Humboldt County Sets Bleak Record as It Surpasses 1000 COVID Cases Today

Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:

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Twenty-two additional cases of COVID-19 were reported today. One previously reported case was determined to be a duplicate, so the total number of county residents who have tested positive for the virus stands at 1,014.

Humboldt County Deputy Health Officer Dr. Josh Ennis described reaching one thousand cases as a foreseeable but unfortunate milestone. “Local COVID conditions have worsened rapidly, as in most of the country,” he said. “The time we have all been discussing has now arrived. Our everyday actions are tied more than ever to more hospitalizations and more deaths. Be sensible, be kind—show your neighbor what it is to care by following commonsense, evidence-based recommendations.”

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North west
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North west
3 years ago

It hard to believe that one uneducated guy could put such an ignorant attitude into his followers.
Everyone knows who they are and who he is 🎃

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  North west

You must have voted.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  North west

It is unfortunate that some people are blind to the feelngs and concerns of a large segment of their felow countrmen who take a larger view of the ravages of the pandemic than simply a body count. Unfortunately such limited understanding of reality is indicative of a very narrow and corrosive education that such people find it impossible to overcome.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

A larger view? Larger than 270,000 dead?

If Trumpists hadn’t so enthusiastically rushed to politicize the virus as their leader encouraged them to do, the death count in this country might be commensurate with its population when compared to its western peers.

You take marching orders from a man who advised injecting bleach to protect against Covid and told the country the virus would be gone “within a couple days” last March.

You don’t get to judge the limitations of anyone else’s intelligence, pal

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

#11 in the world in terms of body count per population, behind Belgium, Peru, Italy, Spain, UK, Argentina, and some others. But that could change with new cases/day currently skyrocketing. The effectiveness at containing the virus doesn’t neatly fall out along political lines. It seems to divide more along cultural zones, with east Asia doing well and the West as a whole doing badly.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Should add that it doesn’t fall neatly along political lines within the US either.

rollin
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rollin
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

You should also add that it doesn’t fall neatly in line with lockdowns and mask mandates either.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  rollin

Those were big factors in how east Asia succeeded.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  rollin

Thanks for confirming (again) what most of us already know: militant anti-maskers neither follow current events nor acknowledge the world outside their political bubble.

Masking, social distancing, aggressive contact-tracing, and temporary lockdowns were *central* to the strategies of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia.

You guys really do create your own reality.

RightSideOfTheMatter
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RightSideOfTheMatter
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Well, DQ, how about we weld you socialists doors shut like your overlords did in China?

That’s an excellent idea! All the handwringers get welded into their domiciles while those of us that crave, and will fight for freedom, take our chances with the Chinese Coronavirus. Problem solved!

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago

I don’t think DQ knows anything about welding. At most maybe a youtube video or book on it.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

I think I’m beginning to understand why your wife left you, LR.

Did she catch you and this guy “welding” stuff together?

Don’t be ashamed of who you are, man.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

That is the perspective that is chosen but it’s not true. Some western countries like Norway, New Zealand and Iceland have done well while some Asian countries like The Philippines, India and Indonesia have not. But unfortunately when the press or pundits want to make a comparison, they cherry pick to do it, using stats unquestioning to make their point that “others” are somehow innately more successful because the not-successful are political idiots.

There are certainly quite a few reasons why there are a differences but those who have on paper succeeded so far are countries that acted early to close their borders, already had both strict immigration policies and a pretty homogeneous population who didn’t think of themselves targets of discrimination. In other words, they maintained what, if it was in the US and Europe, would be criticised as racist or xenophobic policies. That was never an option in countries where free border crossing is considered a right and mixing people’s from different places is a government goal. Xenophobic is not a criticism in Japan, South Korea or even New Zealand. It’s the what everyone accepts as normal.

Plus, if you were familiar with far eastern (for lack of a non-racist term) cultures, you’d know that another facet is that freedom of information as a cultural value can’t hold a candle to community cohesion. The term ‘loss of face” is plays almost no part in most western cultures and a huge part in eastern ones. So unfortunate facts are withheld from the public there routinely where the screams would be deafening if even attempted here. All things are not equal for comparison.

Don’t think that “right” philosophy and politics only enhance world safety. Freedom for all (or if a RHBB socialist is talking “free-dum”) has a cost. As does Diversity, Empathy or other catch phrases when applied by government. It’s risk and rewards both.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

The Philippines, India, and Indonesia are not in the same cultural zone as China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea. They’re more tribal and less cohesive. Australia and New Zealand approached the pandemic very differently from most of the West.

If you’re trying to contend that the true extent of the pandemic is downplayed in east Asian countries, that is ridiculous. The forceful measures implemented early on were very public acknowledgements of its severity. And Covid-19 wasn’t their first rodeo. They had experience with SARS, which was very similar to Covid-19 in its severity. The US was a country where it was being called a “flu” for political reasons.

The “freedumz” to continue large gatherings or not use protective measures are equivalent to the “freedumz” to drive drunk and speed. There is a point at which the costs of freedoms are excessive and that is the point at which they become “freedumz.” We routinely restrict personal freedom in the name of safety and that is a very different situation from restricting political freedom.

Your silly epithet of “socialist” for anyone advocating inconvenient measures for the public good reflects more on you than on anyone else.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

So all western cultures are conveniently equally bad but all eastern cultures are not equally good in order to hold on to your idea? Why not say that those cultures that managed to take early action, whether eastern or western, have a few things in common? Like as I said a not diverse demographic that doesn’t worry about competing subgroups and a history of border control along with a serendipitous physical ability to do close them. There’s no magic in it. They could so they did. Those holding onto open borders previously had a great adjustment to make and didn’t. For the ones who did, there was little change and the mechanism for exclusion already existed. For the ones for whom it would be a big change did not have the mechanisms or will in place to slam borders shut. If you equate that with socialism, that’s your words not mine. I don’t think it’s the same thing, although American and EU socialists have that as a fad in their philosophy at the moment.

