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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. buckeyegator

    buckeyegator Premium Member

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    thats what my wife keeps telling me.....
     
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  2. tilly

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    This. I hope he has a plan. I really do, but that is just a lot of words that basically say we will spend a boatload of money to come up with an answer.
     
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  3. tilly

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    OR...the very low threshold has painted the picture as worse than it really is and it is important to reset the metric to give a more fair picture, so we can actually know how to proceed.
     
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  4. buckeyegator

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    gee, that is so much more than what trump is doing, why did he not think of that?
     
  5. gator95

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    Using a PCR of 40 is about as smart as comparing a temperature of 99.5 and 104 and saying both are dangerous fevers.
     
  6. gator7_5

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    Throw a hundred thousand untrained federal employees at the problem. Viola! Fixed.
     
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  7. g8trjax

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    Yep, the whole media narrative is about change from destroy mode to protect mode when biden gets in. It is what it is.


     
  8. dangolegators

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    240,000 deaths paints a pretty bad picture regardless of whether we use 35 or 40 as the PCR threshold. And we will likely top 300,000 deaths by the end of this year. I can remember when you were incredulous at my post where I said we could reach 150,000 deaths.
     
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  9. tilly

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    I was, and admitted long ago my underestimation. In fact, I think it was an even lower number that I doubted.

    I would ask though if it is possible to assume that a lot of those deaths may have been people who tested positive using a sub 40 PCR?
     
  10. RIP

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    All you need to say is I don't believe Biden will do anything about COVID and leave it at that.
     
  11. buckeyegator

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    my point is, what is he going to do about it that trump did not, just spill the beans.
     
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  12. GatorGuyDallas

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    Numbers
     
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  13. Gatorbud

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  14. philnotfil

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    We passed 240,000 deaths today :(
     
  15. PITBOSS

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    Trumps America....


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  16. RIP

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    I dislike this.
     
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  17. Gatorbud

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    so does Biden...
     
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  18. gator7_5

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    You forgot to link Trump’s England, France, Italy, etc too.
     
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  19. dangolegators

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    Per Worldometer 118k new cases today, 1125 deaths.
     
  20. buckeyegator

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    Also 1.55million tests,most ever