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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    That's not a proper interpretation of cause and effect. Look, I'm up to my eyeballs in budget stuff today, but real briefly: The best way to determine the real impact of masks as source of infection control would be to have a large number of people observed over time in an environment where...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Please read the study (here). It was done in Denmark in April and May, and it measured how many people got sick via COVID-19 and several other respiratory viruses while wearing masks in an environment where mask wearing was uncommon, and if you go back and do research you'll find prevalence of...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    That study is getting a lot of attention. While there are a lot of limitations on what it can show, the key finding it reports is that the masks didn't prevent healthy mask wearers from getting sick. The main thing wearing masks does is reduce the spread from infected wearers. So, your first...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Dems getting even one of the Ga seats would be an amazing turn of events. Taking both would rank as as a Dem wet dream fantasy of the same order as Trump trying to overturn Biden's victory. And with that, I'm out for the day. Stay safe all. Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I agree people celebrating in the streets mask less and hugging each other were idiots. There's a pandemic a-goin' on! I also consider anyone that goes into a restaurant operating at anything close to normal capacity an idiot. The health care model arguments are rather timeless and will...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    A good argument... In favor of decoupling employment and health care coverage! Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Sorry about your steakhouse. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/third-surge-breaking-healthcare-workers/617091/?fbclid=IwAR0yiNCDN9DBsy0Yt2m7YNYbwizVrExdq9RNr02popVkZ3UghXVxxFavmUY Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    What mask? :rofl: :rofl:
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I'm very sorry for your loss, and your family did the right thing to make sure cause of death was correctly reported. I don't know what month this happened in, but I do know that early on tests weren't fully available and at that time the treatment and precautions taken were the same whether it...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    My last post of the day: I'm not preaching full/total China style lock downs with no access to doctors. I'm saying people should wear masks, not go clubbing, minimize indoor gatherings. Yeah, it sucks if you own a restaurant or a gym. I'm all for govt assistance / PPP style help to businesses...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Look, I'm very familiar with the numbers and how to read them. So let's just look at the top of the chart: So, somewhat more than 220k people died where COVID-19 was listed on the death certificate. Close to half of them had influenza/pneumonia listed. No surprise; COVID-19 causes...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I'm 53 and have a BMI in the 30-31 range. I'm at elevated risk. My wife is immunocompromised and is also at elevated risk, but she is a medical professional and interacts with patients as part of her job. The CDC numbers you cite are misinterpreted. Just because there are comorbidities along...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Meanwhile, until the vaccine is released, this from another forum should be used as guidance:
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Mostly, yes you are right. However, it's important to consider that some folks either can't take certain vaccines due to medical conditions, or who have compromised immune systems and simply won't mount an effective response. There's also the very young to be considered (too young to be...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    @vandyman , as for taking your chances, just consider that we've had a quarter million dead more or less from this thing in just 8 or 9 months, despite massive lockdowns, masking, and so on. If we hadn't done those things, we would have a much higher death toll. Now that it's surging again, we...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    He started by describing his fact based approach for figuring out his personal Thanksgiving. That's a good start. The rest, we'll just have to wait and see. Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Our leaders should lead by example, for sure, demonstrating prudent choices and emphasizing public safety. Unfortunately too many on both sides of the spectrum think they are above it all. [emoji35] Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Good interview with Bill Gates. I know he triggers some of you guys for some reason. Enjoy! https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-rashida-jones-on-anti-maskers-are-like-nudists-2020-11 Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Here is a good, non-sensational article on the state of affairs. https://apnews.com/article/travel-family-gatherings-coronavirus-pandemic-thanksgiving-holidays-3c759ab924a0d9de27803527ddf36c1c Note that many of the highly rural areas have the worst infection rates, while areas that were...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    This is not just idiocy, it is dangerous idiocy. Most of the country is in the middle of a serious spike in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. And not just us, many other countries are facing spikes too. The common denominator is that the places where it was taken the least seriously in the...
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    Least-competent criminals file: Porch pirate wears same shirt to court

    Not much newsworthy stuff happening lately I guess. [emoji1787] Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Least-competent criminals file: Porch pirate wears same shirt to court

    Hilarious. Lock him away... https://abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-porch-pirate-arrested-wearing-exact-shirt-court/story?id=74217581
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    On another forum I frequent, a person who is a life flight (helicopter) EMT staffer posted the following (and for the record, he lives in my state; I've met him in real life): https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/third-surge-breaking-healthcare-workers/617091/ Bad news first...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    "Hunter Biden's laptop" bwahahahahaha :rofl: That's one for the record books. Hunter's laptop with incriminating evidence, just happens to be left behind, and falls into Giuliani's hands. Hilarious. This election cycle had lots of rich moments, though none will top the press conference between...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Meanwhile, predictions of the virus going away following the election seem to have been misinformed: https://apnews.com/article/schools-abandon-classes-virus-surge-36e842656de5f5193f3d55e37ffc8351 Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Uh... this is a factual statement. Case numbers are rapidly, exponentially rising across the country. Here is my local picture in Indiana: We're back up over 40 deaths per day on average, and based on shape of the curve it's going to get much worse than that before it gets better. But don't...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Dude, I meant for folks to go to the links that search brings up. One from the voting machine company, one from AP detailing the fraudulent claim and how it arose and spread, another from snopes... Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Guys, I'm not at my computer anymore, just have my phone, but read some of the links that the LMGTFY brings up. Reputable ones. They describe how a small error that was caught and corrected properly is being extrapolated to claim huge vote switching. Read the sources. Simply not true. Sent from...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    You win. A search for "lies by republicans" only gets 38M. However, a search for "lies by Trump" breaks the internet. :rofl: :rofl: Break time is over for me. Back to work.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    There's no panic here, I'm just pointing out that this has already been shown to be false, like four or five days ago... The process to resolve this has already completed.
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