I did not say that Asian countries down played the virus. Quite the opposite. They just do not engage in wholesale bashing their own culture or identity. They value face in order to keep value with their community. Which has its good sides and bad. Asian officials tend to conspire to bury negative information because they abhor embarrassment in front of their community. While Americans tend to scream it from the rooftops in their flaming self important individualism in order to get their way and could care less about the damage to community. IE your epithet of “freedumz” which really encourages community action, doesn’t it?

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

The funniest part is that it took the most educated people a year to figure out covid was here in December. The new circus in town will be wayyyy gooder.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

You think repeating this will somehow make it true.

It won’t.

You might as well go back to telling people to inject bleach.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Sorry bud, it has been proven by your educated people, COVID-19 was found in blood samples taken in mid December of 2019, let me guess ” it’s a conspiracy ” lol.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

Well, there goes the Commie-Chinese-deliberately-spread-it-through-the-world narrative, right down the tubes.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

He’ll shift back to that story in a month, just watch. This is the same guy that said this in October:

“Not one case today, and I’m seeing less masking all the time and restaurants are open to inside dinning. Cases should be in the hundreds a day here in Humboldt. Especially when you have 8 in one day, what happened to numbers compounding daily? Did someone panick?”

“dInning”

“panick”

Yep. The same guy who said he divorced his wife because she was educated and paid her “a mil” to go away.

You just can’t make it up.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Yep, thats what I said word for word, you don’t believe there was zero cases that day i posted or you don’t believe I paid someone a million dollars to get lost? Sorry bud, both are true. I sense lots of anger DQ , it will be alright , FUHS is back in person with no new cases.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

“ I sense lots of anger DQ”

Perhaps that’s because the only emotion you Trumpists understand is anger (and irrational resentment).

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

You must have overlooked that comment where I stated i didn’t vote for Trump, wrong as usual, terrible judge of character.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

Okay, I’ll hear you out and take you at your word that you didn’t vote for Trump.

Who did you vote for?

AJY
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AJY
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Here here DQ! I second that.

Reader
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Reader
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

People die every day. Your ignorance of normal rates enable them to fool you into thinking anything extraordinary is going on.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Reader

Does anything penetrate that self-enclosed cocoon of delusion?

Perhaps you’ve been taking a bit too much hydroxychloroquine…

Echo
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Echo
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Well said DQ

Antichrist
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Antichrist
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Oh how very little a simple mind works. You are worried about the 270,000, yet fail to understand the true death rate. Very little is advertised about the massive increase in suicide rates the increases in deaths from things people put off because they either don’t wish to go to the doctor because of all the over blown risks, the people who are losing years of their lives from the undo stress of losing their jobs watching their children go hunger and without , what isn’t talked about is the true cost of shutting down all because you have a 3.5 percent chance not making it past this if you catch it. And let’s be real here a moment , the majority of those who are dying from this virus have already had full lives, yet they are pissing and moaning wanting everyone to jump through hoops so they can have a few more years of laying in a nursing home waiting for the holidays when their loved ones remember they have someone to go visit. How selfish is that.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Antichrist

Someone who relies on fabricated and non-existent “evidence” for the true cost of the pandemic is calling other people simple-minded.

Your condemnation of the “selfish” people who would prefer not to die sick and alone reflects the emotional maturity of grown adult whose parents still give him an allowance and never make him move out.

Truth
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Truth
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Well i hope you can atleast judge your horse. He cant string a sentence together with out reading a screen. I feel so much better under his command, i mean what could possibly go wrong with a corrupt 78 yr old worm with dimentia running America.

Muddy Black Dodge
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3 years ago
Reply to  Truth

Wait ‘Truth’ I thought Trump was 72… Lol. But truthfully we’d end up with Kamala if something happened to Biden… Could you imagine if Trump got dementia and the country was turned over to Pence… That’s scary, not Biden.

Skitty
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Skitty
3 years ago

I can’t wait for 2024 if the Donald runs again, what will all the Trumpers say then ? The orange one will be 78, the same age as “sleepy”, “dementia” Joe is now. What will be different ? Maybe it will all be ok because after all tRump is a “stable genius”🤣

HOJ in Training
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HOJ in Training
3 years ago
Reply to  Skitty

Trump and his kids will all be in Russia in 2024, hiding out to avoid jail.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago

Best comment of the day.

Skitty
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Skitty
3 years ago

Well he did promise to leave the country if he lost to “the worst presidential candidate ever”.

Keepthefaith
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Keepthefaith
3 years ago
Reply to  Skitty

Now the Official Biggest Liar of All Time (25,000) made a ‘promise’. Well……

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarkowitz/2020/05/05/trump-is-lying-more-than-ever-just-look-at-the-data/?sh=6f13d47f1e17

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Keepthefaith

What a nonsensical opinion piece to cite for anything. A partisan professor misusing his questionable speciality in service of a political goal. Here’s another of his academic wonders – https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarkowitz/2020/08/21/i-analyzed-all-of-the-dnc-speeches-this-is-what-democrats-care-about/?sh=bd86dcc7583d in which he blithely neglects to mention the “lies” frequently that Democrats heaped on each other during the primary that disappeared for the recent campaign. Apparently there are lies to be fixated on and lies to be ignored depending on political party in his world.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I don’t agree with you, but from your link:

The words of our leaders matter because they describe a party’s trajectory forward and hold politicians accountable.

If you were ever objective like that, I would read your comments again with interest.

