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I nominate Laura Ingraham and her entire family as the first to die.I really don't want anybody to die, but I get tired of the Laura Ingrahams happily sacrificing others. Mostly people of color, older folks and/or those of relatively modest means. They are all disposable to her ilk.
Here Immunity or ‘burn through’ is the next great magic pill. Slowly reality is being accepted by more people that a matrix of items are going to be needed for the foreseeable future. Masks, vaccines, better therapies, distancing and certainly the change in behavior where you work sick are all likely going forward. Hopefully the medical advances reduce the more annoying things like distancing. As an editorial, I wish my government would work on advancing more of these items as we cross this bridge (therapies, paid sick leave, stimulus)
128,000 and counting, one day, one county. https://twitter.com/HarrisVotes/status/1316179752009560068?s=19
Day 2:https://twitter.com/WCKitchen/status/1316418702338912256?s=19Day 1 had over 1 million voters:https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-surpassed-1-million-votes-on-first-day-of-15647238.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
NYT has a ballot tracker that will be regularly updated with available information.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/elections/absentee-ballot-early-voting.htmlAs of right now, about 13.4 million ballots have been cast (12.2 absentee ballots returned, 1.2 million early votes cast).
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/10/14/trump-ditched-obama-pandemic-plan-but-ignored-aspects-his-own/5953152002/
One more reason to avoid information coming out of the CDC.
It really is unfortunate how this administration politicized CDC. Through decades of Democratic and Republican regimes, it had maintained a stellar reputation as the world's gold-standard for public health information and research...specifically because presidents on both sides of the aisle largely let them do their jobs as scientists.I certainly hope things revert to past practices after the election, so the world class scientists at the agency can get back to doing what they do best, unhampered by political agendas....
Absolutely. At many points earlier in this thread, I said listen to the CDC. Trust the CDC. They are the gold standard. Now? They have been completely corrupted by this administration. They lie. They make bogus recommendations. They cannot be trusted anymore and need to be ignored.
Which tests are NFL players getting? They seem fairly unreliable with many being false positives. Is this different than the general public? Or does the general public follow a similar process? If positive, you confirm with the POC test.
This was an interesting read/theory that some of the severe child and potentially long haul cases are due to the virus staying active in the gut. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/super-antigen-tied-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-children-long-covid/