Spiritual_Chaos said:

CM189191 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I don't get it. what is wrong about voting blue no matter who?

https://twitter.com/blakesmustache/status/1242150339232620544?s=20

Okey, if true...


... if Ted Nugent told me to fight climate change. I would not stop fighting climate change.

Spiritual_Chaos said:

DewieCox said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

https://instagram.com/p/B-HwpQkJqrc/embed/

Let’s make sure to keep the same skepticism about her as we did others that have self diagnosed.

What is there to be "skeptical" about?

Comes off as a dog whistle(?)

Coronavirus: Russia's low infection numbers viewed skeptically

MOSCOW — Judging by the official numbers, Russia can boast of having one of the most effective coronavirus responses in the world, with 367 confirmed cases as of Sunday. According to the data, none of them have been fatal.

That isn't for lack of testing. Russian government officials say they have run over 140,000 tests. By comparison, the U.S. has reported over 25,000 positive results from a similar number of tests, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University.

But while Russian officials attribute the low numbers to aggressive border controls and closings, some experts caution that the actual infection rates may be much higher, with the government of President Vladimir Putin intent on maintaining an image of calm authority, regardless of what may actually be happening on the ground.

At a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Putin declared the situation to be "generally under control."

"Thanks to prompt measures taken proactively ... in the first weeks of the epidemic, we managed to contain the massive — I would like to underscore — massive penetration and spread of the infection in Russia," Putin said.

The early measures were drastic.

After reports of outbreaks of the coronavirus in China emerged in January, Russia swiftly closed its large land border and, in February, banned entry of all Chinese citizens. More recent efforts focused on quarantining foreigners entering from coronavirus hot spots.

But Ivan Konovalov, a spokesman for the Doctors' Alliance, a professional organization loosely aligned with the Russian opposition that has gained attention by highlighting problems in the health system, says the measures may not have effectively blocked the disease.

Instead, authorities are most likely using pneumonia as a cover for coronavirus cases, he said.

"According to a few accounts, a portion of the coronavirus cases are being masked as so-called community-transmitted pneumonia," he told NBC News. "Patients are diagnosed with 'pneumonia' without being tested for coronavirus, which could have caused it."

Some experts have questioned the competence of Russia's coronavirus tests — currently provided by a single lab in Siberia. An investigation by an online medical science publication, PCR News, reported that the official numbers may be low because the test may not be detecting mild cases.

"It is a matter of sensitivity," PCR News Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Torgashev, one of the authors of the report, said in an interview. "The guaranteed lower limit of the test is 100,000 plasmids per milliliter. The sensitivity of other modern tests is two orders of magnitude higher."

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Spiritual_Chaos said:

Lerxst1992 said:

mace1229 said:

rgambs said:

mace1229 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I can't deal with all this S O C I A L I S M.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1242352981271609345?s=20

I don't see how that is financially possible. 1 month of covering salaries has got to be eat up the budget for the entire year. Its all nice to hear and sounds great, but where does that money come from? DO they pay these salaries for a month then government shuts down for the rest of the year? I just don't see how that is possible. 

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't spend 55% of your entire budget on war.

True, but what is the income tax in Denmark? 

I just googled it, average over the last 20 years was 65%. It’s also amazing what you can afford when you tax your citizens an astonishing 65%.

That didn’t seem right, but saw it posted in several sites.
and if they pay 75% of their salary, then tax them 65%, they really are paying less than half.

https://money.cnn.com/2013/04/01/pf/taxes/top-income-tax/index.html

If we were to look at a larger blue state like the one I live in, that tend to provide services to its residents, when you add up all taxes, income fedl state local, fica, property and sales taxes, excise taxes and on... the effective rate is probably close to 50%.

now let’s add on the cost of college and healthcare, you are probably right at that European rate of 65%

but Euros don’t have to worry about bankruptcy issues to the extent we do in the states caused by healthcare or excessive college costs. Plus they don’t have slow as crap trains and pot holed roads because their 65% covers infrastructure modernization.

Not to start a debate on different countries and all that comes with that on this board. And I do not know how accurate this forbes infographic is, but here are at least some numbers. I do not know where the 65% thing comes from.

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josevolution said:

If the Baffoon wants everything to start up in two weeks let him be the 1st to show up at a restaurant full of people let him be the 1st to sit at sporting even in the regular seats not in a private box, he’s no leader that’s for damn sure! This country doesn’t need him one bit the governor’s have already proven that! 

Spiritual_Chaos said:

DewieCox said:

Her “diagnosis”. 

When it was being used to push the right’s  agenda, it was immediately dismissed. This should be just as swiftly dismissed.

I don't know what you are talking about...

What has this to do with any political agenda?

And again, why should what she says here be "swiftly dismissed" ? Why?