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Post by Cassie on Apr 19, 2020 12:50:02 GMT 10
That would take a miracle It won't end anytime soon and most of the fun things are likely to be shut down until at least 2021.
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Post by bestmvp29 on Apr 19, 2020 13:14:22 GMT 10
If there is a God, then why does he let horrible stuff like this happen? Honestly, it’s stuff like coronavirus that makes me even more atheist. If God is supposedly good, then why is the world currently going through the worst pandemic in the 21st century? Why is there still bad in the world? Why do people commit suicide? The whole idea that there’s an all-loving God just doesn’t make any sense to me. I feel like the only reason people feel better after praying is cause they truly believe that God heard them. I think I can answer that. God is good and all-loving, but He is also holy. This world has gotten more wicked and God hates evil and wickedness. It all started with Adam and Eve, when they ate the fruit that God told them not to eat. That was disobedience and the start of what was called SIN. Sin is what destroys nations, families, relationship, etc. That is why He had to send down His Son, Jesus, to die for all humanity, defeating sin so that we could be made new again if we accept what he has done for us. However, the world is still in sin, and more than ever before. Also, the world is run by the devil, not God. He does own it and has the control, but Satan is the one that is responsible for all the things going on and has a major influence on the world. Because of the world's disobedience, He had to punish us with this coronavirus trash. And God could talk to us in many ways, through the Bible, through a person, and rarely, He could actually talk to someone, etc. God hears our prayers, but He does not always say yes to our prayers, because either what we ask for is ridiculous and not in His will, it is not the time for that certain thing, or we have the wrong motive.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 13:46:07 GMT 10
Logarithmic makes more sense. Think about it. 1 sick person can't infect 1,000 other people, but 1,000 sick people can easily infect 1,000 more. The more people that have the disease the faster it's gonna spread. If the logarithmic curve is flattening it means the disease isn't spreading as quickly. A flat logarithmic curve is a flat linear curve too obviously, but since that's not happening the best you can hope for is a very small slope. See, the thing is logaritmic has the same amount of space between 1 and 10 as it would between 10 and 100, which would make no sense. If the slope is smaller, that does not make it smaller when 10 and 100 would be nine times the space between 1 and 10. It makes total sense. Think about it. 10 is 10 times 1, 100 is 10 times 10, 1000 is 10 times 100 etc. and the disease spreads exponentially so it makes sense to get the natural exponent involved. You have a degree in computer science, right? I'm assuming you took Calculus... the derivative of e^x is e^x itself, so in a linear-scale graph the slope of an exponential function would always be increasing. If you wanted to see if the spread of the disease was being slowed down with increased hand washing or social distancing you wouldn't see it on a linear graph because the slope would keep rising, as all exponential functions do. It's pretty much useless for tracking disease spread. But on a logarithmic scale you would see the effects of social distancing, because originally the slope is constant/linear (assuming an exponential increase), and the slope would decrease as the disease becomes less infectious.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 14:13:13 GMT 10
Not to appear as a religion apologist, but I think it's exactly in these sorts of time that people seek out more spiritual fulfillment as a getaway from this world and the toxicity of the medias/social media, and have something to look forward to during this sort of grim times. I was actually thinking of getting myself into meditation lately. On the philosophy of religion, I think it's easiest to explain that the Abrahamic God came into being when death was a fact of life. 80% of children died before the age of 5, 30% of women died during childbirth. Deformities, disabilities, illnesses were just a daily occurrence in antiquity. Thus, people didn't think God was "cruel" in inflicting death on its population, rather, being in good health was seen as a sign of God's blessing, his benevolence and his miraculous powers. Plagues and the like were seen as God being upset at the sinfulness of his subjects, not his cruelty. During the plague, people wrote "Lord have mercy" on their doors to ward the disease away. Nowadays (without the help of God I might add) death and illness are extremely rare and tragic in even the most normal of circumstances. Being healthy and able-bodied is now the default, which is actually unprecedented in human history. Now when someone dies unexpectedly, it's seen as a cruel fate, something that shouldn't have open. That God is evil because he allows people to die or become sick is actually a rather novel idea. It will be interesting to see how religion responds to this pandemic going forward.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 19, 2020 19:40:24 GMT 10
