Wear a mask, reduce one's risk.
[QUOTE=Worf359;4909204]A2 I don't buy into the mask theory. When this all started we were told that only N95 mask would work. Even the CDC said that masks wouldn't protect anyone. Now fast forward and now a 2 cent paper mask is going to save me. There is evidence pointing out that masks can actually be harmful to the people who wear them. So I wear one when I am forced to being the loveable jerk that I am. I have the required TRUMP2020 mask and a few others. This week's favorite reads. "This Mask is as useless as a Democrat" back to the flat screens and hair weave. I don't have time for protesting and looting. I have a full time job human resources Family and hobbies and finding employees is hard enough without the government giving them more money to stay home then to work. So I leave the looting and burning to the professionals.
[blue]We don't agree on the overall usefulness of masks. Though we would agree on their uselessness in huge crowds during protests. We probably do on the reason why the media insists on creating hysteria regarding covid. We certainly would't agree on Trump.
However we both have jobs so I'll get on with mine and leave you to yours.
A2[/blue][/QUOTE]Eh, the problems is that when one is listening to Scientists they need to understand scientific speak. No mask is going to provide 100% protection against any airborne pathogen. In fact no mask is going to provide 95% protection. So in the scientific community, unless something meets a threshold or 95% effective then one can not say it works! Making such a statement will get you drummed out of the science club pretty fast. So when early on the "experts" warned not to wear a mask it was from this perspective, that because it is not 95% effective, it doesn't work. But that ignores the practical aspect.
But what if wearing a mask reduces your chances of contracting something by 60% or 70%? Is that effective? Would that help stem the tide of the epidemic? I think the recent research shows that the severity of a COVID infection is directly related to how many SARS-COVID-19 particles one inhales. So if a mask reduces the number of particles inhaled, isn't that a benefit? So wearing a mask might not be 95% effective but if it reduces your chances by 70% or means you will have only a minor case, well isn't that useful? It is! But again a scientist can't advise one to use it because it isn't 95% effective. Also governments are loath to advise something unless it is 95% effective as people will follow that advice and still get sick and then blame the advice. It is a messed up situation that brought bad advice to the forefront.
As far as products with safety warnings on them, this is a result of lawyers. If the don't put such a warning then someone is going to use the mask, get infected and then sue the company. Hey, your product didn't protect me! So they warn you it isn't 100% effective. But again, if it reduces your risk, why not?
Oh and now Dr Fauci notes that early on he was afraid there would be a run on and-95 masks by the public and none would be available to healthcare workers, so he advised against using masks! Now he admits that was wrong advice.
Isn't science and politics nice? SIGH!
One can cherry pick scientific reports or websites to suit one's beliefs. There are papers on any side of this debate. Its like wearing a condom while dating hookers. You are free to chose the level of risk you take. Just don't be surprised if you catch something if you avoid protective measures.
MAGA-Tards are home-grown terrorists
Let's bow our heads and remember the 23 innocent victims brutally murdered by a Trump-loving piece of shit MAGA-Scumbag one year ago in El Paso:
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/el-paso-shooting-anniversary/index.html[/URL]
You Low IQ Deplorables better get ready. When President Biden is sworn into office we are coming for your assault weapons and tossing you vile scummy swamp rats in prison!
No more violence and terrorist acts from you right wing pieces of shit. We Democrats are making America safe again!!
You keep saying its all president Trumps fault
[QUOTE=SgtSoros;4909794]Try as you might, you folks cannot wish away, ignore, bully away a pandemic. We are here because of inept, incompetent leadership. The USA Has the worlds best scientists, researchers, hospitals and Medical doctors yet we have a global pandemic that has completely hijacked our economy, all AGAIN because of a failure of leadership by this President. The pandemic is only getting worse as the CDC now expects to have another 40,000+ COVID deaths in the month of August.
Trump politicized this pandemic. He claimed it was a Democratic hoax and belittled the recommended guidelines of the experts. He primed his cult of followers to actively oppose doing what needs to be done to fight this. Instead of bringing the country together to fight this as a team, he pitted conspiracy against science. We're living with the results of that, and unfortunately many people are dying because of that.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis that has caused an economic problem that is now causing political problems for Trump and the GOP. Now deal with that![/QUOTE]You keep saying its all president Trumps fault, yet you provide no example of anything he could have done different that would have kept the virus from coming here. So basically Every world leader on the planet in inept, as we all know, if it was a democrat in office his response would be the "gold standard" ie Andrew Cuomo who killed a lot more people in this disaster than anyone else has been directly responsible for, and you never hear anyone criticize at all, it was trumps fault, that he let the subways keep running, and all the other mistakes he made. but since he is a democrat the media, and the dems fawn all over everything he does. and never mention or question anything. sickening
During those first 6 weeks everyone talks about, who was partying in chinatown saying come on down there's nothing to be afraid of here. Nancy Pelosi.
