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5 hours ago, TheFlop said:
More evidence that there is strong likelihood that it is aerosol which would make wearing cloth masks the equivalent of trying to keep mosquitos away from you by wearing a fishing net on your head.
https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-report-airborne-coronavirus-probably-infectious-090340015.html
That’s what you took away from this?
It says the virus can exist on droplets under 5 microns.
Masks, cloth or N95s reduce incremental exposure. For most people the less you breathe in, the less sick you get.
If one interpreted this as ‘cloth masks are useless’ then you would also interpret it as N95s are useless.
Not trying to change your mind Because I won’t, but it needed pointed out.
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3 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
ND... 82/3739/1. 2.2%. Active cases down too.
Oxbow, You like the stats.
You are probably watching Rt already but here’s the link. Dr Scott Gottlieb (former head of FDA) has consistently been the most reliable source throughout imo. He says Rate of Transmission plus hospitalizations are the two most important stats state and local governments should use to make decisions, rather than actual positives or % positives.
He thinks for the most part schools should open, and says the economy should open, but pause, not revert, in hot spots with very high Rt or high hospital usage.
Some of the big population states have moved to green or are almost green. The highest red states tend to have lower populations so despite the massive numbers it can be seen as glass half full.
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1 hour ago, UNDlaw80 said:
Sadly the issue of masks has become a flash-point for a culture war; albeit one where the Right is slowly aquiescing to reason. This was illustrated perfectly when Mitch McConnell started advocating for masks and needed to tell his constituency “We must have no stigma, none,”
Agree some people have taken immovable positions due to cultural cognition, there is some right/left component amongst hard cores, but the media loves elevating a political fights.
I don’t see the media’s version from my own boots-on-the-ground standpoint
Some people just think it’s sensible to wear masks, including 6 family members who have never voted for a democrat. I also have 3 family members who’ve never voted for a republican who refuse to wear masks except when required.
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31 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Hmmmmmmm.....interesting. It has been reiterated repeatedly here not wearing masks everywhere in public kills people. Just looking for advice from the mask warriors.
If a private property owner doesn’t require masks, people who dislike masks should shop there. Anyone that jaws at them are out of line.
People wanting an extra level of protection should go elsewhere but shouldn’t catch guff from anyone no matter where they are.
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5 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Went to a local grocery store early this morning (with a mask on).......half the employees not wearing masks. Store policy doesn't mandate masks at this point. In the future what should be my verbal and/or physical response to those "buffoons"?
If you are in a store that doesn’t require masks why would you care?
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5 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
Lies have consequences. If their ultimate goal was to earn the nation’s trust when they roll out recommendations, beginning with a lie is the opposite of what should have been done.
Agree 100%. The moment the SG made the statements it felt like PT Barnum was in charge. The reactions from my friends in the healthcare community were virtual horrified laughs out loud
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4 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:
There are few to respect here.
Hates puppies
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11 hours ago, Hayduke1 said:
Gotta speak the truth and repeat. Cuz, well, true medical professionals know that advocating face mask usage for all is the right thing to do.
If they do not advocate their usage, they shouldn't be considered professionals and should probably become pizza delivery drivers. Although they'd still have to wear a mask.
Agree with your mask position, but due to your ridiculous lack of civility, respect, and social skills I’ve become a Great White groupie and volunteering at nursing homes.
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13 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:
Why dont you just shut the hell up? Lol.
Cuz I sez so.. lol
That’s it?
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34 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:
I have my facts right.
Try threatening someone else. I'll say what I want, boy.
Lol
Boy?
More shrill and less credible by the moment-
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2 hours ago, Hayduke1 said:
Seriously. THAT was your point?
That's insane.
Lol
Odd post
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14 hours ago, UNDlaw80 said:
Fortunately, this demographic of America is slowly disappearing. They’ve mobilized because they see the writing on the wall. Their vision of America dying. This country will be culturally, racially and politically flipped upside down in 25 years.
Classically polarizing statement.
My non-white business associate is almost gleeful about the projected disappearance of white people. I’m socially liberal so I guess he thought it was acceptable to say it out loud.
Tell someone you want their racIal demographic to “disappear’”, you create a voting block, then call them racist.
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8 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
I’m trying to find it, I remember it specifically because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. But struggling to find the video admittedly.
I don’t think that was part of the raised hand questions. He did recently team with Sanders on the “unity platform” which creates a path to citizenship for arguably 11 million illegals which I suppose is also a path to vote. I don’t anything about “path” requirement.
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56 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
Did you not see the democratic primary debates when nearly every candidate(including Biden) raised their hand when they asked if they were for illegal immigrants being able to vote and free healthcare?
I saw the healthcare hand raise and the same with decriminalize border crossings. Didn’t see one on voting. However I missed some of the debates
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42 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:
Probably not.
I dont follow very good football teams. Just UND and Wyoming. Lol. They are good, but not very good.
Gotcha. Similar handle and just as ornery. Thought you were him or his doppelgänger.
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7 minutes ago, Hayduke1 said:
No. A cult member.
Duke have we met on another board that was focused on a very good football team?
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13 hours ago, Cratter said:
Manitoba: Barely test anyone.
Texas: Put people who never took a test under the confirmed positive case count.
Shouldn’t count non-tested people. Hospitalizations/positive is lower than the official number. But doesn’t change that the count is significantly higher than reported.
