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Fuck off you conspirationist loser.
I know that you're upset that your colony is not gonna be able to participate in the American sport of hockey at nhl level for a while. But that's what happens when you're a colony :dunno:
 
We voted Trump in due to his deal making and toughness

he's letting tiny tony fauci Bully him into making 10 million newly unemployed?

weak
loser
 
I hope this is accurate info. Sometimes I notice that Colorado reports nothing, than a huge number next day. I mean I hope it's not due to when they report


I tend to think we are a day behind with some of the reporting anyways. I started just looking at 3 day trends and week to week.

I know I read where Idaho was reporting deaths days and says later due to their various policies and procedures.

I could see some states having key people in the process that just don't work 7 days a week (sunday would be a typical day off)

who knows...
 
I hope this is accurate info. Sometimes I notice that Colorado reports nothing, than a huge number next day. I mean I hope it's not due to when they report

Yeah who knows. I was just shocked any report had Florida doing ok lol.
 
We voted Trump in due to his deal making and toughness

he's letting tiny tony fauci Bully him into making 10 million newly unemployed?

weak
loser
I understand you're joking, but I think they have good relationship. But Fauci is an ID specialist, and Trump has gotten a lot of negative feedback, so he caved a bit. Although I feel Trump's initial hunch is the right one, his job is to go with what the advice he gets. :dunno:
 
We voted Trump in due to his deal making and toughness

he's letting tiny tony fauci Bully him into making 10 million newly unemployed?

weak
loser

:lmao:
He has shown both and WILL CONTINUE to do so! I like that's he's not acting stubbornly like previously on occasion! He's a great businessman but maybe realizes doctoring isn't his forte!

Arch, how you think our country would be holding up if this virus hit while we had an economy struggling? I thank God that wasn't the case! Most liberals who don't believe in God can thank the President instead!
 
I understand you're joking, but I think they have good relationship. But Fauci is an ID specialist, and Trump has gotten a lot of negative feedback, so he caved a bit. Although I feel Trump's initial hunch is the right one, his job is to go with what the advice he gets. :dunno:

I love that it doesn't even enter your mind as a possibility that he's doing this because he sees its a legitimate threat. It has to be that he "has to go with what advice he gets" (which he doesn't, the buck stops with him, and he's notorious for going against advice he gets) or that "he's caved due to negative feedback" (as if he's ever given a shit about that).

It must be so amazing to be so set in your convictions that no matter what evidence to the contrary arises, you can always just mold it into your narrative instead of considering the microscopic possibility that you just might be wrong.
 
wrong how? His initial idea was to try open up shit mid April. There was negative feedback, and advice from his team was against it. He went with that. Does it make you feel better to think he all of a sudden had a big revelation? There's little difference. Nobody said it's not a legitimate threat. Your estimation of that, again, irrelevant. Question is, what is the right response
 
ooh only 264 dead today, 1/2 of yesterday. Likely a reporting issue unfortunately but 🤞
 
I'm worried that if the numbers are going up they'll be like, oh my god keep everything closed it's so bad. And if the numbers go down, they'll be like, it's working, keep everything closed
 
wrong how? His initial idea was to try open up shit mid April. There was negative feedback, and advice from his team was against it. He went with that. Does it make you feel better to think he all of a sudden had a big revelation? There's little difference. Nobody said it's not a legitimate threat. Your estimation of that, again, irrelevant. Question is, what is the right response

This was my point. This doesn't seem to be a question at all for you. You seem pretty damn positive that the quarantine and businesses being shutdown is a mistake/wrong. Or am I understanding incorrectly?
 
Let's get some good news today



here is some older good news




AILSA CHANG, HOST:

There is a little bit of good news about the coronavirus. Researchers say that as it spreads across the world, it's changing its genetic makeup only slightly. NPR's Pien Huang explains.

PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: Viruses change up small parts of their genetic codes all the time. Vineet Menachery, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, says the coronavirus is no different.

VINEET MENACHERY: Yes, viruses are mutating. It doesn't mean that they're going to become more virulent or more deadly.

HUANG: When a virus infects someone, it uses their cells to make copies of itself. Those copies spread to more cells and can be coughed out to infect other people. All viruses make small changes when they replicate, but Menachery says that the coronavirus is actually mutating pretty slowly.

MENACHERY: Their genomes are relatively stable. You know, the mutations that they incorporate are relatively rare.

HUANG: And that's a good thing. Other viruses like flu change much more quickly, making them harder to prevent through vaccines. So far, the coronavirus seems to be picking up about two mutations each month. Flu makes changes about two or three times faster.

Justin Bahl is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Georgia. He says the small changes researchers are seeing don't seem to affect how the virus functions.

JUSTIN BAHL: At this point, the overall genetic diversity I think is actually pretty low. The viruses themselves are not actually under much pressure to change.

HUANG: Bahl says its stability and slower mutation rate are good news for researchers working on treatments for the disease and on vaccines to keep people from getting coronavirus.

BAHL: Within the next year or two, I don't think that the mutations will occur fast enough to drift away from the vaccines.

HUANG: So once a vaccine is developed, it would likely protect people for a couple years at least. Ewan Harrison, a microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, says the small genetic changes the coronavirus is making actually help researchers figure out where the virus is spreading.

EWAN HARRISON: If it's transmitting in hospitals, if it's transmitting out in the community, what the major hopes for transmission are.

HUANG: Tracking the virus is important because while it's not changing significantly right now, that trend may not continue. It could mutate to become more infectious, but it could also become less dangerous or even peter out. The only way researchers will know is by keeping a close eye on it.

Pien Huang, NPR News.