The Coronavirus thread

Quote: AZDuffman

What it seems to me is the left wingers want to show how much they want to submit to government rules. It is as if they think it makes them a better person doing as they are ordered. Did you not see how they were calling to wear 2 masks because 1 did not do the job? We told you this from the beginning.

Some of us have been lied to enough by government that we are natural skeptics. We see the masks and the directional aisles at the grocery store as being something to make people think something is being done.

Meanwhile people are dying by the thousands yet Biden does not care, does not take it serious.

Reminds me of the most dangerous person in a hospital. An NWAC. (Nurse with a clipboard). They ALWAYS needed to find something to ‘fix’, or else why was their job needed? So
Similar to government. Can you imagine if an elected official said.... ‘The laws we have in place are fine, we don’t need any new legislation!” In general, if you say they just passed a new law, without knowing anything about it, I would likely be against it.

I get your silliness, by the way. I’m sure you are ‘blaming’ Biden just to show how silly blaming Trump was. Trump made the vaccines. Biden is the delivery man. Both are necessary.

Quote: SOOPOO

Reminds me of the most dangerous person in a hospital. An NWAC. (Nurse with a clipboard). They ALWAYS needed to find something to ‘fix’, or else why was their job needed? So
Similar to government. Can you imagine if an elected official said.... ‘The laws we have in place are fine, we don’t need any new legislation!” In general, if you say they just passed a new law, without knowing anything about it, I would likely be against it.

Don't think medical is special that way. I remember once the president of the company decided that "we should be available to our customers 24 hours a day!" And "if our customer thinks it is an emergency it is an emergency." So within a week I get a call in the middle of the night about some ants in the back of a Gap store. I know what happened. Someone at the call center wanted to impress the company president and told people to find more emergencies. What happened of course was some manager at Gap was closing and found some ants and decided to call to get service in the next day or so.

Not that we did not have emergencies. We serviced airplanes and hospitals. Those were emergencies. A properly trained call center employee would know what is and is not an emergency. And believe me, the next morning I made sure they knew it. Within a week so many managers had screamed about this that they revised the policy.

So back to covid. We had masks for months to make it look like something was being done. Americans after 9 months of this are tired of it so they amp it up. Better wear two! Better lock down more travel! Just act like something is being done!

I feel you are at a maturity point when you no longer play along with these little games. Maybe you have to do the bare minimum, I still sometimes do. But usually not.

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In the midst of a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear, allowing as many as 5 million of the masks per month to be shipped overseas.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the waiver in the final moments of Donald Trump’s presidency last month, allowing a Texas company to export its products after it failed to secure U.S. customers, according to the FEMA letter obtained by KHN.

Perhaps I didn’t read the slogan right about “America First”

Quote: rxwine

Perhaps I didn’t read the slogan right about “America First”

Since you hate that slogan you should be happy.

Quote: AZDuffman

Since you hate that slogan you should be happy.

I think Trump meant “fisted”. And not by consent.

Quote: rxwine

Perhaps I didn’t read the slogan right about “America First”

So let me make sure I have this right. You are against building a wall to keep illegal aliens out of the country. But you are in favour of building a virtual wall to keep essential medical equipment going to other countries to save lives. You are such a caring person.

Quote: kenarman

So let me make sure I have this right. You are against building a wall to keep illegal aliens out of the country. But you are in favour of building a virtual wall to keep essential medical equipment going to other countries to save lives. You are such a caring person.

Thank you. I read his post and was totally disgusted. It even said ‘after failing to secure US customers ’. So he THEN sold them overseas and is ridiculed? Only a liberal could think that way.

Quote: SOOPOO

Thank you. I read his post and was totally disgusted. It even said ‘after failing to secure US customers ’. So he THEN sold them overseas and is ridiculed? Only a liberal could think that way.

Funny. And you're the smart one? Making fun of an opposing political administration not meeting its own standards was not just invented in 2021.

Quote: kenarman

The rate of infections per capita is higher in Florida than it is in New York. But carry on don't let the facts get in the way of your posts.

COVID-19 infection rates : Feb. 19
New York: 8063
Florida: 8612
That fact is true across the board. The first places to get hit had higher death rates and lower diagnosed infections. But that would make sense as diagnosis would get much better and there would be treatments developed.


COVID-19 death rates by state: Feb. 19
New Jersey: 256 per 100,000 people| Population: 8.9 million residents
New York: 236 | Population: 19.4 million
Massachusetts: 228 | Population: 6.9 million
Rhode Island: 223 | Population: 1.1 million
Mississippi: 219 | Population: 3 million
Connecticut: 210 | Population: 3.6 million
Arizona: 210| Population: 7.3 million
South Dakota: 209 | Population: 884,659
Louisiana: 202| Population: 4.6 million
North Dakota: 192 | Population: 762,062
Alabama: 192 | Population: 4.9 million
Pennsylvania: 183 | Population: 12.8 million
Indiana: 182 | Population: 6.7 million
Arkansas: 176 | Population: 3 million
Illinois: 176 | Population: 12.7 million
New Mexico: 171 | Population: 2.1 million
Iowa: 169 | Population: 3.2 million
Michigan: 163 | Population: 10 million
Tennessee: 161 | Population: 6.8 million
South Carolina: 158 | Population: 5.1 million
Nevada: 156 | Population: 3.1 million
Kansas: 155 | Population: 2.9 million
Georgia: 150 | Population: 10.6 million
Texas: 144 | Population: 30 million
Ohio: 142 | Population: 11.7 million
District of Columbia: 141 | Population: 705,749
Florida: 137 | Population: 21.5 million
Delaware: 136 | Population: 973,764
Missouri: 132 | Population: 6.1 million
Maryland: 127 | Population: 6 million
Montana: 125 | Population: 1.1 million
West Virginia: 125 | Population: 1.8 million
California: 122 | Population: 39.5 million
Wisconsin: 117 | Population: 5.8 million
Minnesota: 115 | Population: 5.6 million
Wyoming: 114 | Population: 578,759
Nebraska: 111| Population: 1.9 million
Oklahoma: 104 | Population: 4 million
Colorado: 104 | Population: 5.8 million
North Carolina: 103 | Population: 10.5 million
Idaho: 102 | Population: 1.8 million
Kentucky: 102 | Population: 4.5 million

New Hampshire: 85
Population: 1.4 million

Virginia: 83
Population: 8.5 million

Washington: 64
Population: 7.6 million

Utah: 57
Population: 3.2 million

Oregon: 51
Population: 4.2 million

Maine: 49
Population: 1.3 million

Alaska: 38
Population: 731,545

Vermont: 31
Population: 623,989

Hawaii: 30
Population: 1.4 million
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Number of deaths by top 2 leading causes (2017) in US
Heart disease 712,715
Cancer 599,136

Covid (less than 1 year) 509,043

Quote: SOOPOO

Thank you. I read his post and was totally disgusted. It even said ‘after failing to secure US customers ’. So he THEN sold them overseas and is ridiculed? Only a liberal could think that way.

Where I come from exporting is a good thing!