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1 hour ago, Bakin said:
Yeah. That’s a bad flu. By the end of it, IFR might turn out to be closer to 2X seasonal flu. So bloody what. Worth destroying the world Over?
Sweden was right. Their deaths per 100k is less than Italy, Spain, UK, Belgium. All countries that have undergone extreme lockdown. Not to mention are seeing rising second spikes in deaths (Sweden is not).
I guess from your virtue signalling you want to outlaw dying forever. How impoverished does the world have to get to protect our senior citizens? Why do you treat old people like children? Don’t you know they can make the decision for themselves how much risk they want to take? Why should healthy populations be locked down and forced to undergo rigorous psychological revaluations of lifestyle. To protect a bunch of geezers? Please. This has never been done before in history and it will not end well.
thanks China!
per CDC, 2020 total deaths consistent with prior 3 years
what happened to the 200k of "Covid" coded deaths?
seems a whole lot of other deaths have been coded as "covid" deaths due to financials incentives to do so
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On 10/16/2020 at 3:45 PM, JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS said:
yep, we've already had a respected, long-time poster WHO IS A PRACTICING TRADE MARK ATTORNEY tell us not to freak out, yet we have 8 more pages of people freaking out.
not the brightest builbs
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4 hours ago, NewEra said:
we’re screwed.....but if the dude is that hurt that he plays like garbage, he shouldn’t play.great plan!
just play with 10
can''t be any worse, huh
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1 hour ago, NewEra said:
This. Time for Edmunds to **** or get off the pot. The pot being MLB. This isn’t going to change this year. He’s our MLB for 2020. He’s a captain and makes the calls on D. If his injury is keeping him from being an adequate MLB, he should sit until he’s healthy so we can evaluate him properly. If his injury effects his play all year and it’s the excuse we hear all year, it will hurt us in 2021. We have to figure out if he’s out MLB for 2021 ASAP. He currently isn’t even worth his 5th year option. His play the rest of this season should determine his future as a Bill.when you sit him to get healthy- who plays the mike?
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Trump will have a substantial lead in the EC at the end of day Nov 3.
then the fun begins
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54 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:
They are supposed to wear a shield in addition to a mask.
they should because the mask is not stopping the virus
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6 hours ago, Nextmanup said:
The NFL is incredibly slow to change how they do things, and the league is not run by brilliant people.
One area that has seen some improvement in recent years, and Wilson may well be a big part of it, is with QB height.
I think the league is coming off the notion that you have to be 6'4" to play QB and "see" over the line.
short QBs can't see over the line
smart OCs adjust to help with play calls and blocking schemes
smart DCS take away the crutches and severely limit what a short QB can do
Most are not worth the effort to compromise your offense
Wilson is the exceptional talent
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1 hour ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:
...IMO, the majority of the general public does not know that or even what it means.....besides, they're bombarded with so damn many "do's and don't's" that they don't know what to believe.....at the same time, the visual of people wearing masks serves as a security blanket with people a bit more confident about going out in public....without that, how many MORE would stay confined, damaging the economy even worse.....enough businesses are closing putting more employees out of work now....why not just be prudent, "go with the flow" and wear a mask in public versus being combative and defiant?......how many people have already been killed over mask arguments?..................
you are correct, the public has no idea how a mask is helping
they have no ability to evaluate what they are being told is complete bull hockey- even when Fauci himself lauged at masks
better to understand there are treatments available and things you can do to enhance your immune system that would actually improve your odds of recovering
why spend all of your intellilect on defending hiding behind a mask that won't protect you
why is the media not promoting the treatments?
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17 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
No. Absolutely no. If what you are saying is to forego masks the infection and mortality rates would skyrocket. You don’t really want that, do you?
even in current "hotspots" around the world- the mortality rates are not skyrocketing
they are in fact still dropping
95% of those testing positive do not have symptoms and are not sick
of those that get sick, 99.7% successfully recover
use treatments the the media continually tries to sabotage
take zinc - which boosts your immune system to stop the replication of the virus
the proper plan would be to spread it as quickly as possible to use up the remaining hosts
masks are a joke because it is a physical impossibility for a mask to stop a .27 micron virus particle
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1 minute ago, ALF said:
Fact check: Outdated video of Fauci saying “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask”
Fauci’s remarks were made on March 8, 2020 and do not represent his current stance on face coverings nor the updated guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As Fauci told the Washington Post here , at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks were not recommended for the general public, as authorities were trying to prevent a mask shortage for health workers and the extent of asymptomatic spread was unknown.
yet Fauci's March comments mirror accepted "science" for all years prior to March 2020.
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40 minutes ago, shoshin said:
Remdesivir got some bad news (as did HCQ though it was just a side note).
https://www.livescience.com/remdesivir-survival-covid19-coronavirus.html
About 4,100 of those patients served as a comparison group and received no drug treatments, while the rest received one of four drugs, or a combination of several medications. These drugs included remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, an antiviral called lopinavir and an immune-stimulating molecule called Interferon-β1a. About 650 patients received the interferon and lopinavir, together.
Ultimately, the study results suggest that no single drug or drug combination significantly reduced deaths among patients, as compared with the no-drug group. In addition, the drugs did not reduce the chances that treated patients would be placed on a ventilator, nor did the drugs reduce patients' time in the hospital.
