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TXSooner518

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  1. This is extremely concerning and sobering and an excellent summary of why the “meh it’s the flu” and “no concern unless you’re old” crowds are risking thousands of lives.
  2. A huge part of it is the US is completely resisting testing unless no other option exists. So less cases and the ones that are found are mostly severe so more deaths.
  3. People who test positive are under mandatory quarantine.
  4. Which is why there needs to be widely available testing at low or no cost. If I get fever and a cough, I may not quarantine, but if I can go get tested, see I have it, then I would. Also, you test to make sure asympomatic people aren't spreading it. Guy posted yesterday that his uncle has it, confirmed, but his aunt has no symptoms, so they aren't testing her. She's free to roam. That is gross negligence. She should obviously be tested to help reduce the spread. As has been posted over and over, slowing the spread is YUGE as far as crippling effects on our economy and health care system. 100,000 hospitalized over a 6 month period is dramatically different than over a 1 month period.
  5. Well that's one way to keep the numbers low. Also even if it was COVID-19, that’s still a “natural” death. Technically correct, the very best kind.
  6. Took me a minute - but I found Chicago State in the WAC, where the men's team is currently 0-14 in conference and 4-25 overall, makes me wonder who they beat but not enough to look. The women's team is 1-13 in the WAC standings, 1-26 overall. So these forfeits actually save the school travel money, as they would have lost the games anyway 3 of the men’s team wins are non-DI. Pulling their schedule is amusing as they get massacred by the bottom third of the NCAA. I’m sure they were good with any reason to cancel.
  7. Kick the can down the road without stock market panic until the warm weather “miracle”.
  8. That nurse's statement, along with so many other stories of people being denied testing as well as not being given proper instruction should absolutely result in lots of terminations and litigation after we put this mess behind us, which will be much worse than what was necessary. Fucking idiots.
  9. Yeah, no, most people aren't washing up properly. Most people are doing their 3 second token rinse under cold water, then relentlessly touching their eyes, nose, and mouth, and refusing to modify their lifestyle.
  10. That ZH article is such inaccurate and irresponsible trash. For one, 2% mortality would be huge. For two, it disregards the survivors often require multi week hospital stays. For three, it disregards that people pass it on without showing symptoms and stopping spread requires a multi week quarantine. Those factors make it potentially very disruptive even to those who don’t catch it. Then all the misleading or false stuff. Oh hey 40 years ago Dean Koontz wrote a novel about a bio weapon that developed in China. Must be fake!!!! Of course even our cherry picked page shows that the fiction was completely different as the Koontz weapon couldn’t live outside of a person for a minute and part of what makes COVID dangerous is it can survive on surfaces for a long time. Also the page that says 2020 doesn’t read like a novel and isn’t same font as the Koontz book so that looks like some other crap that they are trying to tie into the “coincidence.” And it’s false that the media is treating it like the plague. I really want to throatpunch this person.
  11. One good thing is they are both in the extreme coronavirus danger zone age bracket. And yeah 2016 was a layup too and the Dems came up with another bag of shit. Enough people enabled that by voting for that bag of shit that they went back to the well. I won’t support it. I would vote for every Dem nominee from 1992-2012 over Trump. I don’t know enough about Dukakis to say for sure. It’s just amazing that the party that could/should be representing the future is coming down to two guys who are 158 years old combined. Their combined lifespan would reach back to the fucking Civil War.
  12. Only way to get parties to stop nominating bags of shit is to not vote for bags of shit. Worthwhile to me.
  13. "My kid served in Iraq" is a perfectly valid response to "you don't care about the people who served in Iraq." Jesus Christ, stop making me defend this guy.
  14. I'm aware some people will see it that way. Why isn't lack of voting for Trump supporting the Dem candidate? Same exact argument. The people who had 4 years to come up with a candidate in what they see as the most important election in history and came up with a senile octogenarian groper are the enablers.
  15. So your position is anyone with a legit complaint over any policy or vote by any candidate, regardless of when it occurred, has a right to stand and just scream at a candidate and the candidate is obligated to nod and say "uh huh, right, sure, I told you that bitch crazy, uh huh" until the filibuster ends?
  16. Right, I won't vote for Trump either.
  17. I absolutely agree with this also of course.
  18. Ehhhhh. He listens to the intro, and we won't know how we would have responded if the guy had said something like "do you regret your vote?" or "why should I trust that you wouldn't do this again?" or similar. Instead he just screams "you are disqualified!" over and over. And obviously you don't think that guy is right since you said you will vote for a nominee Biden, so you disagree that he is disqualified. And it shouldn't be disqualifying. It passed the Senate 77-23. More Democrats voted for than against. There are dozens of better reasons for Joe Biden to not be president.
  19. Biden is for sure horrendous, and has been shitty in lots of voter encounters that I've seen, but that wasn't one of them IMO. The guy just wants to yell at him, he's not trying to dialog or ask for positions, etc. How long should Biden stand there and have this guy yell in his face?
  20. Exactly. This is what the BUH WHUH HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM FLU THIS IS HYPE crowd isn't getting. Basically no one is saying wow we are all going to die from the disease, we are saying it has the real potential to be highly disruptive to the health care system and the economy.
  21. He's moving on from Super Thursday continuing his candidacy for U.S. Senate, and will be curing cancer and appointing the first black female senator. Seems simple enough.
  22. None were a direct match for me. My preferences of the field that came out were Yang, Buttigieg, Warren. Yang and Buttigieg I liked because I like a forward-looking, scientific, intelligent approach. Also when you have someone who is 40-50, they have a very vested interest in the next 30 years of what happens to this country, its economy, etc. If Bernie's policies cause a Great Depression, what does he care, he'll be dead anyway. Warren was older than I prefer, but is almost a decade younger than the 3 ancient Bs, and also had a more policy-based approach. I would accept someone who isn't a senile groper who is an incoherent babbler, we already have one of those. And no, I absolutely also will not vote for Donald Trump. I'm aware that many people will say that not voting for Biden is voting for Trump. I'm not the one who came up with this shit sandwich. You have to earn my vote, not just say "yeah but our shit sandwich is at least semi-solid, and that guy's is pure diarrhea."
  23. I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate who absolutely won't vote for Joe Biden. And when Trump is re-elected, Democrats can look back and ponder on why they had 4 years to run against the most repugnant person to ever hold the office, and the best they could come up with to represent Democrat ideals is an 80 year old lifelong groper who is exhibiting clear cognitive decline (now! imagine 2-3 years into the presidency. Go back and watch Trump's 2016 debates, he's so far ahead of where he is now mentally, as well as ahead of 2020 Biden, it's scary), Biden would be 6 years older than anyone who has ever won a presidential election and 9 years older than any person first elected president. And this is the best you can do??? We need an 85 year old carrying around the nuclear football?
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