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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. g8trjax

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  2. VAg8r1

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    Link doesn't work although I suspect that I'm not missing very much by not viewing a heavily edited right wing propaganda piece in the form of a poor attempt at humor.
     
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  3. Tjgators

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  4. g8trjax

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    Thanks, should work now...
     
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  7. AzCatFan

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    Wow. I guess the COVID vaccine must be to blame for these athletes collapsing too...back in 2017!!!

    Jacksonville, FL.

    Dallas, TX.

    Tampa Bay, FL.

    Bronx, NY.

    Phoenix, AZ.

    All tragic All happened in one year, two years before COVID 19 existed, and three years before a single, COVID vaccine.

    Show me an increase of these tragic events, and you might have something. But to date, nothing in terms of increased events. Increased media coverage, especially social media, but that doesn't prove anything.
     
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    Oh, ok. Therefore it must be the vaccines.
     
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  12. Tjgators

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    they were 30 years apart. now it is happening weekly, if not daily. it's very on topic unless your an ostrich.
     
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  13. mdgator05

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    How many high school athletes collapsed nationwide in 2018-2019?
     
  14. AzCatFan

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    Don't know 2018-19, but this study published in 2009 looked at 1980 through 2006. 1,866 deaths, or about 72 a year for young athletes. So hearing these stories weekly is sadly to be expected. Also not out of the norm. The real difference? These stories get posted here and all over social media now.
     
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    Weekly means 52 which would be around a 30% decrease so looks like an unplanned benefit of the vaccine :confused:
     
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    Someone go tell Hank Gathers he could not have died because that was a long, long time before the COVID vaccines.
     
  18. AzCatFan

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    In Q's defense, he probably doesn't remember hearing these stories weekly. Not because these tragedies weren't happening at a similar rate. They were. The difference is these stories weren't being amplified on social media like they are today.

    If a tree falls in a forest and nobody posts about it on social media, did it make a sound? Same tree falling and millions of posts, just how loud was it?
     
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    If you say so. All I said was questions are not allowed to be asked…
     
  20. QGator2414

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    We need to dive into the the “Why”…

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article267801482.html

    Is this enough of an increase in these events?

    We need to study whether this is Covid only. The shot only. Covid and the shot.

    But it is not being done by those who pushed this shot unnecessarily on young healthy people for a reason imo.
     
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