TheFlop

Exactly. If he gets really sick then any doubt about the election is over in my opinion. Biden in a landslide. However, if Trump doesn't get sick with it all bets are off. What's really funny is that the short attention span of his detractors has already been shifted from SCOTUS to a 74 year old man with a cold virus.

Coming from a person that hasn't left their basement since March .........

You are backing yourself into a corner. So when the most visible 74 year old man in this nation makes it through this with relative ease......what will that say about all of the ridiculous restrictions and overreactions that have occurred since March?

The virus is spreading because it's contagious and that's what viruses do. If masks worked there wouldn't be over 1/2 of deaths in nursing homes. Stay hunkered down and if the Trump's don't get sick, get ready for the pop after.

So what happens when he gets no or minimal symptoms and he can demonstrate to the US that 1) Covid isn't such a big deal even to older people as long as they are healthy and 2) He can make the claim (whether true or not) that he was on hydro the entire time and he didn't get sick?

Kenosha still hasn't recovered after losing those pillars of the community.

C'mon man, don't give more credit to rednecks then they deserve. You really think that the shaved head balding leather wearing wanna be bikers are doing anything more than looking for the fight/party? The difference is that the white racists/supremacists get covered.....the "street crime" issue gets minimally covered and even that is blamed on white guys aka systemic racism.

Now smooth over the probabilities to account for the fact that white people are still the majority ethnic group in this country. White supremacists are labeled terrorists while inner city black gang members shooting up the city non-stop ala Chicago = random street crime. Somehow creating an environment where anyone that crosses over to the next block wearing the wrong color isn't labeled terrorism. Nice.

Mine's newer. Gang members infiltrating the military. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/fbi-gang-assessment-us-military-2011-10%3famp

Just a week ago you indicated that you felt sorry for Oxbow's patients.....now you are looking for free telemedicine from him? #ContinuedHypocrisy2020

And besides if they called it what it was, urban renewal, you'd be all up in arms about that too.

I live mere miles from Minnesota, and while I'll visit northern MN it will be a long time before I ever go to an event in the Minneapolis metro again.

Huh.....kind of like officials being directed to make it sound like everything BLM does is peaceful?

And only 6% of ICU beds are currently being used to house sick Covid patients. ICU where the sickest of the sick go.........and only 6% capacity is being used by Covid patients.

Ok I did.....and found many articles on how peer reviews are a flawed system that leave plenty of opportunity for bias and/or fraud just like I said. Here is a Nobel Prize winner saying as much. https://retractionwatch.com/2014/03/03/nobel-prize-winner-calls-peer-review-very-distorted-completely-corrupt-and-simply-a-regression-to-the-mean/ https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/05/early-career-researchers-commonly-ghostwrite-peer-reviews-s-problem https://www.statnews.com/2017/04/28/phony-peer-review/ Take off your blinders.

They both involve humans making decisions..... which opens up the process to potential bias....which is where the real problem can potentially be. Apples to apples. So a researcher has never helped a study along or presented it in a slightly misleading manner to ensure that he/she received continued funding?

Sure you are........what's with the sudden change in stance on your part? So now you believe that those that are vulnerable or worried can choose to take appropriate actions up to and including staying in their cellar, while those that aren't vulnerable or worried can live life normally? It's been a long summer but I'm happy to see that you have finally made progress.

Probably because you and your bunker bunch would have wanted to quarantine him indefinitely until there was a 100% effective vaccine.

Let's hope that is truly the way it always works but also let's not pretend that it doesn't hurt to know someone even in the holy medical community. After all, a deathbed alcoholic Mickey Mantle got a liver transplant at the snap of a finger over how many other people that were waiting in line?

Insider trading? Insider trading is exactly what most of us common folks don't have. The correct comparison would be that if you saw your mechanic dumping out all of his penzoil oil for an unknown reason.....that one possible explanation is that he knows something that you don't and maybe there is something wrong with Penzoil oil.

Eventually yes, that is how it occurs. However does it always occur that way early on in the process? Are you saying that with promising trials that no strings are ever pulled to get certain people admitted to the trial? That those in certain positions don't have early information on whether a treatment is showing promise or not well before it's been fully vetted? And let's also not forget that if one thinks that Trump has interfered with the scientific process in the US....what would be the correct way to describe China's control over researchers in that country?

One thing that some people never figure out....the rich and the powerful often have information that the public does not have. If you knew that Warren Buffett (at least in his prime) was getting ready to invest in a company and you couldn't figure out why......the smart bet would have been to invest money in that company. If you see the city engineer moving stuff out of his house before a flood.......you would be well advised to clear out your house too because water is probably a coming. When you see a rich/wealthy person getting a treatment for a condition, don't underestimate the fact that they may be doing it with knowledge that you aren't privy too.

Per today's dashboard, 6.34% of ND's ICU beds are occupied with Covid patients. Which judging my some on this board constitutes a crisis. https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases

Wasn't it touted as a way to treat/lessen the severity of Covid as part of the Zpack combo? I don't recall it ever being touted as a way to prevent it all together.

So let me get this straight, compete shutdown overreaction.....causes hospitals to cut staff/pay because less business is coming through the door.....which exacerbates the already tough labor market in finding qualified providers.....society opens back up and because the new lower capacity gives the illusion that the system is overstrained some want to start all over and take the same action that led to this situation in the first place. Did I nail it?