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Covid-19: Treatments, Cures, and Vaccines

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by exiledgator, Apr 10, 2020.

  1. OklahomaGator

    OklahomaGator Jedi Administrator Moderator VIP Member

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    Played golf today with a department head at the hospital in Joplin, MO. He said 2-8 people a day are dying there from COVID. All were unvaccinated. Everyone in ICU is unvaccinated. There are some vaccinated people who come in but they are all going home. He is on a mission to get people vaccinated.
     
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  2. mutz87

    mutz87 p=.06 VIP Member

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    I hear you. I take no delight whatsoever. But I am sad and I am mad. He was one of those with a hugely influential platform, using it to sew distrust and defiance against vaccinations. Who knows how many people have gotten sick or dying because he influenced them?
     
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  3. ncargat1

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    People are sick and dying for many reasons. However, if people allowed this moronic clown to influence them and as a result end up sick or dying, then the true root cause for their condition is their own ignorance, and again, I have no compassion for the willfully ignorant.
     
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  4. duchen

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    . May his sad death teach a lesson that saves many more lives.
     
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  5. mutz87

    mutz87 p=.06 VIP Member

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    I honestly don't want anyone to die, but as far as the irresponsibility for entrenching a collective ignorance and defiance, those in leadership positions and who have social influence like Valentine did deserve the scorn that they receive. They are a danger to all of us.
     
  6. ncargat1

    ncargat1 VIP Member

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    I wish him a lot of luck. He is truly fighting an up-hill battle.
     
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  7. King8r

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    I actually had a patient one time that had oxygen on her allergy list.
     
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  8. mutz87

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    You would hope. But there are many good reasons to doubt it.
     
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  9. vaxcardinal

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    what is he doing to convince people to get vaccinated?
     
  10. OklahomaGator

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    Anyone who is not vaccinated he is offering to take them to the hospital see what is going on. He can get them in.
     
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  11. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    And here's an odd coincidinky for you....A DeathSantis mega doner has a big stake in the company that manufacturers Regeneron.


    More oddness...DeathSantis' press secretary was suspended from Twitter for sicking her followers on the AP writer who helped break the story:

    Twitter suspends account of Ron DeSantis press secretary after harassing AP reporter
     
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  12. duchen

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  13. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    Not the issue.
     
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  14. gatordavisl

    gatordavisl VIP Member

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    Perhaps DeSantis is doing everything w/in his power to create opportunities for regeneron to work.
     
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  15. ncargat1

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    Regeneron supplies its treatments world wide and they have been working for over a year. Ron DeSantis is absolutely meaningless to them. I would be willing to bet that like any good Bio-Tech, they have bribed...uh, sorry contributed, to every major Democrat and Republican politician who is, or might some day, be in position to help them out.
     
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  16. VAg8r1

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    I think you missed the sarcasm in the post from @gatordavisl. Although I cannot speak specifically for him, I think the point was that the reckless policies of DeSantis discouraging vaccine mandates and the use of masks resulted in many more cases of Covid-19 and consequently more opportunities for the use of therapeutics like Regeneron.
     
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  17. gator95

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    This was already debunked. But hey, the nut jobs still don't care.
     
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  18. gator95

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    Their Govt. contract was already done. And Citadel has such a small stake in Regeneron it's quite comical to think that was nothing more than a smear piece. I know you know that, but others are too partisan to see that.
     
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  19. tilly

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    I listened to Phil back in the day. He was much tamer than the Rush's of the world.
    Seemed like a really good dude. Much more of the mainline conservative back then. Sad to see it came to this.
     
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  20. gatordavisl

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    Yep - you got it. Thanks!