In-person voting, rallies, different kinds of protests on both sides etc. Shouldn’t be surprising.
I just wanna know if they finally find the correlation between protests and cases rising while the Right is doing it.
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Definitely had an impact. But we were trending upward hard before the election. Obviously all of those things don’t help but our trajectory was building before Nov 3.
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Thank you!
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But how common is that actually? I know plenty of people who had the virus and I haven’t heard anything about any of them having long term effects. Also there were reports that ventilators were damaging the lungs in some cases, so part of the reason for some cases of lung damage could be due to inappropriate treatment rather than the virus itself.
It seems to me that a lot of deaths and long term effects from COVID have to do with not eating or barely eating while sick. One person I know who was probably the sickest (but is fine now) barely ate for a while and was already skinny, he lost a lot of weight and was too weak to work for a couple months after. Same thing with nursing home residents (who account for the vast majority of deaths), on a good day many of them have trouble feeding themselves and then homes were short staffed and employees were overworked and burnt out so a lot of residents didn’t get to eat much if at all, plus many lost their appetite completely… Your body needs energy to fight off any infection, if you are bedridden and near starvation then your odds of survival are much lower,
You need to get your racial slurs sorted out, your actions reflect poorly on ignorant racists.
Yes I remember, but your words don’t eliminate all concerns. What sounds good in theory might not work in practice, which is why there should be no rush to approve the vaccine. If anything, only those at high risk should take it for now because they are at risk anyway, for others the vaccine is potentially more dangerous.
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It’s unfortunate we can no longer poke fun at other races and ethnicities these days. If you look back at comedians such as Don Rickles, that was hilarious shit. But people are too sensitive these days. See, I’m not offended by that, or most shit, for that matter. I find it hilarious. That’s why I’m a happier person.
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Yeah but the least you could do is use the right racial slur. Are you some kind of New York hillbilly?
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Nope. Just a regular person from the suburbs.
They’re not even hiding the fact that quack doctors are calling the shots:
" Dr. Caroline Quach, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), said on The Current on Tuesday."
Dr. Quack?
Comedians is the operative word.
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Discussion of language, comedy vs “comedy”, offensiveness, and sensitivity can be taken to another thread.
To steer back on track (and so I can hopefully stop needing to reply in here)…
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Common enough to be noted by the medical community. You can’t invoke anecdote to say that’s not a concern.
Again, anecdote. You can’t use anecdote to substitute for evidence. The person you know might have had worse effects from not eating, but you can’t extend that to the rest of the population.
I didn’t say they should eliminate all concerns.
This is why they do things like clinical trials. To, you know, ensure they work at least for the majority of patients. And yes, they do need bigger trials (which are ongoing).
First, again the vaccine in question is not potentially MORE dangerous. More dangerous than what, getting the illness itself?? You just basically said in back-to-back sentences “yes I remember you talking about the technology. But it’s more dangerous”. You don’t have any evidence that it is more dangerous, you just made a bald statement declaration.
Second, if it indeed was “more dangerous”, then the people who are at high risk would probably be the very LAST people who should be taking a drug more dangerous than the disease. Your statement makes no sense.
The US really does seem to be a unique situation with regards to COVID-19. Seems that a lot of the anti-restriction people are fans of the Swedish approach, or at least a lot of right wingers keep praising Sweden. The difference is that Sweden does have many precautions in place, just less restrictive than most other western countries. The problem in the US is that a lot of people who should be concerned about the virus are not, and them or those they infect are the one who end up hospitalized or dead.
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It has also been noted that some people have been infected multiple times. Last I heard it was something like 4 or 5 people and they had pre-existing immune system problems, but it’s still noted.
No, I’m saying that back in March and April when nursing homes in Canada were short staffed and tons of residents were dying that not actually eating was a major factor in many of their deaths. With that situation sorted out, it’s no wonder that there are less people dying now despite “cases” being at an all time high.
See this for an idea of what was going on:
There were a few nursing homes in Ontario and Quebec where most of the employees refused to work and there was nobody to take care of the residents. These are the same ones where a large proportion died.
86% asymptomatic infections
The virus is dangerous for some people, the risks of the vaccine might be outweighed by the fact that it could prevent them from being infected.
You were saying something at one time about how more of a targeted approach would be better, that’s exactly what I am trying to convey.
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Was it Patton who said something to the effect of, a bad plan is better than no plan? Trump is no Patton.
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Not only does the PCR test for COVID have a 30% false negative rate, according to the Ontario Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health half of the positives are false as well. Yet another reason why “cases” means nothing and we should be looking at symptomatic cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
You gotta watch more Russell Peters. That dude is really accurate even with the various accents even when he’s poking fun at other races and he’s always spot on when he selects the type of stereotypes with real basis in reality to make fun of.
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Exactly. You do it wrong and you get shit from people not because they’re offended, but because it shows you’re too ignorant to make such jokes, which also potentially implies that you are a racist. You’d have gotten shit even in parts of Asian where different races poke fun at one another all the time.
Like I said, I truly DON’T BELIEVE you are one AT ALL. I know what REAL racists sound like having been though it myself and it’s crystal clear that you are nowhere close to one.
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Ok, let’s put this all behind us and get back to the topic of this thread like @Chris_Colucci has requested.
This reminds me of a story some Indian guys were telling me years ago. One of them met a white girl who lived in a small town outside Ottawa and she invited them to a party there. At the party, one of the guys was having a conversation with a white guy from the small town. Totally serious and with no malice intended, he asked “so what kind of Somalian are you anyway”, to a guy who was obviously East Indian as if all dark skinned immigrants are Somalian. The Indian guy said he couldn’t stop laughing.
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Yeah, South Indians and Sikhs normally have great sense of humors despite the latter being part of the “Warrior Caste”.
I’m seriously worried about India. Their numbers would definitely be higher than the US by now if they had the ability and willingness to really mass test and I’m not buying their official death stats since they’re so dependant on international trade now.
Shit, 90% of imported cases here now are people coming in from India.
Other governments need to keep this in mind and not be lax on them for the sake of political correctness. It’s why I’m in agreement with temporary isolation facilities and mandatory testing at least for foreigners entering the country,
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