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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. ncargat1

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  2. philnotfil

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    "When he [Donald Trump] says 'open,' he means open in full; kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this."

    -Kayleigh McEnany

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    7/16/2020
     
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  3. buckeyegator

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    texas reported 4810 backlogged cases today,another example of how fruitless it is getting trying to get any real sense of daily cases.
     
  4. WarDamnGator

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    Saw that ... it's hard to believe we have somehow let our country come to this.
     
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  5. 96Gatorcise

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    7/16 (962), Thursday highest number since 6/4 (1050)
    7/9 was (961)

    The day hasn't totaled as of yet, will correct when it does.
     
  6. duchen

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  7. duchen

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    What difference does it make? People over 65 have no value to you? What a sick question. No wonder you are so attached to Trump. Total lack of empathy. Shameful. And whatever the disease rate is, wider spread means more deaths.
     
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  8. duchen

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    And the goal posts shift. While you make up falsehoods to attack the poster (like they are upset about a present lower rates of death). You should really stop using false straw man arguments that payers don’t make to address their policy discussions. Dude, You are the one who has been minimizing the rapid spread of the virus by arguing that the death rate is lower and you celebrated that the death rate was under 1000 yesterday (when It passed 1000) even though greater spread means more serious illness and hospitalizations for care and critical care. And you are the one who posted a chicken little meme in response. All true. So. Let’s be clear. Posters don’t have to make things up about you. And they don’t. It is you who is misrepresenting what other posters say and you mocked sickness.
     
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  9. gators81

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    Getting?????? Dude, we’ve been telling you this for MONTHS!
     
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  10. G8trGr8t

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    so much material. the ads write themselves. Biden could go into hiding and win this election with all the material provided by the WH
     
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  11. 96Gatorcise

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    Worldometer flipped the board ending the day at 963.
     
  12. G8trGr8t

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    Rubio going rogue?

    GOP Sen. Marco Rubio blames 'bad disconnect' with Trump administration for reported remdesivir shortage
    Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that shortages of a coronavirus treatment being reported in Florida's hospitals are due to a "bad disconnect" with the Trump administration about his state's needs.

    Rubio, whose state is grappling with a massive surge in Covid-19 cases, said on Twitter that he's heard reports as recently as "late last night" that "several hospitals" in Florida have "low or no supplies" of remdesivir, an antiviral drug developed by Gilead Sciences.

    Shipments of drug to Florida are coordinated by the federal government, Rubio tweeted, and "we have a bad disconnect between what they think we need & what we really need."
     
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  13. duchen

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    Very interesting reading all of today’s posts justifying the incredibly poor decisions about not wearing masks and shut downs and complaining about beach closings on the protests. Folks don’t seem to get that the beach closures were to keep people from gravitating to beach towns and bringing the virus with them. Not necessarily being at the beach. And not a single link supporting that spread or community occurred at protests. No empirical data posted at all. Except we know that spread has been reduced in some places where there were protests. Did the protests increase risk? Of course? Is it plausible that the disease was spread in the protests? Yes. And all the anger at criticism of Trump’s indoor rally in Tulsa because of the protests. The Protests were totally unrelated to the decision of a President to hold an indoor rally and to discourage social distancing whole mocking mask wearing. And he is the President. And we know that the Tulsa rally was a spread event because the advance team, secret service, Herman Cain and others got sick.
     
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  14. cluckugator

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    Just to put it in context, that is like saying only 1/3 of the deaths from 9/11 occurred yesterday. It was a good day. Probably around the same number the previous day and tomorrow, but nothing to see here.

    You have a much higher chance of getting struck by lighting than getting killed by Al Qaeda.
     
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  15. LouisvilleGator

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    Never said it was a good idea. But Trump wasn't breaking any ordinances. Whereas you have BLM who were in many cases. Some governors threatened churchgoers with citations, but when it came to protests, they all the sudden got quiet and looked the other way. When the people see this, they tune the government out. Some government officials warned of the dangerous precedent being set of trampling on 1st Amendment rights, but the governors pressed on. They would have been fine if they'd done the same with the protesters, but they did not. I would say over half the people I know who don't take Covid seriously will cite this as the #1 reason. It's been a political football from the get go. Anybody can take a step back and see that. I wear my mask, because it's the law. But I still review everything that comes down with skepticism. Beshear and the other Dem governors have gotten entirely too haughty with the ordeal.
     
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    I must have metastasized inside your head today. You're trying really hard. Keep trying. You'll never burn me like I've so apparently burned you.
     
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  17. BLING

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    NYC is totally different from anywhere else in this country. Completely different ballgame.

    I did not complain as much about Desantis early, though I did think he was an idiot about the spring breakers at the beaches. Other than the "spring break" scene - which became a bit of a national embarassment, I revised my opinion on the beaches to think they should be open with limited local access and social distancing. My take on Desantis overall was that he was a bit slow on the uptake, but did generally come to the correct decisions maybe a couple of days after some other states. Unfortunately he has handled the re-opening at an abysmal level. Seems like he's just following Trump's lead. When Trump was pretending to take the virus seriously, DeSantis took it seriously. When Trump tried to put it in the rearviewmirror, DeSeantis has done the same - and it's now at our peril.

    I honestly don't see what there is to defend. We know what it takes to slow the virus, as painful as it is. We know it's NOT being done. The longer it takes to move, the worse it's going to be and the longer it's going to drag out.
     
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  18. BLING

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    Reminds me of his original Easter plans.

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  19. channingcrowderhungry

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    So I said it was about masks, and you said social distance was more important than masks. So I showed you lack of social distance at Trump's Tulsa rally and now it's about breaking ordinances. Figure out where you want to plant your flag, I'm getting exhausted.
     
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  20. cluckugator

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    Prepare to run a marathon. Would love to hear why this is BLM’s fault.
     
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