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Post by cliffs on Nov 6, 2020 15:54:35 GMT
C'mon in and have a chat about the pandemic. This is the political forum so if you bring politics into it, that is just fine as far as I care. (Unless admin says no)
I say this because it isn't just the USA wherein politics is at play when it comes to the virus. Sad that it is that way but tis the world we live in.
I personally would rather the thread be about just the pandemic but we all know that it is not possible to not bring a bit of politics in.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 7, 2020 12:18:44 GMT
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for COVID-19, ABC News has learned.
In addition to Meadows, at least four White House staffers are positive for COVID-19 along with one campaign staffer. One of those positive is Nick Trainor, the Trump campaign battleground states director.
Meadows has been around the president and first family all week, including spending time at campaign headquarters twice this week. He was on a trip with the president on Tuesday and at the campaign headquarters again on Wednesday, plotting what's next for the Trump campaign.
Don't want my comment to come off as morbid but maybe someone in his inner circle needs to get really sick with this virus, life threatening sick, to wake these morons up....
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Post by cliffs on Nov 7, 2020 19:40:30 GMT
If anything, the virus appears to be strengthening, killing more than 1,000 Americans every day this week while recording more than 100,000 daily infections. More than 50,000 people across the nation are hospitalized. The share of coronavirus diagnostic tests coming back positive has risen to 8.2 percent this week; last week’s share of positive tests was a markedly lower 7.2 percent.
“The numbers are pretty scary,” says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor, taking stock of the national situation. As he was speaking to Yahoo News on Thursday, the nation was on its way to a record 133,000 new cases for that day. Hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing too, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw during the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 8, 2020 13:40:02 GMT
Irvin Baxter, a televangelist who once called the coronavirus a "privilege," died of complications from the disease on Tuesday, according to a press release.
Baxter previously said he believed Americans having sex before marriage brought on the coronavirus pandemic.
"God may be using this as a wake-up call," Baxter said, suggesting God was using the coronavirus to punish people for having premarital sex.
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A televangelist who once described the coronavirus pandemic as a "privilege" died from the disease Tuesday.
Irvin Baxter died in the hospital at 75, according to a press release from Endtime Ministries, which Baxter founded.
Baxter was a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump and had suggested premarital sex was the reason the coronavirus exists.
During a March discussion on "The Jim Bakker Show," a national TV show centered around the end of time, Baxter preached about "the sin of fornication" outside marriage.
"I thought about fornication and I did a little research," he said. "I hope this research is not correct, but I got it straight from the encyclopedia. It says that 5% of new brides in America now are virgins. That means 95 percent have already committed fornication!"
He said millions of unmarried American couples were living together and having sex, which he called sinful and punishable in the eyes of God.
"God may be using this as a wake-up call," Baxter then said about the coronavirus.
"This coronavirus may be a privilege, because I'll tell you right now, there is a much bigger judgment coming. It's in the Bible."
Baxter denounced people who "think we can just ignore God and live a sinful lifestyle."
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Post by ErixonStone on Nov 10, 2020 3:32:24 GMT
It's funny how the perfect moral being just happens to agree with whomever is speaking, but none of those speakers agree on anything. It's like we all have our own morals that just happen to align perfectly with our own god. Kind of like we make it up as we go along.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 12, 2020 12:13:45 GMT
Texas on Wednesday became the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and California closed in on that mark as a surge of coronavirus infections engulfs the country.
In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said all restaurants, bars and gyms statewide will have to close at 10 p.m. starting Friday, a major retreat in a corner of the U.S. that had seemingly brought the virus largely under control months ago. He also barred private gatherings of more than 10 people.
Texas, the second-most populous state, has recorded 1.02 million coronavirus cases and over 19,000 deaths since the outbreak began in early March, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. California, the most populous state, has logged more than 995,000 cases.
The U.S. has recorded over 240,000 deaths and more than 10.3 million confirmed infections, with new cases soaring to all-time highs of well over 120,000 per day over the past week. Health experts have blamed the increase in part on the onset of cold weather and growing frustration with mask-wearing and other precautions.
Cases per day are on the rise in 49 states, and deaths per day are climbing in 39. A month ago, the U.S. was seeing about 730 COVID-19 deaths per day on average; that has now surpassed 970.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 12, 2020 20:21:21 GMT
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump moved their kids to a new school after parents complained about the couple not following coronavirus protocols, report says
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School and moved them to Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Three Milton parents told the outlet that other parents had complained that Kushner and Trump weren't following the school's COVID-19 protocols, which asked families to avoid large gatherings and to follow social-distancing guidelines.
Kushner and Trump have been photographed attending large gatherings and having close contact with other people without face masks.
A source close to the family told JTA that the family moved the kids to Berman because it offered more in-person schooling.
The White House and the two schools did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 13, 2020 12:15:19 GMT
Pfizer is expected to seek federal permission to release its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, a move that holds promise for quelling the pandemic but also sets up a tight time frame to make sure consumers understand what it will mean to get the shots.
The vaccine, and likely most others, will require two doses to work, injections that must be given weeks apart, company protocols show. Scientists anticipate that the shots will cause enervating flu-like side effects — including sore arms, muscle aches and fever — that could last days and temporarily sideline some people from work or school. And even if a vaccine proves 90 percent effective, the rate Pfizer touted for its product, 1 in 10 recipients would still be vulnerable. That means, at least in the short term, as population-level immunity grows, people can't stop social distancing and throw away their masks.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 14, 2020 11:12:59 GMT
Who is spreading this virus? maybe it is newly elected jerks like this one:
Newly elected House lawmakers arrived on Capitol Hill this week for freshman orientation. And one with a reputation for spreading conspiracy theories objected to being made to wear a mask inside the Capitol.