"The unpromising overall findings from the regimens tested suffice to refute early hopes" that the medications would reduce mortality among COVID-19 patients, the study authors wrote.
more bullcrap "studies" designed to produce fear porn -that nothing works on the vrius
It is accepted "science" that early treatment is critical
yet this "study" ignored early treatment as a key variable
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"The trial participants were treated at 405 different hospitals around the world, each with their own treatment protocols, so factors beyond remdesivir may have impacted patient survival, he noted. In addition, remdesivir may still offer benefit to patients if given early in the course of their illness, but that wasn't specifically addressed by the new study, Dr. Maricar Malinis, an infectious diseases physician at Yale University, told the Times.
when is "science" just marketing pushing an agenda
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2 hours ago, shoshin said:
If the Reps stay Trumpist, it's Ted Cruz. He's a smarter Trump.
not if he gets appointed to the Supreme Court by Trump
much longer impact
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4 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Givread what SDS put up about what should be done with this forum. You are a perfect example of just wanting to exist in your own echo chamber. As a society we all have to coexist and come together to fight this thing. We can do that by all of us pitching in and doing the things the experts advise, and that the science and data support.
why are you so convinced that it is imperative to hide from testing positive?
most positives are not sick
even if sick, 99.7% successfully recover
there are multiple effective treatments available if you do get sick
why wallow in the fear?
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27 minutes ago, Reality Check said:
From a national economic standpoint, how practical is what you are suggesting? How much damage economically, socially, and mentally is required to stop this?
stop what ?
a virus from which 99.7% successfully recover
do healthy things and get treated early
problem solved
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12 minutes ago, SDS said:
if you are speaking about COVID-19 it is because research and analysis takes time. If you’re talking about taking zinc in general, zinc lozenges have been promoted for many years.not by the CDC, the WHO or the media - during this pandemic
why is that?
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21 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
here's another big word. Mitigate. Masks are not 100% effective and no one has said they are. But they are a part of a strategy to mitigate spread.
they don't mitigate anything
they enhance the spread by freeing droplet bound virus particles to travel farther
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Just now, oldmanfan said:
I take zinc myself. Evidence suggests zinc has antiviral properties.
if so, why isn't this being promoted as important for all Americans to protect themselves
why promote fear porn
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Just now, oldmanfan said:
There is abundant data, both experimentaltal and epidemiologic, indicating that mask wearing helps prevent spread of virus by holding down spread of droplets and aerosols. The data is irrefutable, yet people refuse to accept it because this has turned into a dumb political thing instead of what it is, a public health crisis.
cool - you used big words
However, According to the laws of physics (which have not been suspended during this pandemic), it is impossible for aerosol particles of .27 micron to be blocked by even N-95 masks with .5 micron holes.
Every breathe taken through a mask frees whatever virus was attached to a droplet and turns it into a floating aerosol , freed to venture the world
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22 minutes ago, daz28 said:
If by panic you mean take precautions, then they actually are good for your health, and I surely will
do your precautions include taking Vit C, Vit D and zinc?
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11 hours ago, shoshin said:
Graham was not alone either. The premise of not holding hearings on Garland was that it was an election year--10 months before the election. That's the word they went back on. They all know what they did but they are acting expediently and coming up with new rationale because it's to their benefit.
This is your Scalia was assassinated theory, I assume?
seems the Senate was fully aware of the dirty tricks being perpetrated during the Obama administration
now that the curtain has been pulled back on an attempted coup by those same Obama officials against a duly elected US Presidient
why are you so flabbergasted that Scalia's death probably was not natural
His death was mysterious, not investigated, no autopsy - and conveniently cleared a seat on the Supreme Court for Obama to fill
in their arrogance, it was a slam dunk
Hence, why O'connell did not reward their duplicity
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41 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:
"I want you to use my words against me. If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, 'Let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,' " he said in 2016 shortly after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. "And you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right."
unwillingness to consider a replacement is probably in direct reaction to how Scalia's seat became available
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1 hour ago, shoshin said:
There's a rise happening in places that went down, including spikes in hospitalizations. In PA, Covid hospitalizations are up almost 100% in the last month. From 420 in mid Sep to 799 today.
You watch hospitalizations because if they rise to a certain point, the entire medical system is stressed. Right now that's not the case anywhere but a 100% rise in 4 weeks before flu season really even arrives is something to watch anywhere. No panic, but watch.
if there was any concern for the health of all these hospitalizations, then there should be massive education campaign on how people can be treated and not live in fear.
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7 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Hahaha "years" now folks.....read closely:
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed an “extremely rapid” COVID-19 test that can produce results in less than five minutes, the university said on Thursday.....
The university said it hoped to start product development in early 2021, with an approved device available within six months. It is currently working to set up a spinout company, seeking investment to accelerate the test into a fully integrated device.
While the breakthrough may not be developed into a fully functioning mass testing device until the latter part of 2021, it could help countries and economies combat the pandemic next winter.
there is immediate way to generate tests now
if you are breathing, assume they ran your PCR test at 45 cycles, you are positive and call it a day
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23 minutes ago, BeerLeagueHockey said:
Are we all just going to ignore that the all cause mortality HAS NOT CHANGED FOR THIS YEAR!!!!! What the hell, man. This does not fit the narrative. I would like to hear the counterargument to this, honestly no snark.
well many stealth deaths have not been reported, of course
dead people are still locked in their homes and have not been counted yet
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions.1 In this case, we’re interested in how deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic compare to the average number of deaths over the same period in previous years.
it is comparing total deaths to a projected number of deaths based on past history.
a misleading statistic as it totally ignores the actual deaths from other causes in the current year.
what actually happpened is those "other" deahts have been reclassed to Covid deaths- while total deaths have been consistent with total deaths of prior years
https://www.rightwirereport.com/2020/05/10/cdc-reports-26-3-less-all-deaths-in-2020-than-2018-gobbledygook-coronavirus-math/