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You're like two peas in a pod. The good news is that Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder as a standalone condition and as defined in the DSM IV was removed in the updated DSM V. The bad news is that it's still considered dysfunctional behavior and is frequently associated with other Cluster...

25,239 coronavirus deaths in the US as of 04/14/20. 60,000 projected deaths in the US from Coronavirus (reduced from initial projection of 2.2 million deaths). 61,000 Flu-Associated Deaths in 2017-2018 U.S. Flu Season. Correlation doesn't imply causation especially when you consider that most...

Disagreeing with unsubstantiated claims and pointing out the specific flaws in your arguments hardly qualifies as "wearing someone down." Your comments are plain to see for anyone that wants to go back and look for themselves. It was textbook passive aggressive behavior and as is typical for...

You're rewriting history. You were trying to draw a clumsy parallel using Space Shuttle missions and commercial airline flights that actually contradicted your position. When I pointed out the deficiencies of your reasoning you started arguing in circles rather than acknowledge your mistake and...

You're missing the point. We experienced an actual death toll that is similar to the projected numbers (which are almost certainly going to be too high) without experiencing any of the mass hysteria and economic destruction we're currently witnessing Social distancing was supposed to be about...

There's really been nothing to respond to. I've been waiting until we have actual numbers that are consistent with the average Flu season in the US. If we actually reach that point we can then compare that to the over the top reaction we are currently experiencing. I don't seem to recall the...

I posted that comment on 03/15/20. As of that date the death toll in the US stood at 61. 61² = 3721 https://abcnews.go.com/US/coronavirus-live-updates-passengers-stuck-long-lines-airports/story?id=69602911 As of March 14th it was 59...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

You're correct. As of right now it isn't even close.

In South Korea 99% of the current cases are categorized as mild. A more appropriate analogy might be "in flight coins" that have landed heads up but have not completely come to rest.

The first person to seek treatment for the virus in China was on 12/10/19. https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-after-the-virus The first confirmed entrance of the virus into the US was on 01/13/20 (although it's possible that it was in the US several weeks before that)...

You're rationalizing. It's literally what you asked for: Worst case as in an extreme deviation from the mean. ICU stays of 58 days >ICU of 20 days. Again it was exactly what you asked for. It detracts from the point you were trying to make by proving you wrong. I gave you what you asked...

How convenient. Apparently it does since you're not even making an attempt to address most of the points I made. Your exact words were: and The answer to both of those questions was yes. I provided links to support that fact. That's not what I said. "It began with Wei Guixian, a seafood...

The problem with this view is that I don't agree with you. If the number of deaths doesn't go up very much in a few months you will have been wrong. You're correct. The Flu killed about 35,000 people in the US during a 6 month period in 2018-2019. Coronavirus has only killed 60 people during a...

I'm being relentlessly assailed for not hating Trump enough despite having not voted for him or supporting anything he's done politically. I've cited plenty of facts and statistics. I even took the time to put together a fairly detailed assessment of the situation in Italy. You're projecting...

As of right now 60 deaths in the US which over a 3 month period compared to 34,200 deaths during the 6 months of the 2018-2019 Influenza season. We've yet to experience this supposed "exponential growth" that we keep hearing about.

As a former LICSW I can honestly say that Covert Narcissists like you are the absolute worst to deal with.

Passive aggressive and gormless. That's a really super combination for you.

I've been operating on the assumption that virus occurred naturally. The tendency for sociopaths to use a crisis to their advantage is hardly a new phenomenon.

If you look at the reported cases in Italy, a lot of them are among old people - I'm not talking about deaths or severe cases, just officially confirmed cases. As an example, 80+ yrs old represent about 22% of cases, but just 6.7% of the population in Lombardia, the most affected region (left...

It's a reasonable conclusion to draw. Is the media and government response to this crisis proportionate to the response to other recent viruses with drastically higher death tolls? No. Is this overzealous response causing damage to the US economy? Yes. Which political party stands to benefit...

Wrong. Voted for HRC in 2016. They seem to more focused on driving the economy into the ground in order to defeat Trump. I never said a "large swatch". I said that his political opponents are excited by the prospect of damage to economy. I think most reasonable people do not hope for such a...

In the US they've managed to bring everything from sporting events to business actives to a screeching halt. The media has sensationalized this story almost beyond 9/11 coverage. People are stockpiling food and supplies like it's the end of the world all based on 50 deaths in 3 months. If our...

I'm comparing the first 3 months of this outbreak to the full 6 months of the 2018-2019 flu season in the US. So far the current death rate is equivalent to 1/4 of a single day during that outbreak. I'm comparing the first 3 months of this outbreak to the full 6 months of the 2018-2019 flu...

In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%. More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period. Italy showed a higher influenza attributable excess...

TIL that stating facts = being committed to a "wild theory".

