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But that was more than 1 entire year ago! It's ancient history, and anyway what difference does it make at this point anyhow? And silly wabbit, don't you know Tara Reid's accusations weren't center stage back then so there is no hypocrisy at all. None. At. All.

What do you mean by "should be?" So far, it is.

One thing that would be interesting to see is what would the normal rate of EMT calls & hospitalizations for items such as heart attack & stroke be for March & April in NYC and what is the survival rate when treated vs estimates of survival when untreated and what those rates are currently. We're being told that those are down significantly though it makes sense they'd still be occurring at traditional rates and that a significant portion that are now untreated are dying from them. Would presumably not make up for the full increase in deaths in NYC area as many are dying from the virus; but if those deaths (and from other untreated fonditions) are substantial perhaps even in NYC it is time to change at least how the hospitals are operating. Hopefully policy makers have that info.

A N95 mask properly fitted and worn DOES help prevent the spread of the virus from you to the surrounding population. Few in the general public have access to masks of that quality. A cloth bandana strung across ones face like a 19th century train robber might reduce the velocity with which the virus expels from you but doesn't keep it out of the air. It provides minimal reduction of transmission at best and at worst creates a false sense of security for those around the wearer. THAT is what most places are considering effective masks. Just because they're effectively ineffective is no reason not to wear them though, right?

Po-tay-toe - Pa-tah-toe.

He also has to be exhausted by now from all of this. When people are exhausted, they ask stupid questions or say stuff to the effect of 'there are 57 states.' Cuomo should be given a pass for telling people that want to go back to work that they should become essential workers and then they can. He's exhausted too. Laugh at 45 for asking a dumb question, but don't make it out to be his telling people to drink (or even bathe in, hi Mrs. Cuomo) bleach. He asked a question. (A few actually.)

So, he thought Pierce Brosnan's character in 'The Tailor of Panama' was someone to emulate? Wtf?

Probably better than being diagnosed with Bryan Cox.

The southern cities, excepting for a few like New Orleans, which has severe geographic limitations also are more spread out than their northeastern counterparts. Which also should help them with "social distancing" relative to NYC. Places like Houston are far more suburb-like than somewhere like Boston even though the metro population is greater. Will be really interesting to see what the experts come up with for why NYC got hit soooo much harder than anywhere else in our country (and hopefully no place else gets hit the way it did). Population density & continued use of mass transit seem to be likely culprits, but still would like to see what the official explanation ends up. (And still hope that when all is said and done we get better data than simply 'everyone that didn't die from bloodloss since February 1 was a victim of this Corona virus' that we seem to be getting. It'll go a long way towards determining what actually happened and how to better deal with it next time something like this springs up.)

Pretty sure he goes by SectionC3 now.

Will probably be late, but pretty sure - IN!

Can't speak for them, and won't, but considering his admitting defeat would be the most likely way for him to lose his support from the people that do back him and they desperately don't want him reelected; well, you can do the math.

According to the CDC's website, the US had 8 reported cases on February 1 and 30 on March 1. 10 days later on March 11, there were 1,215 cases. The world for our country turned upside down in 1-1/2 weeks. Would like to have seen a shutdown of travel to/from Italy sooner (but realize that might not have been possible without shutting down travel to all of Europe which did not seem warranted earlier than it was) but that seemed to be about the only restriction that MIGHT have been enacted before it was. Well, without the benefit of hindsight at any rate.

Wait a second, Germany is just now, in 2020, banning Hezbollah? And other European countries STILL haven't done that? WTF?!?!

Of course, if they did give made up dirt on Clinton and they then went to the authorities with it (we'll never know if they would've or wouldn't have; but we do know that his dad is a NYC real estate guy who has had people digging for dirt on HIM for 4+ years and the worst they've found to date is a settled case about discriminatory rentingbpractices from 30+ years ago and him saying if he wanted that women would let him grab them by the ######, so if's st least possible he would've brought it to the authorities), then it seems they'd be able to use the "dirt" on Hillary themselves and now Clinton is on the defensive explaining how it's all bunk. At which point Trump's team starts looking into that themselves. It seems providing fake dirt about Hillary is less clean than simply bait & switching the meeting premise.

Except for during his speech a couple of weeks back on a Friday 'the national guard will take the ventilators we need from upstate' (which he wisely backtracked from that Monday), this was his worst moment in front of the cameras. Understand what he was trying to say, but not a good look. Probably could use a 2 hour nap. All these guys have to be friggin' exhausted.

Wtf ever said it wasn't?

Pretty sure none of the studies that suggested it was helpful suggested taking it by itself. (And separately have seen a lot of doctors recommending taking zinc regardless to boost your immune system.) But ttbomk each of the ones that have suggested it isn't effective have only looked at administering hydroxychloroquine by itself.

Now just wait a gol durned minute here. You tryin' to imply that studying the effectiveness of a drug taken under conditions that will necessarily limit its effectiveness will make it appear to be an ineffective treatment option? How could that possibly be the case? Wondering how the hydroxychloroquine suppository double blind tests are going to turn out?

It isn't / wasn't just ventilators that got reduced to 2 suppliers. Obamacare did that to ALL medical suppliers - 2 winners for wheelchairs, ventilators, etc. That was a feature, not a bug. At least that was how it was explained when it was implemented. Don't have the details on it (because it wasn't my primary business & was ~10 years ago), but a client of mine advised companies on how to prepare for the Obamacare bidding. He used to tell horror stories of how multigenerational manufacturers were going to get forced to close due to not being big enough to be 1 of those final 2 suppliers. Recall @Magox was up on the ACA when it passed. Maybe he has clearer details on that.

Soooo, during the 1st week of February YouTube under this policy would've been removing links to 45 restricting travel between China & the US. (THAT also went against WHO recommendations.) These people are nuts.

You'll have to forgive him. Reading doesn't seem to be his strong suit.

What, you mean escaping boredom isn't why 96%+ of the adult working age population went to work 1 month ago? Surely there can be no other explanation for it.

So, prior to December '16, unmasking to WH staff for political purposes WAS acceptable?

Don't go along with your alien conspiracy theories, but you've been dead nuts on with the FISA/ RussiaGate, UkraineGate/ etc. If there is anything legit to THIS theory, Joe from Winslow is going to have a lot of people coming to his views. REALLY hoping you're being too cynical on this one and this is more aliens than the Insider Baseball you've been sharing. (Expect that you are, no offense intended.)