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  On 7/13/2020 at 11:42 PM, GRHorn said:

Which part is not supported by science? The no masks at school or attending in person at all?

I linked a joint study above by the Swedish and Finnish Public Health Agencies that suggest there’s not necessarily any improvement with keeping primary schools closed, according to a couple benchmarks. 

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Isn't that study pretty old? I can't find a date on it but I think it's the same one I read a couple months back. It's definitely not conclusive or an end-all be-all, but it is interesting. I'd be interested to see if anyone wants to dig through it and take the opposite position and go back and forth with you. Not gonna be me, I have too much going on right now and no energy left to use. I'm basically a meme poster until we get through buying/selling a house and some other stuff.

It's also maddening that the best information we have to inform our local leaders and parents on how best to protect our children is a questionable two month old study from Scandinavia. What an absolute failure of leadership. We should be leading the research and data science on this and we are completely MIA. There just aren't enough superlatives to explain what a terrible failure we have been in that regard. America - we have the money, the resources, the science, the brain power, and the infrastructure to be leading the world through this via research and wisdom. Where the fuck are we?

We are failing our people and our children. 

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  On 7/13/2020 at 11:03 PM, MC Fresh Breath said:

 

I have to be honest with you.  I use tweetdeck sporadically to get some info about various subjects (non-political usually).  I also enjoy the convenience of tweets posted that often express what I wish I could say--plenty of funny, articulate folks out there.   So I feel a bit hypocritical when I say this, but I don't trust much in the way of trends on that platform because I would be hard pressed to tell you how many unigue, non-bot, honest individuals there are out there.

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You're absolutely correct, but it's entertainment for me. Scrolling through the tweets, there are loads of bots but it's still a window into the strange world wide web that we have created. This could have been a wonderful moment for science and medicine world-wide but the very characteristics that make us human give us the frailties which we deny. Such is life.

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:18 AM, BradInATX said:

 What an absolute failure of leadership. We should be leading the research and data science on this and we are completely MIA. There just aren't enough superlatives to explain what a terrible failure we have been in that regard. America - we have the money, the resources, the science, the brain power, and the infrastructure to be leading the world through this via research and wisdom. Where the fuck are we?

We are failing our people and our children. 

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Not gonna lie. I read this like you were Al Pacino talking to the headmaster, Mr. Trask at the meeting of the disciplinary committee in Scent Of A Woman.

You need a flamethrower though.

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  On 7/14/2020 at 12:18 AM, BradInATX said:

 

Isn't that study pretty old? I can't find a date on it but I think it's the same one I read a couple months back. It's definitely not conclusive or an end-all be-all, but it is interesting. I'd be interested to see if anyone wants to dig through it and take the opposite position and go back and forth with you. Not gonna be me, I have too much going on right now and no energy left to use. I'm basically a meme poster until we get through buying/selling a house and some other stuff.

It's also maddening that the best information we have to inform our local leaders and parents on how best to protect our children is a questionable two month old study from Scandinavia. What an absolute failure of leadership. We should be leading the research and data science on this and we are completely MIA. There just aren't enough superlatives to explain what a terrible failure we have been in that regard. America - we have the money, the resources, the science, the brain power, and the infrastructure to be leading the world through this via research and wisdom. Where the fuck are we?

We are failing our people and our children. 

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I think that was the study before Israel had single digits cases per day and opened schools fully only to see an explosion. 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 12:51 AM, Gil Bang said:

Mississippi Governor

 

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Ahhh the old "let's sacrifice over a million lives, destroy our medical professionals, and potentially set up tens of million of Americans with permanent health damage" plan

Hitler would be proud. 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 1:01 AM, Wanker Bob said:

Ahhh the old "let's sacrifice over a million lives, destroy our medical professionals, and potentially set up tens of million of Americans with permanent health damage" plan

Hitler would be proud. 

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You need to read his whole thread. It isn't like that at all.

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  On 7/14/2020 at 12:18 AM, BradInATX said:

 

Isn't that study pretty old? I can't find a date on it but I think it's the same one I read a couple months back. It's definitely not conclusive or an end-all be-all, but it is interesting. I'd be interested to see if anyone wants to dig through it and take the opposite position and go back and forth with you. Not gonna be me, I have too much going on right now and no energy left to use. I'm basically a meme poster until we get through buying/selling a house and some other stuff.

