Calm the F**K Down! - What is wrong with everyone?

Corona Bookie wrote:

Someone has created an imposter account, and the mods are doing nothing about it. I apologize for the bait.

Clearly I'm getting on someone's nerves :)

ua2k wrote:

Where did I state the virus didn't start in China?

Yeah right buddy. The ole someone hacked my account story. Maybe you need to stop daytime drinking. How does someone create an imposter account? It’s clearly your account fool.

Facts Matter? wrote:

... but social distancing starting March 19 has magically stopped the virus.

There are about 100 more reasons that the social distancing story falls apart, but you are not going to listen to them anyway, you'e just going to post 61,001 or 2600 or something stupid so you don't actually have to address the facts. What are you going to say when the antibody testing proves that tens of millions of Americans have already been infected?

No, I'm going to say you don't understand how viruses spread and you don't understand R0, and exponential growth.

We all know there are more people infected than those tested and confirmed. We know that. That is not a counter argument for social distancing not working.

The overall number would have been higher with more dense contact of people, whatever way you want to count it.

Even Dumbo would understand and grasp such a basic concept.

...and on the asymptomatic positives out there, as an example, Australia had a high of over 6% positive per test (60 in 1000 tests) at the peak of its curve, and now its under 0.1% (1 in 1000), pushing its average back down to 1.2% (12 in 1000) and dropping.

They are testing more and more, and finding less and less people positive each day....so those tests are now on asymptomatics and random testing in areas where they believe more positives 'should' be...and still finding less.

I guess the take away for you from above would be that our social distancing (not total lock down) didn't work.

Clown

This is a fake account, I did not change my name. The mods needs to ban this imposter.

TheRealCoronaBookie wrote:

They are trying to take me down, extremely flattering.

I have changed my name as the LRC mods have proven ineffectual at stopping the blatant libel.

I will continue to fight the 2600 and 61001 neanderthals, as well as taking any wagers on the continuing epidemic.

pants on fire! wrote:

Yeah right buddy. The ole someone hacked my account story. Maybe you need to stop daytime drinking. How does someone create an imposter account? It’s clearly your account fool.

I don’t know what the game is here, but none of these new names are me. I did not change my name to the real anything. Don’t fall for this charade. Someone is trying to defame me and they are going to pay dearly for it. The mods have their IP.

TheRealCoronaBookie wrote:

I do appreciate the effort though!

TheRealCoronaBookie wrote:

You can't fool me! That's an uppercase i instead of a lowercase L in your name. I use a serif font so it's easy to tell.

Can we get back to mocking FM (hardloper) and Bad Wigins.

Imaging posting after 2600 and 61000.

The greatest failed predictions in LRC history!

Like VIPAM calling Kenny B but in reverse!

rojo⠀ wrote:

I am banning Corona Bookie, Facts Matter, Bad Wigins, and Allen53. This has gone too far.

TheRealCoronaBookie wrote:

I am fully behind this game you are playing. It only further legitimizes your "rationality and facts" standpoint you've been trying to push.

Long live 61001 and 2600

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Why are you banning me? What did I do?

I have been following this pandemic for months and honestly do not know who to believe. What I questioned initially and was mocked has since been proven to be true by some experts but still debated by other experts. Please explain to us how THIS virus spreads and RO and EG.

Please also explain why Facts Matter is wrong regarding the data he shared with the initial cases in many major cities when we were not social distancing and on state ordered lock down for months after it was clear that we had a new flu strain or possibly something way worse . Why weren't the deaths exponentially growing everywhere with NO socials distancing or even any real awareness of what Covid 19 even was if it was in fact super contagious and extremely fatal?

I seriously am trying to understand this and all of the name calling, bickering, and teasing because one person's view point is different than someone else is not helpful for us to deal with the realities of this virus... whatever those realities truly are?!?

rojo⠀ wrote:

I am banning Corona Bookie, Facts Matter, Bad Wigins, and Allen53. This has gone too far.

TheRealCoronaBookie wrote:

I am fully behind this game you are playing. It only further legitimizes your "rationality and facts" standpoint you've been trying to push.

Long live 61001 and 2600

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Corona Bookie or whatever his name is, is clearly having a nervous breakdown. He has done nothing but fixate on me in virtually every post recently and I have said nothing. I would love to know what reason you would have to ban me. Whatever that was that just happened had nothing to do with me.

I can't tell if this is the greatest or worst thread of all time

Facts Matter? wrote:

rojo⠀ wrote:

I am banning Corona Bookie, Facts Matter, Bad Wigins, and Allen53. This has gone too far.

Corona Bookie or whatever his name is, is clearly having a nervous breakdown. He has done nothing but fixate on me in virtually every post recently and I have said nothing. I would love to know what reason you would have to ban me. Whatever that was that just happened had nothing to do with me.

Nevermind, OK, you got me, I didn't notice it wasn't actually Rojo. Whatever is happening here was entertaining for a while, now it's just sad.

Facts Matter? wrote:

Corona Bookie or whatever his name is, is clearly having a nervous breakdown. He has done nothing but fixate on me in virtually every post recently and I have said nothing. I would love to know what reason you would have to ban me. Whatever that was that just happened had nothing to do with me.

I'm pretty sure that was not rojo, wejo, nor CoronaBookie.

UPMC doctor argues COVID-19 not as deadly as feared, says its hospitals will shift back to normal

For whatever reason the link to my last comment is disallowed when placed in the comment. Just google the title:

Here's a snippet from the article:

A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with the new coronavirus may be as low as 0.25% — far lower than the mortality rates of 2-4% or even higher cited in the early days of the pandemic.

Dr. Donald Yealy based it partly on studies of levels of coronavirus antibodies detected in people in New York and California, and partly on COVID-19 deaths in the Pittsburgh region. The studies found that 5-20% of people had been exposed to the coronavirus, with many noticing only mild illness or none at all, he said.

Libertarian Centrist wrote:

I can't tell if this is the greatest or worst thread of all time

Worst. I asked lrc to take it down or consolidate the threads into a single thread but wejo responded with a weak message just to report the offending posts. So here we are with this monstrosity and 200 other Covid threads and 0 management. Lame.

Looking for a reply from I am Sam

Our apologies. Someone was impersonating users in this thread. We have banned them and cleaned up the thread.

wejo wrote:

Our apologies. Someone was impersonating users in this thread. We have banned them and cleaned up the thread.

Thanks for cleaning things up. Much appreciated.

wejo wrote:

Our apologies. Someone was impersonating users in this thread. We have banned them and cleaned up the thread.

A troll registered several accounts with a Braille Pattern Space in them ("⠀"), which appears empty but is not sanitized by trailing whitespace removal methods in our software. They then logged into and posted from those accounts to make it say "registered."

Those posts and accounts have been removed. The user was banned. We have checked all posts and usernames to assure no other impersonation has taken place using this method.

No accounts or credentials were compromised.

We have implemented rules preventing any accounts with non-ASCII characters from being registered or posted under. Apologies to those impersonated, including Corona Bookie.