But you’re absurdly biased and closed minded to the faults of the right.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago
Reply to  Skitty

Just another lie and misleading statement I’m afraid. He’ll be in jail. 🖖🖖

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago

You mean to avoid persecution for the very things liberals excuse so readily in liberal politicians.

rollin
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rollin
3 years ago
Reply to  Skitty

“What will be different ? ”

What will be different is that Trump won’t have trouble recalling what planet he’s on. Not everyone gets dementia at 78 derp. And if he does, he won’t get voted in. That’s what’s different. Dementia/liberalism is a mental disorder.

Skitty
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Skitty
3 years ago
Reply to  rollin

Well I can just say Trump has dementia now. Devotion to Trumpism is a mental disorder. Isn’t this great 👍 We can all have our opinions.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Skitty

It is sad that so people have come to look up to a person like Trump as a hero because they see him as the only one standing between themselves and groups who hate the US so much they would destroy it. Hating Trump with such vehemence is proof to them that the speaker is one of that evil group. The more irrational that hate is voiced, they surer they become that supporting Trump unconditionally is their only option. They believe that because the Trump deranged treat them with equally violent disregard.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Skitty

Throwing Trump out there in 2016 was to just test the waters, they will set the hook harder with their next pick. Good luck , more government is bester.

Z
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Z
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Guest, that was a supercilious response showing limited compassion and no sense of irony. If you were truly worried about the economic devastation on middle & working class Americans from the Pandemic’s shelter-in-place directives then you should have been so outraged at the GOP’s 2017 tax break for billionaires & millionaires you would have quit the Republican Party. FYI: Despite my language, I come from the working class.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Z

Your comment’s a superfluous political spin on what was not being discussed. Not to mention, since it was not being discussed, you have zero idea of my opinion on any of it. You just assume out of desire to insult. But that does prove my point made in response to North west’s tunnel vision – way too many of “some people” “are blind to the feelngs and concerns of a large segment of their felow countrymen .” In fact you provided another example of that very self righteous self centeredness beyond North west’s comment. The kind that throws rocks to drowning people and calls it compassion. Hateful in one personal attack, hateful in all things.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

It should be clear to anyone paying attention to the economic trajectories of various countries through the pandemic that the best thing for the economy is effective containment through safety measures. That’s right, those downplaying the pandemic in the name of “muh freedumz” and insisting on a weekly dose of superstition are the ones doing the most economic damage. Large numbers of people incapacitated with illness are a drag on the economy. If you want the economy to reopen, at least wear a fucking mask when in public spaces. But to some people that is an infringement on “muh freedumz.”

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

I just hope that Mr. Joe Biden can get The American project back on course.
Our influence around the world is needed now more than ever!
I Believe Biden👌🏿

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Biden has reached the male life expectancy in the US . Couldn’t find someone more well qualified that was younger? The American people could have, but the corrupt politicians couldn’t, end of story, more of the same. Same circus as the last, if you think not, your lying to yourself.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

They had a Woman of color, young, smart,honest,and she left Kamala in the dust, they couldn’t dump her fast enough…..
Tulsi Gabbard.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Yup. She didn’t tow the line.

You’ll probably still hear some attacks…

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

America did right with Biden.

He won against a populist neo-fascist ‘billionaire’.

I didn’t see one of you ‘Patriots’ condemn Mike Flynns call to suspend the Constitution for Trump, so I don’t expect any of you ‘Patriots’ to get it just yet.

Biden won.

America has a chance again.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

“I didn’t see one of you ‘Patriots’ condemn Mike Flynns call to suspend the Constitution for Trump, so I don’t expect any of you ‘Patriots’ to get it just yet.”

Because you have selective reading.

Biden/Harris are going to be horrible for the US. Which country do you want them to start bombing first?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Oh, you said something regarding Flynn?

Great!

Link?

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

You thinking one is better than the other tells me alot.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

If Biden tweets out “white power” shouting supporters and Qanon fodder, I’ll wake you up.

Otherwise enjoy your nap.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

You mean the influence America had during the Obama years? That was malignant influence.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Thanks Thirdeye, you’re right on the money there.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Yep, thats way Sweden is killing it economy. In a couple years they will show how they dominated.

DQ
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DQ
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

I wonder if you could even point out Sweden on a map.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

Why would I need to point it out? That is why I have educated people on my payroll, so I have all the time in the world to troll here. Haven’t you figured out the anyone with a smartphone knows as much as any person that wasted thousands on a college degree.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

Depends on the college degree. True, there are a lot of asswipe degrees in the liberal arts.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  DQ

What does the cause gain by insulting people you demand cooperate? When has that ever worked? At least spice it up a bit by -oh I don’t know- expressing a bit of kindness before spitting on people. If nothing else it might confuse them for your entertainment.

AJY
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AJY
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Finally! Someone says it! The right wing conspiracy theories and politicization of mask wearing is why we are shutting down again. Wear a mask. It’s not hard. It’s not oppression. It is common sense. It is kindness to your neighbor. It is a way to combat the rest of the worlds view that America is a bunch of simple idiots that can’t even get it together enough to make a plan. AFRICA has done a better job of containing the virus. Good job GOP.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  AJY

Mexico has done a better job,so. You got some that don’t mask at all and others alone in their car masked up. That should tell you something, here’s alittle bit of wisdom, after a middle age,people don’t change.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  AJY

Africa is mostly unable to muster enough resources to be collecting data at all. Some countries are but very few.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Somewhat true- if that is the result- clearing the virus so economic activity can return. But of the four real world choices, 1)stave off all infection by radical control, 2) let infection burn itself off, 3) keep repeating half assed cycles of shut down, reopen, shut , reopen… or 4) take reasonable limited precautions and maintain them for the duration, the one absolutely sure to cause the most destruction is 3. It has the benefits of extending the pandemic over time but the same number get infected in the end after people can’t adjust to the frequent changes while it slowly kills of the economy. Let’s choose no chance of success but repeatedly pain for shooting oneself in the foot . Yay. That is the one.

