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Against my better judgment and several beers deep, I have taken you up on this, potentially ending my streak of totally worthless posts. I have done 3 and 7 day averages only on the Worldometer data. 

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Daughter’s home. A little PTSD, we’re picking up Whataburger to help.

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Just try and imagine GreenspointTexas being the person to intubate you as you fight for your life against COVID-19. You’re laying there gasping for air while he chastises you for all the things you li

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7 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

i didn't, sorry. ran out of giveafucks on that front a few months ago.

but your gotcha attempt made me think of a fun game we should play...let's go back to the early days of this thread and pull up some gold. i bet there's some pretty awesome posts we could dredge up now that over 560,000 americans have died from covid.

Maybe we could even compare red state versus blue states on per capita death rates and unemployment rates?  Maybe the Mexican servants you pay $10 a day could do the math for you while you’re living your best life in the Yucatan on the beach.  

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1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

Maybe we could even compare red state versus blue states on per capita death rates and unemployment rates?  Maybe the Mexican servants you pay $10 a day could do the math for you while you’re living your best life in the Yucatan on the beach.  

Don’t be jealous...you can always hop down here on Grandpa’s plane, Spaulding...I’ll buy you a mezcal.

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46 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

Hell of a sales pitch, bro. 
 

 

This guys is the biggest fuckup in public life after Governor Emmy. Exhibit 1 as to why you don't turn over public policy to some idiot bureaucrat who could not get a job in the private sector.

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9 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

You hate to see it

 

Lol at Witmer’s press secretary’s response. “Ok...fine, she got caught. But what about all those racists out there”

 
 
Whitmer’s press secretary Bobby Leddy acknowledged that the pictures were from Foster's FB page, but called the Breitbart article “a partisan attack from a garbage white nationalist website"
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46 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

JFC.

 

Pretty much explains why we have such a loud, stupid electorate. It's not always people's fault for being stupid.

Whitmer's press secretary should be Clown Prince of the Cloak Room.

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Lol at Witmer’s press secretary’s response. “Ok...fine, she got caught. But what about all those racists out there”
    Whitmer’s press secretary Bobby Leddy acknowledged that the pictures were from Foster's FB page, but called the Breitbart article “a partisan attack from a garbage white nationalist website"

Right? When in doubt...
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5 hours ago, Don Johnson said:

Hell of a sales pitch, bro. 
 

 

“Right now, in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks,” Fauci confidently informed the interviewer Dr. Jon LaPook. Pressed for clarification, Fauci went on.

“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”

Such statements are jarring based on what we know has been recommended in the time since. So why the big change? Was it an error based on inaccurate information? Did the good doctor feel any pang of regret for the misguided advice that could have led to increased disease spread early on?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonherald.com/2020/12/27/fauci-falters-on-consistent-coronavirus-message/amp/

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2 hours ago, Message Board User said:

2 million twitter followers and her own MSNBC show.

 

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this is the dumb bitch that had some racist or homophobic blogs surface and she claimed she was hacked. Kept her job. It’s good to be on the right team. 

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3 hours ago, Message Board User said:

2 million twitter followers and her own MSNBC show.

 

We now put primacy on Identity Politics not competency-meritocracy.

I would argue she's the stupidest  bitch on TV but #donlemon

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44 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's funny how all the folks who don't want to wear facemasks because "iTs ThEiR pErSoNaL dEcIsIoN" get their panties in a wad over someone else making a decision to wear facemasks that has zero bearing on their lives whatsoever

This the safe space grievance thread that totally has no politics in it. Masks are talked about ALOT. Fauci is second. Let them have their little fun. They need it.

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2 hours ago, Captainant said:

It's funny how all the folks who don't want to wear facemasks because "iTs ThEiR pErSoNaL dEcIsIoN" get their panties in a wad over someone else making a decision to wear facemasks that has zero bearing on their lives whatsoever

I’ve been noticing this a lot when we go out in rural Texas where we live (since Abbot rescinded mask order). People are big mad that we are wearing masks when “we don’t have to”. Lots of cursing and complaining just loud enough for us to hear. It’s strange and funny and sad at the same time. 

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A lot of viewers?  Tremendous viewers?  Many, many viewers?  

I think Nielsen gets their measurement system from where we derive, "Fuck Ton, Shit Ton, Boatload, and an Insane Amount."  

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51 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

We’ve been keeping tabs of Osterholms prediction that’s going on 11 weeks. He actually said that on like Jan 21st... And he’s dying on that hill.


