RobertSul

During March and April when there was a nationwide shortage on masks (and paper towels and toilet paper).

They’re supposed to take a bullet /for/ the President, not /from/ the President.

Metadata shows these were taken 10 minutes apart in different rooms, probably to give the illusion of working “late into the night”.

Again, optics. “Working hard for the American people.”

That would’ve been easily caught by anyone editing it, and there’s no one who’d think that wouldn’t have caused a lot of speculation. Call me crazy but it’s possible he doesn’t have COVID. You can pay and/or influence the right people to lie when you’re arguably the most powerful person on earth; not to mention the vague, sometimes contradictory details that are coming out. Oxygen levels “below 94 but not in the low 80s?” Medications taken are prescribed for patients with severe symptoms, and yet he’s well enough to address the nation, go for a ride and even might be discharged as early as tomorrow? Attending physician, who only sees one patient all week and that’s the President, didn’t know whether he’d been on oxygen? Trump loves his optics which makes him a good entertainer, but we need transparency through the veneer for a functioning government that most people can trust.

You’re right about balance. But back in April, there were shortages on masks, ventilators and tests, and we knew a lot less about the virus then than we do now. Yes, the potential ceiling for a very high death rate decreased, which can be attributed to the increase in supplies, mask-adherence and medical knowledge involving treatments.

If stealing your neighbor’s milk saved your neighbor’s life, you’d want that to be tied up in litigation? “Oh geez, stealing my neighbor’s milk today will save his life tomorrow, but let’s litigate into next Friday and I’ll make my decision then..” Your neighbor’s dead by next Friday. Now multiply that by thousands.

Have you considered that if all states took Michigan’s approach, our president would have had a much, much lower chance of contracting COVID?

Are you the Assistant to the Regional Manager of the South?

That makes more sense. In other words, 100 times deadlier than what was posted.

Considering out of the 7 million confirmed infections there’ve been 200,000 deaths, which leads to an infection fatality percentage of 2.8%, I don’t think those numbers you posted are related to COVID.

Dude, I totally understand your passion about all this, but you gotta take a deep breath and let the North vs South stuff go. This isn’t as cut-and-dry as that, and there are certainly contributing influences outside of the political realm (climate for one - Southerners DO spend more hours in the relatively dry indoors during the hot summer). I concede that reopening early had a sharper effect on the curve in places, and urban areas are taking more precautionary methods since a communicable disease will naturally spread faster in high density places, but you gotta look at the breadth of this situation with a more open mind.

People naturally respond to acute problems more than chronic. The MSM has covered plenty on the obesity crisis over the years, and I hate to trigger you, but the former administration even had an initiative that improved nutritional values in school lunches that has since been scrapped for cheaper, unhealthier replacements. https://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/002312

What kind of childhood would you have if you knew you spread a disease to your at-risk parents (or guardian grandparents), which either directly killed them or severely affected their health for years to come? Do you think cases just hit a wall at that number and stop spreading? If a thousand people are infected, that can easily infect tens of thousands more in just a month. By TEMPORARILY limiting interactions, you’re greatly lowering the spread, and then normal to semi-normal operations can resume again. No one is saying keep kids learning remotely for the whole school year. This isn’t as linear and one-note as you seem to think it is.

Explain your reasoning. There were 1,167 new cases yesterday.

He spread enough disinformation that people were undoubtedly affected in negative, irreparable ways. Yes, it’s tragic that he died, but the tragedies his bad advice has generated will never make the news.

I understand what you’re saying. It’s a very touch-and-go situation. I think as long as people are wearing masks, having their temperatures taken before boarding, and the planes are vigorously decontaminated, that flying should be okay.

Reminds me of the $500 Billion in small business stimulus that had oversight eliminated back in March. People still don’t know where all that money went.

That’s pretty crazy. Do you go out afterwards and just immediately take in a big gulp of air?

Confusion, muscle twitching and loss of consciousness are all symptoms of excessive carbon dioxide. Do you think a surgeon, who’d require surgeon-like precision, would experience those symptoms while wearing a mask for hours on end?

You mean like older people, which Japan has an abundance of?

That would allude to lower death rates, not lower transmission rates. The median age in Japan is 47.3, vs. U.S.A’s 38.2. That’s a big difference. Also: Japan has 149 cases per million, total. USA has 8,571 cases per million, total.

I mean, you’re right that I shouldn’t base an entire website on a few pieces of faulty news (another look shows they don’t believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas), but also the fact that surgeons always wear masks at the operating table lends credence to their effectiveness. There’ve also been many anecdotes of entire floors of hospital staff wearing masks and having a very low infection rate compared with staff on separate floors who didn’t wear masks and had a high infection rate. Also, Japan hasn’t been hit as hard despite how urbanized/densely populated/advanced aged of a country they are - which has been attributable to them being a very mask-friendly society.

Technocracy.news promotes the theory that vaccines cause autism. Hard pass.

People need to wear masks if that’s going to be the case. It’s such a simple thing that prevents spread AND helps the economy. It’d win-win for society. There shouldn’t be a cultural battle about this.