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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. flgator2

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  2. Gatorrick22

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    Okay... this virus is nothing to laugh about, but this pic is hilarious.
     
  3. duggers_dad

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    I laugh at the so-called virus.
     
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  4. ncargat1

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    Again, a bit of truth in your statements and a ton of baseless non-sense.

    1. Yes - not everyone needs to take anti-viral medication.
    2. You do not know if you need to take it until too late - so why risk your life over ignorance?
    3. Before you start with the non-sense about young, healthy blah, blah, I was at the celebration of life for a 19 year old cross country champion 2 weeks ago whose lungs were shredded as a result of a COVID infection.
    4. Acetaminophen - fine, benign. Does nothing for COVID but does no immediate harm. Ibuprofen - a non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that suppresses your immune system. It makes no sense to take this while fighting a viral infection.
    5. Neither "treats" COVID and one actually aids COVID. They treat the symptoms. Weird that people cannot understand the difference.
    6. There is no cheaper way to treat COVID, you simply ignore and hope you do not become a statistic.
     
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  5. QGator2414

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    Well at least you understand the normal proper protocol when you get Covid. Here I am…ran 4-5 miles today and did some yard work. Most would say just rest. I wanted to be outside and in the sun. Foggy headed a bit. But overall no big deal. And ibuprofen treats the fever symptom. If you don’t want to take it. Your call. It is a virus that is not that harmful to most. I prefer to fight the fever. You may not.

    There were absolutely cheaper and better ways to treat Covid from the beginning. But we went a one size fits all failed approach. It will have generational consequences. Far more damage was don’t than ever should have happened. And they knew from the very beginning. Panic was used instead of proper public health. From the Diamond Princess to Italy we knew who was at risk and that it was no where near as deadly as they indicated. Instead of a focused protection policy. We went everyone take a stupid shot that does not prevent you from infection at all even if you are little to no risk. On top of that they used coercion and kept at it until just three months ago with regards to letting foreigners who choose against taking the shot from coming legally into our country. Truly the antithesis of science!
     
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  6. duggers_dad

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    I’m not convinced that we need to do anything, to treat the common symptoms of ‘Covid’ aside from perhaps rest and hydrate.
     
  7. QGator2414

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    I think every situation is different. I don’t go as hard but as long as my body allows. I try to be outside and active but definitely rest more during the day than normal. But overall you are close to where I fall. Though Tylenol and ibuprofen do work to fight symptoms. One can certainly argue that is not necessary. And I would not say they are wrong. But I am going to use those two drugs to treat symptoms in order to make recovery more comfortable…
     
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  8. G8trGr8t

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    Says a lot about someone who can rate this as funny
     
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  9. HeyItsMe

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    Q posting nonsense again? No idea because I have him blocked, but he’s the only one who responds to a laughing emoji to anything he disagrees with and can’t counter. How has this dude not been banned yet? So much misinformation and flat out lies posted by the guy.
     
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  10. duggers_dad

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    ^ Sounds like China.
     
  11. G8trGr8t

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    sad part is he seems like an otherwise solid guy and good gator. the disconnect on facts on some issues with some intelligent, otherwise rational people is something i still can't understand. trump, covid, desi. the populace just seems ripe for another mass cult event but I guess all of the unavoidable covid deaths due to refusal to get vaccine could be considered a covid death cult in some ways.
     
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  12. Gatorrick22

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    Remember that many doctors... hospital... drug pharmacies and chain drugs stores tried to take away all of the drugs that do work on Civid-19. And still the "critical thinking" Liberals could not put 2 and 2 together... figure out is was not about curing people of Covid, but it was instead about total control of the populations of the world.... a way to add some new global travel visa (Covid passport) using their obedience of the people in order to force them to take their killer vaccine.

    Hospital administrators even denied their hospital care for people that did not take the jab... remember that? These same hospital administrators denied doctors from prescribing certain drugs, that they felt would work on Covid-19, to their patients.

    I'll bet real money that the Leftists don't remember all the red-tape that they wanted to bring into our daily lives becasue of covid-19... the PLANdemic.

    And here come the communists to refute what we already know to be the truth/FACTS about how we were treated during the civid-19 PLANDEMIC, and what the Dems in government control did to We The People.
     
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  13. QGator2414

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    Seriously! People were denied life saving treatments because they chose not to take a shot that did nothing to reduce spread. Truly unbelievable!

    Add to it the lies about hospitals were filled with the unvaccinated. The narrative really messed up some smart people’s ability to think critically!
     
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  14. Gatorrick22

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    This was NO isolated event. It was happening all over our country. CVS pharmacists denied filling Ivermectin prescriptions to people if they felt it was for covid treatment.

    Since when do pharmacists have the power to deny an doctor prescribed medicine to the doctor's patient?

    O-Biden stopped allowing the state of Florida from giving free monoclonal treatment to people becasue they said the monoclonal treatment was not working on the new variant... The Omicron variant was somehow not working on the very weak and almost like common cold like weak Omicron variant.

    Yeah, they made that up just to stop the cure of covid-19.
     
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  15. duggers_dad

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    I doubt that anyone was saved by Ivermection unless it was parasites. But multitudes were killed by ventilators and likely Remdesivir.
     
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  16. Gatorrick22

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    I read every single news media that was out there for over 2 solid years... that and much more was happening. Oddly enough the most open media about the covid-19 virus were the British news outlets. Their doctor, a Britt, was the first one to discover the Omicron variant, and she said that it was highly contagious but as weak as the common cold...

    The second part (weak as the common cold) was completely ignored by the world media.
     
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  17. Gatorrick22

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    Rendesivir is the kill shot especially with a weakened immune system 10 days on a ventilator and you were given the kill shot... to put you out of your misery. Hospitals got paid...
     
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  18. Gatorrick22

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    Nah... I read a ton about Ivermectin. Read what the NIH has to say about that drug. And they are minimizing, as usual, about it's true power and effects. This is the revised weakened version of the better old archived version of what the NIH wrote about Ivermectin back 15 years ago or so.

    A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness - PubMed
     
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  19. duggers_dad

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    Yes, but what from ? There is no virus. Another angle: no doubt that antibiotics work for reducing symptoms. But they’re killing the body’s garbage collectors. So it’s kicking the can down the road.
     
  20. ncargat1

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    There are a handful who have lost touch with reality. Most of it is from the fact that they, like many in the public they are ignorant, and are thus easily led around be the nose.

    If there is one thing that this pandemic has taught us, it is that we do need to do better with educating people in our public school systems. A re-emphasis of math, science and critical thinking through humanities is sorely lacking in so many of our student. The Republican drive to turn high schools and universities into "job education factories" is eroding the foundation of our society at a far faster rate than I had realized.

    Meanwhile, people, like a 19 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her continue to lose her life to a virus that she could have easily been vaccinated against severe disease because her family fell victim to the right wing ignorance spread by our Lt. Governor and his cult.

    Meanwhile, the level of lies, mistruth and ignorance - actively promoted by the Republican Party is out of control. I have wondered throughout this if the right-wing ignorance peddlers, for example, would be adamantly opposed to Remdesivir if they realized it was largely developed at USAMRIID for the express purpose of protecting the troops from weaponized RNA viruses like Ebola? It is easy to make the ignorant fools believe that Remdesivir comes from "Big Pharma" when the financial might of Gilead Sciences brought the drug to market, but are those same people saying that they do not trust the CDC (a given) and UAMRIID??

    Knowledge is power, which is why Republicans are so opposed to the masses having it. This whole pandemic reaction has been about converting the ignorant to ever deeper rabbit holes of ignorance.
     
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