It’s also been 2 weeks since that tweet with the graph. Active US cases are actually down from March 29 vs today.

the fireproof suit analogy to being on a plane in the interview is unbelievably ridiculous but panic porn for the end of the world masses.

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1 hour ago, Don Johnson said:

 

The consistent pattern we've seen for the past year is a significant gap between data and "experts." Our corporate media continually overplays "experts" at the expense of data. I think this is deeply rooted in the progressive idea of tyranny by bureaucracy and "expertise."

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On 4/10/2021 at 8:36 PM, GRHorn said:

That’s convenient.  
 

I’m sorry I got distracted. I was just helping with cpr on an unmasked person with covid at heb. What were we talking about?

 

Let’s be honest. One of the biggest freak outs ever on this site, or my Twitter honestly, was last month when Abbott dropped the mask mandate. And y’all were fucking way wrong.
 

Like not even close to right.

I won’t go to CR but I’m guessing it’s been forgotten. 

You've been keeping accurate track of people here who've been wrong about covid the most?

I'm curious, how close is the second most frequently wrong poster to you?

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19 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

the fireproof suit analogy to being on a plane in the interview is unbelievably ridiculous but panic porn for the end of the world masses.

Again, I am most displeased by the fact that the "let's be cautious" voices have now fully committed to being as batshit extreme as the "it's just the flu!" crowd.  Especially when they answer truthfully, but not likely.

Here's a good analogy:

If you're about to get on a flight, it would be TRUTHFUL for a flight safety expert to tell you "there is absolutely a chance that this plane is going to crash.  There's a chance that there is an undetected mechanical failure.  It's also possible that the pilot will make a fatal mistake.  Everyone on this plane could die."

All of that is true.  But useless, panic-causing information.  On the spectrum of possible things that could happen, that is the extreme worst, with an incredibly low likelihood of happening.  Sure, we need to be aware of them and protect against them in general -- let's train our pilots, inspect the equipment, etc.  But nothing is a 100% guarantee, that is true.

 

We need to agree on the common ground of what COVID goal we're aiming for.  It has to be a realistic goal.  A goal of "total eradication, zero risk" is as foolish as a complete disregard and "it's just the flu, we shouldn't do shit."

If one of these experts would give a good predicate of "understand that the data give us a range of possible outcomes, some are extreme -- and I'll talk about the extremes, because those bookend our analysis and decisionmaking, but experience tells us that the most likely outcomes are somewhere well in between those two extremes."  That would be really damned helpful.

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1 hour ago, Newdoc said:

I’ve been saying for months that guy needs to be put out to pasture. He loves himself and his panic porn and the MSM bites on that lure every time he throws it out.

I’m not sure why he gets the run he does still. One of the know it all posters here cited him just in the last week or so. 
 

13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

You've been keeping accurate track of people here who've been wrong about covid the most?

I'm curious, how close is the second most frequently wrong poster to you?

I’ve owned my wrong predictions here. Most notably I thought that when it warmed up last spring that summer would be pretty dormant. I was way wrong. 
 

The key part is owning it. Most online pundits and CR blue anons don’t. I’m sure there’s many pages of people saying how many Abbott was killing there on the day of dropping the mandate. 

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Again, I am most displeased by the fact that the "let's be cautious" voices have now fully committed to being as batshit extreme as the "it's just the flu!" crowd.  Especially when they answer truthfully, but not likely.

Here's a good analogy:

If you're about to get on a flight, it would be TRUTHFUL for a flight safety expert to tell you "there is absolutely a chance that this plane is going to crash.  There's a chance that there is an undetected mechanical failure.  It's also possible that the pilot will make a fatal mistake.  Everyone on this plane could die."

All of that is true.  But useless, panic-causing information.  On the spectrum of possible things that could happen, that is the extreme worst, with an incredibly low likelihood of happening.  Sure, we need to be aware of them and protect against them in general -- let's train our pilots, inspect the equipment, etc.  But nothing is a 100% guarantee, that is true.

 

We need to agree on the common ground of what COVID goal we're aiming for.  It has to be a realistic goal.  A goal of "total eradication, zero risk" is as foolish as a complete disregard and "it's just the flu, we shouldn't do shit."

If one of these experts would give a good predicate of "understand that the data give us a range of possible outcomes, some are extreme -- and I'll talk about the extremes, because those bookend our analysis and decisionmaking, but experience tells us that the most likely outcomes are somewhere well in between those two extremes."  That would be really damned helpful.

There are experts like that out there (eg Martin Kulldorff) but corporate media wants no part of them.

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