We could talk about 4) if the insults didn’t end that conversation before it even gets started. Enjoy your own “free-dum” choose emotional venting over good sense which takes restraint and tolerance.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

You omitted option 5, data-driven and dynamically applied protective measures that combine, depending on circumstances options 1 and 4.

You seem kind of butthurt over my contempt for contemptible disregard of public safety in the name of “muh freedumz.”

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

That is not the fifth option- it is the third. Hopefully, somewhat at least. Although it’s questionable exactly how “driven by data” any of it really is because no one is saying if there is really some sort of count of, for example, how many cases are transmitted by getting a haircut or how many people stayed home except for the once they visited that museum. Not locally certainly but it would be a surprise if there were such a thing nationally or internationally. What “data driven” likely means is “x” number of people tested positive after developing symptoms and it’s going up so now everything (but not really everything) will be shut down (but not actually enforced) until it goes down. And the advice remains “don’t do anything any time” for months on end because it’s all we got. Just like other pieces of public nagging (Just Say No to Drugs or Don’t Drink and Drive or See Something, Say Something) a large percentage of the population will try to follow it as best they can and their reward is endlessly more accusatory nagging as if they hadn’t because a small percentage will not follow advice at all and always be thought of as in need of more nagging, repeated until numb. Can’t piss and can’t get off the pot.

And as I said , any discussion of a better way will be cut short by insults- ie terms like butthurt free-dums- because that is the use so many internet commenters make of their free-dums to say anything.

stuber
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stuber
3 years ago
Reply to  North west

The Commie Chinese spread this virus to do exactly this. Cause some to turn on each other, ignoring the evil Chinese who are responsible for it. All our suffering, and that around the world, is caused by China. When Trump blocked travel from China, he was called racist. By Biden and other democrats like Nancy. The republicans tried to downplay it. Blame for it’s spread can be on both sides. Instead of going after each other and blaming simpleton politicians, none of which are our leaders, we could perhaps work with each other and support the frontline hero’s fighting desperately to save us and our loved ones. They want us to wear masks and use sanitizer. We do. Avoid crowds and maintain distance. We do. Limit or avoid travel, we do. Those who do not, are contributing to the death and suffering we are enduring, no matter their ingenious remarks, which help no one. Their unfounded arrogance is dumbfounded, and empty. Could we instead use our energy to place flowers outside the entrances of the hospitals and clinics, to brighten the hero’s day? Send them fruit baskets to boost their own immune systems? Bottles of vitamin D? Send them cards with messages of cheer and support? I cannot imagine what their Christmas will be like, their separation from loved ones, their suffering. Instead of attacking each other about useless people, who, instead of helping us, our business and our lack of jobs, the idiots in Washington hold up funds because of their political games, hurting so many. Ignore them, and help and support our frontline hero’s who need it so much right now. Stop this stupid bantering and write support letters to the staff of these hospitals and clinics, try to brighten their days. Lots of cards on racks in stores, they are inexpensive, yet bring light and hope to them. God bless them, and all who have suffered.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

🕯🌳I’ll second that. 👍🏽👍🏽🖖🖖

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

Stuber- Right on! I have a couple friends who do not believe much in the virus and think masks are stupid. Yet they wear their mask when going into stores. I ask them why? They say “Hey- if it makes the old people less afraid then it’s a small thing to do”. Basic decency, good neighbors…It’s really up to us to treat each other well. Screw the political hype and just be kind to your neighbors…

Nevertrustacop
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Nevertrustacop
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Everyone i know,including myself,think and do similarly.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Nevertrustacop

Except in comments issues get continuously dragged back into political swamps. It’s not enough that they get what they demand but must have those who are critical say “uncle ” too.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

I have no problem wearing a mask in public, and I do.
I hardly ever travel outside a 20 mile perimeter.
I’ve done my part during globalism’s pandemic.
Is it a “square”act of conformity though? from those who weren’t supposed to trust anybody over 20?
I guess we all become groupthink moderates as we age and realize it’s not all about “our generation”.
My beef is merely that the concern seems selective.
I’m concerned about many issues that affect millions of Americans.
Most of our leaders don’t share my concerns because we have different priorities.
If loss of life is their main concern, then let’s think about that, and wonder why other issues aren’t addressed with equal pandemonium.

Jim Brickley
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Jim Brickley
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

‘Helmet laws suck’, also!

Lynn H
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Lynn H
3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

You’re not helping. China is doing us a lot of damage in other ways and flaming ranting statements about manufacturing the virus are making China look good. The virus looks like it started in Europe at this point anyway.

Better to focus on severely limiting foreign ownership of our housing stock, tech and food manufacturing. But then again, I’m not so sure a rant would help on that either.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Lynn H

B-b-but that would be nationalism, you xenophobe! Globalism is back and it’s going to be hunky-dory because the Democrats and the major media tell us so!

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Calling it the China-virus or flu-han or kung-flu, by a world leader, is totally normal, because Republicans said so.

Bleach is also ok for injection.

Because the media said it wasn’t.

Humboldt Boss 2020
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Humboldt Boss 2020
3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

trump is the fucking cause of this Pandimic all because of the tariffs in china
be he wanted to have china pay what he wanted them to pay and the president of china wasn’t going to let that shit happen

Nonaligned
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Nonaligned
3 years ago

So it’s a-okay that a foreign power might possibly have unleashed a viral weapon in retaliation to a policy that they didn’t like merely because it seemed they may have their aspirations to become a global power slowed down by a few years?

