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I see no point in jockeying back and forth about the quality of the news source. Besides, it is a poll and did not even come from them: And this perception of a partisan divide is one I tend to agree with, for now, I have noticed it in the people around me. I believe the left is far more strung out by the news due to the many recent media outrages they have been bombarded with. They now cannot tell fact from fiction. The UK approach is much much more sensible. Don't shut anything down. If anyone needs to be protected by quarantine, it's the old folks. The rest of us will get the virus, or not, and get over it same as any other year.

It's become increasing clear that there is something missing in this story. There's a logical disconnect between symptoms, demographics, and our response. I smell politics...

I heard the virus could mutate, and right now is fairly tame so the best protection is to get the virus now and develop immunity. We all need to be exposed to the virus as soon as possible.

If you are freaking out scared of the virus, chances are you are a Democrat. Deep partisan divide over coronavirus threat: poll Sixty-eight percent of Democrats said they were concerned that a family member could contract the virus. But that number dropped to 40 percent among Republicans. Nearly eight in 10 Democrats felt the worst was yet to come in coping with the pandemic. That number dropped in half to 40 percent among Republicans. It should be no surprise that dim witted leftists, who demonstrate a high level of gullibility are the main factor causing excessive hype in reaction. That companies like Nike are the first to close down was another clue. These shutdowns represent a bigger threat than COVID-19. It’s the left again. Russians are enjoying it, I’ll wager.

Meanwhile in the UK, where they are not shutting everything down and keeping kids at home, Boris Johnson's chief scientist has a very different view.

Nike reports they are shuttering all stores in America, and world-wide. Nike to shut all its stores in the US, other parts of the world amid coronavirus fears I fear that this is only the beginning. Other stores will begin to close one by one including malls, large retail centres, grocery stores, gas stations. Queue the mass panic, better get to Metro now and buy everything while you still can. Then make for the exit, stage left.

Losing sleep over this now, are we? Where are you when we need you, superman. Someone put up the bat signal. Send smoke signals, Hepl. I try to be pragmatic about these things, at least the virus is non-partisan.

I agree about the coronavirus we should not be sad nor glad, we should be mad; very mad as hell at the way our health care system and emergency readiness is so totally unprepared. The result of decades of nothing but cut, cut, cut to these services. Meanwhile bureaucratic costs keep going up. There is no limit to that department, it seems. Well, how do you like it now Mr. Trudeau. Things are not looking so pretty anymore. It's always easy to be a leader when there is no big problem, when all is sunshine and smiles. But when there is a problem, that's when real leadership needs to come out. Meanwhile in Ottawa: Granted these are fairly big problems to solve, now that we've receded so far away from an actually working model. So better get started working on them now. Then we can forget about this virus and get back to working on the other really big problems we have to solve.

To me that is what you said, because I do not see a serious problem yet with his presidency. You have to separate the man you dislike with the results of his presidency. As an outsider I have no idea if he's a good US president. Overall state of things seems to look pretty good down there. No one gives credit to Trump, evidenced in this very thread a few posts up is the reason. For example, I like his recent announcement that interest on students federal loans is suspended "until further notice". Not just for two weeks. Haven't heard such committments from our side of the border. Despite wonderful speeches and heartfelt wishes in their talk and tweets, there's not much action. THese are the things which matter at the grassroots level. Not how couth he is. We the folk are also not very couth.

You're saying Joe Biden is good enough, because Donald Trump is already a demented president. Sure, that sounds logico

I think their argument is a little twisted, but it did work in getting the legal system to agree with them. I do support the principle that any business can pick and choose whomever they want to do business with, and need not substantiate their reasons.

Nice, do you still have any paper? You people are talking about reading. My problems are more fundamental...

I have no problem with social distancing. It's a good thing, damned good. Kind of difficult to do though, when you live in high-density urban housing. Then no distancing is possible, it's just simple physics. The more people you have in one areas, the greater the percentage chance the virus is going to appear there. And run rampant, wiping them out in great numbers. Meanwhile out in rural areas it is easy for us to stay safe and to isolate ourselves. Not much to do really, it's already like that out here. Economic distancing? You wish pal. You really are stupid, if you think the bank is going to take the hit for you. Government bailout, I think not. Your not native or just arrived from somewhere else. You dumb Canadian white boy, get nothing.

This town is officially out of TP. Stupid panicking morons went out and bought every single packet. Not even the expensive stuff, like your triple-plies, and such. Not that we could use that around here anyway, these old toilets always get clogged with that stuff. It has to be two-ply. Nothing at Loblaws. I heard even Shoppers Drug Mart is sold out. Might have to order some online... amazon can get em sent worldwide to your door within the same day.

Some of those Chinese ladies are kinda cute.

I'm taking the position, carry on with my day and do whatever I need to do. I expect that most likely I will get the virus. Really best thing that could happen is if everybody in the world gets the virus. Then we will all become immune, and this mass media sensation will finally be forced to come to an end. For it is the more deadly virus.

In fact I have noted it, but wasn't sure if it was real, or just a phase you were going through. I commend you on coming out of the closet. You are a wonderful example that Trump conversion therapy actually works.

We are being manipulated

I can give real world examples, but some of them would be off-topic. In this context I can cite that the death rate of COVID-19 as evidence of a different kind of sickness altogether. For while there is no cure, there are still life-saving measures that can be taken when a person has pneumonia. There are other examples in Chinese culture that offend common sense, when it comes to controlling the outbreak of disease. But here is the rub- we live in a modern interconnected world. Fast transport of everything from information to people to goods. What we see in this frightful tale i that we are all much more closely connected than we realize. That means what comes around, goes around and any nation is vulnerable to the shortcomings of others, those who will not abide by modern safety convention, regulations, environmental protection. This means no matter how clean we are, or how much we abide by the rules, if they do not, then we get it anyway. And it is your modern technological society, your planes and your cars, and your computers and cell phones, and your shoes and your Kleenexes, that make these foul illnesses appear, and get transported to every remote corner of the world.

Agreed but I think we can generalize to a certain extent based on people's cultural values, and the nation's political system, which are linked of course. Authoritarian systems discourage the growth of the individual. This is what I think. And this leads to a lack of true expertise on the ground, where it is most needed in emergencies. Let me put that another way- Incompetence among the proletariat is unwise, in a high-tech society. ====

It's ok for you to hate right wingers though- because they're not a race, that makes it ok.

Sorry but your murderous vision for the future is not likely to happen. Diseases generally prefer the unclean and morally degenerate. IE. the left. Maybe if you people bathed a little more frequently we wouldn't have this problem, but nah. That too is not likely to happen. So it appears the virus will do a little cleanup of its own. Its called theory of evolution, fella, strong will survive. And you'd better get used to it!

Right, Trump's secret code word. So this was all just another setup.

Naming the virus has become a topic of contention in the media. Yes we know it as Coronavirus (all one word), and the much scarier sounding COVID-19 (all capital letters). But more socially relevant names are being floated on social networks: - Chinese Virus - Wuhan Virus Both of which have drawn criticism by the left, ironically labelled as 'racism'. I guess some people are invested in the Chinese stocks, then. Someone at work suggested "Stupid bat soup eating bastards virus". I thought it was a little rude, but a pretty good one. You may have your own.