COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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It is bizarre to me that in the U.S., the same crowd who stand on their "rights" to not wear a mask or distance, and who say they won't take the vaccine, are the ones who favor compulsory military service in peacetime.
 
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It is bizarre to me that in the U.S., the same crowd who stand on their "rights" to not wear a mask or distance, and who say they won't take the vaccine, are the ones who favor compulsory military service in peacetime.

Military offers life skills. Eh how are you doing T-Bones.. hope you have a wonderful Christmas

I've already been vaccinated. Had CoronaVirus March 3rd. 2020 (Hospitalized), had a second run that lasted 2 days, lower lungs burning, cough, headache and then it was gone early November 2020.
 
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It is bizarre to me that in the U.S., the same crowd who stand on their "rights" to not wear a mask or distance, and who say they won't take the vaccine, are the ones who favor compulsory military service in peacetime.
Yeah, we should bring back National Service.
 
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And you often see in the news about how someone has died "with coronavirus." There's a difference between "with coronavirus" and "of coronavirus." Someone who died with coronavirus didn't necessarily die of it, yet the former as well as the latter are included in the number of deaths.
Are you talking about comorbidities? Because that takes the conversation in a different direction.

A physician, medical examiner or coroner fills out the cause of mortality on the death certificate, and they are instructed to include only those conditions that caused or contributed to death, Anderson says. One field lists the sequence of events leading to the death. “What we’re really trying to get at is the condition or disease that started the chain of events leading to the death,” Anderson says. “For COVID-19, that might be something like acute respiratory distress due to pneumonia due to COVID-19.” A second part of the certificate lists other significant conditions that may have contributed to the death yet were not part of the sequence of events that led up to it, he says. These are called comorbidities, and while they can be contributing factors, they cannot be directly involved in the chain of cause and effect that ended in death. Preexisting medical conditions such as diabetes or heart disease are common comorbidities, and they can make a person more vulnerable to the coronavirus, Anderson says, “but the fact is: they’re not dying from that preexisting condition.”

“When we ask if COVID killed somebody, it means ‘Did they die sooner than they would have if they didn’t have the virus?’” Lessler says. Even such a person with a potentially life-shortening preexisting condition such as heart disease or diabetes may have lived another five, 10 or many more years, had they not become infected with COVID-19.

 

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Are you talking about comorbidities? Because that takes the conversation in a different direction.

A physician, medical examiner or coroner fills out the cause of mortality on the death certificate, and they are instructed to include only those conditions that caused or contributed to death, Anderson says. One field lists the sequence of events leading to the death. “What we’re really trying to get at is the condition or disease that started the chain of events leading to the death,” Anderson says. “For COVID-19, that might be something like acute respiratory distress due to pneumonia due to COVID-19.” A second part of the certificate lists other significant conditions that may have contributed to the death yet were not part of the sequence of events that led up to it, he says. These are called comorbidities, and while they can be contributing factors, they cannot be directly involved in the chain of cause and effect that ended in death. Preexisting medical conditions such as diabetes or heart disease are common comorbidities, and they can make a person more vulnerable to the coronavirus, Anderson says, “but the fact is: they’re not dying from that preexisting condition.”

“When we ask if COVID killed somebody, it means ‘Did they die sooner than they would have if they didn’t have the virus?’” Lessler says. Even such a person with a potentially life-shortening preexisting condition such as heart disease or diabetes may have lived another five, 10 or many more years, had they not become infected with COVID-19.


Ermmm 😕 Man Falls Off Ladder & Dies 😢 Guess What He Was Written Off With 🏥...​

 

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Ermmm 😕 Man Falls Off Ladder & Dies 😢 Guess What He Was Written Off With 🏥...​

Have you read the autopsy report concerning this mans death? It may fill in some of the gaps that this chap left out. A link to the autopsy can be found in the following article:

 

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Have you read the autopsy report concerning this mans death? It may fill in some of the gaps that this chap left out. A link to the autopsy can be found in the following article:


Are you sure it wasn't the sudden stop that caused his death?

He didn't die of coronavirus. He died from hitting the ground
 
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Everybody dies of heart failure in the end. What they usually list as cause of death is the event that happened immediately before the heart failure.
 

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Are you sure it wasn't the sudden stop that caused his death?

He didn't die of coronavirus. He died from hitting the ground
As stated in the autopsy report:

A violent death was ruled out and the autopsy revealed that death was due to natural causes, specifically by the impact of the viral infection.
 

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If my leg falls asleep when driving and I hit a pole and die, did I die of a leg that fell asleep or a car accident?
Well, normally your cause of death would be stated as hitting a pole a great speed, but if they were to issue a cause of death covid-style, they'd say it was your leg falling asleep that caused it.

In the UK, if you die within 28 days of getting a positive test - and many positive tests have been proven to be false, by the way - than you are registered as having died from covid, even if you fell off a cliff or died in a plane crash.
 

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Covid 19 has literally become Covid 20 and shows no signs of stopping even in 2021. This is something tragic and even the best minds in the world could not develop a vaccine for this pandemic. At this point, it is important to keep yourself utmost safe and avoid being in a crowd unless very necessary.
I've been saying all along coronavirus isn't going away. It's here to stay. It'll just become another seasonal flu and we'll eventually just get on with our lives as normal, just as we do when thousands are being killed by flu every year and it's not even reported in the news.
 

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Down with the New Normal​

Who wants to live in a nerdy world of no handshakes and no big sweaty crowds?

