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1 hour ago, Hayduke1 said:
Exactly,
‘Opposite, most, and least’, are accurate or not depending on interpretation, parameter, category, source, date, and whatever point the author wants to make.
A small example, do the stats reflect the federal $ placed into multiple Native American reservations who are also somewhat independent entities from the state? I have no idea, I doubt you did either. FWIW Standing Rock receives about 80 million federal aid not counting infrastructure and education, if that’s any kind of valid multiplier.
Tap ‘State Dependency’ column in this link and ND moves to 44, California 36.
Statistics and damn statistics. We can all chime in with indisputable proof of our beliefs.
Tangental discussion at best. I only threw in 2 cents because you did. Back to covid and racism.
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3 hours ago, Hayduke1 said:
California might not mind that. They pay far more into the federal budget than they get out of it
North Dakota, well, that would be the exact opposite.
I guess we can all throw sources around and you can post another but we are talking about North Dakota not Alabama. According to the NY Comptroller’s Office North Dakota is # 2 behind California for net contributor. This for 2016.
Let’s not forget ND’s energy and agricultural industries pay a few taxes. # 2 oil producer and lead the nation in 9 crops produced by less people than greater Columbus Ohio
https://www.moneytips.com/is-your-state-a-net-payer-or-a-net-taker/356
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22 hours ago, Bison06 said:
Let me try to clear it up with a question.
Does a white American who grows up in poverty and with drug addicts as parents have an advantage over an African American in the exact same circumstances?
The ultra wealthy, old money in our country is mostly white people. But ALL white people get somehow lumped in with this “old money, waspy, Ivy League” persona that simply isn’t reality.
What I’m saying, is money is what buys privilege in our country. Not skin color.
People have made good points, but your posts put this in context of a faceted problem with complex solutions and you are making way too much sense.
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11 hours ago, SiouxForever said:
Nobody is telling me to wear a mask at home or in my car, but when I drive around and get outside, people are doing it in Fargo. A bunch of sheep/idiots.
Mrs. Kravitz has spoken
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52 minutes ago, Walsh Hall said:
To stay with the trend of horrible analogies... the U.S. had a Frazee in goal. A Frazee helps keep out most pucks, however some pucks can still make it into the goal. Other people can choose not to have a Frazee in the goal. Frazee is a sieve and everything shot by a Toews goes right through him into the goal. Having a Frazee in the goal really makes no difference when facing a Toews.
Unless Victor Hedman is draped all over him..
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16 hours ago, Nodak78 said:
Since neither of us are epidemiologists I suppose this is about equally relevant
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Just now, Oxbow6 said:
So I'm safe to renew my UND FB and hockey tickets per Fauci and you?
And me?
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Just now, Oxbow6 said:
"A bridge too far"......agree that's pretty straight up. There was nothing in his comments that insinuated he favored having students back on campus.
He didn’t say he was in favor or not in favor. Said expectation of a vaccine by fall was a bridge too far, explained the expectation of treatment, and explained the metric for reopening would be capability to respond rather the level of case spike. Actually fairly positive by his standards.
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35 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Fauci is basically sticking with his "you're only safe staying home" BS.
Without vaccine colleges shouldn't reopen. Again most of those individuals are under 24.
Not a big Fauci fan but he said a for students to “feel comfortable” they’d need a vaccine but the likelihood of a vaccine would be “a bridge too far”, and that student treatment in September would likely be “passive treatment with convalescent serum” rather than Remdesivir which has “only moderate” efficacy.
Said that opening up the economy and schools would be less dependent on the spiking of cases, but more depending on a state’s or school’s “capability to respond”.
So he didn’t take the side of not reopening schools.
Said it pretty straight up.
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2 hours ago, Redneksioux said:
You know we have a ppe shortage when there’s not enough to outfit our self serving president.