It's also maddening that the best information we have to inform our local leaders and parents on how best to protect our children is a questionable two month old study from Scandinavia. What an absolute failure of leadership. We should be leading the research and data science on this and we are completely MIA. There just aren't enough superlatives to explain what a terrible failure we have been in that regard. America - we have the money, the resources, the science, the brain power, and the infrastructure to be leading the world through this via research and wisdom. Where the fuck are we?

We are failing our people and our children. 

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I didn’t know it was old. Not here to argue it necessarily. Thought it was an interesting data point though.
 

For me the risk/reward calculation still favors attempting in person school for kids this fall. Too much guaranteed harm to kids’ development by punting another year without trying. 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 1:28 AM, Chuckie Finster said:

It pisses me off that so many of these GOP politicians are clearly nowhere as stupid as they pretend to be to score political points.  

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It was a teeth grinder watching the Impeachment Hearings.

Now Devin Nunes, Devin is in over his head I believe. But if he just decided to channel Tim Blake Nelson as Delmar O'Donnell, then he ought to get one of the President's awards.

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  On 7/14/2020 at 1:32 AM, jimmyjazz said:

It's amazing that the Republican Governor of Mississippi gets it, tries to lay it out, and half the readers completely get it backwards.

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We are in a world where the Mississippi Governor is one of the smartest guys in the room.

And I'm glad we have him.

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  On 7/14/2020 at 1:19 AM, Bama Chick said:

lol Cuomo is a bit of an oddball.

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I saw that graphic today when I caught part of his briefing. Thanks for linking the explanation.

It looks like a Six Flags of Texas park map mated with the murals from UFO paintings at Denver International Airport. Cuomo marches to the beat of a different drummer at times - hence the nipple rings protruding through his Brooks Bros. Oxford shirts. 

Kudos to NY for having the determination to get through the worst of it. 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 1:47 AM, washparkhorn said:

It looks like a Six Flags of Texas park map mated with the murals from UFO paintings at Denver International Airport. Cuomo marches to the beat of a different drummer at times - hence the nipple rings protruding through his Brooks Bros. Oxford shirts. 

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President Trump is blaming his biggest problem on his favorite enemy.

Trump held a press conference Monday where he was asked to explain why he constantly blames surging COVID-19 case counts on more testing. But he refused to acknowledge there simply are more coronavirus cases and hospitalizations out there now, instead asking why the gathered reporters weren't talking about the COVID-19 failures of the Obama administration.

"We have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere," Trump falsely said Monday when asked how the U.S. will stop COVID-19 spread. Not only is America's coronavirus mortality rate far from the lowest in the world, it's also been deflated due to rampant testing and rising case numbers — not to mention that many people with COVID-19 face severe and debilitating illness without dying.

"Biden and Obama stopped their testing," Trump then said, referring to former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden. "I'm sure you don't want to report it," Trump added to the reporter, which is probably true — the new coronavirus hadn't even infected a person until late 2019, well into Trump's presidency.

Trump also mistakenly said, as he often has, that the 1918 flu pandemic started in 1917.

 

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https://theweek.com/speedreads-amp/925307/trump-complains-biden-obama-stopped-coronavirus-testing-even-though-didnt-exist-during-administration

 

Holy shit, America!  Look at what you have fucking done!  Look at this delusional, insane, unhinged criminal you have let loose upon the rest of us!  Holy fucking shit, every single day since 2016 I have thought he can't top the shit he said the day before.  I'm like Charlie Brown and Trump is an orange gibbon Lucy holding the football.  

Geeezus, he should be forced to be psychologically tested.  It has been said before, but he is 100% unfit.  Completely. 

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"Biden and Obama stopped their testing," Trump then said, referring to former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden. "I'm sure you don't want to report it," Trump added to the reporter, which is probably true — the new coronavirus hadn't even infected a person until late 2019, well into Trump's presidency.

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I am not sorry for double posting.  Goddamn this man.  Goddamn him.  Holy shit, pass the Tylenol.

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America isn’t getting back to normal until there is an effective vaccine. Effective being the key word. There are too many people who just have to travel or go on vacation. They have been holed up for a couple months and the kids are getting restless. What do you expect people to do?

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  On 7/14/2020 at 1:32 AM, jimmyjazz said:

It's amazing that the Republican Governor of Mississippi gets it, tries to lay it out, and half the readers completely get it backwards.

