Kinda throwing him under the bus, and violating HIPAA. But, look how much of the text is about the illness, and how much of it is about Trump and the election. Sigh. And people still think highly of this guy? It eludes me.
I thought it was going to disappear in March. Or April. Or after the election. Or something.
...with regard to our current "casedemic",positive tests as they are counted today do not indicate a "case" of anything...
Just skimmed the article, but it is very common to have a threshold in a test, particularly if there is "noise" that will read, even in a blank sample. Nothing that invalidates the test. The trouble is that at some point you need to make a decision and most people aren't very good at turning a number back into the answer to the question, "Do I have covid?"
What they did here (and I use the past tense intentionally), is to take the standard protocol and isolate cases, which is appropriate. Then, the individual results were assessed in terms of the case history and contact tracing to determine if a low-level positive was a true or false positive. I think there was usually follow-up testing. The other thing was to determine if the positive was likely a person who had recovered but still shedding "dead" virus.
Of course, all that is hard to do if your system is overwhelmed. Overall, it is a bad idea for people to stop isolating by saying, "Oh, I don't have much covid"
The truth is that the Dakotas are as emblematic as they are exceptional, the American story â or at least a strain of it â in miniature. In resisting the lockdowns, slowdowns and sacrifices that many other states committed to, they indulged and encouraged a selective (and often warped) reading of scientific evidence, a rebellion against experts and a twisted concept of individual liberty that was obvious all over the country and contributed mightily to our suffering.
âNorth Dakotans will come to each otherâs aids in a heartbeat, but when asked to give up personal freedom for an amorphous common good â thatâs difficult,â Paul Carson, an infectious-diseases doctor and a professor of public health at North Dakota State University, told me. Just recently, Carson said, a lawmaker from the western half of the state â whose denizens regard its eastern half, where Carson lives, as elitist and too liberal â wrote to him to share a famous quotation from Benjamin Franklin: âThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.â
Good news for Captain Obvious, Sherlock! From the start, I always knew it's the Russians, deep in my guts. Can you show me one malady they're not behind? Those credible sources, what would we do without them?
Perhaps this will warm your heart: among my friends at least most of the people expressing reluctance to get vaccinated are airtight-bubble lefties, convinced that Trump intentionally rushed the vaccine, either unconcerned about its safety or intentionally releasing a dangerous vaccine.
Blaming all this on Russia provides a nice, pat distraction that puts the focus on an Other, but the problem is entirely homegrown: when someone has been lying to you nonstop for years why would you suddenly trust him?
The right wingers are in the same boat. The media's reporting on both the covid crisis and medical issues in general has been breathless, partisan, and scientifically illiterate. They have taken their distrust to absurd conspiracy theory levels (much as the left did during the Bush W administration, but I digress) but the underlying mechanism is the same: lying destroys trust. Even when the liar is telling an urgently-needed truth.
Good news for Captain Obvious, Sherlock! From the start, I always knew it's the Russians, deep in my guts. Can you show me one malady they're not behind? Those credible sources, what would we do without them?
Perhaps this will warm your heart: among my friends at least most of the people expressing reluctance to get vaccinated are airtight-bubble lefties, convinced that Trump intentionally rushed the vaccine, either unconcerned about its safety or intentionally releasing a dangerous vaccine.
Blaming all this on Russia provides a nice, pat distraction that puts the focus on an Other, but the problem is entirely homegrown: when someone has been lying to you nonstop for years why would you suddenly trust him?
The right wingers are in the same boat. The media's reporting on both the covid crisis and medical issues in general has been breathless, partisan, and scientifically illiterate. They have taken their distrust to absurd conspiracy theory levels (much as the left did during the Bush W administration, but I digress) but the underlying mechanism is the same: lying destroys trust. Even when the liar is telling an urgently-needed truth.
Australia isn't going to start distributing vaccine until March. The official line is that it is so issues can be worked out in Britain and other countries first. Frankly I think it is likely because the rest of the world needs it more, since our cases are approaching 0 except for people in quarantine arriving from overseas. Set priorities on a global scale. I mean we aren't going anywhere until you get your shit together.
Australia isn't going to start distributing vaccine until March. The official line is that it is so issues can be worked out in Britain and other countries first. Frankly I think it is likely because the rest of the world needs it more, since our cases are approaching 0 except for people in quarantine arriving from overseas. Set priorities on a global scale. I mean we aren't going anywhere until you get your shit together.
Posting this crap only exacerbates the issues that cause the US to be the leader in COVID deaths worldwide. Pedel this fish on Parler with the other idiots.
I know BillG's not responsible for the things we post. But I wonder if pushing outright lies should be allowed.
If so, let's go for it: Steely_D is a legendary philanthropist, an artistic savant, kind to all, and fantastic in bed.
