The Coronavirus thread

George Carlin was no friend of conservatives. It’s so weird to see more and more of them try to claim him these days.



Wow. Their conversation at 3:30 in the video is particularly eye-opening in a post-Trump world.

Quote: AZDuffman

Chances of dying from china virus itself less than 1 in 600. Where on earth do you get that number?

You could die in a Motor Vehicle Crash at any time in your life. Same for those other 5 causes. Covid is not around for your entire life


Heart disease (1 in 6)
Cancer (1 in 7)
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (1 in 27)
Suicide (1 in 88)
Opioid Overdose (1 in 96)
Motor Vehicle Crash (1 in 103)

Quote: Pacomartin

You could die in a Motor Vehicle Crash at any time in your life. Same for those other 5 causes. Covid is not around for your entire life


Heart disease (1 in 6)
Cancer (1 in 7)
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (1 in 27)
Suicide (1 in 88)
Opioid Overdose (1 in 96)
Motor Vehicle Crash (1 in 103)

You forgot the most important number Paco. Chance of dying from any cause 1 in 1. Stats like those possibly have some value if you want to know what you might die from. They are meaningless when thinking about how long you might live.

If we accept AZD's 1 in 600 number and assume the average person in the US has 50 years of life left we get 600/50 = 30. So a 1 in 30 chance of dying from Covid. Not good but much better than the big 2 causes of heart and cancer. This of course is true only if Covid hangs around for the next 50 years and kills at the same rate it is now.

Why can't that little menace, flip flopping Fauci answer Congressman Jordan's question?

Quote: fleaswatter

Why can't that little menace, flip flopping Fauci answer Congressman Jordan's question?

The only thing Jordon succeeded in doing was acting the fool. Fauci has no reason to address constitutional issues, as it's not his job.

Reminder: the only reason a complete idiot like Gym Jordan is in Congress is because of gerrymandering.

Quote: ams288

Reminder: the only reason a complete idiot like Gym Jordan is in Congress is because of gerrymandering.

I don't think that statement is true. It is true that the district is more gerrymandered than it's previous incarnation, but it has been occupied by a Republican since 1938.


Mike Oxley announced his retirement from Congress on November 1, 2005, effective at the end of his term in 2007. He was succeeded by Republican Jim Jordan who won before the re-districting. So he won the elections in 2006, 2008, and 2010 with the old boundaries.

In May 2019, a panel of three federal judges ruled that Ohio's congressional district map was unconstitutional and said the district was gerrymandered, but after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Rucho v. Common Cause that courts could not review allegations of gerrymandering, the district boundaries will not change until congressional district maps are redrawn in 2022.

Quote: rxwine

Quote: fleaswatter

Why can't that little menace, flip flopping Fauci answer Congressman Jordan's question?

The only thing Jordon succeeded in doing was acting the fool. Fauci has no reason to address constitutional issues, as it's not his job.

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE???? CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE?? WTF LOL LOL

By democrat congressman Jim Clyburn's answer in the video, he UNDERSTOOD what Jim Jordan was asking. It disappoints me, but does NOT surprise me, that you failed to understand and grasp what Jim Jordan was asking.

Quote: Pacomartin

I don't think that statement is true. It is true that the district is more gerrymandered than it's previous incarnation, but it has been occupied by a Republican since 1938.

That is not a bad shape at all.

There’s an opinion piece titled “Jim Jordon trips over his own asshole trying to attack Fauci”. You can google it.