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  1. jmillard308

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    It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900.

    On your 14th birthday, World War I starts and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

    On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy.

    When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war.

    Smallpox was epidemic until you were in your 40’s, as it killed 300 million people during your lifetime.

    At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. From your birth, until you are 55 you dealt with the fear of Polio epidemics each summer. You experience friends and family contracting polio and being paralyzed and/or die.

    At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict. During the Cold War, you lived each day with the fear of nuclear annihilation. On your 62nd birthday, you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, almost ended. When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends.

    Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How did they endure all of that? When you were a kid in 1985 and didn’t think your 85-year-old grandparent understood how hard school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing art. Refined and enlightening as time goes on. Let’s try and keep things in perspective.

    Your parents and/or grandparents were called to endure all of the above – you are called to stay home and sit on your couch!!!
     
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  2. Steve355F1

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    I had no idea Moretti had been through so much.
     
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  3. Horse

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    Don’t be mean, that’s not about Moretti.

    Poor PP on the other hand....,


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  4. moretti

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    That's right sonny, you just mind your manners now :p
     
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  5. moretti

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    Poor PP ???

    Are you kidding ??!!!

    He's loaded
     
  6. Horse

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    True, and think he was born well before 1900 too.
     
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  7. moretti

    moretti Five Time F1 World Champ
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    How did you know the time ?

    7pm seems a little civilised for a birth :p
     
  8. simon klein

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  9. Aircon

    Aircon Ten Time F1 World Champ
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    And what do you make of that, Simon? Did you have a point? He's asked a simple question... He answered it then it was twisted and misconstrued, as usual.
     
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  10. Aircon

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  11. Horse

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    How do we compare to the rest of the world in percentage terms?


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  12. Ferraridoc

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    Let's hope, but very unlikely. The economy has to open up, even down in Danandrewstan. This will lead to new spikes in cases, but hopefully a moderate response on a local level (isolate, test and trace), and not a nation-wide knee jerk reaction. We have enough acute bed capacity to deal with 10,000 new cases per day, and we can't stay like this until a vaccine is developed. At 10,000 new cases per day, herd immunity is years away, so the best course is to keep the numbers low, hope for an early breakthrough on a vaccine, and open up the economy with vigilant testing.
     
  13. moretti

    moretti Five Time F1 World Champ
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    It's 100% us and 100% them
     
  14. Aircon

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    World numbers, but this would be more inaccurate IMO

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  15. IanB

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    I agree, you can't believe the world numbers because there is no consistent reporting standard for the difference between death from WuFlu vs death with WuFlu.

    It's also very likely that the Chinese have understated their death rates.
     
  16. Aircon

    Aircon Ten Time F1 World Champ
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    Please explain to Dr statistics and Moretti and Simon.
     
  17. PAP 348

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    +1
     
  18. Horse

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    FFS, you are joking?
     
  19. moretti

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    It's ok, I don't believe anything you lot say ..... you're all pelicans :p
     
  20. Aircon

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    I didn't say it would be easy.
     
  21. moretti

    moretti Five Time F1 World Champ
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    Nothing good is ever easy
     
  22. jmillard308

    jmillard308 F1 Veteran
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  23. moretti

    moretti Five Time F1 World Champ
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    :D

    I use to belong to the Far Canal Ski Club ..... is that good enough ?
     
  24. Aircon

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  25. IanB

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