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#121 |
still says videotape
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#122 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Quotes are accurate.
A difference without a distinction. Illogical. Facts say quarantine can mitigate the problem (short term solution). For problems such as this, there are often two solutions: a short term solution and a long term solution. The short term solution uses what is immediately available to make the best of a situation and reduce obstructive emotions (e.g. apprehension, fear, panic...etc.). The long tern solution is finding the definitive way to solve the problem. But then I have the medical training, field and hospital experience, leadership training an experience to see the big picture. I can also separate medicine from politics. I'm delighted to see that your opinions aren't prejudiced by any knowledge on the subject. |
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Read? I only know how to write.
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If Trump wanted honesty, then the Surgeon General was doing what Pence is now doing. Trump does not want us to be informed. We need facts. Answers to four essential questions (and a fifth one) are not provided. A president is obviously lying about Covid-19 - constantly. He is a prescription for panic. What is a greatest threat to the Covid-19 virus? An informed public who then knows what to do. Misinformation even recommends drinking diluted bleach. And using skin creams to block Covid-19. Panic created by misinformation and lies is exactly what Russia wants. Some early indications are Russian sources (ie Sputnik radio broadcasts) are promoting such misinformation including those cures. We need trusted facts. That cannot happen when the president lies constantly. He even said Covid-19 is a lie promoted by his enemies. Not his "competitors" or people with different information sources. He has a Nixon attitude. "Enemies". So creating panic is to this president's advantage. It can get him reelected. How curious. Hitler did same to obtain power. Last edited by tw; 03-09-2020 at 06:45 PM. |
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#124 | |
Read? I only know how to write.
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Previous post explains, but again, the point. You intentionally ignore the point, again. Irrelevant that a quarantine is part of a solution. That clearly was not the point. And was intentionally ignored. Obviously, quarantines are too little too late when people, without any symptoms and who cannot be tested (due to no test kits and a three day delay), were contagious and spreading this virus for at least a week. Nice if you addressed the point. And not post distortions that you have now posted twice. Curious. That is the behavior of a Trump supporter. |
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#125 | |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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#126 |
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I like these charts and get what they are trying to promote. The area under the curves, which is the total number of cases, looks equal in both curves. Is the red area of the steep curve supposed to show that those patients are more likely to die because there is no room for them in the hospital? |
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#127 |
still says videotape
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Yeah if fewer old-timers are sick in the same time-frame we have the capacity to care for them. If we pretend it’s not serious and fail to take precautions the body count climbs. Little G’s boss spiked a fever and left work today... at a place where the kids are unlikely to handle coughs and sneezes appropriately.
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#128 |
still says videotape
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Lol. Just got a text from her. They were just sanitizing the hell out of a residence feeling pretty good about themselves when one of the boys “straight up stuck his hand in the shift managers mouth.”
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#129 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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Well I hope he doesn't put it in his own mouth after that!
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#130 |
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Kids will be the death of us all.
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#131 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Parents call them kids, we non-parents call them disease vectors
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#132 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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That's why I get my flu shot in early October. So it will have full effect by Halloween when the little disease ridden monsters are out in force.
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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That being said, I personally think over 100,000 deaths means it was a problem worth focusing on as much as we have--roughly three times the rate of the normal flu. My actual prediction is that it's going to kill over a million Americans. Edit to add: I say this as someone who lost an uncle to the bad flu season two years ago. I don't know if it was technically his cause of death in the final paperwork, but his downturn started with a bout of flu caught at his nursing home, escalating to pneumonia, compounded by Parkinson's. |
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#134 |
Radical Centrist
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Excellent additions: US-only, I should have specified.
100,000 is a nice round number. I'm taking the under |
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#135 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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NIH is getting half.
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