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  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    pjl44 said:
    More incremental good news on the vaccine front

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-vaccine-moderna.html#click=https://t.co/tYvt46F0dN
    "If those trials go well, a vaccine could become available for widespread use by the end of this year or early 2021, Dr. Tal Zaks, Moderna’s chief medical officer, said in an interview. How many doses might be ready is not clear, but Dr. Zaks said, “We’re doing our best to make it as many millions as possible.”

    That would be incredible if true by the end of this year. We need some good news finally from this virus. 
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,696
    cincybearcat said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    cincybearcat said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    PJNB said:
    lindamarie73 said:
    By golly it’s got to be challenging to be liberal leaning during these trying times.  I have been Calling it the Wuhan Virus since the beginning of this Pandemic for the reasons a few of you mentioned above that has nothing to do w/ being a Racist.  It has everything to do w/ being a REALIST which the PC police love to scream Racist every chance they get.  
    Are you denying people are using it in a racist manner? 


    i have never seen it not used in a racist manner. 

    i have only seen it used by trump supporters, and we all are very clear on their idealogy.
    I don’t think this is entirely true at all. I think it a large % if trump supporters, but I think there are plenty of other that say it and have no racism involved. And unless you didn’t hear Bill Maher’s show, you aren’t being truthful
    i saw the bill maher clip. and yes, him "telling like it is" came off as utterly racist. he sounded like trump.
    Interesting. I always call it coronavirus or covid-19, but I see nothing wrong with it being called Wuhan virus.  I see that people may choose to use that in a racist manner, but it’s just a description of where it came from.

    I certainly didn’t think Bill Maher (whom I dislike much of the time) was being or is racist 

    I have nothing beyond my gut for this...but Wuhan doesn't bother me, for the most part (kind of because I heard "Coronavirus" for weeks/months before "Wuhan."). However, "China/Chinese" virus really does because it seems like an attempt to (at best) deflect the spotlight from our own (i.e., Trump's) missteps or (at worst) vilify Chinese people, leading toward crimes against SE Asians. "Wuhan" doesn't seem to bring that out of people like "China" does.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,613
    Do we really need to call it anything other than Corona or COVID? 
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    JimmyV said:
    Do we really need to call it anything other than Corona or COVID? 
    yes. to own the libs.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    JimmyV said:
    Do we really need to call it anything other than Corona or COVID? 
    yes. to own the libs.
    and to be one of those rugged individualists who then gets butthurt when the rest of polite society criticizes them for being dicks.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    Former state epidemiologist Johan Giesecke, 70, defies the Public Health Authority's advice and meets his grandchildren.
    Anders Tegnell addressed his mentor's play at today's press conference.
    - You can discuss with Johan if he believes that is to be taking responsibility, he says.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    stupid is as stupid does.

    i think these people should be held criminally liable.
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  • xavier mcdaniel
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    I actually took the course for contact tracing that is free and being offered by Johns Hopkins on coursera. It took me four days and a lot of it is straightforward stuff especially if you've been following the causes etc of this
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  • pjl44
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    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    Nothing has happened yet, though. And that's a terrible headline because there's nothing in the article to suggest that there was any spread. They're just saying people traveled to/from long distances in some cases. This will be an interesting thing to look at in a month or two when you can actually trace whether an outbreak occurred from this or nothing happened at all.
  • dankind
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    gimmesometruth27 said:
    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    stupid is as stupid does.

    i think these people should be held criminally liable.
    Yeah. One of them pissed on a neighbor on mine's lawn on Saturday.

    Look, I try not to be judgmental. I've pissed on many a lawn, sidewalk, street, alleyway, subway track, whathaveyou after the bars closed back in the day, and I know that was wrong. It seems even more wrong to do so these days, however, especially in broad daylight. All the guy got was a citation, too. I think it should get a heftier punishment these days.
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  • josevolution
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    edited May 2020
    PJNB said:
    lindamarie73 said:
    I guess I am that different kind of sheep .....
    I think this sums it up nicely. So many people I know think they are so special and smarter than the rest of us because they do not follow "fake news" or believe in the Covid 19 hype. 
    fake news god please come to this hospital where I work everyday let me show you the fake C19 patients floor and the freezer trucks parked outside to store the corpses , so go ahead get outside go and party at your nearest bar high five people that are like you non-believers ! Like I’ve said I’m glad that I can safely say I’d never hang out with Covidiots at all...ok I was trying to quote Lindamarie not you 
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  • UtahBolt
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    Bentleyspop said:
    Covidiots are everywhere including Dana Point the home of the Ohana Fest....


