getting a bit bloody close !

Exactly I did not mention men not through misogyny but because women numbers are much more important to population growth than men. I am more likely to be accused of misandry. I am returning your misplaced anger emoticon I have not used it:devilish:.
Yes mother nature can kill an awful lot of men or not, whichever you wish.
It is the reproductive females that matter. I am not suggesting mother nature comes up with this policy, someone else said the covid 19 virus was natures way of doing it. I just pointed out that killing old people has only a minor effect on population. Putting any further interpretation on my words is for your own benefit, nothing to do with me.
 
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One thing I've noticed is that people rarely get the common cold these days, the sneezing, runny nose variety, over and done with in 3-4 days. Like you say Marie, people get a virus that lasts for days, if you are lucky, or a lot longer if unlucky and they can be far more debilitating than the common cold.

Could part of the problem be due to poor air quality or people over sanitising themselves, I dunno?
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mariesnowgoose said:
Poor air quality would probably be the first one I'd plump for.
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I started with this virus before Xmas, a few times I have thought it had gone and then it is back with a vengeance, the air quality is OK here but I had been having a lot of tests and treatments at the hospital prior to this starting so I could have contracted it from someone there, it has completely knocked me for six but not knowing when I will recover doesn't help, I had pneumonia 5 years ago and it wasn't as bad as this but we are staying positive and cheerful.😷🤭🤭

mariesnowgoose said:
I gather he's a bit of a card shark so maybe that's why - he moves those 12 fingers so fast you never get time to stop and count them 😁
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I was always called fast fingers Terry but didn't know why 😉
 
mariesnowgoose said:
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I think you need to tell Derek that, Mark. He suggested nature should kill reproductive age women to keep population in bounds, not me, I just responded to his comment :)

Nature fulfils the aim of keeping population levels within bounds for certain animals by them naturally adjusting to not enough space/food/resources etc. to make it worth breeding, so they just stop breeding.

Humans need wars and pandemics to achieve the same end result because, unfortunately, there is no inbuilt natural mechanism to make us stop breeding when conditions aren't suitable.

Take a look at Africa and just be grateful we were all lucky enough to be born into an advanced, wealthy nation.
Wars and pandemics are already natural mechanisms for reducing human population size.

Suggesting mother nature come up with a selective way of culling females as opposed to males is kind of skewed logic on Dereks's part, and hints slightly at misogynism to me.

Plus, if men are so irrelevant in both your scenarios, then the world can easily afford to lose a few, no?

There are more of you than women anyway. Simples. Bye bye! 🖐 :devilish: 😉 😂
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Derek never suggested that at all. He used the word "if", not "should"
 
mark61 said:
Derek never suggested that at all. He used the word "if", not "should"
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Getting a bit pedantic about semantics, wot ...?! 😴 😁
I think we've guessed it's a completely imaginary scenario Derek's 'suggesting', unless I've missed a massive overnight evolutionary shift? 🤣

I'm just hoping Derek can perhaps give an expanded explanation of his theory why, "IF" mother nature were to reduce the population, she'd cull reproductive age women?

Sorry - does the ('d) in "she'd" need to read "should" or "would"? Maybe it needs to read "might" instead? Hmm. Who knows or cares?

Woah! I just came all over shivery and thought I saw a ghostly apparition reminiscent of good old Wintonian sitting on my shoulder rofl 😂😂😂

Maybe I've got corona?! 😱😳😂


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A man can impregnate multiple women in one day Marie. The women will take 9 months to bring forth a child. In those 9 months the same man could have impregnated another 1,000 women*.

* I am not describing myself in any way, shape or form and any rumours to the contrary are put about by jealous blokes. :giggle:
 
Well what could this be hiding I ask myself, Bad news, surely not! If that were the case and heaven forfend perhaps a global financial crisis might be looming.
Perfect to blame a global downturn on a virus, not that anyone would do such a thing, or even increase public spending and reduce interest rates to say, look what we are doing!
Only a cynic would suggest such a thing as recession and hiding the mismanagement on a virus.
 
@mariesnowgoose hi Marie, all I ask is to actually read my first post again. Words do matter. If I say "if" I do not mean should. There is a difference in the meaning. If you just want to double down on your misreading, I will leave the matter. Everyone else can read my actual words.
Apparently people have so little logic that the corona beer you mention has taken a hit in sales in case the beer is contaminated!
 
Derekoak said:
@mariesnowgoose hi Marie, all I ask is to actually read my first post again. Words do matter. If I say "if" I do not mean should. There is a difference in the meaning. If you just want to double down on your misreading, I will leave the matter. Everyone else can read my actual words.
Apparently people have so little logic that the corona beer you mention has taken a hit in sales in case the beer is contaminated!
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I'm not at all surprised by that, Derek. In fact I'd been wondering, like lots of others probably, if folk had been daft enough to stop drinking Corona.
Idiocy is possibly more contagious than the current virus.

Of course words matter, but that's arguing about semantics which is not what I thought was overly important, but you're right.

If I stop to think about it I also agree there's a good biological/societal reason for you coming up with that particular path as a suggestion for keeping numbers down.

As for the devilish emoticon, that's me being mischievous. If you look closely you'll see its the smiling one, not grumpy!

Constant dangers of the written word in this online world, ey? So much more congenial (and human) bantering face-to-face in the real world.
 
This is beginning to sound like Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologiae which was eventually used to discuss

"how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" or how to waste time discussing a needless point.

Dezi :unsure: p.s. Its 35
 
What concerns me is being on a air conditioned ferry to Spain all breathing the same air and someone tests positive we'd be quarantined on board like those cruise ship people
 
antiquesam said:
Apparently up to 650,000 people die every year from influenza and no one thinks of wearing facemasks or staying indoors. More people died from the influenza epidemic after WW1 than in the war, yet 7,000 have died from this so far, and the whole world is in a panic. Is there something I'm missing here?
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As far as I can see covid19 deaths are less than 3000 worldwide.
It will increase of course but common flu does kill hundreds of thousands annually.
 
Markd said:
As far as I can see covid19 deaths are less than 3000 worldwide.
It will increase of course but common flu does kill hundreds of thousands annually.
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That's true, but you can't see very far, can you?
If a person can be infectious for 14 to 24 days without showing any symptoms, chances are that it will spread across the entire world in a few months.
Assuming that 70% of the population catch it, and that it kills 1% of them, that's a huge deal. Let's hope it isn't that bad!
About half a million people in the UK alone.
 
UFO said:
It is estimated that in the UK around 29,000 people die prematurely due to poor air quality.
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So it could well be that COVID-19 kills 20 times as many in the UK as poor air quality does.
 
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