Who said nothing to worry about folks go on a cruise. And no need to wear facemasks, they don't help, unless they are N95 and really only medical professionals need them. Dr fauci.
Who called Trump a xenophobe for wanting to stop all travel to and from China, saying there was no need to do that, and he was racist for doing it. Good old Joe Biden.
And 90% of the media. So predictable.
So looks to me like nobody had a handle on this at all from either party, but of course to say that you have to look at things honestly, Neither of which I've seen a democrat do in the last 5 years (will be 9 years of this non stop orangeman bad no matter what).
So could trump have done better yes, is it fair to blame the entire pandemic on him. NO, but again show me a fair minded democrat, good luck on that. Common sense be damned, politics above all else, and will lie and make up shit, cheat, steal, fabricate, and in the case of the Obama administration. Break the law to defeat the bad orangeman.
And yet again, I'm afraid y'all have learned nothing.
Its a sad day when politics clouds your judgement between right and wrong, what's ethical and what's not, who's deplorable and who's not, and on and on.
Anyone that would hurt the country, just to stay in power, is un-American in my book.
And that's really all that needs to be said about that.
RE: You keep saying its all president Trumps fault
[QUOTE=Mike454;4909965]You keep saying its all president Trumps fault, yet you provide no example of anything he could have done different that would have kept the virus from coming here.[/QUOTE]Yet everyone who isn't a Low IQ Deplorable like you agrees 100% that it is his fault and he HAS to own it as his legacy as a supremely failed President.
He called it a "Dem hoax" just like he calls global warming a "Chinese hoax".
He said it would "rapidly dwindle from 15 cases to zero" within a week. Now we're up to 155,000 dead and still rising.
He terminated the CDC Rapid Response Team that the great Obama established to deal with newly emerging global pandemics.
He said it would "magically disappear". When is this magic going to happen? When 250,000 bodies are piled up on his watch and he's being led off to prison in ankle chains?
The only thing that needs to "disappear" is this draft-dodging lying criminal in the White House and replaced by a smart and decent patriotic American like Mighty Joe Biden. Only then can America truly WIN.
Now sit down and shut up. The intelligent Dems in the room are talking.
Thats kinda like the pot calling the kettle black Sarge
[QUOTE=SgtSoros;4909932]Congratulations on your enduring stupidity![/QUOTE]I'd say right back at ya!
LOL.
MAGA-Tard Logic is a mental illness
[QUOTE=SgtSoros;4909978]2 died of Ebola: Republicans said Obama should resign.
4 died in Benghazi: Republicans had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a multiyear probe.
153,180 are dead thanks to Trump's incompetence: Republicans cheer him on, and demand 4 more years[/QUOTE]LOL now you see how Deplorable Logic works.
You take a rural red state beta cuck with a low IQ and combine it with a steady diet of Lying Hannity, Cokehead Limbaugh and Self-Hatin' Jew Levine and this is the kind of bullshit you get.
It will be wonderful to watch President Biden shut down all these right wing propaganda channels and send their scummy operators to prison. This is how America becomes truly great again.
The funny part is that all these right wing assholes watch CNN and MSNBC religiously because they crave real news. They are just jealous because Fox Fake News will never be regarded as such.
Its all $ driven, like always follow the money
[QUOTE=AaronHamlet;4909966]Fl reported 62 new China Virus deaths yesterday. The actual count was 5 for that day.
Fl reported 179 new China Virus deaths on Saturday. Actual count for that day was 11.
Fl reported 257 new China Virus deaths on Friday. Actual count for that day was 24.
Fl DHS is harvesting deaths from 8-10 weeks ago and labeling them as China Virus. Must be time to submit paperwork to the Feds for the China Virus bonus checks.
Fact driven "Opposition research" is hard work that leads one down many a rabbit hole. Maybe you and A2 should beg off on this and stick to commenting on horers.[/QUOTE]
Its all $ driven, and political driven
but id say mostly money, the reporting is politics driven...as always no matter what.
like always follow the money... where's hunter by the way lol
For every "covid 19 death" they get $.
A person dies of a heart attack = no money.
A Person dies of something else, but is listed as had covid 19 = $$.
I hope thy audit everyone of these places and then fire and charge every single one of them that falsified records for $ or politics, or both.
But sadly they're Never held accountable, and since most are unelected, they have no fear for heir job, no matter the shit way they perform. Just like the VA.
Democratic Socialist party
[QUOTE=TMeister;4909957]Let's bow our heads and remember the 23 innocent victims brutally murdered by a Trump-loving piece of shit MAGA-Scumbag one year ago in El Paso:
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/el-paso-shooting-anniversary/index.html[/URL]
You Low IQ Deplorables better get ready. When President Biden is sworn into office we are coming for your assault weapons and tossing you vile scummy swamp rats in prison!
No more violence and terrorist acts from you right wing pieces of shit. We Democrats are making America safe again!![/QUOTE]The New Democratic Socialist party is a domestic terrorist organization and should be treated as such. They are following the playbook from their founder Hitler page by page.