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USI Calgary said:
Sure you are. It's just that the fruit is so plentiful it's impossible not to ;)

When I think of how much in ruins Trump must be on the inside, I sort of pity the guy. Setting all judgement aside for a brief moment, can you imagine how completely disillusioned he must feel with his view of himself and his country. Add all the pressure of the office, and it's a burden I wouldn't wish on anyone right now. I wonder if perhaps we'll see some transformation in him. The job is certainly the kind that could do that to someone. I can't see how anyone could go through it unchanged.
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We've been waiting for a transformation of Trump for three-and-a-half years. He's only grown worse.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
The price of Trump’s inaction for weeks:
www.nytimes.com

Lockdown Delays Led to at Least 36,000 More Deaths, Models Find (Published 2020)

All 50 states have begun to reopen to some degree, but rules vary. Scientists say they see progress on the path to developing a vaccine by next year.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing. On March First ( the second date referred to in the article above ) there were 100 confirmed cases in the USA (SOURCE). So The President was supposed to think it was reasonable to compromise the lives of 328 million people because 100 people were sick? Plus the modellers haven't worked out all the other variables over the long term. An entirely different strategy may have saved more lives now and later. The lions share of the blame belongs to China, not your President ( no matter how much we don't like him ).
 
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Gene Steinberg said:
Trump knew in January about the threat. He could have listened to his people who gave him lots of info about it.
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He should have been listening well before this pandemic ever got started. Virologists have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, and that the nation was underprepared for a pandemic. For Trump and the nation to have been fully prepared, he would have had to start back in January 2017 when he was first elected, and have had foreknowledge of exactly what was coming. That's a rather tall order. But it would have paid-off. The question is will your government learn its lesson. Trump is already getting set to wind-down the Coronavirus task force. Then what? Will everyone go back to pretending it can't happen again?
 
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TrialSite News’ interview with Tarek Alam, head of medicine department at Bangladesh Medical College, has led to considerable interest in regional hospital protocol-approved, off-label use of ivermectin and the antibiotic Doxycycline in patients diagnosed with mild cases of COVID-19 ...

www.trialsitenews.com

Ivermectin Usage Accelerates While the Need for Data is Real: How About an Ivermectin Registry?

TrialSite News’ interview with Tarek Alam, head of medicine department at Bangladesh Medical College, has led to considerable interest in regional hospital protocol-approved, off-label use of ivermectin and the antibiotic Doxycycline in patients diagnosed with mild cases of COVID-19. Thus far...
www.trialsitenews.com

www.trialsitenews.com

ICMR—India’s National Research Agency—Investigating Ivermectin & Doxycycline as Potential Treatment for COVID-19

India’s national research organization known as the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is now reviewing the benefits of ivermectin and doxycycline as a potential therapy for COVID-19. The combination was tested by Dr. Tarek Alam at the Bangladesh Medical College who interviewed with...
www.trialsitenews.com
 
Watch Ebola and Nazis burnt books and extreme left destroy statues. Civil war will the only ones to benifit. We all lose in the end and de-funding the Police (Canada included) go for it and remove all of it . Then watch the cities burn even more.
 
blowfish said:
Watch Ebola and Nazis burnt books and extreme left destroy statues. Civil war will the only ones to benifit. We all lose in the end and de-funding the Police (Canada included) go for it and remove all of it . Then watch the cities burn even more.
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Defunding doesn't mean what you think it does. It does not mean eliminating police protection, just changing the methods and priorities.
 
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She’s a lunatic racist. Please let’s not give her lies any publicity OK?
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I posted it not to give that particular announcer any credibility, but to point out how "science" can be co-opted by politics, whether it be hers or those she is talking about.

www.theglobeandmail.com

As the U.S. grapples with COVID-19, it’s clear that the pandemic is political

The national conversation on the balance between public health and the economy is a mirror of the divisions between Republicans and Democrats and between Trump’s supporters and his detractors
www.theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com

Given all the variables so far, what I'm seeing is that scientific opinion is turning everyone into germaphobes and shutting down entire economies, the consequences of which may very well be worse than the disease itself, and in retrospect should make us question how much power such technocrats should have to impose their tunnel vision worldviews on the rest of us.
 
Laura Ingraham:

www.mediamatters.org

Here are 52 examples of Laura Ingraham’s racism

www.mediamatters.org www.mediamatters.org

Now as to protecting oneself, I think there should have been a national and consistent U.S. policy, which there wasn't because of the refusal of the White House to take it seriously early enough.

I live in one of the states with the highest rising infection and death rates. Basically simple protections, such as wearing masks and, where possible social distancing, would have a lot. And don't forget about washing your hands frequently.

This is not tunnel vision. It's life and death.
 
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This is not tunnel vision.
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If your reference to "tunnel vision" is from this post:
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Sure you are. It's just that the fruit is so plentiful it's impossible not to ;) When I think of how much in ruins Trump must be on the inside, I sort of pity the guy. Setting all judgement aside for a brief moment, can you imagine how completely disillusioned he must feel with his view of...
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Then what you think I mean might be very different from what I actually think. We'd have to establish common ground there before I can tell if your view has any actual relevance to mine. What do you think the point of using the words "tunnel vision" was in my post?
It's life and death.
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This is anything but a binary situation. There are lots of shades of gray, the spectrum is wide, and it is anything but uniform. The vast majority of people survive COVID-19, and according to the government here, the risk of mortality closely parallels the risk of simply dying from other causes depending largely on age. So if you weren't germaphobic before, there's really no reason to start now unless you are already in a high-risk category.
Gene Steinberg said:
Laura Ingraham:
www.mediamatters.org

Here are 52 examples of Laura Ingraham’s racism

www.mediamatters.org www.mediamatters.org
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Whether the announcer was a racist or made racist remarks in other broadcasts has no bearing on the point I was making. She just happened to be an example. I imagine there are plenty more. There might even be some examples by people you like. Every ideology can use science politically, it's been going on for a long time. At some point people will want their right to make up their own mind back, and I don't blame them.
 
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Professor Michael Lisanti of Salford University highlights the potential application of senolytic drugs in combating COVID-19, including the benefits of doxycycline and azithromycin.

 
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