I can only speak for my grandparents. In the 1930's Grandma was raise in rural Nebraska in sod roofed house with a horse as transportation. While I never asked her about the social life of a farmer, I'm going to conclude based on the stories she told me, they didn't get out much. Even today, there are places out west where town is a 2 hour drive.
That was an excellent podcast.
And it’s free. What a time to be alive.
You really need some fetchin' up about the current rural environment Mein Herr. This is 100 years later, and aside from church attendance, the congregation of people in rural areas is much less common than it was in 1918. A kinder person might forgive you your iggerance, but I am not that guy. You don't live here, indications are you have never spent time in rural America and yet you have the temerity to make inept comparisons. That spit in people's faces trope probably bolsters your sense of superiority to Americans in general and hicks in particular, but spittoons do not populate the rural landscape, and Red Man chew is relatively rare these days.
Great podcast. Some of your very best work.
And saved the best for last in my opinion;
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Mark Rippetoe
And in addition to that, if you're looking... there are two sides to this problem. There's the disease side of the problem and then there's the effect on society side of the problem.
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Andrew Mueller
You have to look at both. You have to.
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Mark Rippetoe
Like an actuary. You have to look at all the data because there's a cost benefit analysis. A risk benefit analysis to this situation. People are going to die now. Yeah, but they're gonna die. People are gonna die anyway. But like we mentioned earlier, is the cure worse than the disease? And we are headed in the direction of hell yes.
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Andrew Mueller
Yeah, quite possibly.
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Mark Rippetoe
Quite possibly. It most assuredly will be. Appreciate your being here today. Andrew, thank you for coming in. Stef, thanks for coming in. Dr. Mueller, Dr. Bradford joined us here on Starting Strength Radio.
The question EVERYBODY needs to be asking themselves right now, 'is the cure worse than the disease?'
Another great video by Sam Vaknin that dovetails off your podcast.
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I feel I should contribute to this discussion. Wow, what an ugly display of ignorance. Neck getting pretty sore holding that nose in the air? To blindly assume that our Kings and Queens know what the hell they are doing is laughable and lends more evidence to your level of ignorance. Hope that helps.
Actually “spitting in people’s faces” was a reference to what one is doing when one gets together and sings - like the choir that was so surprised that they managed to pass the virus amongst themselves so well, despite not having shaken hands or hugged. My grandfather was a country preacher and I expect I have as much insight into the tribe as you, Mr. California. We should continue this conversation (if at all) with some actual numbers or modeling from real infectious disease specialists. Finally, just because you Americans tend to have little insight/concern/knowledge about folks outside your borders - or a couple of states away, for that matter- doesn’t mean that’s how everybody is.