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Let's not get carried away with the Covid fear hysteria You know that the olfactory nerve is a cranial nerve, it's actually part of the brain. Anything neurotr

Let's not get carried away with the Covid fear hysteria You know that the olfactory nerve is a cranial nerve, it's actually part of the brain. Anything neurotropic should be cause for extreme caution.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
The world is already being extremely cautious about the coronavirus, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.
- claudeganon 6y ago
  Citation needed for the US. The two sides seem to be “workers and grandma need to die for the economy” and “workers and grandma need to die for the economy, in phases, as described by this PowerPoint.”
  - mmmeff 6y ago
    Let's leave the political jabs out of HN and keep this civil. Realistically, the US isn't trying to kill their grandmas.
    - ageofwant 6y ago
      Realistically, a tree is judged by its fruit, not what it blabs on about on national tv.
    - klyrs 6y ago
      > Realistically, the US isn't trying to kill their grandmas. You're delineating intentional acts, and heedless acts with well-known and predictable consequences. That's an important difference in the mind of the actor, but grandma dies either way.
    - claudeganon 6y ago
      The US has the highest death rate from COVID in the developed world, leaving over 100K dead, a lot of which has been centered in long term care facilities. As of early May, Taiwan has had 7 total deaths. Taiwan is what “realistically” not trying to kill your grandmas looks like.
      - perl4ever 6y ago
        The US is nowhere near the highest death rate in the developed world. Countries with higher death rates per million people include Belgium, Spain, UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Ireland. Also, it seems fishy that you're even using the phrase "in the developed world" because all of the countries that have the highest death rates are developed countries anyway.
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    - asveikau 6y ago
      You can't just declare a statement to be "politics" and claim to be above the topic, have it be automatically "uncivil" as if that shuts down a discussion or saves you from evaluating the claim. I'm sorry to say, such an attitude does little to save grandma!
      - SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
        "You're killing grandma!" isn't an attempt to have a discussion. It's at best a primal scream and at worst a bullying tactic - it aims to shut down discussion, to make anyone who disagrees with you look bad.
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  - dang 6y ago
    If you keep posting this kind of flamebait to HN, we are going to end up banning you. We've warned you many times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zaat 6y ago
  This statement conflicts sharply with my anecdotal experiences from today. Went to the grocery store, the cashier tells the woman before me that she doesn't believe in the whole thing, its a conspiracy against the people and it needs investigation. I told her that there's more than 300k dead people globaly, you can't deny reality. She asks if I know personally anyone, told her I do, actually know 3 people who were severely seek and one of them died. From there I went to visit my grandpa, in the hospital, after having a heart attack last week. He is 98. He sees me with the mask, tell me he don't ever follow orders, didn't even follow the Nazis orders. I tell him I wear the mask because I actually believe the situation is dangerous, he looked at me as if I said the weirdest possible thing.
sroussey 6y ago
SARS2 causing problems with blood vessels is super scary.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago

The world is already being extremely cautious about the coronavirus, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

claudeganon 6y ago
Citation needed for the US. The two sides seem to be “workers and grandma need to die for the economy” and “workers and grandma need to die for the economy, in phases, as described by this PowerPoint.”
- mmmeff 6y ago
  Let's leave the political jabs out of HN and keep this civil. Realistically, the US isn't trying to kill their grandmas.
  - ageofwant 6y ago
    Realistically, a tree is judged by its fruit, not what it blabs on about on national tv.
  - klyrs 6y ago
    > Realistically, the US isn't trying to kill their grandmas. You're delineating intentional acts, and heedless acts with well-known and predictable consequences. That's an important difference in the mind of the actor, but grandma dies either way.
  - claudeganon 6y ago
    The US has the highest death rate from COVID in the developed world, leaving over 100K dead, a lot of which has been centered in long term care facilities. As of early May, Taiwan has had 7 total deaths. Taiwan is what “realistically” not trying to kill your grandmas looks like.
    - perl4ever 6y ago
      The US is nowhere near the highest death rate in the developed world. Countries with higher death rates per million people include Belgium, Spain, UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Ireland. Also, it seems fishy that you're even using the phrase "in the developed world" because all of the countries that have the highest death rates are developed countries anyway.
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  - asveikau 6y ago
    You can't just declare a statement to be "politics" and claim to be above the topic, have it be automatically "uncivil" as if that shuts down a discussion or saves you from evaluating the claim. I'm sorry to say, such an attitude does little to save grandma!
    - SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
      "You're killing grandma!" isn't an attempt to have a discussion. It's at best a primal scream and at worst a bullying tactic - it aims to shut down discussion, to make anyone who disagrees with you look bad.
  - deleted 6y ago
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- dang 6y ago
  If you keep posting this kind of flamebait to HN, we are going to end up banning you. We've warned you many times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
zaat 6y ago
This statement conflicts sharply with my anecdotal experiences from today. Went to the grocery store, the cashier tells the woman before me that she doesn't believe in the whole thing, its a conspiracy against the people and it needs investigation. I told her that there's more than 300k dead people globaly, you can't deny reality. She asks if I know personally anyone, told her I do, actually know 3 people who were severely seek and one of them died. From there I went to visit my grandpa, in the hospital, after having a heart attack last week. He is 98. He sees me with the mask, tell me he don't ever follow orders, didn't even follow the Nazis orders. I tell him I wear the mask because I actually believe the situation is dangerous, he looked at me as if I said the weirdest possible thing.

sroussey 6y ago

SARS2 causing problems with blood vessels is super scary.