In other news, he lets his true colors show again.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/media/trump-press-briefing-weijia-jian-kaitlan-collins/index.html
SJW feigned outrage. POTUS response would obviously be the same if she was green. Next
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On 5/10/2020 at 5:33 PM, UNDlaw80 said:
Like any competent country does, sheltering-in-place is augmented with mass testing, followed by quarantining those infected, followed by mass tracing, followed by mass anti-body testing. The point is to stay ahead of the Covid spread, after which you can formulate a step by step process to open based on readily available info and criteria being met. Unfortunately we don't even have mass testing available to citizens.
Is this process intrusive? Without a doubt. Rightly or wrongly, this is the plan we chose by initiating the lock-down. But we half-a$$ed it.
If you’re gonna do something, you go ‘all-in’. We didn’t. And here we are stuck in neutral.
I understand your position but but hindsight is easy. All-in in January and much of February couldn’t have happened under any democratic government.
In December and January we weren’t aware the CCP had discontinued flights from Wuhan to Shanghai and Beijing but yet allowed 10,000’s of of superspreaders to seed the USA and Europe. We didn’t know China went from a net exporter of PPE to importing at least 2 Billion of PPE late Nov through Feb.
I’m not happy with the situation; my rear view glasses say the admin could have asked for a lockdown a tiny bit sooner but I’m not sure if that was truly possible without the WHO and Fauci. What I would have done differently was order a 100% nationwide lockdown for 30 days the day the WHO and CDC finally got off-center. But there were immediate constitutional arguments (and still are)
I think Trump made flight-ban calls as early as made medical and economic sense. He was a maybe a little late on Europe, but NY was already seeded. It would have been nearly impossible politically to lock down business in January or February from a political, medical, or economic standpoint based on available information. Politically the pushback from both parties, unlikely bedfellows like corporate America, coffee shop owners, and plaintiff attorneys, would have made it impossible without better cover from the WHO and CDC.
To the administration’s credit, in January with limited information they worked with Gilead and Regeneron from a regulatory standpoint fast-tracking drugs. They asked Honeywell to begin outfitting two medical mask factories, and Trump stopped Chinese flights. Based on what we know now, one week wouldn’t have mattered.
Information is key to real time decisions and we lacked the info to ask for a Manhattan project for test kits in November and December. Our biotech industry is the best because there is profit involved. And there was no incentive in creating tests at that time so a Manhattan project was the only answer but the administration couldn’t have possibly pulled 10 Billion (or any dollar amount) out of the house or senate to fund a project with the private sector, or even for research hospitals. Dems would have pushed back for for political gain and Republicans would have refused for political and economic reasons. It’s the price we pay for being a Democratic Republic. Trump is not a king and I think he acted mostly appropriately in a complicated situation.
It’s May and despite focused efforts, just now has the world's best Pharma industry and research hospitals been able to produce a likely game changer, an antigen test that can be read with Sofia machines already in place in primary care offices. Two weeks lead-time wouldn’t have changed things.
The Sofia machine antibody test wasn’t as simple as ordering it done. It’s a $5 test and takes 5 minutes. it’s 85% accurate but it’s good enough to change how we test employees so they can work. It still needs to be done in an office but I assume their will be assembly line style testing (test an entire restaurant chain or manufacturer shift) at some point. That won’t happen overnight but now we have the tool.
The most reliable test was in place pretty early but it’s expensive, takes a day or two to get results, and can’t be read in an office. It still can’t be mass produced or read in high volumes. It’s the best we still have and there was no way to make it available en mass even with another 3-4 weeks lead time.
From someone who has been for an air-tight lockdown (early on) and for people to voluntarily wear masks now, (so we can protect people a little more and to get us all back to work), I’m not placing political blame on anyone except maybe de Blasio who’s hubris cost us dearly, but Imo nitpicking now is wasted energy.
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7 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said:
Science. Fact.
Sorry I'm not sure what facebook meme you got your info from but that cloth mask is IN FACT useless for both parties from aerosol spread of normal breathing and speaking * It MAY stop a percentage of large globlets but unless you're a shitforbrains idiot you dont sneeze at people like you're trying to pant them with nose jizz.
So to recap, cloth mask 0% effective for both parties breathing amd speaking, (actually more dangerous for the wearer in contracting a million other germs).
