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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. swampbabe

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  2. BLING

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    The doctors recommending vaccines are all libz and RINO’s. A true patriot isn’t falling for their “recommendation”. A true patriot seeks their own truth.

    Only taking the non-recommended equine parasite medicine owns da libz. The so-called vaccine can’t do what’s most important here.
     
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  3. gatordavisl

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    Are you sure? At least one source appears to refute this.
    KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor Dashboard
     
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  4. l_boy

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    A common use of ivermectin is to treat scabies, if the primary method of topical treatments don't work. Unfortunately our whole family got in late last year. Scabies is awful. It took me six months to be fully rid of it. The ivermectin did work after several doses.

    Of course, people get desperate and read the internet. You can read where some people will go to the feed store and get ivermectin horse paste and apply it. That sounds crazy, but I can see how if nothing worked why they'd do it. It's just miserable.

    I recall reading if you take too much there will be side effects. I was happy to take the ivermectin pills to grt rid of scabies but there was always a bit of caution, in that the primary use of this in humans is too kill harmful and dangerous parasites in Africa and similar places. It never dawned on me to just keeping taking it indefinitely. It isn't like a Zyrtec where you pop one each day and don't think about it.
     
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  5. Gatorrick22

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  6. Gatorrick22

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    I'm with this person on the Covid issue.

     
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  7. Gatorrick22

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    This is coming to a city and town near you...

     
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  8. officelife

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    It already has happened in our American cities for decades, you just didn’t care then since they weren’t “your people”...
     
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  9. Gatorrick22

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    What the hail are you talking about? Specify your complete thought in an concise and intelligible way. Don't skip any useful words next time.
     
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  10. WC53

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    At the Florida hospital where my niece is a PA, they just tdy any admin staff with creds to hospital patient care also paused remote clinics to tdy personnel back to main hospital. Heavy patient load and staff out.

    thank goodness it is all fake
     
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  11. PITBOSS

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    “in March 2020, Swedish health authorities surprised the world with their unorthodox approach: Rather than locking down and requiring masks, as many countries did, Sweden let residents decide individually whether to take those precautions.

    But a year and a half into the pandemic, it's clear that bet was wrong.

    Sweden has recorded more COVID-19 cases per capita than most countries so far: Since the start of the pandemic, roughly 11 out of every 100 people in Sweden have been diagnosed with COVID-19, compared with 9.4 out of every 100 in the UK and 7.4 per 100 in Italy. Sweden has also recorded around 145 COVID-19 deaths for every 100,000 people — around three times more than Denmark, eight times more than Finland, and nearly 10 times more than Norway.“

    A year and a half after Sweden decided not to lock down, its COVID-19 death rate is up to 10 times higher than its neighbors
     
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  12. WC53

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    And they naturally socially distance with much lower obesity rates
     
  13. G8trGr8t

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    Maine state rep still antivax, antimask 1 week after his like minded wife died from covid

    GOP Maine Rep. Chris Johansen Attends Anti-Vaxx Rally Days After Wife Dies of COVID

    Maine state Representative Chris Johansen attended an anti-vaccine rally on Tuesday, a little more than a week after his wife died of COVID-19.

    The Daily Beast reported that the Republican legislator joined a group of fellow GOP lawmakers at a demonstration in Augusta, Maine. A crowd of around 400 people were gathered at the State House to protest Democratic Governor Janet Mills' recent mandate that all health-care workers in Maine get vaccinated against COVID-19.
     
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  14. officelife

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    Others seemed to understand me just fine, maybe it is you...

    The naivete you shown by claiming the police assaulting an unarmed American is coming to a city or town, neglects a 100 year history of American law enforcement doing just that to our people.

    I suggest you learn about American history regarding this subject; I would suggest starting with the Illinois Crime Survey of 1929, Wichersham Commission, and Kerner Commission of 1967.

    Your post history shows that you have defended multiple acts of police violence against unarmed Americans; you seem to only care about this now, since they might just have justification to abuse you and/or your tribe.
     
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  15. G8trGr8t

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  16. gatordavisl

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    I thought it was pretty clear.
     
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  18. ncargat1

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    Interesting findings from the this weeks pre-view of the CDC MMWR.

    In short, reviewing data from over 1100 Covid patients vs 1800 non-covid patients (control) between March and the end of July 2021 showed that the mRNA vaccine effectiveness (VE) for preventing hospitalization remained constant over 24 weeks (6 months) at ~ 85%. It is noted in the data that only ~ 20% of the Covid infections were traced to the Delta variant as it only started to spread heavily in the US in June and July.

    To me, this seems to hurt the argument for boosters at the 8 month period unless they have additional data showing differently. It seems more likely that the COVID shots will become annual shots with a frequency equivalent to the Flu shots.

    Sustained Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and...
     
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  19. ursidman

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    I don’t doubt it.
     
  20. flgator2

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    Why do you actually think it's higher
     
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