Facts trump Occam's razor: 50 confirmed deaths in the US during 3 months of outbreak compared to 34,200 from previous Influenza season (Oct. 2018 - April 2019) which averaged approximately 200 deaths per day. Minimal preventative measures were taken during that outbreak which resulted in 684x...

We'll be no less or more safe than we are the day before. The only difference is that there will no longer be any political advantage to catastrophizing the situation.

Politicians caving into public pressure is literally the opposite of a conspiracy theory.

For the record only 5 of the shuttles were in use. The 6th was never deemed space-worthy. Either way it's an inappropriate way of presenting the data. As evidenced in most of the countries where the testing has significantly increased the death rate decreases dramatically among those that are...

The same reason that many of the corporations are jumping on the bandwagon. They're being pressured into it. His political opponents have done such effective job at riling up the masses that he now has no choice.

Let's not forget that Bill Gates amassed the one of the largest personal fortunes in history by licensing to IBM an operating system that he didn't own. He then turned around and bought what became MS DOS from an unsuspecting local programmer for a mere $50,000 and passed it off as his own...

It will miraculously cease to be an issue on Wednesday, November 4th 2020.

Politics.

The response is disproportionate to a realistic assessment of the actual threat. The various government and cooperate entities all have varying motives for the alarmist behavior.

First we would need to address the incorrect statistics that you provided. You would need to compare actual missions per shuttle rather than just the number of shuttles in use. 135 Space shuttle missions vs the 5 Space Shuttles that actually flew missions. The total number of crew members of...

After the election when there's no longer any political benefit to be had.

It's nice to see you've gotten a head start on the damage control that is going to occur once this thing fizzles and the inevitable finger pointing that will happen in response to the massive economic damage that the overresponse will have caused.

Just like the AIDS crisis in the 80s. Somehow those projected numbers never materialized in the US either.

As of right now this "runaway train" has killed less than 1% of the number of people that died as a result of the recent influenza outbreak.

As of March 13, 2020, there have been 1,201 deaths in Europe overall due to the coronavirus The European number of deaths attributable to influenza during 2017/18 epidemic was estimated to be 152,000 persons.

40 Coronavirus deaths in the US to date vs 35,000 deaths annually from influenza.

Imagine if this thing gets so bad that by the end of the year in the US alone it causes 35 million people to get sick, 16 million people to go a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths. A public health crisis like that is almost beyond imagination...

That was implicit in my initial statement. I never said they wouldn't be.

Clearly defined parameters: By the end of 2020 the verifiable death rate as a percentage of the total population and as a direct result of the Coronavirus will be lower in the US than in the majority of all other countries significantly affected by the virus.

Absolutely.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You don't even know which websites I was referring to yet you're convinced that they aren't authentic. This is precisely the kind of irrational hatred that got him elected in the first place.

The threat in other countries is not automatically equivalent to the threat in the US. As I pointed out earlier the population density in those countries is significantly higher. You're rationalizing. The comments are from average Americans that happen to lean to one end of the political...

If people were calling a thunderstorm a Cat 5 hurricane I would be inclined to downplay their hysteria. Especially if the situation was being exploited for political gain. I would however still grab a raincoat and drive more carefully in those conditions.

People are openly celebrating this situation on political websites. You'd have to be delusional to think this won't be used for political gain.

I agree that precautions should be taken especially in heavily populated areas but as a whole it will be much less of a issue in the US than it will be elsewhere in the world. I also happen to live on an island in the Pacific with an extremely low population density and ample amounts of food...

No need. There will be more diagnosed cases than there are now as the virus runs its course. It will peak over the next few months and then likely fade in the US after that. In the meantime you'll be screaming that the sky is falling because your political views are making it difficult for you...

Population density and urbanization – Diseases spread more quickly among people who live in close proximity to each other. With more people living in dense conditions, there is more frequent contact between more individuals, allowing disease transmission to easily occur. Population density in...

I've already seen people in other online forums gleefully salivating at the damage that this will do to the US economy and how it can be used to defeat Trump.

I'm no fan of Trump but there has been an extreme faction of his political opponents that have made it clear that they will do everything possible to eliminate him. Of course they're going to try and use this to their advantage.

Within the US there is a tendency to sensationalize negative events. It usually involves organizations that are not politically aligned with conservative politicians.

As cynical as it may sound, it seems fairly obvious that at least some of the media hysteria is a calculated attempt to damage the president's chances of winning reelection.

I don't know if it would make much of a difference. They likely had full access to the University of Minnesota tech and it hasn't exactly produced robust results. It may be that the device itself has limitations and that improved timings will only make a marginal difference.

Fair enough but keep in mind that a relationship at this point would be even worse. Once you get to a point where the physical problems start to subside I would still recommend DBT. It's different than traditional therapy and can be very helpful for someone with your issues.

The Minnesota device appears to be the most effective but I believe the Susan Shore device will be a close second. IMO the Neuromod trials are dubious because of: 1) The failure of MuteButton indicates a tendency towards a rush to market. 2) The fact that they had to bring in Hubert Lim...