On 4/13/20 8:30 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/13/2020 8:18 AM, John wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:05:37 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
On 4/13/2020 7:45 AM, John wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:57:02 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:33:55 -0400, John wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:20:55 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:34:56 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
On 4/11/2020 9:57 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:23:13 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:
On 4/11/20 1:32 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:29:26 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:
On 4/10/20 9:42 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:31:10 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cud7...ature=youtu.be
Fauci is just hoping nobody compiles the things he said
that turn out
to be wrong. He might cost them some grant money.
Oh, so you think Fauci is as intellectually full of **** as
you are, eh?
He certainly seem to be very flexible in what he believes is
true. The
"facts" seem to change daily and mostly toward the idea that
this was
a lot of hysterical hype. The CDC and NIH guidelines are
letters in
the sand that disappear at every tide change ... IOW about
twice a
day.
Indeed, Fauci is a scientist who absorbs new data and
evaluates it.
Science seldom supports an estimate that changes by a factor of
3600%
in 2 weeks. (2.2 million to 60,000) . It also seems pretty
unlikely
that science makes the leap from "A home made face mask is
useless" to
recommending them for anyone in public.
Those are politically knee jerks, not science.
Nobody wants to tell Nanna she is wasting her time but I bet most
hospitals are throwing those home made face masks in the trash.
I know
I would not be happy if my surgeon showed up with a Granny's
"do rag"
on his face.
Not quite that bad Greg.
The estimate of 2.3 million deaths was based on doing *nothing*.
The estimates of up to 240K deaths which was reduced first to
84K and then to 60K are based on everyone following the CDC
recommendations precisely.
Since we are all likely to get it eventually, the only thing I see
this doing is "flattening the curve" and not having it all happen at
once, They pretty much say that too. It is unlikely a vaccine
will be
here before this thing runs it' initial course. This curve is likely
to look more like a decreasing sine wave as the virus waxes and
wanes
through society ... assuming we stay locked down and start venturing
out over time.
Good, you see the purpose - flattening the curve.
It still doesn't change your chances of being infected and at our age,
dying. It just prolongs the suspense.
Which is why I said early on that I'd as soon catch it quickly,
before the
hospitals got full!
--
Freedom Isn't Free!
It's depressing to realize that once this is all over and assuming those
who became infected and recovered have a degree of immunity (although
not 100% confirmed) that us old farts who locked ourselves up in
isolation to avoid becoming infected will be the ones who remain
most at risk.
We may need to hibernate for a long, long time.Â* :-)
That's the truth. I'm supposed to fly to Seattle in July for a
wedding. Already
paid for five tickets. I'm having serious second thoughts about that
trip. I'd
really hate to get out there, come down with the virus, and spend time
in a
hospital there.
United will allow rescheduling the trip up to a year from the date the
tickets
were purchased. We'll see, I reckon.
Also have a trip to Seattle planned for August. Motorcycle ride with
my brother.
Having qualms about that one also. Alaska Air has the same rules as
United.
Probably too early to tell but I have a hunch we'll still be dealing
with this for quite a while.
I was able to bail out of an airline trip to Texas and my wife was able
to bail out of a trip to Florida. Meetings in both cases were cancelled.
Airline offered us an upgrade with a delay good for a year, but we
passed on that and got refunds.
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For the survival of this country, it is vitally important for all of us
to successfully associate the substantial harm wreaked by COVID-19 with
Trump and thereby defeat him in the fall election.