I note this because he was just elected rep of the district where lots of my in-laws live.
About a dozen of my wife’s aunts and uncles (her mom was one of 17 [!] - imagine what family reunions are like for Chris94) currently have it too. They got it at church, a tiny Baptist church in super-rural Louisiana that was so small that no one thought they needed to wear masks. One 80-year-old got it from her grandkids and now so does everyone who sat near her while she sang. And they gave it to others.
The virus is rifling through every part of America.
Take precautions, guys.
America can do much better battling the pandemic.
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over night? Half the country is not going to take what he has to say seriously and you are treating him as some kind of savior. 47 years in Washington and now all of a sudden he has all the answers?
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47 years of getting rich off the American people and foreign countries and he is going to do what is best for us and unite the country. More of Fauci making decisions and Joe "trusting the science". But yeah, 21 days things are going to get better. Spare us the bullshit please.
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Statistically, this makes the most sense. Go into the nursing homes.., those are the folks who are dying.
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LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor G.E. Ghali said "Letlow died from a heart attack following 'a procedure related to the infection'." Sounds like someone goofed up.
Because that would be just as logical as citing a single example of a rare COVID death in a younger (40’s) person as a reason to take precautions and shut down the entire country.
Either assertion would be silly.
Risk/benefit analysis needs to be made on actual %’s.
The death rate of COVID does not warrant the shut down for the low risk population. I have said this over and over, and it’s still true. It’s not even close.
Though I am interested by how you seem so motivated to justify the shut down these days. You weren’t last February, were you - even when you assumed a death rate many fold greater than it actually turned out to be.
program with contact tracing in place if we are to reduce restrictions...we don't have that yet...2) Fun fact: only 4.5% of those 65yrs and older live in nursing homes...the other 95.5% are "in the community" (see the attached link)...like your neighbors...so 'sequestering' them away from the "non-vulerable" segments is a challenge, to say the least...3) While the preponderance of deaths occur in the upper age groups, nearly 60,000 people under 65 have died from COVID-19...nearly double the annual fatality rate for Flu...many have co-morbidities, or are 'immuno-compromised'...again, it is a challenge to identify, sequester and protect them without addressing the "pathophysiology" of this disease (i.e. reducing contagion).
We can an should "open up" locales (e.g. school districts), especially as the vaccine(s) are administered...but only with our "Virus Radar", to coin a phrase, up and running, so that we can 'tamp out' any outbreaks of COVID. The incoming administration is committed to this approach, so let's all hope that everyone pulls together and makes it happen.
In the interim, let's keep wearing our masks, wash hands and social distance...then get vaccinated as soon as your name comes up.
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK51841/
The middle-aged among us in that 40-49 range have many other things that pose far greater statistical risks. Whiny men hitting the panic button all the time benefits no one. If you really fear for the wellbeing of these people, tell them to stop driving and to radically improve their diets.
As an "essential worker" in a field in which I will be placed toward the front of the line, I will decline the vaccination until the folks who are actually vulnerable in my community are given the vaccination. Will you take the vaccine before most/all the folks in your community who are actually at risk receive it?
Link: https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2020/07/13/covid-risk
However, I would prefer to see all the vulnerable folks vaccinated first... even ahead of "essential" workers. It's the deaths we need to stop, not the disease. That will happen naturally with time, just as it has for all past pandemics.
However, I would prefer to see all the vulnerable folks vaccinated first... even ahead of "essential" workers. It's the deaths we need to stop, not the disease. That will happen naturally with time, just as it has for all past pandemics.
it. Know I have read that here.
T’aint true either.
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Huddled masses: MAS, please take the vaccine - we need you!
MAS, our hero: No, no people, I cannot. I refuse! I will be last into the lifeboats. My arm will remain prick-free until all vulnerable littles around me are protected.
Huddled masses: please MAS! We are begging you!
Nothing with regards to the 99.7 survival rate, right? Yeah, boy, we should all be pressing that panic button, like you, which is odd, given your propensity for joking about death. There's a glaring incongruence in there, somewhere.
The risk is not so much that a 40+ year old dies. It’s that he spreads it.
That is what our best scientists say. But you know better. Experts, eh?
And since you are ready to sacrifice yourself for the rest of us, I guess we should listen to you.
So heroic. Such an example. Macho, macho man.
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And that's when you're not whining about how the Orange Guy is destroying the country and making your life miserable. So, you're a whiny guy. Why would you want to be a whiny guy? You certainly don't feel good about yourself when you're a whiny guy. We had four years of you incessantly whining about Trump and catastrophizing, and then for 10 months, you bestowed upon us your maximum empathy by adding COVID to the list of things that merit daily reminders of how awful it is right now, mostly because you could hang that around Orange Guy's neck. (As others have noted, you're generally not someone who demonstrates much compassion toward the dead/dying/nearly dead.) How would you have made it through the far worse pandemic a century ago? How would you have made it through the Depression? How would you have made it through the Vietnam era? The threat of thermonuclear war during the worst of the Cold War? As my patron saint, Adam Carolla, once said on Crank Yankers, "I did two tours of duty in 'Nam. You couldn't do one tour with Air Supply."
You seem oblivious to a very basic rule for men: you feed/clothe/shelter/heal the vulnerable before you do any of those for yourself. I know, it's awfully patriarchal, but it is actually one of those things that holds civilizations together. Doing so doesn't make one a "hero." It's sort of one of those bare minimum things. I'm getting the distinct impression that the answer to my question about whether you will take the vaccine before the people in your community who are exponentially more at risk is, "yes." I mean, what kind of gelatinous gob of mosquito dung would do that, as a man? In a rare, hell freezes over moment, Illhan Omar was spot on the other day, calling out some of her millennial colleagues who took those shots. I believe her father or someone close to her of advanced age died this past year. Mind you, many of these twits who took the vaccine first are the same folks who preached the duty of selflessness in wearing masks and so forth.
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