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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Jaxbuck said:
We're getting into politics here but I guess they should. They never have that I am aware of.

I think it's incredibly dangerous to operate under the assumption that the government is there to "do the right thing".

Bureaucratic agencies original mission may have been good but in short order their primary motivator is to survive. Keep their budget, serve their powerful political masters etc.

Their powerful political masters are motivated to keep being powerful.

They occasionally do a solid for the constituency when it's convenient for them but that's just pandering, your welfare and mine make zero fucks to the CDC, IRS, FBI, CIA etc etc etc. They have all been weaponized at some point or another by politicians.

Back around to COVID...that's why the boosters or antidote or whatever they come up with is going to be so interesting. You won't have just the usual anti vax crowd leery of trusting the government to tell them what they must put in their bodies.
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I would like to see a survey of people hospitalized by covid that received a flu shot.
 
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Taosman said:
The coronavirus infection rate in New York state has remained below 1 percent for 30 consecutive days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Sunday, a significant milestone for a state that was once the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ow-1-percent-for-30-straight-days/ar-BB18MPHF
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They do not specify what they mean by "1% infection rate". Do they mean that no more than 1% of the state population is actively infected? If so, then they are no better than the current US average of 0.75% of the population being actively infected.

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New York state shows how we can return to a near normal.
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:slappy: They still have than twice as many total deaths as any other state, so no, they aren't the benchmark of returning to normal.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
They do not specify what they mean by "1% infection rate". Do they mean that no more than 1% of the state population is actively infected? If so, then they are no better than the current US average of 0.75% of the population being actively infected.


:slappy: They still have than twice as many total deaths as any other state, so no, they aren't the benchmark of returning to normal.
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They took the Darwin method back to normality. Killed off all the weak and all that remains are those who will survive.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
They do not specify what they mean by "1% infection rate". Do they mean that no more than 1% of the state population is actively infected? If so, then they are no better than the current US average of 0.75% of the population being actively infected.


:slappy: They still have than twice as many total deaths as any other state, so no, they aren't the benchmark of returning to normal.
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My understanding is that they are saying less than 1% of those tested are getting a positive result for the last 30 days. It’s what is normally called the ‘positivity rate’.
 
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