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Yes he laid the facts out pretty well in his explanation of why herd immunity is not possible and why no one with an IQ above potato should be claiming it will happen. This will not stop people who shun facts and data from laughing at him.

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Paul Krugman:  How America Drank Away it's Children's Future

 

A brief history of the past four months in America:

Experts: Don’t rush to reopen, this isn’t over.

Donald Trump: LIBERATE!

Covid-19: Wheee!

Trump officials: Here’s our opposition research on Anthony Fauci.

And we’re now faced with an agonizing choice: Do we reopen schools, creating risks of a further viral explosion, or do we keep children home, with severe negative effects on their learning?

None of this had to happen. Other countries stuck with their lockdowns long enough to reduce infections to rates much lower than those prevailing here; Covid-19 death rates per capita in the European Union are only a 10th those in the United States — and falling — while ours are rising fast. As a result, they’re in a position to reopen schools fairly safely.

 
 

And the experience of the Northeast, the first major epicenter of the U.S. pandemic, shows that we could have achieved something similar here. Death rates are way down, although still higher than in Europe; on Saturday, for the first time since March, New York City reported zero Covid-19 deaths.

Would a longer lockdown have been economically sustainable? Yes.

It’s true that strong social distancing requirements led to high unemployment and hurt many businesses. But even America, with its ramshackle social safety net, was able to provide enough disaster relief — don’t call it stimulus! — to protect most of its citizens from severe hardship.

Thanks largely to expanded unemployment benefits, poverty didn’t soar during the lockdown. By some measures it may even have gone down.

True, there were holes in that safety net, and many people did suffer. But we could have patched those holes. Yes, emergency relief costs a lot of money, but we can afford it: The federal government has been borrowing huge sums, but interest rates have remained near historical lows.

Put it this way: At its most severe, the lockdown seems to have reduced G.D.P. by a little over 10 percent. During World War II, America spent more than 30 percent of G.D.P. on defense, for more than three years. Why couldn’t we absorb a much smaller cost for a few months?

 

 

So doing what was necessary to bring the coronavirus under control would have been annoying, but entirely feasible.

But that was the road not taken. Instead, many states not only rushed to reopen, they reopened stupidly. Instead of being treated as a cheap, effective way to fight contagion, face masks became a front in the culture war. Activities that posed an obvious risk of feeding the pandemic went unchecked: Large gatherings were permitted, bars reopened.

And the cost of those parties and open bars extends beyond the thousands of Americans who will be killed or suffer permanent health damage as a result of Covid-19’s resurgence. The botched reopening has also endangered something that, unlike drinking in groups, can’t be suspended without doing long-run damage: in-person education.

Some activities hold up fairly well when moved online. I suspect that there will be a lot fewer people flying cross-country to stare at PowerPoints than there were pre-Covid, even once we finally beat this virus.

Education isn’t one of those activities. We now have overwhelming confirmation of something we already suspected: For many, perhaps most students there is no substitute for actually being in a classroom.

But rooms full of students are potential Petri dishes, even if the young are less likely to die from Covid-19 than the old. Other countries have managed to reopen schools relatively safely — but they did so with much lower infection rates than currently prevail in America, and with adequate testing, which we still don’t have in many hot spots.

So we’re now facing a terrible, unnecessary dilemma. If we reopen in-person education, we risk feeding an out-of-control pandemic. If we don’t, we impair the development of millions of American students, inflicting long-term damage on their lives and careers.

 

And the reason we’re in this position is that states, cheered on by the Trump administration, rushed to allow large parties and reopen bars. In a real sense America drank away its children’s future.

Now what? At this point there are probably as many infected Americans as there were in March. So what we should be doing is admitting that we blew it, and doing a severe lockdown all over again — and this time listening to the experts before reopening. Unfortunately, it’s now too late to avoid disrupting education, but the sooner we deal with this the sooner we can get our society back on track.

But we don’t have the kind of leaders we need. Instead, we have the likes of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, politicians who refuse to listen to experts and never admit having been wrong.

So while there have been a few grudging policy adjustments, the main response we’re seeing to colossal policy failure is a hysterical attempt to shift the blame. Some officials are trying to blacken Dr. Fauci’s reputation; others are diving into unhinged conspiracy theories.

As a result, the outlook is grim. This pandemic is going to get worse before it gets better, and the nation will suffer permanent damage.

