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Suicide is also skyrocketing due to despair
Yeah, give us numbers/links to numbers, because this is just an assertation
Yeah, that would be it. The CDC even admits they are conflating statistics, and inflating numbers. This is all about social control.
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It’s a bona fide pandemic that’ll have lasting implications for years for victims of the coronavirus and the “social control” you fear are the normal consequences of trying to mitigate those ramifications?

Not everything is about “controlling the masses”.
 
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Yeah, that would be it. The CDC even admits they are conflating statistics, and inflating numbers. This is all about social control.

You know sometimes people find their lost marbles, if they have a really good look.
 
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Well that's not what is being witnessed in real life. Starvation is a very real threat in central Fla. People need to get back to work. Need to make money and pay bills. In hard times people do not always have the luxury of having easy choices to make. Their kids aren't sick, they aren't getting sick, but they have no money to feed them or pay the mortgage to keep a roof over their child. Suicide is also skyrocketing due to despair. Things have to go back to normal so more otherwise healthy people do not die.

Lots of people get awfully judgmental without considering the ramifications of these shutdowns on others.
Is the State of Florida really going to allow people to starve and become homeless just because the economy isn't functioning normally?
 
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No, but agents of disinformation would have you think so.

I have responded to you, and even posted the info directly screenshot for CDC's own website. It is not my fault if you so chose to ignore the same scientists you quote when they say something against your belief.
 
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Sorry, but not even going to bother...

Dude you say that every single time someone asks you to provide some sort of something that might indicate where these assertions of yours might come from. I think you once referred to some mythical age, lost in the mists of time, when you provided a link on which so much scorn was poured you swore ‘never again’...Is that something that actually happened, or is it simply that you doubt the credibility of your own sources?
 
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Yeah, give us numbers/links to numbers, because this is just an assertation

I have done that far too many times to try and do it again. With the same exact people no less. Didn't listen then, why am I to expect they will listen now?

Not everything is about “controlling the masses”.

This is. This situation right here is about controlling the masses, and the upcoming elections.
 
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Is the State of Florida really going to allow people to starve and become homeless just because the economy isn't functioning normally?

Obviously not, they are letting us get back to work.
 
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I have done that far too many times to try and do it again. With the same exact people no less. Didn't listen then, why am I to expect they will listen now?



This is. This situation right here is about controlling the masses, and the upcoming elections.
Well, okay then, this is clearly something you’ve given way too much thought to!
Fare thee well.
 
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Yes. Because I will either go there physically or ask around. If I am not mistaken you are from Fla?

I am, yes. However, I will not give you exact names and places. That would be a HIPAA violation and I prefer to keep my license and not end up in jail.

You can go ahead and just ask around if you wish to.
 
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Even if it's dangerous. Too bad that's the only thing they can think of.

Oh yes, because we all know lie comes with guarantees. Some mitigated risk is assumed with life.
 
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Oh yes, because we all know lie comes with guarantees. Some mitigated risk is assumed with life.
Of course--but the operative word here is "mitigated." Just opening up is not mitigated risk. A phased reopening with contact tracing (which we seem to be unable to do, in contrast to other civilized countries) and assistance for those who cannot yet resume their normal economic lives would be "mitigated."
 
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I am, yes. However, I will not give you exact names and places. That would be a HIPAA violation and I prefer to keep my license and not end up in jail.

You can go ahead and just ask around if you wish to.

Not what I was asking, but I understand what you are saying. I just wanted to know where this is actually happening. Because I only hear about it. Just like our hospital are supposed to be overrun right now. That's not true. Hospitals are furloughing staff because there are no patients, and the lockdown stopped non-critical services.
 
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Not what I was asking, but I understand what you are saying. I just wanted to know where this is actually happening. Because I only hear about it. Just like our hospital are supposed to be overrun right now. That's not true. Hospitals are furloughing staff because there are no patients, and the lockdown stopped non-critical services.

Perhaps in some counties and maybe even the majority of counties in Florida. However, I am still transporting people.

What I commented on in your one reply is that the virus has been beaten. That is what I am challenging because it certainly hasn't been. numbers are actually up in Florida for the last few days.
 
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Of course--but the operative word here is "mitigated." Just opening up is not mitigated risk. A phased reopening with contact tracing (which we seem to be unable to do, in contrast to other civilized countries) and assistance for those who cannot yet resume their normal economic lives would be "mitigated."

That is just getting us further in debt. There has to be income entering the coffers. We cannot continue to bleed out like this. Federal income is rolling backwards.
 
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Perhaps in some counties and maybe even the majority of counties in Florida. However, I am still transporting people.

What I commented on in your one reply is that the virus has been beaten. That is what I am challenging because it certainly hasn't been. numbers are actually up in Florida for the last few days.

And again, I am only hearing it from the news and people on this site. I'm not seeing it. I was just wondering where it was actually happening to ask people I know in the medical field.

I was talking about the narrative surrounding the virus.
 
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You know sometimes people find their lost marbles, if they have a really good look.

Concerning my name:

*repost*

For me it has always been an act of self-abasement, and irreverence of my own opinion/appearance. I even spelled my name incorrectly on purpose. I am not 'all that'. I have never taken myself so seriously to view others despairingly in light of my own 'greatness'. And I am a fool for Christ.

I have always liked Bill... because he is just Bill. He never even attempts to be anyone he is not.
 
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That is just getting us further in debt. There has to be income entering the coffers. We cannot continue to bleed out like this. Federal income is rolling backwards.
Yes, sometimes acquiring debt is necessary in extreme circumstances--wars, natural disasters, epidemics.
 
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