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24 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

I’ll just start suing everyone I know that spent $200k on food and alcohol at restaurants from their 20’s-40’s for making America obese and causing my insurance premiums to be so high.  

Better case would be against big food for transfat, sodium, and HFC.

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Posted
26 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Except by the time you could force someone to get tested for the virus, they would no longer have the virus in their system.

I said avenues, not guaranteed ways to prove every case. It just depends on what is available in that particular case. And, frankly, I don't know enough about that sort of mapping to know how long out from infection that sort of evidence could be gathered. Are viral fragments good enough? Do you really need to have an active infection? 

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47 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

What we REALLY need are people being irresponsible  and shifting the cost of their irresponsibility onto someone else.  That's a FANTASTIC idea.  When I end up with a $100k hospital bill because you refused to take a simple step that would have kept you from getting me sick, it definitely makes sense that I should be on the hook for that, and not you. 

You're already mad at a shit-ton of people then.  LOlz.

 

How do you handle such responsibility.  SMDH.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

You knew there was a risk.  You acted in reckless disregard of that risk.

The risk happened.

Due to your reckless disregard of that risk, a third party was harmed.

You should have worn the fucking bunny suit.  You chose not to, and as a result, I'm dead.

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What if he chose not to look like pink a nightmare?

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Posted
3 hours ago, po elvis said:

Is anybody worried about copycat viruses in the future? Terrorists (of any race or belief) seeing the damage this thing has caused, and trying to wreak as much havoc as possible on countries or the world. Would it be possible?

Ball Game!

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Of course the lawyers are looking for new ways to sue people. 

In this instance I don't think Brisket is looking for monetary reasons. Frankly, there are none. Those sort of suits could never be economically viable (I guess unless Elon Musk or someone like that is the anti-vaxxer). The idea is to encourage better behavior in others by at least attempting to hold them accountable for damage caused by their reckless actions. The lawyer taking that case would basically be doing so pro bono. 

Posted
3 hours ago, po elvis said:

Is anybody worried about copycat viruses in the future? Terrorists (of any race or belief) seeing the damage this thing has caused, and trying to wreak as much havoc as possible on countries or the world. Would it be possible?

I think that this does demonstrate quite well the immense threat of a bioweapon from a country like China, NK, Iran, etc.  Selective vaccination in advance and then release the contagion. Maybe you are really smart and can cover it up in the lab by splicing up a genome that can be traced back to animal origin. You sacrifice a portion of your population to cover the release, then clamp down with a fairly robust and pre-planned containment strategy. Your case rates probably look something like China's. /tinfoilhat

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1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

In this instance I don't think Brisket is looking for monetary reasons. Frankly, there are none. Those sort of suits could never be economically viable (I guess unless Elon Musk or someone like that is the anti-vaxxer). The idea is to encourage better behavior in others by at least attempting to hold them accountable for damage caused by their reckless actions. The lawyer taking that case would basically be doing so pro bono. 

Lawyers looking for new ways to justify new ways to sue people.

 

It was just a joke dude. Happy Friday. 

Posted
22 minutes ago, The Dog said:

What the fuck does this have to do with tort reform Walter?

Take a break dude.

Because “Tort Reform” essentially put a price control on personal injury, which represents a subsidy paid by the injured and society at large  to the responsible party for every dollar unpaid  over the price control, in other words, command economy socialism.

That’s the connection, try to keep up.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

And thank god for that. The market must be cleared.

Yes.  What we need is more lawyers involved in medicine and public health. 

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9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Lawyers looking for new ways to justify new ways to sue people.

 

It was just a joke dude. Happy Friday. 

Yeah, I knew that. Still thought I'd give it a real response. 

Posted (edited)

i'm with the anti-sue crowd... slippery slope, can of worms, etc.  i'd rather see this enforced with institutions to employ or enroll only those who have been vaccinated.  schools have been progressively doing that in the past few years to mitigate the anti-vaxxers. 

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55 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I said avenues, not guaranteed ways to prove every case. It just depends on what is available in that particular case. And, frankly, I don't know enough about that sort of mapping to know how long out from infection that sort of evidence could be gathered. Are viral fragments good enough? Do you really need to have an active infection? 