“Our first session of New Member Orientation covered COVID in Congress. Masks, masks, masks,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman-elect from Georgia, tweeted early Friday afternoon. “I proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive.”
“In GA, we work out, shop, go to restaurants, go to work, and school without masks,” Greene continued. “My body, my choice.”
She concluded her tweet with the hashtag “#FreeYourFace.”
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Post by cliffs on Nov 14, 2020 11:32:10 GMT
A coronavirus outbreak has forced more than 130 U.S. Secret Service officers to isolate or quarantine themselves after either testing positive for the illness or coming into close contact with someone who has, The Washington Post first reported on Friday.
The outbreak, reportedly affecting some 10% of the Secret Service’s core workforce, appears to be the latest consequence of President Donald Trump’s refusal to consistently follow basic health and safety precautions during the pandemic.
The New York Times confirmed the outbreak, reporting that at least 30 uniformed officers have tested positive and 60 have been asked to isolate.
The officers who are sick or otherwise forced to stay home generally help protect the White House and the president at events. They have been privately worrying for months about how Trump’s careless attitude toward the deadly virus may be putting their health and the health of their families needlessly at risk. The nature of their jobs, however, does not allow them much say over the president’s behavior.
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Post by LKeet6 on Nov 17, 2020 15:38:29 GMT
Didn't see there was covid thread here. I'll repeat my question:
Out of interest, what do the resident covid deniers over there say about the numbers now?
Obviously when it all started you had that guy saying it would be just "a bad flu year" and then when the numbers started shooting up, he claimed the numbers were being counted wrong.
He said he thought the "real" numbers were half what was reported. Which is obviously fucking ridiculous, but that would still be 125k, which would be FAR worse than ANY flu year on record and still a national disaster.
The fact the number is double (and probably a bit more than) that is tragic. But any acceptance that it's a disaster, even by their ridiculous counting methods? Or still performing mental gymnastics?
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Post by cliffs on Nov 21, 2020 11:23:48 GMT
I live in Massachusetts and they just passed a quarantine guideline that states I have to quarantine for two weeks if I travel to any other high risk state. We shop right over the border in New Hampshire. We cannot do that now without quarantininfg when we get home.
My bitch...what about the people who work in these others states but live in MA.? They come here and/or go there for 8 hours a day every day and move freely without quarantine. I shop for an hour once a week and must quarantine----HUH???
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Post by cliffs on Nov 21, 2020 12:00:43 GMT
I am going to keep posting Covid here until we are nearly back to normal...in other words, not any time soon.
The U.S. recorded more than 1 million cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days, Johns Hopkins University data shows, which is more than any other week since the pandemic began. There are 80,000 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 and over 15,000 of these individuals are currently in intensive care units (ICUs) with nearly 5,000 on ventilators. These numbers are prodigious and make it clear to experts in the medical field that catastrophe in the health care world is not imminent — it has arrived.
“The health care system is overwhelmed and it is on the brink of failure,” says Dr. Kevin Doerschug, medical director of the University of Iowa’s medical intensive care unit. It’s an emergency that concerns not only shortages of staff and supplies, but of space. Based on data from COVID Exit Strategy, at least 30 states are using 70 percent or more of their hospital beds as of this week, and 29 are reporting ICUs with 25 percent capacity or less. Hospitals in Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana and North Dakota have reported either being on the verge of running out of beds or are already there.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 21, 2020 12:02:48 GMT
Trump turns on Pfizer over vaccine timing
President Trump called a press briefing Friday to announce the implementation of his rules on drug pricing, which he said could save consumers hundreds or thousands of dollars a year, but got sidetracked with a rant against Big Pharma, which he blamed for sabotaging his reelection campaign because his policies would hurt their business.
In particular, he attacked Pfizer, the largest drug company in the U.S., just two hours after his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, claimed credit for the development of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine on behalf of the administration’s Operation Warp Speed program. Trump accused Pfizer of waiting to announce the success of their phase III vaccine trial until the day after the presidential election in order to avoid helping him.
Apparently, in his mind, it didn’t work. Trump proclaimed that he won the election anyway, as he has all along, notwithstanding Joe Biden’s commanding lead in both the popular and Electoral College votes.
“Pfizer and others even decided to not assess the results of their vaccine, in other words, not come out with a vaccine, until just after the election,” Trump said. “That’s because of what I did with favored nations and these other elements. Instead of their original plan to assess the data in October. So they were going to come out in October, but they decided to delay it because of what I’m doing, which is fine with me because frankly this is just a very big thing.”
Trump made that accusation the same day that Pfizer submitted its COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization, the first company to do so.
“Big Pharma ran millions of dollars of negative advertisements against me during the campaign, which I won by the way, but, you know, we’ll find that out. Almost 74 million votes,” Trump said, failing to mention that Biden had so far received nearly 80 million votes nationwide. “We had Big Pharma against us. We had the media against us. We had big tech against us. We had a lot of dishonesty against us.”
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Post by cliffs on Nov 21, 2020 12:03:58 GMT
LOL, Donnie must be spitting up Big Macs
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo scores International Emmy Award for coronavirus briefings
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