    Haha....near the end she says "Your infringing on my rites".  Exactly what rites is the store's policy infringing on Karen? 

    BTW-I am pretty sure she also wore her seat belt as she drove to the store today, which is of course a government mandated (law) public safety requirement.     Don't Tread on Karen!
  • F Me In The Brain
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    dankind said:
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    stupid is as stupid does.

    i think these people should be held criminally liable.
    Yeah. One of them pissed on a neighbor on mine's lawn on Saturday.

    Look, I try not to be judgmental. I've pissed on many a lawn, sidewalk, street, alleyway, subway track, whathaveyou after the bars closed back in the day, and I know that was wrong. It seems even more wrong to do so these days, however, especially in broad daylight. All the guy got was a citation, too. I think it should get a heftier punishment these days.
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  • brianlux
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    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    Nothing has happened yet, though. And that's a terrible headline because there's nothing in the article to suggest that there was any spread. They're just saying people traveled to/from long distances in some cases. This will be an interesting thing to look at in a month or two when you can actually trace whether an outbreak occurred from this or nothing happened at all.

    But look at the photo.  These people are engaged in foolish and dangerous behavior.  I'm not opposed to protesting- at least not to peaceful protesting- but I am opposed to behavior that is foolish, potentially dangerous, and stupid.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    Nothing has happened yet, though. And that's a terrible headline because there's nothing in the article to suggest that there was any spread. They're just saying people traveled to/from long distances in some cases. This will be an interesting thing to look at in a month or two when you can actually trace whether an outbreak occurred from this or nothing happened at all.

    But look at the photo.  These people are engaged in foolish and dangerous behavior.  I'm not opposed to protesting- at least not to peaceful protesting- but I am opposed to behavior that is foolish, potentially dangerous, and stupid.
    not to mention being abusive to people that are there to do their job within company policies.
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  • pjl44
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    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:

    Way to go, dipshits.

    US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

    Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.



    Nothing has happened yet, though. And that's a terrible headline because there's nothing in the article to suggest that there was any spread. They're just saying people traveled to/from long distances in some cases. This will be an interesting thing to look at in a month or two when you can actually trace whether an outbreak occurred from this or nothing happened at all.

    But look at the photo.  These people are engaged in foolish and dangerous behavior.  I'm not opposed to protesting- at least not to peaceful protesting- but I am opposed to behavior that is foolish, potentially dangerous, and stupid.
    I guess? I don't understand why they would allow protesters to congregate indoors right now, but maybe that's a separate issue. The outdoor protests don't strike me as particularly dangerous, putting aside how one feels about their message. I feel like I see a half dozen pictures each day that could make someone mad for the same reasons. Wisconsin bars, intersections in Manhattan, etc. Unless it's in my neck of the woods, my feeling is hang back and see if we can learn something from it. Since we don't have any control over it. 
  • pjl44
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    edited May 2020
    And again that headline sucks. That cell phone data does not tell you anything about the spread of the virus in this case.
  • tempo_n_groove
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    UtahBolt said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Covidiots are everywhere including Dana Point the home of the Ohana Fest....


    Haha....near the end she says "Your infringing on my rites".  Exactly what rites is the store's policy infringing on Karen? 

    BTW-I am pretty sure she also wore her seat belt as she drove to the store today, which is of course a government mandated (law) public safety requirement.     Don't Tread on Karen!
    That term "infringe on my rights" is a rally cry for the nonbelievers that want everything opened back up.
  • F Me In The Brain
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    That lady is a moron.
    Infringing on her rights!  :lol:. 
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