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Always amazes me that the "party of life" only cares about death with this disease but simultaneously doesn't care at all that people are dying.
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"If you leave ignorance and stupidity alone, ignorance and stupidity will think it's ok."
-Gallagher
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Grandpa G. ~ Feb 11, 1918-Oct. 6, 1999
Grandma ~ Jan 2004
Dad ~ Nov. 4, 1958-April 21, 2008
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I think one of my favorite part of the idiots talking points is the assumption of average life expectancy. It really helps weed out the morons though.
If someone is 84...their life expectancy is not 77. Life expectancy changes as you age. It is like they do not understand actuarial science or insurance at all.
****ing embarrassingIn the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.
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I haven't heard anything in lower schools. Keene was supposed to return and the RAs were positive. And Franklin Pierce. in NH.Originally posted by Drew S. View PostComment
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To be fair they can barely handle addition and subtraction ;-)Originally posted by WisconsinWildcard View Post
"It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
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"Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
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Of course I'm a fan of the Vikings. A sick and demented Masochist of a fan, but a fan none the less.
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It’s kind of an interesting paradox. The longer you live, the longer you’re expected to live.Originally posted by WisconsinWildcard View Post
Wonder where that curve starts turning back down.Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezOriginally posted by bigblue_dlHe's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North WestOriginally posted by KeplerComment
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jfc - the latest social media claim is you're more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid. While this may be technically true (estimated 2.5%) lighting strikes kill as many as 6,000 people annually. The level of stupidity that permeates society is astounding.Comment
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"If you leave ignorance and stupidity alone, ignorance and stupidity will think it's ok."
-Gallagher
R.I.P.
Grandpa G. ~ Feb 11, 1918-Oct. 6, 1999
Grandma ~ Jan 2004
Dad ~ Nov. 4, 1958-April 21, 2008
Grandpa S. ~ June 21, 1932-November 11, 2013Comment
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Life expectancy is a measure, Cupcake. It helps to provide context. The measures #TeamHysteria take to ensure there is no perspective or context and that it is just very, very, very scary is pathetic.Originally posted by WisconsinWildcard View Post
Don't let information send you to your Safe Space. Save it for more trying times.
https://mobile.twitter.com/covid_cla...15451378696192
With 70,000+ infected people studied in MN…
> There are more deaths age 90+ than age 70 and below
> 99.9% covid survival outside long term care
> 99.97% covid survival for ages under 60
> Avg age of death is 6 yrs beyond life expectancy
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A large percentage of the populace believes that 9% of the country has died from Covid. So you are definitely on the right track about, astounding stupidity.Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
https://www.franklintempletonnordic....m-science.html
Six months into this pandemic, Americans still dramatically misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19:- On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.
- Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.
- Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger
- by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).
These results are nothing short of stunning. Mortality data have shown from the very beginning that the COVID-19 virus age-discriminates, with deaths overwhelmingly concentrated in people who are older and suffer comorbidities. This is perhaps the only uncontroversial piece of evidence we have about this virus. Nearly all US fatalities have been among people older than 55; and yet a large number of Americans are still convinced that the risk to those younger than 55 is almost the same as to those who are older.
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https://twitter.com/jhaskinscabrera/...49789401837569
This is very important: Not only is COVID significantly less deadly to the elderly if they're not in LTC, but it's also significantly less deadly to those in assisted living. The vulnerable are those we would expect: those frail enough to be in skilled nursing care.
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Olsterholm is an epidemiologist. He is not an expert in modeling, he is not an expert in applying modeling to real world decisions (the two are two very different things), and he isn't an expert in lockdowns as they have never been attempted like this in anyone's lifetime. The predictions Olsterholm has made since March based on extremely flawed models have been epically wrong.Originally posted by net presence View Post
The false positives alone would ensure the parameters that were laid out would never be met. The insanity could literally go on forever.
Also, they are relying on "modeling" still, modeling that was so absurdly wrong which led to the hysteria in the first place. They should be relying on the massive amounts of real world data that is now available.
Not once in the article do they mention the consequences of lockdowns. That was actually a very awful article to base your argument on.
The world's toughest lockdown has resulted in the world's highest COVID-19 death toll
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com...t-lockdown-hashttps://jordanschachtel.substack.com...t-lockdown-has
The lockdown has been a catastrophe
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...a-catastrophe/
Israel has had one of the stricktest lockdowns in the world.
NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. None of this should be viewed as anything but the ultimate temporary stopgap, to be undone as soon as possible. The burden is on those who would lock us down, not the other way around. Please don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.
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^^Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
First off, you don't test positive for Covid-19.
Another 481 COVID-19 cases found at University of Alabama
Second off, lmao
The additional 481 cases on the Tuscaloosa campus were reported between Aug. 25 and Aug. 27. The university system said no students are hospitalized.
Thirdly, one more for good measure. lmao
It went from “flatten the curve and space out infections so the healthcare system isn’t overwhelmed” to “one new infection makes the news and means we need to shut everything down again.” And so often that "case" is asymptomatic and most likely not an active infection. This is the panic now.
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Disingenuous bullcrap conflation, but not surprising, given the forum. It's really not that difficult. When the phrase "beyond life expectancy" is used, it doesn't mean life expectancy in the moment. It means the average life expectancy for a person born at a certain time (usually by year). For example, if a person born in 1937 on average has a 77 year life expectancy, and passes away at age 83 in 2020, it means they have lived "beyond life expectancy". Not at all complicated now, is it?Originally posted by WisconsinWildcard View Post
But if you want to conflate life expectancy in the moment then no one - NO ONE - would ever live "beyond life expectancy" because even if you manage to make it to 100 years old, you will still have a year or two life expectancy looking forward.
Two separate concepts. So either you're intentionally conflating the two, or you're thick as a brick.
Effing embarrassing indeed, eh Skippy ...Sworn Enemy of the Perpetually Offended
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