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Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

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Kepler said:
The scientists are doing what they can. We can fault them but I'd prefer to just listen and do what's best moment to moment.

After the last 4 years no conservative can ever criticize anyone ever again for any reason. Not motives or competence or honesty. They are not welcome in the discussion. They are terrorists.
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Yeah, Texas and this pandemic should be ending anyone wanting them in charge of anything ever again. Unfortunately to get there the human not only has to have a brain, but has to be able to process information and come to a rational, logical conclusion.

That excludes at least 50% of the country right now.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Yeah, Texas and this pandemic should be ending anyone wanting them in charge of anything ever again. Unfortunately to get there the human not only has to have a brain, but has to be able to process information and come to a rational, logical conclusion.

That excludes at least 50% of the country right now.
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People don't vote R for issues, they vote them for tribalism.

Otherwise nobody would have voted R for "fiscal conservatism" after Reagan's deficits, or "security" after Dubya's Baby Huey foreign policy, or "running the gubmint like a bidness" after Dump's ineptitude and corruption.

People vote R because they hate us, personally. OK, so we get that. But we don't ever have to listen to their excuses again. They will go on hating. Our job is to be good citizens and deliver good governance. Nobody on the Right will ever be swayed, but with time there will simply be fewer people who fall into that pit of self pity and impotent fury.
 
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LynahFan said:
They’re allocating based on the number of Senators each state has - totally fair, right? :<)
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This is idiocy, as for me. The vaccine should be distributed, it seems to me, taking into account the level of infection. First of all, it is necessary to vaccinate those who are at risk and priority red zones, where the risk of infection is higher.
 
Not sure why it took so long to have this come to mind... but I posted where the US hit 500,000 dead and considered the comparisons between cancer and heart disease....

But COVID has been the #1 cause of death for a few months now in the US.

Heart disease takes just under 700,000/year, which is under 2,000 per day. Thinking that there is some considerable scatter in that, the actual daily average of 1904 rounds up well to 2,000/day. IIRC, COVID took 2,000/day back in December, so COVID has been the #1 cause of death in the US since early December, and it will remain that for some time. (one month was just barely under 100,000 or over 3000/day- over the last 30 days)

Feel free to keep downplaying that this is a minor virus, like a cold, etc....
 
MichVandal said:
Not sure why it took so long to have this come to mind... but I posted where the US hit 500,000 dead and considered the comparisons between cancer and heart disease....

But COVID has been the #1 cause of death for a few months now in the US.

Heart disease takes just under 700,000/year, which is under 2,000 per day. Thinking that there is some considerable scatter in that, the actual daily average of 1904 rounds up well to 2,000/day. IIRC, COVID took 2,000/day back in December, so COVID has been the #1 cause of death in the US since early December, and it will remain that for some time. (one month was just barely under 100,000 or over 3000/day- over the last 30 days)

Feel free to keep downplaying that this is a minor virus, like a cold, etc....
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You'll never see me downplay covid, but to add some context the 7-day average for new cases has been falling since January 12th and as of yesterday was it its lowest since October 25th, although it slightly went up yesterday. I hope that trend continues and if it does deaths are surely to follow in the coming weeks. All of which will hopefully be accelerated as vaccinations continue along.
 
Scarlet said:
"The devil is already here.

New, stronger strain homegrown in California. I wish people wouldn't start acting like we're on the downslope of this virus.
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That article is being ripped apart.

Sample size was tiny, and the "11 times more deadly" or whatever is nearly fiction. It's an unusually sloppy bunch of garbage from a paper that typically does much better work (See their long form article on oxy from several years ago). Ignore crap like this.


Also - you're 100% correct though. We're not yet on the downslope. We still need to be very careful. I absolutely agree with you there.
 
Swansong said:
That article is being ripped apart.

Sample size was tiny, and the "11 times more deadly" or whatever is nearly fiction. It's an unusually sloppy bunch of garbage from a paper that typically does much better work (See their long form article on oxy from several years ago). Ignore crap like this.

Also - you're 100% correct though. We're not yet on the downslope. We still need to be very careful. I absolutely agree with you there.
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Thanks for the perspective. I just assumed it was legit since the LA Times isn't rag known for bad journalism.
 
Sometimes it is...

FDA rules J&J single shot is safe and effective. Prevents 66% of moderate to severe COVID.
 
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