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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. duggers_dad

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    You have to first have a virus to make a deadlier virus. There never was a virus of any sort. People like Fauci literally work from mental constructs inferred from genetic sequences.

    Now, toxins are a thing. But they don’t spread and they aren’t contagious. The only thing that spreads and is contagious is panic.
     
  2. Gatorrick22

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    That may be true, but in this case they had a bat virus and turned it into a human to human virus. I have read dozens of papers and countless articles on this subject. From it's conception to the vaccine. And that is the reason why I never did get the vaccine.
     
  3. duggers_dad

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    None of this matters since no virus, human or otherwise has ever been proven.

    Here’s the reason I press the point ...

    Yes, it seems that the worst of the crisis has passed. I attribute a lot of that to sheer fatigue. BUT, as long as belief in “cough and kill grandma” persists, powers that be will justify curbs on freedoms.
     
  4. AzCatFan

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    A virus that jumps between species is called zoonotic. It is a rare event, with only a few known instances every year. Given the number of species and the number of viruses, if zoonotic jumps happened frequently, we'd be dealing with hundreds, if not thousands of more viruses than we already do.

    COVID isn't the only zoonotic virus we are currently dealing with. Monkeypox is another one that jumped from monkeys to humans. Rabies and trichinosis are other zoonotic viruses, with rabies easily jumping between many animals. And trichinosis between pigs and humans.

    COVID-19 isn't the only coronavirus that has gone zoonotic. SARS, which broke out in 2003, and MERS in 2012 were members of the coronavirus family that also jumped species and infected humans.

    Last, COVID-19 was not created from Gain of Function research in the Wuhan Lab. Per this article, the genome of COVID-19 is far too different from any of the coronaviruses the Wuhan researchers were working with. Meaning, it would take too many mutations to get from the viruses in the lab to the virus that is COVID-19.
     
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  5. duggers_dad

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    SARS didn’t exist either. And the pandemic attributed to it quickly fizzled. The only place where there were considerable deaths *attributed to it* was Canada where people were actually killed by over-treatment.
     
  6. Gatorrick22

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    Let's just agree to disagree..
     
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    Are birds real?
     
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  9. BigCypressGator1981

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    lol duggers failing to sway Rick on his batshit theory. That’s when you know your conspiracy theory is truly off the reservation.
     
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  10. flgator2

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    N95 mask study undermines feds' COVID narrative (wnd.com)

    A new peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trial found no statistically significant difference between the performance of surgical masks and the highly touted N95s against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

    In the new study comparing surgical masks with N95s, researchers at McMaster University in Canada drew real-world data from health-care facilities in Canada, Israel, Pakistan and Egypt.

    A former adviser to the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has compiled a list of more than 150 studies and articles presenting data and evidence that universal masking is ineffective in stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and causes harm.

    "As one doctor told me, 'If you can wear an N95 for more than about 30 minutes you are wearing it wrong,'" tweeted George Mason University law professor Todd Zywick
     
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  13. duggers_dad

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    Non Seqitur.
     
  14. duggers_dad

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    Or evidence that mass-psychosis is practically intractable.
     
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    Poster again does not read more than a breathless headline from a pathetic source. A study showed " A new peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trial found no statistically significant difference between the performance of surgical masks and the highly touted N95s against SARS-CoV-2 infection." WOW so surgeons' masks are as good as N95. Good to know.
    Then in ANOTHER unlinked observation, "A former adviser to the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has compiled a list of more than 150 studies and articles presenting data and evidence that universal masking is ineffective in stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and causes harm." Source credentials" Reasoning: Propaganda, Conspiracy, Fake News, Failed Fact Checks
    Bias Rating: EXTREME RIGHT
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    Country: USA
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    Garbage in = Garbage out. Some posters might be garbage collectors. Be better.
     
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  16. duggers_dad

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    Masks - face-mounted anxiety placebos
     
  17. BigCypressGator1981

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    Way to quote some idiot that believes viruses are real.
     
  18. duggers_dad

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    I would have thought it would have lent more credence. But cough and kill grandma believers eat their own.
     
  19. flgator2

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    Yes, we know it won't be long before those who love to get the false jab
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  20. BigCypressGator1981

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    Do you think it lends more credence? He thinks you’re full of shit.