It all depends on the virus, but if we are talking about the coronavirus, experts are saying it will be non-detectable a few weeks after symptoms disappear. All that can be tested is antibodies against the virus, meaning that the person once had the virus. From what you and brisket are saying, that would not be enough evidence. And I don't think anyone is going to voluntarily have a cotton swab stuffed up their nose. The only possibility is if the lab was keeping samples of infected individuals. I don't know enough about a subpoena for confidential medical samples to know if that is possible. And if I were a patient, I would be furious if the lab had fine print in its documents that would allow for such a thing: If they are keeping samples, it better be specifically for research purposes. 

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3 minutes ago, Hmmm said:

i'm with the anti-sue crowd... slippery slope, can of worms, etc.  i'd rather see this enforced with institutions to employ or enroll only those who have been vaccinated.  schools have been progressively doing that in the past few years to mitigate the anti-vaxxers. 

Don't need to sue them. Just force sterilization upon them. 

I assume most of them were vaccinated. Shouldn't they be autistic?

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Posted
52 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Lawyers looking for new ways to justify new ways to sue people.

 

It was just a joke dude. Happy Friday. 

an anti vaxxer would have said Happy Good Friday!!

Posted
2 hours ago, dcar00 said:

agree with the varying effectiveness. also, some really have to be transmitted through bodily fluids and not just touching, a cough, breathing on someone.

 

 

Damn straight, that's how that one bitch gave me dribbledick 30 years ago.

Posted
5 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Oof deadliest day today with over 2000 according to worldometer

Nothing crazy different from NY/NJ.

A lot of states between 40-100 deaths

I'm actually encouraged.  NY/NJ appear stable and should see major drops in deaths soon since hospitalizations have really fallen off.  Hopefully the other hotspots don't have full meltdowns.  Detroit is worrisome.  

Posted
10 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Anybody else getting robo texts and calls from Austin/Travis county telling them to stay home this weekend?

Nah... just the usual voices in my head...

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Posted
27 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:


I guess if they were also black they would offer you a slice of their watermelon and dance a jig

ha. sarcasm my man.

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

Yes.  What we need is more lawyers involved in medicine and public health. 

If various categories of medical association would do a better job of policing themselves and running bad actors out of business we wouldn’t need lawyers to do it for you. But you don’t, and you won’t, so we do.

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Just an observation. 
I live in "central" f/k/a "north" Dallas.  Traffic around here has been significantly curtailed, even on Central/75, Preston, Northwest Highway, etc.  Like 10% of normal, maybe 25.
Today I drove up to Princeton, east of McKinney, to ride a mountain bike trail.  The further north you got on Central (toward and into Collin County), the worse traffic got, to the point it was fairly indistinguishable from a normal day (well, I should check that, I don't know what Collin County traffic is like on a normal day, cuz I don't go up there very often).  Suffice it to say it was discouragingly heavy.
Maybe it was assholes like you who should be home that were out recreating instead?
Posted
3 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

Nearly 50% of people tested in NJ are positive. That’s wild. 

NJ basically has the same number of tests and positives every day. They must have a set limit of tests that can be processed daily so only strongly suspected ill people are getting the tests.  I’ve read theories that perhaps 5x as many people actually have covid 19 but there aren’t any tests to prove that

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Posted (edited)
16 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Not going to lie, I’m definitely interested in the bridge 

That just may be a bridge ........... too far.

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EDIT:  I always disliked that smarmy, fucker.

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Posted
48 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

If various categories of medical association would do a better job of policing themselves and running bad actors out of business we wouldn’t need lawyers to do it for you. But you don’t, and you won’t, so we do.

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Maybe what our public health organizations, such as the CDC and the FDA, really need is more lawyers threatening to sue individuals for individualized medical decision making.  Could have turned the corner on the botched test reagents and the regulatory red tape preventing private lab ramp up I am sure.  The answer to every good public health crisis is more lawyers. 

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Anybody else getting robo texts and calls from Austin/Travis county telling them to stay home this weekend?

yep. probably an idea from a lawyer. 

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NJ basically has the same number of tests and positives every day. They must have a set limit of tests that can be processed daily so only strongly suspected ill people are getting the tests.  I’ve read theories that perhaps 5x as many people actually have covid 19 but there aren’t any tests to prove that

In New Jersey or America? I’d double that 5 to 10 and probably make it 15x higher


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