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So have you started prescribing insulin for your non-diabetic patients yet? I mean Trump is thinking about doing it so it must be OK, right?

It's clinically proven to actually increase the chances of death. One would think that would be enough for people, especially someone who claims to be a doctor, but since Trump says it's good that's better than all of the clinical data proving otherwise.

I think it's important that we call out who's responsible for this mess and not just complain about it. Trump and his movement's legacy (whether he wins or loses in November) will be a few hundred thousand dead Americans and a destroyed economy because he couldn't be bothered to do his job. He and his supporters have weakened this country immeasurably and I'm not sorry that pointing it out hurts your feelings.

$500 billion of potential wages, unemployment benefits and other aid sitting on the sidelines with Mnuchin until Trump can fire all of the people charged with overseeing how it's spent and funnel it into Trump org. Nothing to see here.

Why should we trust the Freedom Foundation's analysis more than non-biased state coroners and Departments of Health? As has been stated repeatedly on this website, the counting of Covid deaths is consistent with the counting of deaths from every other infectious disease. There is no conspiracy here.

My original comment was aimed at the fact that ND has benefitted substantially from an excess of federal aid received over and above the contributions of it's citizens. It's arguable that both Grand Forks and Fargo would not exist in their current form without substantial federal disaster aid to recover from/ mitigate substantial damage from Red River flooding. Both of those bills were footed by taxpayers in New York and California and other states so I don't see why North Dakotans should be opposed to extending the same aid to other states when they need it (i.e. disaster recovery for NY for the impact of the coronavirus). Any opposition reeks of hypocrisy.

That's what I've seen with most businesses. If your business was struggling before Covid19 then this likely pushed you over the edge. If you were fine before, then you've likely been able to adapt and recover by now. It's really not all that different than the 70, 80, and 90 year old Covid patients whose lives this board views as expendable except that there is no coming back from death while business owners are still alive to pursue other ventures going forward.

Perhaps Trump and Mnuchin could do something about this with the $500 billion slush fund that they've sat on for 7 weeks.

This should work out great when mixed with the Adderall and Big Mac's.

Let's be honest.... states like California, New York, Minnesota, Illinois pay taxes that are used to fix every problem in red states because their irresponsible and are incapable of appropriately funding their own governments. ND is a prime example, who do you think funded the welfare checks that ND farmers have been cashing the last two years? How would ND's finances look if not for those payments?

Are you opposed to any state receiving more federal dollars back than they contribute? Same difference as a bailout right?

Be honest now, how much Lysol did you drink because he told you to?

Probably because a vaccine is at least a year or two from being available. That being said, even if a vaccine were developed tomorrow, what makes you think this administration could quickly get it distributed nationwide? They still haven't figured out how to distribute tests or PPE so what makes you think distribution of vaccine wouldn't be an unmitigated boondoggle with the presidents unqualified and corrupt son in law in charge of distribution?

Do you have substantive response to his post or is it just defensive !@#$-posting all the time with you? Remember a month ago when you said the virus had peaked and we'd be well under 60K deaths? It looks like your as garbage at modeling this as you are at practicing medicine.

I stated that the coronavirus had the potential to kill more Americans than all wars in history combined if allowed to grow exponentially. We've taken the most extraordinary measures to prevent the spread in modern history and right now the death toll would be fourth on the list of American wars and is going to surpass WWI for third on the list in a couple of weeks. You've repeatedly misstated my post because your either incapable of making a good faith argument or are extremely lacking in reading comprehension skills.

Absolutely.... any other presidency would have been ended by at least a dozen of the scandals that Trump has skated on. The appointments of family members to key government positions and the flagrant self-dealing with his personal businesses would not have flown in any previous presidency either Democratic or Republican.

I swear to god it's like you live in an alternate reality. You should really seek help for your fixation with Fauci on this.

Have you ever seen a President behave like he has? He behaves like a petulant third grader. If anything the media has done more to re-hab his image and normalize his behavior than they have called him out for the impropriety of his actions. He's stolen more for himself than any president in history ( ie. the $100's of millions we spend at his golf clubs) and the stories on it are few and far between and he never gets a question on it. He appoints unqualified and corrupt family members to run important government programs and the media doesn't question it. A functional media would have torn him to shreds, but unfortunately that's not what we have at this time.

Trump once gain threw a temper tantrum like a giant crybaby... if he isn't up to answering these questions then he should resign. It's part of the job and he needs to grow up and start answering these questions.

This is what would happen. I also want to be clear what it is that we're going to punish China for doing. They concealed the presence of the coronavirus and actively tried to suppress the outbreak in Wuhan from international scrutiny and media coverage. I guess how is that different than what you all have been advocating that we do for 235 pages now. Either the disease is horrible and any government that works to conceal it from it's citizens and media is committing an atrocity or it's a nothingburger, in which case who can blame China for how they handled it. It really can't be both. Disclaimer: Nothing above should be considered a defense of China. China is governed by a murderous, autocratic regime that is carrying out an active genocide against the Uighur people and other ethnic minorities within the country. The U.S. should be taking measures to minimize their influence across the globe and encourage leadership changes within the CCP and a removal of Xi from power but those measures are going to have to be a lot more skillful than launching a nuke or defaulting on our debt. It's going to take statecraft that is completely lacking in this administration.

I disagree. Trump has proven himself incapable of improving our situation. The last 8 weeks are all the evidence you need. We've been shut down for 8 weeks and do we have adequate PPE to protect medical personnel against a surge in infections while also allowing other medical services and essential industries to return? No. Do we have sufficient testing nationwide to be able to implement contact tracing? No. Do we have even a plan in place for contact tracing? No. We have a bunch of boondoggle stimulus plans that were poorly implemented and continue to be misrun and the presidents grifter son-in law in charge of the medical supply chain. We're not operating in a vacuum. Germany, South Korea, New Zealand, Canada are all managing this better than us. That's entirely due to them having responsible competent governance, while we have the miserable failure that is the Trump admin.

So a default on our national debt- that would be a complete economic disaster that would make the last 8 weeks seem like a walk in the park. What is it with conservatism/ libertarianism and the inability to think anything through? Here's what gets us out of this..... Trump loses badly in November and much like Bush before him hands the keys to a house on fire to Biden and a Democratic majority Senate. Democrats then take on the hard work of cleaning up the mess the Republican Party and Trump left for them, while the same Republicans take whatever actions possible to make economic recovery/ containment of the virus as difficult as possible. Despite this, the virus is eventually contained and the economy turns around. After which, the debt and deficit will be addressed and some folks taxes will have to go up, which will be a small sacrifice in comparison to the workers you're asking to die of coronavirus for the sake of our economy and "patriotism". At some point, the economy will start doing so well that people will forget what a mess Republican governance looks like and elect another Republican president and Senate and we'll start the whole process over again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Tired of all this winning yet? #TrumpDepression

Covid ruined ND's economy? The Saudi's, Russians, and Trump killed ND Ag and oil, not Covid.

We'd probably be looking at a few hundred thousand "mysterious" deaths in the US and an even more widespread panic. The coronavirus would still exist whether the media covered it or not.