Bison06

I realize so many Biden voters are really just voting against Trump, but how many gaffes like this does it take for his voters to actually start to question his mental acuity? It's a daily occurrence at this point.

I think it can be a bad thing yes. It has changed the way people view how much they can control your personal behavior. You're not sick, but you test positive for this virus or another one next year. You have to shut down your life and the lives of everyone around you for 10-24 days. That isn't a sustainable way to live.

Are these votes already being tallied and published? Or will that all stay under wraps until next week?

The tougher they are on the internet, the weaker they are in the real world. Nobody with any self respect or integrity as a man would post the things he does.

We've never gotten the truth from our leaders, ever.

That wasn’t the question. If the senate was controlled by the democrats, would a conservative judge have been confirmed today?

Serious question, if it was a democratic senate right now, does ACB get confirmed?

I would take any funds that are being used to battle this thing and put it towards resources for the elderly. Added PPE for long term care facilities, increased testing and tracing for these facilities and let everybody else get back to their lives.

Not that hard to explain this. The states that re-opened with mask mandates by and large were states that the virus already significantly burned through in large metro areas.

Be more like Jason, wear a mask that has 1 inch diameter holes in it. In fairness, his mask is as effective in lowering cases as the cloth one everyone is wearing.

I think we all hope for that, but I just don't see it happening regardless of who wins. This country is headed for serious changes that I believe will result in states breaking away in the next 20-30 years. A country with two factions that are so far apart in their ideologies as ours is will only continue to move further apart and maybe that is for the best.

So much uniting happening from Biden.

Out of curiosity, what do you fear as it pertains to four more years of Trump?

Piss off. I have literally never heard of this Russian network.

Gotcha, not familiar with that being a Russian network so didn’t notice it.

What's fishy about it? I'm not seeing it. The broken phone?

Cumulative? That makes zero sense. Someone show me a study that could ever be designed that could control the parameters to measure this properly? Viral load in the air, viral load actually breathed into nasal passages, viral load accumulation, swabs at different time intervals to see if the virus that was breathed in stays in or is breathed out. Etc. Trust the science right? Well, let’s see this science of viral load accumulation over a 24 hour period. It would be an impossible study to design.

Just awful. You can justify just about anything when you compare it to a human life. That's the entire argument the other side of this has been making the entire time and I'll be the first to admit, it's effective. Where their argument falls apart is the fact that death comes for all of us and in millions of unfortunate ways, it's a tragedy of the human experience. With that in mind, as a human race we have already put a dollar amount/"inconvenience unacceptability factor" on a human life. We could outfit every single one of our soldiers with equipment that could save their life while in a fire fight in Bengazi or Fallujah but we don't because the dollar amount would be astronomical and we've decided that their life isn't worth it, sad but true. We could all forgo the convenience of driving cars and just bike everywhere and lives would be saved, but we have decided an amount of human deaths is acceptable to have the convenience of driving. So it is with Covid, a certain amount of human lives have always been sacrificed in the name of keeping a society afloat, for some reason Covid is different.

If someone wasn’t following the quarantine rules following a positive test, they most likely wouldn’t be forthright with that information.

Not sure you know what “self identified” means.

Don’t ask questions, just wear your damn mask.

The fact that you think it's people getting tested because they are feeling sick shows how ignorant you are on this topic.

At 9.4 tests per 1,000, second highest in the nation, why is North Dakota currently testing so much?

It's maddening to have conversations with people and they explain things about Covid as if it's the first time we've ever dealt with a respiratory disease in this country. "But it spreads if you don't wear a mask" Yep viruses tend to do that "But it spreads if you are around someone who has it, even if they don't know they have it" Yep viruses tend to do that "But there are long term effects" Yep viruses tend to do that The list goes on and on.

Using your line of logic here, when will this ever not be the case? Covid is endemic, every expert agrees for the most part. Vaccines aren't foolproof and this one will be no exception, in fact it is likely to not be nearly as effective as influenza given the lack of research and rushing it to market. So when in your scenario of kids being superspreaders will life be back to normal?