Down with the New Normal

Brendan O'Neill

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Few phrases inspire more horror in me than ‘the new normal’. It is falling from the lips of public-health experts and lockdown-loving commentators everywhere. Forget the ‘old normal’ of going maskless into the streets, or ramming yourself into a crowd of thirsty punters at the bar in a pub, or taking a lover without constantly worrying that he or she might make you ill with his or her breath. Such reckless libertinism was for the old world, apparently, the era BC (Before Covid). We are all now heading into the New Normal, a brave new world of forever social-distancing being built for us by a benevolent bureaucracy that simply wants to protect us from disease.

Everywhere you turn there is talk of the new normal. Out will go bare faces, hand-shaking, hugs and sweaty crowds, and in will come masks, elbow-bumping, and sitting six feet away from everyone else at concerts and shows. Bye bye, mosh pits. Yes, even when the vaccine comes, which is when many of us hoped we would see our freedoms restored, the uber-cautious habits we have developed during the Covid crisis should continue, experts say. Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, said this week that these ‘habits’, including face-covering, should continue for ‘many years’. Better safe than sorry, eh?

Van-Tam isn’t alone. Many experts and commentators are predicting, and even welcoming, a decline in social engagement and physical contact as we head into the new normal. ‘The Coronavirus killed the handshake and the hug — what will replace them?’, asks Time magazine, blissfully unaware of how mad it sounds. ‘Hugs, high fives, fist bumps, back pats [and] shoulder squeezes’ could all disappear after 2020, Time predicts. And it talked to one of many experts who thinks that’s no bad thing. Dr Mark Sklansky, an American cardiologist, told Time he has always hated hand-shaking. ‘Hands are warm, they’re wet, and we know that they transmit disease very well’, he said. But where ‘being anti-handshake was fringe thinking’ in the past — !! — it is now increasingly common to be handshakephobic, says the wise doctor. Put your wet, diseased paws away, everyone.

And the new normalists are not letting the imminent rolling-out of the vaccine puncture their dreams of a world without clammy handshakes and other forms of sickness-spreading human contact. People expecting to be ‘back to normal by spring’ are ‘expecting too much’ of the vaccine, said a British microbiologist a couple of weeks ago. Even with a vaccine, ‘we will not be returning to the old normal’, decrees the Lancet. No, apparently ‘physical distancing and hand hygiene must continue indefinitely’. Maybe these doom-mongers are keen on physical distancing because they know a lot of people would probably like to give them a clout for their miserabilism?

Their new normal — for this new era is entirely an invention of the out-of-touch expert class, not of democratic debate — sounds awful. Some seem determined to cultivate a world in which social atomisation is not defeated, but institutionalised. In which we will enter the social sphere not as citizens keen to engage with one another, but as vectors of disease, as possessors of dirty hands and virus-spreading breath, who must be kept apart. In which we will be actively encouraged to view others as a threat. That hug could be lethal; that lingering conversation could be a killer; that handshake was too wet and disgusting — scrub your hands immediately. The expert class is giving licence to anti-social, anti-human behaviour.

No, it isn’t a conspiracy. They haven’t all sat down in a Covid-secure committee room and decided to rob the public of its hard-won freedom to hug and smile. Rather, what we are witnessing in all the talk of the new normal is an intensification of trends that have been apparent for quite a while. From safe sex to safe spaces on campus, from the depiction of a boozy come-on as a threat to one’s physical safety to the growing cult of germophobia, the elitist insistence that other people are a threat has been around for some time. Other people’s words will hurt you; sex with them could kill you; their wolf-whistle on the street is a dagger to the heart of your self-esteem. So you had better hide in this safe space that forcefields you from disagreeable ideas, always wear a condom, and phone the police if a stranger tells you you look fit. Misanthropic suspicion of others has been the meat of public-heath agitation and the political class’s nanny statism for years — the Covid crisis is merely taking it all to the next level.

But imagine what we will lose if we subscribe to their new normal. The warmth of a hug. The ability to give a reassuring smile to an elderly lady as you pass her on the street (smiles will be invisible in the masked world). The joy of losing oneself in big, swaying crowds where, yes, you might catch a virus but where you will also be subsumed by the pleasures of human collectivity. Where the AIDS crisis gave rise to the depressing cult of safe sex — wear a condom or you will die — the Covid crisis could give rise to an even more dispiriting cult of safe everything. Safe greetings (no physical contact), safe theatre (two seats between you and the next person), safe pubs (no banter at the bar, just stay in your seat). It’s like the nerds have won. Those anti-social types with their limp, begrudgingly given handshakes and their fear of noisy, clammy gatherings are the victors in the new normal, and normal people are the losers.

Here’s what we would truly lose: the ability to live freely. There has been much discussion about the erosion of civil liberties in the Covid crisis, and that has indeed been a terrible thing. The rescinding of the right to protest is the most grievous assault on our civil liberties. But we are losing something more important, if less tangible, than our written-down civil liberties — we’re losing the culture of freedom. That culture — which can only be made by us; it cannot be codified in law or guaranteed in legal rights — is one in which we have the confidence to live freely, to make decisions, to enter the public sphere and engage openly with our fellow citizens. It is this culture that has taken the most serious beating this year.

A people whose lives have been micromanaged to such a degree that we are now instructed about who we may hug at Christmas and what we should eat in the pub could easily lose the most important habit of all in a democratic society: the habit of thinking, living and behaving freely, of governing one’s own life, of taking responsibility for one’s decisions and actions. If we unquestioningly enter the new normal, faces covered, hands behind backs, heads bowed, we may find that it will be very difficult indeed to get out again.

Recovering our everyday freedom is the most important task facing humanity right now.

Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show.

Subscribe to the podcast here.

And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy

 

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Tier 3 Nottingham Christmas 🎄 Market OPEN 🤦‍♂️ I’ve Had Enough! What Is Going On?????​

How can this make sense??? Nottingham in Tier 3, I can’t see my mum but I can go to the crowded Christmas 🎄 market with her!!!!