You really want to blame Trump for that instead of the people who made the decision, whatever it was, to cover up a viral epidemic and let it spread by allowing people to fly out of their country?

Really?

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

Trump’s mistake was not in restricting travel from China, but in not restricting travel from Europe where it was also spreading. It was the European strain that hit the eastern seaboard so hard in the early days of the pandemic. And it might have been spreading in Europe before it became an emergency in Wuhan. Oh well, another conspiracy theory bites the dust.

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Actually, Trump’s restriction on travel from China only applied to non-US citizens. US citizens can and did fly in and out of China, including Wuhan, by the thousands. And few if any tests or restrictions were placed on them when they landed in the US.

So it was in effect a purely symbolic gesture of a xenophobic nature.

Free estimates
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Free estimates
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

So it’s xenophobic to exclude non US citizens from coming into into the country they aren’t citizens of during a pandemic? Should we prevent US citizens from re-entering the country too? Should they be stuck indefinitely in a foreign country?

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Free estimates

It’s what New Zealand did. So yes, I expect that is exactly what is meant. Of course, as this NY Times article puts it “Still, if Mr. Trump approves the change, it would be an escalation of his administration’s longstanding attempts to seal the border against what he considers to be threats, using the existence of the coronavirus pandemic as a justification for taking actions that would have been seen as draconian in other contexts.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-border.html

So in usual antiTrumpism, if he does something, he’s wrong and if he doesn’t, he wrong. The only struggle with progressive or liberal ideology is which catagory of wrong will generate the most outrage. It comes from being more concerned with moral purity than everything else.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  North west

“It’s safe to shop. Come to Chinatown our city has taken precautions.”
Nancy Pelosi

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Yes, there is plenty of stupidity to go around.

Ceya Darwin
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Ceya Darwin
3 years ago
Reply to  North west

WOW! New record of 828 recovered persons as of today!!!

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Ceya Darwin

Whoever came up with that one doesn’t understand statistics.

Fog Dog
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Fog Dog
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

You’d give them a math problem, but there’s a 99.696% they couldn’t solve it…lol

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Fog Dog

Dang. We keep debating the same issues for hundred of years. Just change what it’s named and a whole new generation will fight ruthlessly under it’s banner. The effect of refusing to be educated in history?

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Ceya Darwin

Without masking and business closures, that would equal about 150 deaths a week in Humboldt alone. Do you think that’s economically sustainable?

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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

There’s a huge assumption that masking and closing business is both effective and sustainable indefinitely. And has no adverse side effects. Details, details… I suppose, if we didn’t have such an anti capitalism bent, we could take the employees from the closed businesses to work in mask manufacturing. But then the environment would suffer . 😱

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Well, gee, let me just throw out random numbers and pretend they mean something. About 135,000 people will die in Humboldt county. Are you afraid yet?

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

I figured this day would come. Its only for the past week but still disconcerting since they also estimate that it will end up being the #2 killer for the year when its all over. There can be no doubt now as to the seriousness of this virus. But I’d like to know how they came up with their 15% infected of the population. Seems way high. I like their “539,000 cumulative deaths on April 1, 2021” prediction as it mirrors my 600,000 by May 1st prediction. We shall see.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/2020-12-4-covid-live-updates-vaccine-news-n1249972/ncrd1250091#liveBlogHeader

Covid Now Leading Cause Of Death In U.S., Researchers Say

Covid-19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States, researchers at the University of Washington said Friday. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation said in a briefing that the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the last week, 11,820, “makes COVID-19 the No. 1 cause of death in the United States of America this week.”

The virus topped the nation’s perennial No. 1 killer, ischemic heart disease, which was said to be responsible for 10,724 deaths in the last week, according to the Washington team.
For the year, Covid-19 was projected to end up in second place, behind ischemic heart disease, researchers said. Tracheal, bronchus and lung cancer was in third place.

The institute said it estimates 15 percent of Americans have been infected. The United States recorded 2,802 virus-related deaths Thursday and 279,224 since the pandemic began, according to an NBC News tally. “Our model projects 539,000 cumulative deaths on April 1, 2021,” the briefing states. “Daily deaths will peak at 3,000 in mid-January.”

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago
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Fauci agrees with the prediction. From https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-12-05-20-intl/index.html

Another 500,000-plus people in the US could die of Covid-19 between now and April, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

Speaking to CNN during its global coronavirus town hall, Fauci said the number of US fatalities could get as bad as that predicted by a reliable model from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

That model predicts another 539,000 people could be killed by the virus.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

500,000 and more will die between now and April and those numbers will only get bigger as time goes on.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago

Why is the FDA bureaucrats’ Operation Turtle Speed delaying Trump’s vaccine? The swampy rats know they’re killing tens of thousands of Americans but simply don’t care. #ReleasetheVaccine

Dave Kirby
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Dave Kirby
3 years ago

Its not Trump’s vaccine. Its a world wide project. Trump is part of the virus not the solution.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Kirby

Right on Dave, the new circus is coming to town and its gonna be way gooder, go Biden.

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago

What? No drug has ever been rushed into use this quickly. Mendo County has already announced that they are getting doses soon. Trump’s vaccine? Yeah I can see him in his white coat, spending those late nights in the lab. Wait, I mean tweeting in the lav.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

Hate Trump for other reasons if you choose but his Warp Speed got our vaccine here in record breaking time saving hundreds of thousands. Blind rage leads to misguided action.

thetallone
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thetallone
3 years ago

Trump puts his name on everything. It’s called branding, and it obviously works for a lotta people. Anyone in his position would have gotten the same results. Maybe better, considering his denial and disorganization regarding Covid. Hate has nothing to do with it. If the vaccine is going to be named after someone, I suggest that Pence (and his team) had a lot more to do with it than DT.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  thetallone

I see poor people who don’t trust the rushed vaccine being bribed with a $1,500 stimulus check to get vaccinated. Money or your future well being, what will you choose?