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I think it's pretty clear at this point Europe and pretty much every developed nation will be way on the downside of this and opened back up while we're still dealing with massive numbers of infections. This disparity could possibly last months. 

What does that do to US dominance world wide? Most likely the EU and most countries will ban travel from the US and therefore their citizens won't come here either. Tourism will be devastated for a long time. Could this have a negative impact on exports? On international business dealings? Does it get so bad long enough that the US slides down the superpower ladder and the world looks more to the likes of China? 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 2:39 AM, Neonmoon said:

America isn’t getting back to normal until there is an effective vaccine. Effective being the key word. There are too many people who just have to travel or go on vacation. They have been holed up for a couple months and the kids are getting restless. What do you expect people to do?

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This. I got into an argument tonight with a friend. Told her I was not going anywhere for my birthday. She wanted to invite a bunch of friends to her cousins, have a bbq, etc. Fuck it, gonna stay at home, order a nice bottle of something, smoke a joint, watch a few bad ass movies and wash my masks. 

She did not understand I have no desire to go to her cousins, hang out with her friends, who I know do not take this seriously, and add to the problem. I want the nation to open up dammit, but people need to be smart. And a lot of our fellow citizens are dumb, selfish and full of shit. 

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  On 7/13/2020 at 9:24 PM, triplehorn said:

I read the WaPo article above stemming from the positive findings in the Henry Ford study and the WaPo article ("three major randomized trials" that have found *** is not effective in treating or preventing covid-19) that is embedded with a link in the article.  I generally have a positive regard for WaPo, but the reporting here is garbage in that it lacks critical medical nuance needed to understand essential distinctions in research to date, and additionally STILL incorporates a fake study into the media reporting sausage to shape perception.  jfc.  It's also striking how medical reporting on this in the US is confined to the relative vacuum of US studies.  Internationally, there's over 50 to date with positive findings.  The 14 negative studies mentioned in the 50+ study link have something in common - late intervention/already severe cases.  That's instructive.

And anytime you have big pharma giving any oxygen whatsoever to the drug that will not be named, that tells you all you need to know about whether or not they see it as a viable and legitimate threat to their bottom line.  Like this Gilead press release from 3 days ago .  (You have to get half way through it to spot the talking point against _***).  Not to mention re-splicing data into a 14 day window to capture the favorable spin for their own product.  ignorance and greed stirred with politics is the fucking deadly cocktail people need to be aware of. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Which study is fake? 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 12:18 AM, BradInATX said:

 

Isn't that study pretty old? I can't find a date on it but I think it's the same one I read a couple months back. It's definitely not conclusive or an end-all be-all, but it is interesting. I'd be interested to see if anyone wants to dig through it and take the opposite position and go back and forth with you. Not gonna be me, I have too much going on right now and no energy left to use. I'm basically a meme poster until we get through buying/selling a house and some other stuff.

It's also maddening that the best information we have to inform our local leaders and parents on how best to protect our children is a questionable two month old study from Scandinavia. What an absolute failure of leadership. We should be leading the research and data science on this and we are completely MIA. There just aren't enough superlatives to explain what a terrible failure we have been in that regard. America - we have the money, the resources, the science, the brain power, and the infrastructure to be leading the world through this via research and wisdom. Where the fuck are we?

We are failing our people and our children. 

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I get a lot of covid emails from different hospital systems. One does provide a literature review by an Infectious Disease doc a few times a week. There happened to be a summary of some of the studies out on kids and covid transmission as it relates to school. I'll spoiler it here and probably cross post in the medical discussion thread.

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  On 7/14/2020 at 12:08 PM, GRHorn said:

I get a lot of covid emails from different hospital systems. One does provide a literature review by an Infectious Disease doc a few times a week. There happened to be a summary of some of the studies out on kids and covid transmission as it relates to school. I'll spoiler it here and probably cross post in the medical discussion thread.

