to kill your grandpa.

An early departure is alright with me as long as we define 'early' as March, not December.