Again the Wealthy will be fine and the poor will make hard choices.

Green Shirt
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Green Shirt
3 years ago

tl;dr: Please live.

Beloved Community, this has nothing to do with politics or who is president or who is right and who is wrong. I don’t want to lose you, any of you, even those of you who most hate to see my username and are quickest to flame, shame and ridicule this post—the world would be a smaller, sadder place without you.

Your children’s lives would be diminished by growing up without a parent. Your parents would never get over the loss of their child because parents never truly do—it isn’t biologically possible; we aren’t hard wired that way.

This pandemic isn’t forever and it isn’t about the (future former?) United States of America: please wear a mask in public, give your precious selves the full six feet of space you deserve, avoid unneccessary outings, and call or app-tap your loved ones instead of risking your lives over things that don’t even matter.

Prop64 was supposed to be the old “new normal” before this pandemic even happened and we still have to survive that, climate change, and all the other “new normal”s. We need our elders. We need our soul. We need you to take care of yourselves so that you can help guide this crazy time machine called “human civilization” into the future.

Whatever it may look like in your personal circumstances, please don’t unnecessarily risk your precious one and only life and that of your loved ones. It won’t be this way forever.

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TrashThePlanet
3 years ago
Reply to  Green Shirt

It absolutely does have to do with politics when the fu***g pandemic was over in summer when it died off. It cannot survive in temperatures over 68 degrees. Where are the piles of bodies? Nazi Germany wouldn’t even be able to keep up with the amount of dead bodies if this was really as bad as they tell us! Where are the plague doctors? There is no plague. You are all scared because your television and your phone and your sh**y mainstream media told you to be scared because the governor told them to tell you to be scared because he made a backdoor deal on medical equipment.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-07-07-newsom-wired-half-billion-communist-china-face-mask-money-laundering.html#

Every single one of us survived swine flu and SARS and bird flu and every single one of those started in China and every single one of them enveloped the entire planet and nobody batted an eye.

Cowards. Every one of you.

Edit: sorry for the bad words but im so fed up and frustrated with americans. What happened to us? Why do we let ourselves be trampled upon? Where did our spirit go?

🖕Dueces 🖕
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🖕Dueces 🖕
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

🐴👆

Z
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Z
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

To yr question on where are the piles of bodies? Even my rt wing friend said Reuters is neutral.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKCN24N2F2

Angela Robinson
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Angela Robinson
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

Swine flu is believed to have originated in Mexico.

And yeah, people did bat an eye…

As for where are the bodies? Will it take seeing them in a big pile like the horrific photos we have seen in the death camps?? Nazi Germany murdered 11 million people. Mass burials and crematories was how they hid them, though in the end they couldn’t hide it anymore as the allies advanced.

https://www.businessinsider.com/el-paso-coronavirus-overwhelmed-morgues-calling-texas-national-guard-2020-11

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3112215/morgues-overflow-us-averages-one-covid-19-death

As for being “cowards? I find the people who scream the loudest about how Covid is a hoax, or exaggerated or whatever flavor they choose are the real cowards. Refusing to do the least little things because they are terrified of losing their “freedoms”.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

Maybe they are the people who have fought and their descendants have fought hard for those freedoms you scoff at.
To bad you don’t recognize the value of those freedoms.
As they say “none so blind as those who will not see.”

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

The founding father a though disease was caused by humour imbalances and miasma. Germ Theory wasn’t really taken seriously until the mid-1800’s. Soon thereafter, quarentines were implemented to deal with outbreaks.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html

Taking medical advice from people who died in the 1700’s is not smart.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Oh, yes, we fought those wars so we could endanger others with short-sighted, selfish actions in the name of “muh freedumz.”

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

You delude yourself that you’re not endangering others.

Free estimates
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Free estimates
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

That’s not a rebuttal. That’s deflection. Why do you think it’s short sided? Why do you think it’s selfish? Explain yourself instead of insulting the message. What would you do different? Why do you think that will work?

Humboldt Boss 2020
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Humboldt Boss 2020
3 years ago

and the H I V virus is made by the goverment it has a pattent # on it look it up

Research This!
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Research This!
3 years ago

Angela, this swine flu?
Mike Wallace 60 Minutes Exposes Swine Flu Pandemic Vaccine Fallout of 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1CyMXURgGc

everybody should watch this.

Z
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Z
3 years ago
Reply to  Green Shirt

Green shirt: What a sweet compassionate thing to say! Thank you from all of us!!

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳The vaccines when they come out will go to hospital front line workers first and elderly patients and their caregivers. In December they only estimated 40,000,000 dose of the vaccine to be available that means 20,000,000 people across the United States to pick and choose from to get it. Then another 1.3 billion doses by next April and that just one of the company’s in the running in the making of the vaccine. So when do you think you’ll get your double dose vaccine?🖖🖖

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Moderna says the vaccine is only good for three months. How many Americans are willing to get covid vaccine shots every 3 months forever? We’re all getting it and nearly all will survive. RIP the unlucky few.

SARS-cov-2
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SARS-cov-2
3 years ago

Giant squirrel 🐿your absolutely correct! The Problem is reinfections And economics.

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/528708-102-year-old-woman-beats-covid-19-twice

She was never really symptomatic the first time around,” her daughter Joanne Merola told NBC. “The worst symptom she had was a fever that lasted maybe 10 days.”
Upon contracting the virus a second time in October, shortly before her birthday, she got seriously ill.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  SARS-cov-2

Sounds like someone wasn’t washing their hands, thanks mom.

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

Mr Squirrel could you provide a link for the three months effectiveness. Ive heard that somewhere before but cant find it.