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Thanks for sharing the info, can you also link the underlying sources that are being summarized? I couldn't find that in your quoted text box

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  On 7/14/2020 at 12:08 PM, GRHorn said:
I get a lot of covid emails from different hospital systems. One does provide a literature review by an Infectious Disease doc a few times a week. There happened to be a summary of some of the studies out on kids and covid transmission as it relates to school. I'll spoiler it here and probably cross post in the medical discussion thread.
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Thanks for posting that. Definitely small sample size and some optimistic assumptions, but it's the best we've got so far.
It's difficult to reconcile this virus not being spread via kids when they're germ sponges and distributors with everything else. Hard to wrap your head around.
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I like that in Florida, an 88.6% swing is considered only "skewed" 

Reminds me of "a tad", which in space terms is about a half million miles:

 

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Meanwhile, in Prague...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/14/how-czech-republic-beat-covid-require-everyone-wear-face-masks-column/5426602002/

"Anyone interested in a real world case study on the extraordinary effectiveness of face masks in suppressing the spread of the coronavirus need look no farther than Prague. In this capital city of 1.3 million, among the first in Europe to decree mandatory universal mask-wearing almost four months ago, life has now returned to normal. "

 

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So they were okay with somebody putting a Czech on their Freedoms? 

 

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Fucking LULZ. Mulvaney gonna Republican.

Too bad they are too fucking stupid for self awareness. Idiocy and hypocrisy know no bounds.

 

Then: It's a HOAX.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4857785/mick-mulvaney-calls-coronavirus-media-hoax-day

Now: I want my test results for my kids NOW!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/mick-mulvaney-coronavirus-testing/index.html

 

"I know it isn't popular to talk about in some Republican circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country," Mulvaney wrote. "My son was tested recently; we had to wait 5 to 7 days for results. My daughter wanted to get tested before visiting her grandparents, but was told she didn't qualify. That is simply inexcusable at this point in the pandemic."

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  On 7/14/2020 at 2:53 PM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Meanwhile, in Prague...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/14/how-czech-republic-beat-covid-require-everyone-wear-face-masks-column/5426602002/

"Anyone interested in a real world case study on the extraordinary effectiveness of face masks in suppressing the spread of the coronavirus need look no farther than Prague. In this capital city of 1.3 million, among the first in Europe to decree mandatory universal mask-wearing almost four months ago, life has now returned to normal. "

 

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I work daily with an epidemiologist who lives in Prague. He is from Texas, based there. And yep. The sucked it up, stayed the fuck home and wore masks. Asshole was at a brewery Saturday sending me pictures. I might charge him double. 

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Darwin: "I'm working overtime bitches!"

 

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-florida-county-commission-coronavirus-20200713-zk5nxsjarnh2fbe6hfbgixbcym-story.html

A St. Johns County commissioner who voted against requiring the wearing of masks in the county this month is now in the hospital because of coronavirus, according to a report from Florida Politics.

The website reported that Ashley Waldron Zapata, the daughter of Commissioner Paul Waldron, posted to Facebook on Friday that he is “critical” condition with complications from COVID-19.

“The hospital is working hard to keep him comfortable and continuously monitoring him,” Zapata posted. “His blood gas levels have improved today and numbers are holding.”

Waldron was one of three people to vote against a county wide mask order, Florida Politics reported. Waldron has been on the St. Johns County Commission since 2016 and is up for re-election this year without an opponent.

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  On 7/14/2020 at 2:53 PM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Meanwhile, in Prague...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/14/how-czech-republic-beat-covid-require-everyone-wear-face-masks-column/5426602002/

"Anyone interested in a real world case study on the extraordinary effectiveness of face masks in suppressing the spread of the coronavirus need look no farther than Prague. In this capital city of 1.3 million, among the first in Europe to decree mandatory universal mask-wearing almost four months ago, life has now returned to normal. "

 

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I’m supposed to be there right fucking now. Fuck this administration for making our passports useless. 

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  On 7/14/2020 at 3:09 PM, crash_davis said:

Fucking LULZ. Mulvaney gonna Republican.

Too bad they are too fucking stupid for self awareness. Idiocy and hypocrisy know no bounds.

 

Then: It's a HOAX.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4857785/mick-mulvaney-calls-coronavirus-media-hoax-day

Now: I want my test results for my kids NOW!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/mick-mulvaney-coronavirus-testing/index.html

 

"I know it isn't popular to talk about in some Republican circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country," Mulvaney wrote. "My son was tested recently; we had to wait 5 to 7 days for results. My daughter wanted to get tested before visiting her grandparents, but was told she didn't qualify. That is simply inexcusable at this point in the pandemic."

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It is inexcusable.  "We really need to have Twinkies here," says arsonist who burned down the Twinkie factory.

He shouldn't even be allowed to get a test until every other American that wants one has already had one.

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