May stop a small percentage of snot projectile from someone sneezing or coughing like a moron in public while wearing.
Telling healthy people they are Orange Man badlike for not wearing a face pantie in public is absurdly unintelligent.
Switch to beer
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On 5/6/2020 at 11:00 AM, keikla said:
Have you noticed success with this? We're seeing 80% of patients respond well, but that's anecdotal.
Trying to figure out how to blend the plasma with remdesivir once we get it. Do both concurrently? Do one then the other? Do plasma only if the patient doesn't qualify for remdesivir?
Sorry, I’m not a good resource for that question, therefore can’t answer to “concurrently” in real time. Plasma only began last month as part of a study.
Stay healthy, this will be part of your story forever.
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1 hour ago, tnt said:
The professional grade masks are the ones that are really effective. If you really want to stop transmission put an oxygen mask over your face and carry around an oxygen tank. Are you prepared to do that, or don't you care about people? That's what I thought!
Expressing the extreme and calling it the norm is the poorest form of debate
Dr. Scott GottliebFormer FDA Commissioner.
Member of White House Bio-defense Interagency Group.
Grad NYU, Mount Sinai
Fellow of American Enterprise Institute
BOD Pfizer
“Surgical masks” (non N95) “are very helpful in preventing the spread through droplets”.
TwitterAlso Gottlieb, ‘Masks help, they reduce the incremental load of transmission from droplets, the smaller load you get infected with the better the outcome’
CNBC interview
If I’m a couple feet away from a Covid infected person at Lowe’s, Krogers, or the airport shuttle, and he sneezes droplets of spit, I’d prefer we are both wearing masks.
Common sensePeople should wear even cloth masks
CDC and the task forceIt's great for people in ND but the hospital I just walked out of had over 26 staff get infected, mostly before the ‘everyone wears mask policy’. The town has over 3,000 positives, about 90 deaths, and 428 in the ICU’s. If this research hospital wasn’t using their own produced antibody plasma things would be worse.
The most hypocritical thing here is the guy leading the state’s social media rant for ‘social distancing and masks are an infringement on my liberty’, was in a local ICU when he died. (Fox news and local media)
I acutely understand that the curve has been flattened, ICU’s for the most part are open, and the economy needs to open quickly.
But still not everyone has antibody plasma, a well trained staff, and Remdesivir. Two counties over they had 28 ICU admissions and lost 14 patients. So is it really that big a deal to wear a mask right now?
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1 hour ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:
Here’s a thought exercise. Let’s say the media never picked up on a “new” virus and it didn’t have a name. And nobody ever invoked the p-word. Instead, they just reported generically on trends, data, and observations about respiratory viruses, illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths in the aggregate.
Would 2020 just have gone down as a “really bad flu season”? I mean, who has even even paid attention every other year in modern history when such things have been announced? Who here hasn’t just shrugged at stories of ‘norovirus on a cruise ship’ or ‘Asian flu’? We’re pretty desensitized and resilient, after all.
Yet, there are now armies of armchair epidemiologists out there who couldn’t begin to tell you how many died last year, or the year before, or in any year from any cause, but who seem to know for a fact that “this one is bad.” Nearly none of them have witnessed it first hand, mind you. Rather it’s what they’ve heard. Over and over.
No panic. No economic upheaval. Some deaths, sure, but mostly in assisted living facilities and tightly packed urban areas. Gentle reminders to wash hands, stay home if you’re sick, see your doctor. Pharma could have quietly worked up a vaccine, and rolled it out in due course with the usual seasonal admonition to ‘get your flu shot.’ Nobody ever reads those labels anyway. “Oh, a bigger needle this year? Okay.” Or, “Two shots this time? Oh, well, what’s my co-pay?”
Maybe we can learn something about the perils of too much information in the Information Age. Maybe being human and vulnerable isn’t really the problem. Maybe putting too much information in the hands of those least equipped to deal with it is the real culprit.
Probably would have been hard not to notice 45 reefers lined up behind Bellevue and Elmhurst.
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43 minutes ago, petey23 said:
Honest Question.
Do you believe China's reported numbers?
