Is this natures way?
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COVID-19 is certainly a low-level warning. If nature wanted, it could have made it really worse and keep the mortality rate to 30-40% and screw up the humans. It's a warning about: 1. Being more responsible towards the planet. 2. Pro-active control/balance of human population. 3. Refocusing on healthcare than Defense/Offense budgets. 4. Realize the possibility of friendship between unlikely countries. Like US helping China & Iran. 5. And finally, a moderated punishment for eating Batman's pet.
Nand32 wrote:
And finally, a moderated punishment for eating Batman's pet.
I thought you should say "killing John Wick's pet". Surely, Batman's only pet was a Robin, right? And I can imagine that roasted Robin could be quite delicious - albeit a very small mouthfull...
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So is this latest pandemic Mother natures way of reducing the population, decimating the elderly who are biologically less valuable that the young. Her way of implementing the 3 score and ten (I know that comes from the sky pixie but lets go with that). I am not trolling the forum much
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Don't even go there. It's just evolution, so is indeed Mother Nature's way, but there's no sentient thought behind it. Conspiracy theories are fun (especially when you can sit back and watch the manic fervour that people defend them with), but getting religion involved will get people killed. Fave conspiracy theories, to date: 1. It's a Chinese secret weapon that escaped into the population. :sigh: In which case it's a pretty piss-poor weapon. :thumbsup: It gives a good reason for building a wall in China -- because walls work! :-O Oh, wait... 2. It's a US secret weapon, that was released in China and Iran, but, of course, the US army screwed it up. :sigh: In which case it's a pretty piss-poor weapon. :thumbsup: It explains why a certain-coloured person refuses to be tested -- he's already had the cure, and he doesn't want the testers to find out. See? Conspiracy theories are fun; religious cr@p, not.
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"Mother nature" certainly cares about life, but in a general sense, not "hunan" life in particular. Humans are in no way special. Any decimation of any population has attacked the weak ones, whether they are the old ones, the young ones or the sick ones, whether the attack is by diseases, predators or otherwise. You could ask Darwin about that. It is not a question about the survival of the fattest, but the survival of the fittest.
Member 7989122 wrote:
"Mother nature" certainly cares about life,
I wouldn't go that far. Mother Nature rules Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and all the rest, too. Life? She doesn't give a damn. It's completely irrelevant to her and to the universe.
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Nand32 wrote:
And finally, a moderated punishment for eating Batman's pet.
I thought you should say "killing John Wick's pet". Surely, Batman's only pet was a Robin, right? And I can imagine that roasted Robin could be quite delicious - albeit a very small mouthfull...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Mortality among the vulnerable is about 8% I believe (compared to about 0.1% for the flu), so decimating is a fairly accurate use of the historical definition. When you factor in deaths by all ages that number comes down, obviously, but anyone who denies covid-19 is no more dangerous than the flu is being disingenuous.
F-ES Sitecore wrote:
decimating is a fairly accurate use of the historical definition
I had heard that the original historical definition was to reduce to 10% (i.e. kill 90%), not reduce by 10% (i.e. leave 90%) which is the commonly understood meaning (and the one that I grew up understanding it to mean).
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F-ES Sitecore wrote:
decimating is a fairly accurate use of the historical definition
I had heard that the original historical definition was to reduce to 10% (i.e. kill 90%), not reduce by 10% (i.e. leave 90%) which is the commonly understood meaning (and the one that I grew up understanding it to mean).
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So is this latest pandemic Mother natures way of reducing the population, decimating the elderly who are biologically less valuable that the young. Her way of implementing the 3 score and ten (I know that comes from the sky pixie but lets go with that). I am not trolling the forum much
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mortality among the vulnerable is about 8% I believe (compared to about 0.1% for the flu), so decimating is a fairly accurate use of the historical definition. When you factor in deaths by all ages that number comes down, obviously, but anyone who denies covid-19 is no more dangerous than the flu is being disingenuous.
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No, we're being realists. The flue kills tens of thousands, and even into the hundreds of thousands each year. COVID-19 has so far killed less than 5,000 people. The real panic is because it's new.
obermd wrote:
The real panic is because it's new.
And because of the relativity of the numbers...
obermd wrote:
The flue kills tens of thousands
From hundreds of millions infected
obermd wrote:
COVID-19 has so far killed less than 5,000 people.
from around 110k people infected. And yes, I know.. most of them were old and not that healthy, but still the % numbers are higher than the flu. I hope you are right and it in the end is "less than the flu", I really hope it.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No, we're being realists. The flue kills tens of thousands, and even into the hundreds of thousands each year. COVID-19 has so far killed less than 5,000 people. The real panic is because it's new.
The flu kills that many because it is endemic, however covid 19 has just got started. Saying covid is no worse than the flu because that kills more is like jumping off a tall building and on the way down saying "so far so good".
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Member 7989122 wrote:
"Mother nature" certainly cares about life,
I wouldn't go that far. Mother Nature rules Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and all the rest, too. Life? She doesn't give a damn. It's completely irrelevant to her and to the universe.
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Life. Don't talk to me about life.