[Shop-talk] everybody OK with Covid-19?

[eric at megageek.com]

Dave writes
>Dealing with this situation with wishful thinking is a recipe for 
disaster.

No disrespect to you, Dave, but your post brought up the problem I'm 
having with all this. None of this is directed at you or anyone here, just 
my frustration with this situation.

First, we loose tens of thousands of people each year to the flu, but 
there is never a whisper of it.  In fact, many of the people that are 
shaking in their boots now are the same people that parrot the 'I'm not 
getting a flu shot, that will just get me sick" manta.  But if they 
released an untested vaccine today, they would be lining up by the 
millions.  I hate hypocrisy.  (I'm not suggesting that you are in any way 
one of these people.)

Next, of course 'professionals' in the industry will claim that this is 
the end of days.  Just look how money is flowing into labs without 
question.  I can't say I blame them, they have most likely been fighting 
for grants for the past decade, it makes sense to hype it up for funding 
now.

Finally, the news networks (both sides) have been driving this agenda to 
sell ad space.  I will stand by my guns here and say that this is nothing 
more than any of the other flus that go around this time of year.  If the 
media wasn't crying about a falling sky, people wouldn't panic and life 
would be much more predictable.  They will cause more panic before this is 
over.

I say this as a person (almost 50) WITH respiratory issues and I will NOT 
change any habit as a result of this.  But I am getting more shop time and 
it's awesome!

One more final note-  I have looked in all my sofas, under all my 
cushions, and I didn't find ANY women to spend time with.  8>(  I guess I 
need to shop at better furniture stores!



"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson 
-Who is John Galt?
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