wxman91
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1 minute ago, Nodak78 said:
CNN cult?
Why would anyone watch cable news?
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2 minutes ago, homer said:
My prediction is that this post doesn’t age well. I can see it and I don’t live there.
The implication that has been raised here before and now is that ND looks bad because of increased testing. And that is absolutely not the case. The positivity rate, hospitalization numbers and death count all align to being the worst in the nation. So, why is ND the worst state for COVID since the original peak in March? What is it that makes ND “special”?
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6 minutes ago, Cratter said:
Virginia should be ashamed of how little testing they are doing compared to North Dakota.
Don’t need to test as much if you aren’t in the middle of a huge outbreak. Would you like to compare more concrete death and hospitalization data?
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7 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:
Stay tuned.
Do people in cults know that they are in cults? No reason, just asking.
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4 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
What is your response to my thought that the Midwest is simply finally having the virus run its course here versus the coastal states when it happened earlier? That explanation is far more likely that ND and SD we’re doing everything right with the pandemic in May/June when the coastal states were spiking. So either ND did everything right early and New York did everything wrong and then they somehow flip flopped that. Or, my first explanation is better. Which do you think it is?
I think ND was playing a dangerous game all along, and it finally got them. I don’t think it “burns through” a population though, especially with estimates of only 5% contracting the virus. Might be due to seasonal effects of people moving inside.
The timing doesn’t address the problem of why the case and death rates are so high, though. Why is ND/SD’s data worse than FL/AZ was in summer?
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2 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said:
His lead is down to ~15K in AZ and is around 10K i think in GA.
It'll end up being pretty thin margins just like Trump's win in 2016.
Not disputing that. The poster said that PA was the ballgame. It isn’t. Biden won a convincing electoral college victory.
The excellent turnout on both sides for this election effectively show us where we are in this country. It is a ~52/48 slight D lean country, with the Rs having advantages in the House (gerrymandering), Senate (two seats per state) and Presidency (electoral college). Dems have to win by 3-5% or more to counteract these factors. They did, barely, for the Presidency and House. The lean is more pronounced in the Senate, where some estimates say that the Ds need a +7 national win to grab the majority. All elections are effectively turnout elections with few voters crossing over.
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10 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
The virus doesn't kill differently according to its geographic location...or does it?
My conjecture is that ND is an older and probably unhealthier state, and combine that with the aversion to COVID safety measures, and you get a worst in the nation case load. At least until Kristi “we shouldn’t shame anti-maskers” Noem pulls into the lead.
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Just now, homer said:
Has Virginia spiked yet?
Yes, first wave. Then we got serious about masks and distancing. Rising some, but not seriously, as there is some COVID fatigue. Yesterday 3 people died in a state of 8+ million.
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18 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:
Still counting ballots and margin is closer so RCP reversed their call from earlier before. Now with some of the fraud it could bein reach. PA still going to be decide by the Supremes. PA for all the marbles.
Biden won by way more than PA.
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13 minutes ago, homer said:
And six weeks ago our spiking was relative to Arizona.
In VA, 4 out of every 10,000 people in the state has died from COVID-19. We were hit hard early on when we didn’t have a good handle of treatments and prevention. Now we do. So why have 8.5 (and quickly rising) out of every 10,000 North Dakotans died from COVID-19?
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5 minutes ago, homer said:
And Colorado? Probably have been the most impressive state I have been to as far as mask wearing and obeying orders. Still spiking.
How about Illinois, mask mandate since August?
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3 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Not sure how I deleted my own post but we are being told repeatedly that positive cases numbers matter. Is the pivot now to rate per capita? Just trying to keep all this straight.
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t use per capita. At least in comparisons.
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6 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Lots of rural Rs in Hennepin County?
That county has 3.5x more cases than any other country in MN.
Hennepin has a moderate rate. Outstate areas (especially near ND) are much higher per capita.
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/stats/index.html#wcrmap1
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1 minute ago, UND1983 said:
Thats your answer? So essentially it's all Republicans who are spreading the virus.
Take another 2 months off from this board, please.
Rural Rs and stupid college kids. Yes.
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5 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
If mask mandates work why are these outbreaks happening in some states and not others that have them. Why is Minnesota spiking just like their neighbors are st the exact same time, even though they have had a mandate for over 3 months?
Republicans think that freedom means “!@#$ you, I do what I want”.
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6 minutes ago, dmksioux said:
Absentee ballot voting or mail-in voting? Big difference between the two.
You can go read it.
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2 hours ago, Bison06 said:
I'm all for state autonomy, I think it's incredibly important. But what are the drawbacks of having a bit of standardization with the voting process? Seems like it has just lead to more problems than anything over the years.
Agree. Automatic voter registration, no-excuse absentee voting, and counting votes as they come in should be standard across the country. This absurd stolen election narrative would be dead if the votes were tabulated as they came in with Biden slaughtering Trump on the early vote.
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Just now, UND1983 said:
Who isn't perfect?
Masks? They reduce spread. They are not a fix-all. The more people that use them the better.
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2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Mister Trump tweeting like a confident man that his team has found enough to go to court.
I guess we'll see if drew to an inside(r) straight, or gets the flush.
Either way, Misses Pelosi got less than the ... full House ... she hoped for.
He sent out a press release that effectively says that absentee voting is unconstitutional. He’s a con-man. This is what he does.
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16 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Bump
They are not perfect? Still way better than the Dakotas.
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41 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Minnesota - mask mandate
North Dakota - no mask mandate
South Dakota - no mask mandateAll three - cases* exploding
*Cases.
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This one is for the poster who was trying to convince us that testing was the only reason why ND looked bad.
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1 minute ago, Bison06 said:
How does the potential of an effective vaccine somehow nullify the idea that Covid needs to make its way through the society for society to return to normal?
First of all, it's "potentially" effective. Second, how many people do you think will realistically line up to be guinea pigs for the fastest developed vaccine in the history of the world? My guess is it will be minimal.
Are you serious? We want to stop COVID from making its way through society. That's the point of a vaccine.
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4 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
Pfizer vaccine was just shown to be 90% effective in recent trial and is looking to it roll out by month's end. If there is one thing Trump can do before he leaves office it's get an effective vaccine out to the public. Biden won't even consider a vaccine until it's 100% effective......just like the flu shot??? Similar to wanting zero cases in his mind. I see he put Osterholm on his Covid19 advisory board....wasn't he the one advocating a couple months ago for another national 6 week lockdown? Any effective vaccine will be kicked down the street by the Biden administration because then the Democrat party as a whole loses power on the ignorant people who think government should control everything.
What the vaccine news this morning does is really stick a dagger in the extraordinarily stupid idea, advanced by some (cough, Sikatoka) that COVID is just going to run roughshod over the country until herd immunity is reached and we shouldn't really do much to restrict the spread. News that the potential vaccine is promising and not in the far distant future should compel people to buckle down and avoid spread as much as possible.
Pfizer's vaccine is more difficult to roll out (two doses, needs to be kept in cold storage), but it is good news for the similar types of vaccines that are being worked on.
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Hospitalizations and deaths don’t matter for asymptomatic counts.