Is it time to have a Corona virus sub-board?

[The Sceptical Chymist]

sub-board: covid-19 boring.

Yeah, that would be my vote.  But seriously, no I don't think we need a coronavirus/COVID-19 child board.  Some of the threads in Economics make mention of it, but in those cases it's usually in an appropriate context and most of the threads are at least somewhat interesting.

The debates about conspiracy theories or whether (as Jet Cash mentioned) the government or pharmaceutical companies should be paying for vaccine research should stay in whatever section they're currently in, which is P&S/Off-Topic.  Plus, I don't believe this pandemic is going to be long-lasting (I'm hoping that's the case) and members aren't going to be fixated on it long enough to justify a child board.

Please let me keep my fantasy and continue believing this is just a temporary thing.

I'm pretty sure you're right and it's not a fantasy.  Have the world ever had a reaction to a viral outbreak that's lasted years, where people have to wear face masks and keep distance from one another and not go to work?  I don't think so--and FFS it isn't like COVID-19 is as deadly as ebola or smallpox.  Everyone has lost their heads over this thing, which isn't nearly as bad as its made out to be in the news.

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[notblox1]

No we don't need corona virus sub-board, or we are going to start opening sub-boards for every virus and bacteria in the world.
Maybe some people should create or join some other corona forum if they want to talk about it and brainstorm.
For me covidtalk is boring.

[Pmalek]

Hell no! I hope that never happens. The boards I visit and write in, and there are plenty of them, are COVID free. A Bitcoin forum shouldn't have a COVID board in my opinion. Mods are deleting and trashing low-value and off topic threads. If they are in the wrong place, report them, and ask for them to be deleted or moved to the right section. COVID shouldn't get any more attention than it already has. 

[shield132]

The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.

I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.

I wouldn't call any of these sides an open minded one, prefer to stay neutral in this task, both sides have good arguments to be fair.
I think it's not necessary to have corona virus sub board. First of all, what we want to get rid of is medical advices from forum users. If we create sub board, then we have to highly moderate it because of the reason that I just mentioned.
Also bitcointalk isn't a medical website/forum and I strongly believe it's not necessary to have covid related discussions but still people can feel free to post and that's okey.

Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion <-- This thread doesn't have sub board and what's corona compared to this

[Jet Cash]

First off, I should apologise for starting this thread. At the time, I was pissed off with the blind following of the propaganda being pushed out by the Big Pharma companies, and the puppets of the Anglophone empire. They seem to be everywhere, and they cover dominant topics like the Corona virus infections, vaccinations, Brexit, and the US elections ( as if those matter, the Anglophiles will get in whatever the voters do), and there are many other similar topics.

The last thing we want to do is to moderate forum members' opinions, provided they can avoid the personal insults from those who don't have rational arguments, and the promotion of the false propaganda that is portrayed as the word of God, and thus doesn't require any justification. You know something is wrong when you see the disgusting way they are rushing out inadequately tested vaccines for this minor infection.

I had intended to close this thread this morning, but it still seems to be generating some opinions. Let me know when/if you want me to close it. I agree with most of the points about not needing a sub-board, and the ones about thread consolidation btw.

[Coyster]

First off, |I should apologise for starting this thread. At the time, I was pissed off with the blind following of the propaganda being pushed out by the Big Pharma companies, and the puppets of the Anglophone empire.

I was pretty sure when I saw this thread, you didn't make this suggestion for admins to literally create a sub-board for corona virus. You have a strong argument about the pandemic, vaccines and the pharmas, I follow your posts on what you think about them all on the politics section, but what's interesting about Bitcointalk is the debating/conflicting ideas on most topics and imo, it's fun that way.

What the forum has little tolerance for is unconstructive/low value or repetitive opinions, all that should be reported to the moderator. As for the issue of personal insults, I think anyone who is begrudged easily by this should ignore the P&S board, you're bound to get insulted (if not you, your race/continent or country) if you post/read there often, or as many in here will say: "just grow a thicker skin".

[Twentyonepaylots]

sub-board: covid-19 boring.

Yeah, that would be my vote.  But seriously, no I don't think we need a coronavirus/COVID-19 child board.  Some of the threads in Economics make mention of it, but in those cases it's usually in an appropriate context and most of the threads are at least somewhat interesting.
[/quote[ I agree, some covid related threads are appropriate to the boards they are posted, those who are not or careless shall be reported. But these days like a week or two, I haven't see any covid thread for most of my posting sections, even in bitcoin discussion. If the thread did not caught your interest, leave nothing there.

The debates about conspiracy theories or whether (as Jet Cash mentioned) the government or pharmaceutical companies should be paying for vaccine research should stay in whatever section they're currently in, which is P&S/Off-Topic. 

It should go in Politics and society, those conspiracies that involves the government and societal issues, not in Off-topic coz covid is affecting every country's economy, so put it either P&S or economics or just don't post coz yea its already boring to talk that stuff about.

[NavI_027]

First off, |I should apologise for starting this thread.

I don't mind actually. At first, I thought it was more of a sarcastic comment rather than a decent suggestion. That's why I can't understand why other members became serious as well lol. So you really mean it huh? Well, like they said, we don't need one unless Covid will stay on Earth forever *knock on the wood.

(I guess you can close it now before other members got triggered)
@Twentyonepaylots ~ dude fix the bracket on your code.

[Jet Cash]

Thanks for the quote, and I fixed the concatenation character in my text.

