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2 minutes ago, Kz! said:

 

Does Ron DeSantis not understand how travel works?

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1 minute ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

No it doesn't, numbers still are not good, point is states with strict masks mandates are not necessarily doing better

You'd need a warm weather state with stricter mask mandates to make a fair comparison. Let's take California. California has 10 million more people and is reporting less cases. So once again, I'm right and you're wrong, and it's abundantly clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. 

So just so i am clear about this, when the virus never ends the scapegoat will be places like Texas ?

23 minutes ago, Gannan said:

From your own link

Yesterday Texas had 3,293 new cases. Roughly a thousand more than they had on Saturday. Of course Fox news and Abbott are going to spin it. Cases would go down in the warmer weather anyway like they did last summer, but they aren't really going down.

Not to mention even if it were true that Texas is essentially beating covid by doing nothing, it destroys your "we are all going to die from Covidzzzzz" narrative. The weather is getting warmer in Texas and they are vaccinating hundreds of thousands of people a day so the numbers aren't spiking as high as they would have if Abbott  had pulled this stunt in December. 

Studies show that even after the first dose, pfizer is 70% effective in preventing covid infection. In short, your Texas case proves that vaccines are working and the variants aren't a major problem. So give it a rest. 

So you disagree with the CDC? I guess you guys just pick and choose what to agree with sort of like a buffet, masks yummy, variants yuck

6 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

So just so i am clear about this, when the virus never ends the scapegoat will be places like Texas ?

In that insane scenario you keep throwing out there, we will all be dead and it won't be a problem. 

Just now, Joe Shades 73 said:

So you disagree with the CDC?

No, you are the one doing that. 

Just now, Gannan said:

In that insane scenario you keep throwing out there, we will all be dead and it won't be a problem. 

Of course I was not being totally serious but it is worse than you think

If anyone cares to read about mRNA and the woman that spent her life working on it on mRNA. GIVE HER THE DAMN NOBEL PRIZE. 

 

Prof Karikó first began work on mRNA at a lab in Hungary in 1978, before moving to the US after her position at the Biological Research Centre in Szeged was terminated in 1985. A decade later, when at the University of Pennsylvania, Prof Karikó was again demoted when her focus on mRNA failed to attract financial backing

 

The current #mRNA vaccine could be "the safest” available. It is "cleaner” than conventional vaccine technologies as mRNA code quickly degrades, leaving nothing behind. Everything disappears, the viral protein disappears, leaving only the antibody. 

 

15 minutes ago, Gannan said:

In that insane scenario you keep throwing out there, we will all be dead and it won't be a problem. 

Hell will be hearing @Joe Shades 73 say "I told you so" for eternity

33 minutes ago, Gannan said:

You'd need a warm weather state with stricter mask mandates to make a fair comparison. Let's take California. California has 10 million more people and is reporting less cases. So once again, I'm right and you're wrong, and it's abundantly clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. 

Yep and you'd need to normalize as much as you could for a slew of key factors.  I think it is beyond a doubt that masks help stop the spread of the virus.  The question is how much and in what circumstances, etc.

5 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Hell will be hearing @Joe Shades 73 say "I told you so" for eternity

His track record on predicting things isn't so good. 

10 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Did you pull a zuker and not read your own article or do you just not understand it?

Do you disagree with the article?

Where is the outrage at Murphy easing restrictions? 

3 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Six new positive cases in my building. We're going virtual tomorrow.

Eight new positive cases in my building... we're also going virtual tomorrow (and Wednesday)

The virus is out of control -_-

This thread is getting some action today.

Don't have time to quote everything but I'll say that the variants are indeed causing issues in states where they've gained a foothold, and where most of the population lacks immunity. Unfortunately, while we have a rough idea of population immunity, we don't have a rough idea of which states the variants are gaining traction in the quickest. Sequencing is still sorely lacking right now. But while things might be trending in the wrong direction for some states in the northeast, help is on the way. You could even call it the Calvary! 

As for Redfield's comments, I don't think he was basing it on any new evidence, but I might've missed something. Fwiw, he's at least a trained virologist, so his opinion carries more weight than the biologists podcasters Maher had on. But I still don't see anything beyond circumstantial evidence that this was manmade. The prevailing scientific consensus among virologists is still firmly in the zoonotic origin camp  This virus having a zoonotic origin and a massive cover-up from China are not mutually exclusive scenarios. They could just as easily be trying to cover up from initial efforts to obscure the situation for much of the same reasons nationalistic leaders don't want their regime to look bad on a global stage. Not unlike what Trump was trying to do domestically. The Woodward tapes confirmed this to a degree.

The way scientific innovation has advanced in the last century or so, a single person is seldom the direct cause for such life-saving innovations like they were in the past. Gone are the days of Pasteur, Lister, Jenner, etc. But if we had to pick one as a modern day equivalent, it might be the aforementioned Katalin Kariko. For geopolitical historical significance, she was a cold-was refugee. 

 

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

This thread is getting some action today.

Don't have time to quote everything but I'll say that the variants are indeed causing issues in states where they've gained a foothold, and where most of the population lacks immunity. Unfortunately, while we have a rough idea of population immunity, we don't have a rough idea of which states the variants are gaining traction in the quickest. Sequencing is sorely lacking right now. Things might be trending in the wrong direction for some states in the northeast, but help is on the way. You could even call it the Calvary! 

As for Redfield's comments, I don't think he was basing it on any new evidence, but I might've missed something. Fwiw, he's at least a trained virologist, so his opinion carries more weight than the biologists podcasters Maher had on. But I still don't see anything beyond circumstantial evidence that this was manmade. This virus having a zoonotic origin and a massive cover-up from China are not mutually exclusive scenarios. They could just as easily be trying to cover up from initial efforts to obscure the situation for much of the same reasons nationalistic leaders don't want their regime to look bad on a global stage. Not unlike what Trump was trying to do domestically. The Woodward tapes confirmed this to a degree.

The way scientific innovation has advanced in the last century years or so, a single person is seldom the direct cause for such life-saving innovations like they were in the past. Gone are the days of Pasteur, Lister, Jenner, etc. But if we had to pick one as a modern day equivalent, it might be the aforementioned Katalin Kariko. For geopolitical historical significance, was a cold-was refugee. 

 

Not trolling serious question. Do you still believe we will be out of this by end of year? And if so you are assuming the anti vaxxers will change their minds?

1 minute ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Not trolling serious question. Do you still believe we will be out of this by end of year? And if so you are assuming the anti vaxxers will change their minds?

I have no choice but to assume you're always trolling now.

1 hour ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Do you disagree with the article?

Which part? 

6 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Which part? 

The impending doom? Because states are relaxing restrictions and many people will not get the vaccine 

9 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

The impending doom? Because states are relaxing restrictions and many people will not get the vaccine 

The part where she started with "I have a feeling”?
Yes I agree that she’s talking about her feelings, and I agree that she feels feelings. 

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