No.
South Korea and Italy are valid sources, and examples of policies and actions that worked relatively well and didn’t work at all. -
Reconnecting. It’s counterintuitive but our town and neighborhood seems to be getting closer. The place is brimming with parents and kids playing in the yards. Constant dog walking, people saying hello as they pass on foot. The neighbors just put on a fireworks display. People have put messages in chalk art at the ends of their driveways, and stuffed animals hidden in trees and shrubs for kids to “hunt” as they walk by.
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7 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:Curious what you/they are doing to help out their neighbors?
current line of thinking would be leaving them alone and staying around your own house
I think the current line of thinking is calling your single old man neighbor who can barely walk his dog and offer to go to the drugstore.
In the other case offering the people in their mid 80’s a few houses down to call if there is an immediate issue.
Absurd right?
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5 minutes ago, NDinCO said:
"they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population"
Christmas and pandemics evidently bring out the best and worst of people. Called my kids to be sure they are helping out their neighbors; it appears if nothing else I raised them right.
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Ackman might have it right:
We tried to level and shorten the curve by shutting colleges, but students and people in their 20’s and 30’s filled the bars, clubs, and in some cases the streets as though it’s eternal spring break (Hoboken NJ for example) Which in turn is moving the peak outward until summer and killing the economy in the meantime. He called for a nationwide 30 day remain in place and shutdown of everything except essentials.
in 30 days the infection rate and existing cases would be near zero, then we’d be mostly open for business except international travel.
Markets hate uncertainty; this reduces uncertainty. The markets know a prolonged halt is disastrous; this plan for the most part, shortens the length to 1 month
I ran the idea by a physician involved with a county health Dept and he agrees the math works.
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1 hour ago, UNDlaw80 said:
I'm not sure what your point is here.
Trump did a very good job on the travel ban to China. Very commendable on his part, especially in light of what Biden was saying. But that doesn't diminish, nor rectify his ridiculous incompetency in other areas. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
If your kid comes home with a 50% on a test, do you throw a party for him because he got half the answers right?
Criticism of the past and assignment of blame are the easiest and oft least useful actions in a crisis; anyone can do it.
Some stay fixated on it, rather than dig in and help.
If you don’t mind switching gears from the courtroom to the foxhole, would you share specific actions you are taking to help the greater good?
I'm not saying you aren’t, I’d just like to hear other ideas
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15 hours ago, Cratter said:
Curfews are now being issued in New Jersey.
Finally some good news
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8 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
3 weeks? I'll take the over.
Heuristics are great for choosing socks and betting with other people’s chips
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5 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
Bump
I would like someone to address this. This IMO is the elephant in the room. What happens to these people? Their families? We seem to be strictly focused of keeping grandma's with CHF or emphysema or diabetes with secondary renal failure alive in this thread.
Where are we as a functioning society if this social distancing lockdown is still effect as we approach Memorial Day? People are still going to get infected. Some will die. Who picks up the pieces of lives shattered and destroyed by the inability to make a living. People and kids with futures ahead of them.....not just another birthday or two.
Or we can tough it out 3 weeks and let science gather information.
Deciding the socioeconomic future of a population should not be based on cognitive bias. Not when there’s no backsies.
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Some N95s have valves, most currently available do not. None of the KN95s I’ve seen have valves.
Chinese standard KN95s are readily available to the public but due diligence is required; the FDA authorized KN95s as “respirators” April 2020 because the filtration was similar to our NIOSH N95s and our N95s were scarce.
BUT, many KN95s tested per OSHA direction by independent labs did not meet standards and lost the “respirator” designation. Some of those are still being sold unscrupulously as KNs. This is the list of manufacturers who lost the FDA authorization:
• CTT Co. Ltd.
• Daddybaby Co. Ltd.
• Dongguan Xianda Medical Equipment Co. Ltd.
• Guangdong Fei Fan Mstar Technology Ltd.
• Guangdong Nuokang Medical Technology Co. Ltd.
• Huizhou Huinuo Technology Co. Ltd.
• Lanshan Shendun Technology Co.