I think there is going to be another fake escalation in the reporting about the spread of immunity. It seems they are increasing the replication cycles in the testing to about 40.Which means they are checking for one particle in a few trillion. This will give a load of false positives. They will have to do this, as so many people have immunity now - estimated to be over 80%, and they need to push a rubbish vaccine to justify the squandered millions. This will lead to another rash of threads here about a second, or third, wave. In reality, the only wave is most of us waving goodbye to any health risks from the virus. Well those of us who reject the inadequately tested vaccines anyway.

[worldofcoins]

I don't see threads about Corona virus outside of the politics and society board (where it should be) so imo, it's not getting in the way of other 'important discussions' in other boards and sub-boards, there are few threads about covid-19 in the economics section too, but in how it relates to the economy and Bitcoin, which it does in a big way btw. Whilst any low value thread on covid-19 should be reported to the moderator.

I think it will see economics as well, Looking at the private businesses drops in the US I think there will be more discussions in the future regarding it.

[Jet Cash]

The loss of small businesses is quite worrying. It almost seems as if the Anglophones want to eradicate them, and force everyone to use global corporations. I'm not sure that is related to the virus, it is more about the activities of the puppets we elect.

[GeorgeJohn]

The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.

I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.

Can we have a conspiracy board for those who feel everything is a conspiracy? Maybe a board for Left Vs Right. Right Vs Wrong. Atheists Vs Religious. Bikers vs Scooters. Flat Earthers Vs Square Earthers. Anti-vaxxers vs Vaxxers. I don't know whether this is a serious request or not but we don't need a sub for this. It'll die down as soon as covid does. At best we should probably start trashing duplicate threads if there's nothing new in them.

Having a conspiracy board will bring problems to the entire body of the community which might caused a lot of damage,because people will form a cartel to sabotage some person's even though their right or wrong, so therefore it's not good to initiate such idea's in bitcointalk community.

[FIFA worldcup]

The virus seems to dominate a number of boards here, and the discussions are getting repetitive, and even boring in some cases. We seem to have two camps - those who believe the globalist Pharma propaganda, and the open minded who have done some research and thought about the situation. It seems that neither camp will be able to convert the other, and in a few cases, members are having to resort to personal insults to replace their weak arguments.

I think it is debasing the forum, as it is affecting many other forums and news sites. Bitcoin, DeFi and global economics are far more important, and it would be handy if we could get away from discussions about a minor infection that is being used to distract the world from the really important issues.

Can we have a conspiracy board for those who feel everything is a conspiracy? Maybe a board for Left Vs Right. Right Vs Wrong. Atheists Vs Religious. Bikers vs Scooters. Flat Earthers Vs Square Earthers. Anti-vaxxers vs Vaxxers. I don't know whether this is a serious request or not but we don't need a sub for this. It'll die down as soon as covid does. At best we should probably start trashing duplicate threads if there's nothing new in them.

Having a conspiracy board will bring problems to the entire body of the community which might caused a lot of damage,because people will form a cartel to sabotage some person's even though their right or wrong, so therefore it's not good to initiate such idea's in bitcointalk community.

Also there is no need for a corona board because topics related to corona are flooded in politics & society  section and in Off topic also.
Also this is a crypto currency forum and not a medical forum where you need to have a separate board for every disease.

[Jet Cash]

Being aware that there is a group of ruling dynasties that control most of the Western World isn't a conspiracy theory. It is obvious to anybody who cares to look at local and national government actions, and who stops to think about their apparently irrational laws and activities.

[worldofcoins]

The loss of small businesses is quite worrying. It almost seems as if the Anglophones want to eradicate them, and force everyone to use global corporations. I'm not sure that is related to the virus, it is more about the activities of the puppets we elect.

They are forcing people to do this I think this was pre-planned this virus pandemic and loss of small businesses, etc.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist but it's clicking somewhere.

[Rana590]

Covid-19 won't stay forever. I think there is no need to a new sub board for Corona virus. After some days when virus will be gone, there will be no value for this board.

[Jet Cash]

I don't agree. Corona viruses have been with us since the 1930s, and they are likely to see out this century, but they will become a commonplace nothing once the economic reset kicks in. That is when we will see the posts about them diminish. Expect more about vaccines and synthetic food though. No, I'm not suggesting we have boards for those.

[razaabbas]

This is true, but there are a few things that are very important, that is economy.We just have to be careful. The rest of the world should go on as before because there are so many countries where poverty is spreading because of Lockdawn and people are dying due to lock down.

[YOSHIE]

I don't agree. Corona viruses have been with us since the 1930s, and they are likely to see out this century,

If you're a researcher on a group of viruses, you'd agree that 'corona' has been around since the 1930s, just a different name.

You must know some viruses other than the corona virus that attack humans, which are caused by wild animals, exactly the same symptoms that were attacked in patients with the "SARS CoV-2" "Pageblug" virus which were found through the saliva or urine of bats, snakes, pangolins.
For now researchers already have thousands of samples about research that leads to the corona virus being 90% identical to pangolins, a strong suspicion in the spread of the corona virus.

More vaccines cannot stop the coronavirus currently attacking humans.
The corona virus could subside and disappear if humans no longer consume wild foods, but focus more on artificial or natural foods.

Now I have to follow your method on a regular basis to stop smoking, alcohol, and eat wild foods, 80s, stay healthy.

[AbNewton]

No, I don't think we should allocate resources of bitcointalk and adding more oil to an on-going problem by letting them have a battleground to go wild about it. Who knows, might not be as 'civil' as they trying in Politics & Society board.
Hopefully, this corona virus will soon blow over in next year and everything will back to normal. Should not treat this one-time-only event as something normal and build a fence for it. If you're still very keen on about doing it, at least put the name of the board: "pandemic" so we can later use it for any upcoming virus that similar to corona flu, ha.