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

I suspect the 3 month time period is referencing the data from the abreviated trials. It’s hard to claim a vaccine will give you protection a year out when they only tested it for a couple of months.

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

That makes sense. Thanks Cy

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SARS-cov-2
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

A experimental vaccine that has not been properly studied lol ..some data point’s I’m hearing from Dr fauci protection time is unknown,transmission still may occur and you will be infected you just won’t be as likely to develop severe symptoms..But my understanding is most people don’t Develop severe symptoms allready!!! In fact substantially less than 3-5 percent of people who contract sars-cov-2 come down with Covid-19 infection requiring hospitalization.
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https://www.jpost.com/health-science/hadassah-research-head-raises-questions-about-mrna-vaccine-safety-650803

Second, Karko noted that the safety data is “very short” – only spanning the period of about two months from inoculation.
“The FDA has a mechanism of approving drugs and vaccines for emergency cases. What this means, is that the FDA has initial safety data. But if this was a usual situation, the researchers would have followed the volunteers for at least two years before the vaccine was approved,” he said.
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Moreover, Karko added that he believes coronavirus will mutate and will be with the world for more than a year and because of this, “it seems to me we will need to vaccinate more than once. Under these circumstances, having our own ability to produce a vaccine is important.”

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  SARS-cov-2

Yeah, it’s quite far from a game changer.

Masks will be necessary for a long time.

An alignment of our strategy as a country also is needed.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

But isn’t our legitimacy as a country what’s being disputed?
It’s hard to have a national plan for the pandemic when half the population seems to dispute the actual concept of “nationalism” itself.
We’re merely skin color and sexual orientation identities now.
How can a Shepard herd that?

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Yeah, what you said, always wondered how the Dem’s identity politics could do anything but divide the country. We can thank the Prez.

TrashThePlanet
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TrashThePlanet
3 years ago

OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN OVER THIS .007% INFECTION RATE OMGGGFFFF!!!!

the fear is strong with humboldt coubty government officials. Its like they get some sick pleasure from seeing us scared out of our minds.

This is why they decided to teach Common Core math to children. So they would be too stupid to do basic math and realized that the percentage of people being affected is nowhere near that fear hype which everyone is pushing.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

*0.7٪

TrashThePlanet
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TrashThePlanet
3 years ago

STILL NOT EVEN 1%!!

There are more deaths from car accidents and suicide from overdoses in Humboldt County than there are dead from covid-19!!

Oh man we better shut down small businesses because people are crashing their cars on the highway!!!

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

If everyone in Humboldt County, 135,558 people, were infected with Covid, assuming a fatality rate of .7 percent, 949 people would die. If we allowed businesses to stay open and did not require masking, we would see uncontrolled spread an reinfection of recovered individuals, that would be almost 1000 deaths every 3 months, or roughly 333 deaths a month. That is FAR, FAR, FAR more death a than any other cause. Does that really sound good for the economy?

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

It sounds like someone has an imaginative mind. Remember when they said 2 million dead by 4th of July?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago

If you like imagination and Covid, let’s talk about Bleach!

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago

That was an estimate based on a natural growth rate without protective measures.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago

What part of my math do you disagree with?

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

So if everyone in Humboldt was infected all at once ,949 would die. But if you slow the infection rate 333 would die every month til…? We hit 949? Or til we’re out of hosts? Or not sure due to lack of data on reinfection numbers since accurate testing isn’t here yet. Sounds like alot of assuming to me. Keep pushing fear .

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

I was using TrashThePlanet’s numbers. I’m not going to be chided about “fear” by the folks who are afraid of wearing masks and afraid of the most ardently capitalist government in the world suddenly, voluntarily becoming communist from the top down.

Karl Verick
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Karl Verick
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Per PBS, Covid-19 just overtook heart disease as the leading cause death in the US, an infectious disease.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Karl Verick

For probably the next few months, but then heart disease will leave covid in the dust, heart disease has killed over 5 million people in the last ten years .

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

More fools who don’t understand the dynamics of exponential growth curves focusing on snapshot statistics.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

We understand, but someone is lacking some critical data.

R
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R
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

Trash,
thanks. And most recovered.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

Trash The Planet,
That would actually be .7 %.
7/10ths of one percent.
You are underestimating by a factor of 100.
Also, you haven’t put it in a context which includes a timeframe.
We are still a couple months short of a year, at least.
And, like bell bottoms, it took the virus a while even to get to Humboldt.
At the current rate of 44 cases per day,
we are on track to have another one percent of Humboldt infected in the next month.
Over 1300.
It gets worse before it gets better.

You do know what happens to

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Splat !!!!

TrashThePlanet
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TrashThePlanet
3 years ago

1 in 136 people are allegedly infected so lets just destroy our economy and punish small businesses that keep us afloat.

Smart.

🤦
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3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

Ca just passed a relief package of grants, not loans for small biz

TrashThePlanet
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TrashThePlanet
3 years ago
Reply to  🤦

We shouldnt need this in the first damn place! None of this should be happening!

You people have let the government walk all over you and for what? A small amount of money in return? So many businesses are gone never to return down in one year just because of this crap. People are committing suicide because they cannot afford to live and feed their family because they were told to shut down over an order which wasn’t even voted on so it’s not even law.

I hope that grant is worth it.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

Assuming a .7 fatality rate, if we had uncontrolled spread of Covid-19, Humboldt would see over 300 deaths a month. Masking, social distancing and business closures have kept infection rates down locally, so maybe lets not fuck it up on purpose for no reason because Trump told us to.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

TDS still got you bad after more than four years.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago

I think TDS best describes those that think, like DJT, that losers are winners,
lies are the truth, and those that are gullible enough to believe in such utter nonsense, not to mention those who would enthusiastically blow unlimited smoke up his ass for a few sheckels.

