Coronavirus

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by Clean, Jan 28, 2020.

  1. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    mchammer, that looks really fake. Those curves don't agree with one another.
     
  2. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    ??Huh??? I thought I'd misspelled something.
     
  3. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    We keep hearing dramatic pronouncements about the number of cases everywhere as if cases = deaths
    It seems like click bait or fear mongering because most cases amount to nothing
     
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  4. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I advised daily Vit D in here back in March

     
  5. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Twitter will probably ban this

     
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  6. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    The thing seems to be that anything like this saying it "may" provide lasting protection is always discounted by the pro lockdown crowd while things that "may" be detrimental are always gospel.
     
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  7. theiioftx

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  8. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    I have a friend who went to TX-OU game. The guy closest to him is a contagious disease expert (according to his business card). Didn’t wear a mask.
     
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  9. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  10. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  11. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    One of my managers is in a covid vaccine trial and gets her final blood test next week. They told her if this round of tests from the participants show covid antibodies the vaccine is ready. They are certain it will show antibodies.

    Trump was right in the first debate when he said a vaccine would be ready in weeks but it is very political and probably wouldn't be released until next year. This whole mess is nothing but politics.
     
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  12. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Pfizer just announced they will apply for vaccine approval in 3rd week of November (after sufficient time for safety). However, results regarding efficacy will known in late October.
     
  13. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    But, but...the Dems want to save everyone, so they must be ready to help approve this.
     
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  14. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    hic
    I was going to do the funny emoji
    But knowing the Dems would stop this if they could is sad
    Stop it for political purposes. The real people be damned
     
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  15. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    I'm more worried about dieing from the consequences of lockdown than the Corona virus. We have been below epidemic levels for at least a month now.

    But every time I see CNN the headline says "surge" or "spike" in cases. Last night they were talking about a new model predicting 2000 deaths/day in January from Covid. Program directors at CNN really should be tried for lieing to the public to produce fear. At this point the fear is leading to death. They should be held culpable.
     
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  16. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    A few weeks ago the model said 2000 deaths by Election Day and 3000 deaths by end of year. Deaths are currently about 650 daily.
     
  17. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    And most of those are from a month ago. So it is a safe bet those predictions are ********.
     
  18. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    The apostrophes are for bull $h!t
     
  19. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    If Biden wins, you'll see the characterizations change. It'll be like the recession in 1992. The political media talked about it nonstop, even while the economy was very clearly in recovery if you looked at the data. Then after the election was over, the recovery became a story even though growth in 1993 was slower than it was in 1992. Nobody said "worst economy in 50 years" anymore.

    I'm not saying they'll suddenly stop talking about Covid, but you'll start seeing the numbers contextualized differently. You'll hear Covid death rates compared to other disease death rates. You'll hear current deaths rates compared to what they were in April to show improvement. When the numbers do go up you'll hear about how they're going up in other countries so it won't look like a uniquely American problem. It'll just be a very different spin and narrative.
     
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  20. humahuma

    humahuma 1,000+ Posts

    Yep if Biden wins slowly the narrative will change about Covid. The vaccine will work no more lockdown.
     
  21. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    And the economic recovery we are experiencing will amazingly begin - because of Biden.
     
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  22. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    Actually, the economy will go into the crapper and they will say Biden cured corona, but since Trump didn't fix corona we had to shut everything down for a year and the economy tanked. Now businesses can't reopen even though people can now work and more bailout/handouts are needed.
     
  23. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Vol Horn considering the current path of economy unless Biden shuts us down I do not see the ‘crapper’ scenario any longer, not right away and I think even sleepy will see the danger to him of closing things down. Now when the radicals begin to take over in 12 months or so I agree completely.
     
  24. lkainer

    lkainer 500+ Posts

    It is correct. Testing has more than doubled in the past two months. Positive rates remain low but based on total number of tests new cases are appearing to rise.
     
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  25. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

  26. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Corporate media are propagandists. They will use whatever number they think will scare you into submission.
     
  27. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  28. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

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  29. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  30. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    The latter
    Prisoners in solitary confinement are "safe"
     

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