My daughter was tested C19 positive last week. (fever, respiratory issues for 9 days). She caught it from her husband who got it from his sister while visiting his mom and sister, who got it from sister’s daughter who caught it from her father on his rotation day.Of that grouponly three were tested (the father, his daughter, and my daughter. All are sick but no point for the other 3 to test unless they hospitalized. It’s common for only one family member in the same household to test. Same with a circle of friends.
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7 hours ago, UNDvince97-01 said:
Lock yourself down.
Don't go out.
Wear a mask and a 6 foot separator apparatus that keeps your 6 foot social distancing around you if you do take the huge risk of going out.
I'll live my life the way I choose. You live yours the way you want.
You live the way you choose. I get that. I assume there’s been times in your life you’ve done something very good that’s helped define you?
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2 hours ago, Bison06 said:
I'll preface by saying I have been wearing a mask when in public.
Why has it been so difficult for our public health officials to come to a consensus on this topic?
Fauci has said masks don't help, Osterholm has said he actually opposes masks as they give people a false sense of confidence. Even the surgeon general told us not to wear masks in March. Now, some health officials have said they purposely lied to us so people wouldn't hoard N95 masks and save them for the medical community, but that just builds further distrust.
If I can ask you as someone who I assume, based on conversations in the past week, leans left. Why are you so pro-mask when even the experts on this topic can't come to a clear consensus?
Surgeon General and CDC desperate to maintain control over the mask supply lied to everyone.
Rather than just say, ‘professionals need 95s, please make your own, they are useful”, the SG tweeted one of the biggest lies and blunders of modern history:
“Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS“ Then he added the the lie, “They are NOT effective preventing the general public from catching the #coronavirus”, then the epic fail in lie logic, “But if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”
Wait what?It gets better though, a week later on Face The Nation he doubled down with, “Masks don’t work” (wait for it, wait for it) “for the general public”
Of course the SG and CDC restated policy after the CDC had a steady supply of masks.
That tweet and statement changed the world. While China, Korea, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and others effectively shut down their virus spread with mandatory (homemade or otherwise) masks and then reopened their economies, we sat around and collectively argued about masks. And here we are.
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10 minutes ago, petey23 said:
I think this is why his Veep choice is huge. Should Biden win I can't envision him still being in office come January 2022.
If you had told me that Biden would have been President back in 2016 had he been the nominee I would have been "well, this isn't ideal but alright lets see how the first couple years go and if he goes too far the American people will limit him in 2018 like they did to Bill Clinton after the disastrous first 2 years of his Presidency and he in my opinion, scandals aside, will go down in history as one of our better Presidents"...but Biden in 2020 is mentally and cognitively diminished and I worry a Biden Presidency will be severely co-opted by the lunatic left who has taken over the Democratic Party and I worry about what the people that will be in his administration are capable of.
Elizabeth Warren likely gets a seat at the table. If she becomes Treasury Secretary he loses support from big tech, big banks, and on-the-fence owners of 401ks and IRAs.
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1 minute ago, SiouxForever said:
Thats what Bill Nye the science guy essentially just said this morning.
Masks save lives!
Goldman analysts estimate masks until a vaccine would change GDP 5% to the good and get people to work. Honestly I don’t care, I have a job and masks are infringing. Low wage service workers and single mothers should have gone to college, not my problem.
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4 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
"wear a mask already" and it will all go away. IALTO.
No way, my civil liberties are already compromised by stop signs.
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10 hours ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:
When did it become okay to stop living?
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What are people so afraid of? Dying...or living?
Exactly. At-risk people are afraid of dying, so that they can live. Therefore they are raging, raging against the dying of the light.
That however, is crazy selfish of the ragers with asthma, cancer, diabetes, spleen issues, sickle cell, HBP, have an immune condition, are over 60, or are pregnant. Please stop the annoying raging and just die already, so others can live, live without a mask 8 months.-
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1 hour ago, wxman91 said:
I’m not overly confident and I’ve said multiple times that Biden could lose. However, reading in between the lines on the current polls shows that Trump has an amazingly narrow path to victory. The % who say they will absolutely not vote for him is extremely high. Independents are strongly against him.
Agree, a very narrow path. Dems need to pick up a couple traditional states and it’s over. Ex: Pa, Mi, and Wi.
Get a turnout in some key districts and we have a new president
But there’s been some oddities: Bush and Trump defied polls.
Supposedly AA males shifted just enough toward Trump to make a national difference; seems counterintuitive given recent events but I see valid arguments why that could continue.
Trump and Bush motivated the base so we'll see. 2020 may go to the Dems.
Independents broke for Trump, but Independents also traditionally vote against the party in the White House.
Fwiw, Pew says Independents lean left 17 vs 13%. But I’ve also found young males in group settings can be misleading about who they support.
Biden and Trump can both be their own worst enemies, Trump is Trump, but Joe Biden is the least interesting man since Dukakis and has yet to holster his own Mayberry issue service revolver.
But most importantly people vote their pocketbooks and the jury is still out
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Too many variables at this point. Lack of kits, slowdown at some labs, most exposed don’t get tested at all because they already know the answer, or asymptomatic people who feel fine get tested anyway etc.
It’s an algebraic equation with so many variables they are forced to go off large numbers. Every input is debatable. It’s clearly not perfect. Decision makers watch rate of transmission and hospitalizations in zones.
https://rt.live