What is wrong with them? Seriously. Obviously not every American is doing this or is even in support of it, but I think there is something fundamentally wrong with America's culture/psyche when this type of irresponsible behaviour is going ahead while community transmission rates remain high. The fact that the President himself is actively encouraging these protests by tweeting things like "liberate Michigan" and "liberate Virginia" just goes to show that the United States is both corrupt and broken as a society. It's an embarrassment. If this was July the beaches would be rammed, we've been given three more weeks lockdown and they'd better sort stuff out before ut turns nasty because I can foresee more and more people flouting the roolz It's already starting to happen in my area. I went to a nursery with my Dad yesterday afternoon and there were people everywhere, people weren't abiding by the social distancing rules. We also happened to drive past a beach on the way home and people were sitting in their cars, sitting at picnic tables etc.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 20, 2020 2:52:15 GMT 10
Unfortunately at 10 am this morning my grandmother died from Coronavirus she was 94
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Post by karlpalaka on Apr 20, 2020 5:34:47 GMT 10
What is wrong with them? Seriously. Obviously not every American is doing this or is even in support of it, but I think there is something fundamentally wrong with America's culture/psyche when this type of irresponsible behaviour is going ahead while community transmission rates remain high. The fact that the President himself is actively encouraging these protests by tweeting things like "liberate Michigan" and "liberate Virginia" just goes to show that the United States is both corrupt and broken as a society. It's an embarrassment. If this was July the beaches would be rammed, we've been given three more weeks lockdown and they'd better sort stuff out before ut turns nasty because I can foresee more and more people flouting the roolz It's already starting to happen in my area. I went to a nursery with my Dad yesterday afternoon and there were people everywhere, people weren't abiding by the social distancing rules. We also happened to drive past a beach on the way home and people were sitting in their cars, sitting at picnic tables etc. Yeah, why are crowds doing protests to avoid lockdowns? The whole point of a lockdown is to avoid the coronavirus so that nobody will have to do a lockdown. Yeah, I cannot take this any longer.
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Post by karlpalaka on Apr 20, 2020 5:39:43 GMT 10
I would do anything right now to at least stand outside my house. I havent been outside my house in five weeks, and now protesters are being selfish in lifting lockdowns, which is why more than forty percent of active cases come from the US.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 21:38:37 GMT 10
I would do anything right now to at least stand outside my house. I havent been outside my house in five weeks. What do you do for food provisions?
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Post by longaotian on Apr 21, 2020 1:16:45 GMT 10
Unfortunately at 10 am this morning my grandmother died from Coronavirus she was 94 Oh damn I am so sorry to heart that  .
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Post by Cassie on Apr 21, 2020 3:34:14 GMT 10
Unpopular opinion but I think they are protesting because they know that they could very well be jobless and maybe even homeless because if we keep the lockdowns in place, the economy could crash completely.
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Post by broadstreet223 on Apr 21, 2020 11:32:39 GMT 10
Every time we get closer to the end of the stay-at-home order, it gets extended. This is really getting on my nerves, like make up your damn mind already Mr. Wolf.
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Post by Cassie on Apr 21, 2020 12:48:47 GMT 10
Every time we get closer to the end of the stay-at-home order, it gets extended. This is really getting on my nerves, like make up your damn mind already Mr. Wolf. The longer this lockdown goes on, the higher the unemployment rate goes on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 13:33:07 GMT 10
Every time we get closer to the end of the stay-at-home order, it gets extended. This is really getting on my nerves, like make up your damn mind already Mr. Wolf. The longer this lockdown goes on, the higher the unemployment rate goes on. the longer the lockdown gets ignored, the higher the deaths count goes. We can survive unemployment but mortality is a little harder to overcome.
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Post by Cassie on Apr 21, 2020 13:44:55 GMT 10
The longer this lockdown goes on, the higher the unemployment rate goes on. the longer the lockdown gets ignored, the higher the deaths count goes. We can survive unemployment but mortality is a little harder to overcome. But if we survive unemployment, we may not get our jobs back. If we shut down the economy, it will collapse and the virus will still kill a substantial amount of people for a while - and then the homeless rate will skyrocket due to people being unable to get their jobs back due to layoffs and bankruptcies.
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