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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?

Trump came across as combative and Biden came across as old and slow. Is anyone really surprised? Your choices are a Pinto or a Yugo.

UND trying their darndest to get fully online.......test baby test baby 1-2-3.....test baby test baby 1-2-3 .......another mass testing event today. They wanted me to pass on the word to Oxbow that they appreciate his full tuition paid this semester. Without his support all of this testing would not have been possible. https://und.edu/covid-19/testing

Good for them. https://www.inforum.com/news/education/6681877-Fargo-students-parents-rally-against-distance-learning-We-should-be-in-school

Romney is still sour grapes over not getting a chance to run again so I take anything he says with a grain of salt. I don't blame McCain for sticking up for her husband.

If I was gay, and was going to be dropped out of a helicopter wearing a shirt that said "I'm really gay" I'd wanna be dropped outside the front door of the Blue Oyster Bar on Freddie Mercury tribute night rather than Poland or Saudi Arabia. Actually would prefer being dropped off out of a little Prius......but if a helicopter drop is the only way.....

The election has definitely played a role in how it has been covered. I'm also generally supportive of medical professionals on an individual level but once those professionals become part of a larger group I am not blind to the potential conflicts of interest and politics that can come into play. The medical professionals that I've spoken to on a local level in ND (no, I haven't talked to Oxbow, but others) have all been pretty consistent in indicating that it's not something to take for granted, but as long as hospital capacity isn't an issue (which it isn't) it isn't something that should freak even moderately healthy people out either.

I wasn't clear with my large gathering statement (my bad). I meant it in terms of there are no large events at Alerus/Fargodome/Civic Center....Grand Forks races were restricted in attendance...no large college sporting events minus the Bison scrimmage against UCA, schools have spaced kids out/cut attendance at extra curriculars (even though those same students pile into parties on weekend).