Topic: Coronavirus outbreak

Just found this randomly while being bored out of my skull during the lockdown. George Carlin did a whole thing on Germs and the media years ago and you know something. He raises a good point! The media really goes out of their way to scare people and well it's definitely working.

I swear to god, there could be literal zombies walking the streets, and people would still be posting ooc Carlin clips telling people not to believe the "media scaremongering."

@Ralizah But he never got sick!*

*other then the heart attacks, arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure.

@Zeldafan79 Normally, I'd definitely enjoy a bit of George Carlin, but in this instance, it's rather misplaced.
I can understand that you're probably going stir crazy by now, and most of us are, what with all the commotion and restrictions and all, but I've now seen you post several comments that seem to lean quite heavily towards not believing that there's actually a real threat or something serious to worry about.

Well, considering the daily rising number of victims, and now even daily mass burials in New York, I'd strongly suggest you'd reconsider your view on things, because this IS bad and we ARE in a crisis, so better get with the plan and see to it that you take all the right precautions, so you won't get sick.

I've had several members in my family who have already gone through the symptoms, and some, among which my own sister and her husband, were also quarantined, but luckily they got better. Still, that definitely wasn't a great experience to have gone through, if you don't know the outcome...

@WoomyNNYes I'll look into it. The best bet are medical PDF of clean technique. People posting these things aren't licensed medical workers. I'd just Google "clean technique" it should show the proper way to do it. Look up clean technique for nurses or doctors and get something off of a medical site, not a mommy blog.

@Zeldafan79 I understand the humor, and I feel the media misinforms people rather than scare them. This pandemic is real and scary, and as a nurse, I can tell you it's real. There's a lot of misinformation and politics involved when there shouldn't be. It may seem boring right now, but lockdowns are for the best.

@ivory_soul Oof, yeah, Google, or somebody, needs an official medical source filter. I wish searching .edu & .gov sites was more effective.

@Zeldafan79 I like George Carlin. He funny.

Yeah, media profits more with emotion. And it's to the general public's detriment. Truly educating, even if interesting, telling the whole story to inform, NEVER sells as well as making everything emotional or scary. Look at Science channel, Learning channel, history channel. I'm totally over politics. So I loath cable news now. There's too much garbage. That's why I love watching NHK World & Create TV. Their business model isn't to scare you 24hrs a day.

I've not paid attention to a lot of the media (because that's a bad idea in general), but I've seen plenty of times where you wouldn't think people couldn't be hyperbolic about something, and yet somehow they're still hyperbolic to the situation. I notice this a lot whenever a video game does something I agree is terrible, people will somehow make it worse than it is.

Point being, as serious as this whole situation is, I'm sure media people (and media executives who don't care about people, let's be honest) are more than willing to find a way to make this situation seem even worse than it is.

@kkslider5552000 Considering the actual numbers so far, I don't think the media has to do all that much to make it seem even worse than it already is in real life...

@Zeldafan79 That one joke about the lethal injection. I've heard it before, and decided to do a Google search. And this random post on a random website brings up a good point:

''There are several reasons for this. Apart from its usefulness as an antiseptic, alcohol causes blood vessels to rise to the surface, making it easier to insert the needle. More important, there’s a chance the prisoner’s sentence might be delayed or commuted at the last minute.

It’s happened before. In October, 1983 condemned murderer James Autry was strapped to a gurney for an hour in a Texas prison with saline solution dripping into his arm. (He was awake the whole time, incidentally.) At about the time he was scheduled to die he was told he’d received a stay of execution. He was returned to his cell and not executed until the following March. Whatever you think of the death penalty, you wouldn’t want the guy to die of sheer carelessness.

Which brings us to what I think is the real reason for swabbing the arm — it allows the executioners to think of themselves as professionals doing a job rather than killers.

Interviews with members of execution teams reveal that they place great stock in following proper procedures.''

don't worry, they can find a way. Now, I don't know if they can escalate the same way some gamers escalated Mass Effect 3's stupid original ending to somehow being literally the worst thing ever. Media would have to predict human extinction to escalate things to that degree.

I mean in America, they can just treat it like they treat socialists making light jabs at media elites on the internet, and the hyperbole should just naturally follow.

@Octane I've no idea what point you're trying to make, but reading that didn't really make me feel all that good, and I'm actually in favor of putting certain individuals out of our collective misery, provided the evidence is ironclad...

@kkslider5552000 Well, I obviously can't completely comment on foreign media, but our media over here is pretty matter of fact and rather down to Earth, so no media spectacle or Hollywood-ized version of what's actually happening, so I've no qualms in trusting and/or watching the various media on offer here. (which is the Netherlands, by the way)

@ThanosReXXX It's about the video Zeldafan79 posted. The guy is joking about how everyone is afraid of germs these days, with the culmination of the joke being that they swab your arm with alcohol before giving you a lethal injection; ''because they're afraid you get an infection''. The point is to prove how society has gone crazy with all these rules and measures.

I've seen that joke before, and decided to Google why they actually do it. And that post I quoted brought up some good points actually.

Considering how this disease can kill 30 year olds with decent immune systems...yeah...no joke

im 40...bring it on!

woops...
i mean

_{needed more manly stuff}

but with all joking aside, i wanted to tell everyone something...
i help take care of my dad these days. hes 65 now.
i cant get him sick if i were to catch the virus being as handsome as i am, even i am not 100% safe.
therefore me and my dad have made the decision that i take a 3 month leave of absence from my job.
ive been hanging out on this site for over 10 years now, so i decided to share this info.
catch me inside.

@ogo79 Yeah, I'm nervous about my parents too. Near 80 years old. I guess I'm going to have to grocery shop for them.

Ever since the mandatory mask order came out in PA last weekend, the quarantine has started to stress me. Leaving the house now feels confining with the mask order.

i feel ya.
the gloves and masks make me get hot and sweaty believe it or not.
combining that with my nervousness in general, and the nervousness with whats going on with the panic in the stores, its not the same grocery trip as it once was. not for now anyways. im predicting 3 months for this to die down. _{or until they are satisfied with the amount of human decreasion for this virus to disappear like nothing ever happened}
i shop for my dad as well, i sent 2 huge bottles of hand sanitizer to my grandmother out of city on top of that. that takes a trip to the post office...where those employees are getting infected as well.
the things we do for our parents=the things they once done for you and i.
stay safe and keep in touch.
we gotta be ready

Welp my uncle just tested positive and is showing symptoms. Since he is in his late 70s I am am extra concerned but also furious. So he abides by the stay at home order EXCEPT he kept going to church. I just wanna scream or shake him or something.