Comments on: 20th COVID-19 Death, 11 New Cases Reported In Escambia County http://www.northescambia.com/2020/05/20th-covid-19-death-11-new-cases-reported-in-escambia-county Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Reality Check http://www.northescambia.com/2020/05/20th-covid-19-death-11-new-cases-reported-in-escambia-county/comment-page-1#comment-415393 Reality Check Sat, 16 May 2020 19:33:01 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=403318#comment-415393 @Rasheed, Your examples are weak arguments. Yeah, car accidents happen, but when people purposefully drive in a way that results in a fatality, there is most definitely accountability. Vehicular manslaughter comes to mind. Smoking: We’ve known for a long time that smoking is bad for you. Despite massive amounts of cash used to lobby for weaker laws by tobacco companies, we as a society have moved ourselves away from its rampant use. We’ve decided if you want to smoke after you turn the legal age and ruin your OWN life, then fine. We also mitigate others being harmed by preventing smokers from smoking in front of entrances to businesses, campuses, in cars with minors, and just about any other place where someone could inadvertently breathe second hand smoke. Alcohol follows some of the same criteria. Finally, as far as influenza. Those numbers are for a complete year. Since you seem kind of clueless, that’s 365 days. This virus has killed just over 88,000 people in just four months. That’s over 20,000 more people than the higher end of your example in 1/3 the amount of time. Cars, alcohol, and cigarettes are not contagious. No one is going to SUDDENLY get sick because they come into contact with them. I’ve got a novel idea, leave the medical advice to the doctors and nurse practitioners. The reason why this is so different is because your choice to go and get sick and infect others you come into contact with are not necessarily other’s decisions. Yet, you may carry the virus for 14 days before showing symptoms. How many people would you interact with in that time? How many people would they in turn interact with in a new cycle of 14 days. That’s exactly how the number of infected/dead rose so swiftly from 1 to 88,000. Because of people that think like you do, this number has not been begun to slow down. I’m so happy that stupidity isn’t contagious. Who knows how many you’d infect. I know the economy is everyone’s new concern, but until there is a vaccine or some other kind of treatment, the life you knew is gone. There won’t be an economy if there isn’t people to spend money. @Rasheed,

Your examples are weak arguments. Yeah, car accidents happen, but when people purposefully drive in a way that results in a fatality, there is most definitely accountability. Vehicular manslaughter comes to mind.

Smoking: We’ve known for a long time that smoking is bad for you. Despite massive amounts of cash used to lobby for weaker laws by tobacco companies, we as a society have moved ourselves away from its rampant use. We’ve decided if you want to smoke after you turn the legal age and ruin your OWN life, then fine. We also mitigate others being harmed by preventing smokers from smoking in front of entrances to businesses, campuses, in cars with minors, and just about any other place where someone could inadvertently breathe second hand smoke.

Alcohol follows some of the same criteria.

Finally, as far as influenza. Those numbers are for a complete year. Since you seem kind of clueless, that’s 365 days. This virus has killed just over 88,000 people in just four months. That’s over 20,000 more people than the higher end of your example in 1/3 the amount of time. Cars, alcohol, and cigarettes are not contagious. No one is going to SUDDENLY get sick because they come into contact with them.

I’ve got a novel idea, leave the medical advice to the doctors and nurse practitioners. The reason why this is so different is because your choice to go and get sick and infect others you come into contact with are not necessarily other’s decisions. Yet, you may carry the virus for 14 days before showing symptoms. How many people would you interact with in that time? How many people would they in turn interact with in a new cycle of 14 days. That’s exactly how the number of infected/dead rose so swiftly from 1 to 88,000. Because of people that think like you do, this number has not been begun to slow down. I’m so happy that stupidity isn’t contagious. Who knows how many you’d infect.

I know the economy is everyone’s new concern, but until there is a vaccine or some other kind of treatment, the life you knew is gone. There won’t be an economy if there isn’t people to spend money.

]]> By: Molino Mom http://www.northescambia.com/2020/05/20th-covid-19-death-11-new-cases-reported-in-escambia-county/comment-page-1#comment-415387 Molino Mom Sat, 16 May 2020 18:34:17 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=403318#comment-415387 Numbers continue to rise but lets open everything up! Ridiculous. I don't care to put myself or my family in danger of DEATH so we will all continue to do as we have been doing - masks, gloves, sanitizer and social distancing! People are crazy. Numbers continue to rise but lets open everything up! Ridiculous. I don’t care to put myself or my family in danger of DEATH so we will all continue to do as we have been doing – masks, gloves, sanitizer and social distancing! People are crazy.

]]> By: Rasheed Jackson http://www.northescambia.com/2020/05/20th-covid-19-death-11-new-cases-reported-in-escambia-county/comment-page-1#comment-415377 Rasheed Jackson Sat, 16 May 2020 14:38:09 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=403318#comment-415377 @ Barbara, Have you stopped driving? Between forty and fifty thousand people die in auto accidents each year but every day we get in our cars and go about our lives taking every precaution that we can to protect ourselves but still putting ourselves at risk. What about Smoking? 500,000 people a year die from smoking related illness. Have we outlawed cigarettes? 40,000 die from second hand smoke, so there is no argument they are only harming themselves. Then there is the alcohol issue. 28 people die each day from alcohol related vehicle crashes. Many times it is an innocent person who just happened to be in their path. Have we outlawed alcohol? No! Then there is the seasonal flu. ”CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010". You stated. "Some say we have to just live life and sacrifice those who may get it". Isn't that what we are doing every day with all these other things that are killing people? So my question is, why is this so different? @ Barbara,
Have you stopped driving? Between forty and fifty thousand people die in auto accidents each year but every day we get in our cars and go about our lives taking every precaution that we can to protect ourselves but still putting ourselves at risk.
What about Smoking? 500,000 people a year die from smoking related illness. Have we outlawed cigarettes? 40,000 die from second hand smoke, so there is no argument they are only harming themselves.
Then there is the alcohol issue. 28 people die each day from alcohol related vehicle crashes. Many times it is an innocent person who just happened to be in their path. Have we outlawed alcohol? No!
Then there is the seasonal flu. ”CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010″.
You stated. “Some say we have to just live life and sacrifice those who may get it”. Isn’t that what we are doing every day with all these other things that are killing people? So my question is, why is this so different?

]]> By: Barbara Agerton http://www.northescambia.com/2020/05/20th-covid-19-death-11-new-cases-reported-in-escambia-county/comment-page-1#comment-415356 Barbara Agerton Sat, 16 May 2020 02:20:57 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=403318#comment-415356 So sad to know this virus is responsible for so many deaths......surviving family members are suffering.........the loss...devastating...(not to mention,loss of employment) (who is going to pay the bills).............which one of us is next........some say we have to just live life and sacrifice those who may get it .....well I ask who would they sacrifice first...Grandma..Mom. Dad...a new born baby......yeah......No one .is what they will say no one in my family......like they have said many times,we are all in this together........ So sad to know this virus is responsible for so many deaths……surviving family members are suffering………the loss…devastating…(not to mention,loss of employment) (who is going to pay the bills)………….which one of us is next……..some say we have to just live life and sacrifice those who may get it …..well I ask who would they sacrifice first…Grandma..Mom. Dad…a new born baby……yeah……No one .is what they will say no one in my family……like they have said many times,we are all in this together……..

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