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  • Posts: 24,524
    brianlux said:
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    Hi there!

    Yeah, for sure.  And right now what we need is more compassion, encouragement and empathy.  Hopefully we will see more of that and less petty bickering. 
    :rofl:

    *ahem*

    I mean, yes, I hope so too. 
  • Posts: 32,198
    OnWis97 said:
    Mike Pence, leading by example by not wearing a mask at a Mayo Clinic (despite a rule; they shouldn't have let him in without one).

    https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1255193968809250823

    Seriously.  Why?  My best guess is that Administration people are not supposed to wear them because of political points.  What a jackass.

    If I’m that patient I’m kicking him out of my vicinity would not even think twice about I’d embarrass him what an embarrassment, he just gave the ok to all the hoax believers that it’s fine too not wear a mask! And Mayo Clinic looks really bad letting this happen..

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    josevolution said:
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    If I’m that patient I’m kicking him out of my vicinity would not even think twice about I’d embarrass him what an embarrassment, he just gave the ok to all the hoax believers that it’s fine too not wear a mask! And Mayo Clinic looks really bad letting this happen..

    Agreed. And Pence shouldn’t have put them in that position to begin with.

    Just wear the fucking mask, ya tool!
  • Posts: 13,576
    I like the bubble idea.
    We are going back to work next week and we will be bubbled with my wife's sister's family.  She's the primary worker needed at the practice, and the kids aren't back in school yet so I'll be babysitting mine and hers and our families will be in it together.  
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  • Posts: 20,841
    Eat our dust!

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  • Posts: 10,513
    dankind said:
    Eat our dust!

    https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1694807/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation/1694807
    We were always going to be the leader in cases unless we locked down all domestic and international travel back in January. Even then, we would have slowly taken the lead. 
    It's a hopeless situation...
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    hedonist said:
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    Agreed. And Pence shouldn’t have put them in that position to begin with.

    Just wear the fucking mask, ya tool!
    I just zoomed in on the picture and the man on stretcher has what looks like a hospital I’d badge it looks familiar to what I wear at work on a clip, could this just be a photo op with fake patient? 
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  • Posts: 6,965
    I'm really starting to think that with the amount of interstate travel in the U.S., coupled with the very different approaches being taken from state to state, we're in for a very long ride that we don't want to be on. 
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    josevolution said:
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    I just zoomed in on the picture and the man on stretcher has what looks like a hospital I’d badge it looks familiar to what I wear at work on a clip, could this just be a photo op with fake patient? 
    Probably just showing Pence an example of what they are doing.  Who knows.  I wouldn’t think they would let Pence around a sick person.
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,804
    hedonist said:
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    :rofl:

    *ahem*

    I mean, yes, I hope so too. 

    Hey, if I got you or anyone to laugh, I've done something worthy today.  Laughter is good medicine!  (Especially those THC induced fits of laughter!!  :smiley: )
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  • Posts: 32,198
    bootlegger10 said:
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    Probably just showing Pence an example of what they are doing.  Who knows.  I wouldn’t think they would let Pence around a sick person.
    Yes but why like he doesn’t know what a person on stretcher is lol 


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  • Posts: 1,761
    brianlux said:
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    Some of those look promising, thanks Mike.

    I heard something that is pure gossip at this point so I'm asking if anyone knows anything verifiable about this:  I was told by someone that if a company outside the US produces a vaccine, that US big pharma wants complete control/ ownership or it won't get distributed here in the U.S.  Now PLEASE, I repeat, this is  just hearsay and I'm hoping someone hear knows the true scoop.  Thanks!
    I heard a scholar from the Wilson Center on C-Span this morning (name?) state that China will probably beat the US at developing the vaccine, giving them another significant edge as the emerging world leader right now. He also reminded viewers that about 80% of all our pharmaceuticals and medical equipment already comes from China, putting us in a dependent role. His main point was that it's stupid for us to be at polticial odds with China right now, that scientists and doctors in our two countries have always enjoyed a positive relationship. Many Chinese doctors/scientists train in the US. 

    But yeah, I'm putting my money on China. 
  • Posts: 1,761
    hedonist said:
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    Agreed. And Pence shouldn’t have put them in that position to begin with.

    Just wear the fucking mask, ya tool!
    Mike Pence probably gets a viral swab every morning as part of his security detail. 

    I know what that sounds like 😜. But I mean it seriously.
  • Tampa Posts: 770
    edited April 2020
    Well, there was that time Trump tried to secure the rights to a German vaccine for exclusive use in the US, in the far distant past known as March.

    That's a good point about being at political odds with China. They were already poised to take the lead this century, and this situation accelerates that. Unfortunately, the 2020 GOP playbook is here, and it's all about going at odds with China.
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  • broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,564
    Wife and I are around 80 percent we had this virus in Feb.
    Week and a half of flu like symptoms with sore throat and chronic dry cough and (a little) trouble breathing.
    Wife just saw they added erectile dysfunction to the list of symptoms (which I had for two weeks)
    This confirmed it for her.

    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
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  • Posts: 13,081
    Great article here.   Virus more common but less deadly than expected.   Should be able to open up for those healthy and those 45 and under almost anytime.

    https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/studies-coronavirus-less-deadly-more-common-than-experts-believed/
  • Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    PJNB said:
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    Ya thankful for the ease of restrictions but how do you choose? My mom? Her mom? My sisters? Her sisters? People are breaking this rule left and right. I am hoping my wife's physio clinic can open back up in late May but the criteria for phase 3 to happen is less than 3 community spread cases that are separate. That will be near impossible to reach. 

    Hard to know how to choose, but at least it's something.

    When we get to this in BC, I'm sure that my parents will want to link their "bubble" with mine, but I'm going to resist. Both are in their 80s, both have underlying health conditions, and I work in an area at higher risk for exposure. They already see me in person once a week when  I drop groceries at their door, then run away and talk to them from 20 feet away, plus we have a family zoom meeting each Sunday with my brother's family and I phone them. They'll just have to accept that for a while. 
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  • Tampa Posts: 770
    edited April 2020
    pjhawks said:
    Great article here.   Virus more common but less deadly than expected.   Should be able to open up for those healthy and those 45 and under almost anytime.

    https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/studies-coronavirus-less-deadly-more-common-than-experts-believed/
    A couple issues I take with this, although perhaps not the general thrust (I do think we need to better understand the virus before we can go declaring certain age groups as safe):

    1) The Stanford study will be DOA in peer review. Wholly disqualifying procedures.

    2) These studies (including the Stanford one) that are playing in a range of zero to several percentage points are not rising above the noise floor for the antibody tests.
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  • Posts: 10,688
    pjhawks said:
    Great article here.   Virus more common but less deadly than expected.   Should be able to open up for those healthy and those 45 and under almost anytime.

    https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/studies-coronavirus-less-deadly-more-common-than-experts-believed/
    I'd be skeptical of Clay Travis. For starters, the study he's leaning on has been pretty heavily criticized. 

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/antibody-surveys-suggesting-vast-undercount-coronavirus-infections-may-be-unreliable#



    And he was one of those flu-is-more-dangerous guys.



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