Slow the Testing?

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  1. Lesh

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    Indeed.

    Slowing the testing allows Republicans keep the fantasy of "Business as Usual" keep on going.

    Since billionaires will do well no matter what the pandemic, and in fact such are reaching even higher profits and ownership of America from the deaths and loss of regular Americans, and the elderly and the poor.

    The popping champagne corks as ownership increases for the top have the highest danger for Trump and his Republican buddies, and Putin, of course from their ever higher wealth.
     
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    I had coffee with a group of long time friends last Monday. One of the guys was going in for his fourth test in two months, all the previous were proven negative. I asked him why and he said he had a tiny lingering headache. "Did you take an aspirin", nope he replied.

    He happily reported on Thursday that once again the results were again negative. I responded that since he had just visited a place where all the people congregating there thought they might have the Chinese Virus, that he should immediately return for another test just to be sure.

    He is considering that idea.

    BWT, his wife hasn't left the house since mid-March, is a 24/7 MSNBS watcher, and because my friend has actually gone out for groceries and coffee, she is paranoid that he might bring home the gift from the Chinese and pass it on to her.

    Methinks his lingering headache comes from living with an idiot.
     
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    Testing is irrelevant. 99% will recover.
     
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    I kinda laugh at these type stories ... reminds me of all the right wingers who spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy guns to protect themselves and die without ever having used a gun to protect themselves ...
     
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    Unless you infect a worker at an old age home and you kill off 15% of the residents in the old age home ...
    It's all fun and games till a loved one dies or is hospitalized for a few weeks.
     
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    Unlike my friend with a sore nose from having four, soon to be five swabs shoved up his nose, those guns bought years ago have for the most part have had thousands of rounds fired in fields and in ranges, tripled in value, and left great memories and a nice nontaxable gift to the heirs of the owners.
    I know which path I have chosen.
     
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    Beyond that, largely due to Trump's utter failure to lead on every aspect of this pandemic, while the rest of the world is seeing a decline in the number of new cases, the US is going up, and our uptrend is gaining speed now.

    If he were a half way decent president, he would have been out in front of all the medical advisories and would have helped to publish good practices widely, order the increased production of PPE, and would be funding of research. If he's worried about the numbers of new cases looking bad, he could focus on the percentage of positive results of testing and work to bring the percentage down. Instead he is going down as the main cause of the US performing worse than any other country in dealing with the virus. But that's standard style for him.
     
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    We all have our quirks ... your friend is overly cautious about his health and it probably cost him nothing to have the tests. You've spent lots of money on ammunition and one of your kids has a greater chance of killing themselves with the gun you gift them than they have using the gun to thwart a robbery. It's all personal preference.
     
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    According to a White House Official, Trump was joking.

    Injecting disinfectant......Trump claimed he was being sarcastic.

    ————

    In an effort to watered down Trump’s absurdities, there are limitless excuses.
     
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    Trump already has tye blood of tens of thousands of Americans on his hands due to dismissive behavior in late Feb and early March. If he had issued a national lockdown on March 1, an estimated 50,000 fewer desths would have occured.

    https://www.newsweek.com/54000-fewe...-lockdown-march-1-columbia-university-1505592
     
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    Just think, his test might have prevented someone else from getting one. Now there is some handwringing for the rest of your day.
    As for the thousands of rounds of ammunition fired. Each and every round other than the .22 was hand made by me, and I got all the enjoyment and pleasure of doing so.
    With respect to safety, I am an instructor in a public police training facility and I teach basic safety courses on the subject. My wife, my kids, and their spouses all have carry permits in the states where they live and my two grandsons (ages 14 and 12 at the time) and I built their first AR15 from a bag of parts and a legally bought lower.
    Hopefully, they will never have to use any of those tools to defend their life and only shoot for pleasure.

    Glad you brought up safety as during a seven hour shift yesterday, we had six first time gun owners come in for lessons and the adjacent classroom offering carry permit qualifications was the largest one time class in history with 54 new applicants, more than doubling the normal bi-monthly class size.
    Guess which way they are going to vote on election day?
     
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    OK, hard numbers for you:

    The US has 2,260,972 total cases confirmed now. Of those, 100,589 have either died or recovered. The rest are still sick or unaccounted for. So they can't be counted as either dead or recovered. Therefore, of those for whom we can report final results (100,589), 69,506 have recovered as my link above shows. That is a 69% recovery rate. Not 99% and not 55%.
     
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    No, he controls our response to it. And he has failed miserably. The worst in the world.
     
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    Your numbers are not accurate.
     
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    Oh nevermind. I can't take you seriously as it's clear you are just another Trump hating covid alarmist with an agenda to push.
     
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    Then show me the "real" calculation!!!!!!!!!! Or do you have nothing but BS whining?
     
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    Then be a hero and post the "real" numbers. Otherwise you are spewing bullshit.
    See post 16 above.
     
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    is your Google machine broken? Death rate is about 1%
     
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    Got nothing? Not even a link? But I know why. It's because you KNOW damned well you're spreading bullshit and you can admit it and you can't dare speak the truth on it.
     
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