It astounds me the number of easily misguided souls that would then be intoxicated and inebriated by the foul gas that invariably then eminates from his other end, as backwards from normal as can be from inspirational, or anything approaching rational for that matter.

Trump supposedly coined that phrase.
It was projection,as usual, par for his course.
It’s been misapplied by his base ever since.
It applies to them all.
The Out to Lunch Bunch.
It’s how they compensate.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

https://www.salon.com/2013/08/17/chomsky_the_u_s_behaves_nothing_like_a_democracy/

If you want a more responsive democracy, eliminating the electoral college and instituting direct democracy would be the logical choice.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

You need to show your math. And your sources. If 70% of the population died from covid, that’s a lot more than 300 per month when assuming uncontrolled spread.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I was using the fatality rate of **only** .7% that TrashThePlanet was scoffing at. Humboldt’s population is 135,558. That would be 949 every 3 months, assuming acquired immunity lasts about 3 months. Does your Trump-addled brain have a problem with those numbers?

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

You may have been thinking .7% but you wrote .7. However since being mistaken yourself is never considered a reason to refrain from juvenile insults to other people, there is no need to worry about it. Not that you are.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Ok I suck at the maths and I’m hungover so I’m not double checking it but, deep breath, humboldts official population is 135,558, allot of “experts” estimate herd immunity to be around 70 percent so 70 percent of humboldt is 94,890 if all of those people were infected with a .7 percent fatality rate that would be 664.2 deaths in humboldt. I contend that the actual death rate is between .2 and .3 so let’s say .25 percent and that would make 237.2 deaths. The statistics on reinfection fatality’s is so low that you can say it’s nonexistant or zero. Either way that’s a fair amount of people dying but those are the numbers, probably, as I said I’m too hungover to stand behind my work. Also the herd immunity percent is basically just a guess as it’s never been proven.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

No expert I’ve ever heard of uses the term “herd immunity” like that, nor do they 70% of people are just “immune” to COVID. Anyone can get it, and immunity is temporary.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Nice assumption, what is the chance of reinfection? Yes , a decimal and alottt of zeros. Cut the fear , 9 people are dead in a year of COVID-19, if you want to assume, then assume herd immunity works since it has in the past . Peace out.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

How is “herd immunity” supposed to work with a virus that infers no long-term immunity and can reinfect recovered patients?

Free estimates
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Free estimates
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

So how is a vaccine with a projected three month immunity going to change things? Sounds like covid will be around forever by your logic. Or we’re all going to die.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

It’s either magic government money that’s merrily created out of thin air to the loss of value of the money itself or it a loan that the public pays back instead of the granted. Either way someone other than govenment does the real paying.

But it’s at least some belated consideration to the people actually harmed by the government regulation instead of throwing money out into the street to be fought over.

😂
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😂
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

Still better than being dead. Grants grants grants hooray!

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  TrashThePlanet

You are still overlooking the timeframe,
TTP.
This virus has started to spread so much quicker in such a very short period of time. Like in just the last month.
The next nine months will have no resemblance to the last nine months.
It will be much worse.
If this continues unabated we will all be in deep shit before long.
Don’t kid yourself.

rollin
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rollin
3 years ago

Look! This selfish woman doesn’t believe in science and wants to kill grandma.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

https://rumble.com/embed/v8zj1r/?pub=94011

WakeUp
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WakeUp
3 years ago

We are supposed to trust these people who don’t social distance themselves, don’t wear masks, don’t limit social activities etc. These same people who just fucking decriminalized knowingly giving someone AIDS WITH OUT NOTIFYING THEM!! Yeah, these people totally care about us and our health.

Crimestopper2
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Crimestopper2
3 years ago

update the dashboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SG
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SG
3 years ago

I was encouraged to see that most of the posts from the last covid report here actually engaged with the topic of the disease and how to respond to it. But today it’s back to business as usual, demonizing and dehumanizing those whose politics we disagree with.

The right has succeeded in politicizing a deadly plague and right wing media has fueled the flame of lies about it. It’s hard not to resent such destructive behavior and the folks who believe the lies so passionately. But I think we need to learn how to talk and listen to each other without name calling and hate speech.

The scientists all agree that wearing an adequate mask, keeping our distance from each other, washing our hands and avoiding crowds can slow the spread of covid 19. These measures are not onerous, nor are they an infringement of your “rights”. Do you wear a seat belt? Do you buy car insurance? So many practices are designed to protect us and the people around us. Why are these sensible practices so different?

Please try to see this as a health issue, probably the most serious of our lifetime, and practice politics where it’s appropriate.

AJY
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AJY
3 years ago
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You are absolutely right. We wear our seatbelts and obey traffic laws to protect ourselves and others. Why is wearing a mask any different?

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
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But I don’t wear a seat belt or obey most traffic laws, don’t even get me started on gun laws…

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  SG

“The scientists all agree” actually they don’t all agree, but Big Tech and MSM censors what you can read about what the scientists say. Why? Politics.

The Majority of people Left or Right care about their families, friends, and neighbors. They wear the masks and distance even when they don’t believe it helps out of respect for others, only to be insulted for voicing their opinion about doing so..
Then they watch the dictators dine out and flout the mandates they impose on unwashed deplorable masses.

Every family has their own set of circumstances to deal with and one mandate doesn’t work for everyone.

Right now today here’s my family circumstance.

I inherited a furnished house in Lake County 5 years ago and it came with a tenant. I decided to sell the house an that pissed off the tenant.I’ve been trying to evict him for over a year and he hasn’t paid rent.

I’m in Mendo County with it’s stay at home orders.

My husband has a pacemaker and afib, at 71 years old.
He has to do this job of removing furniture for tenants that at the most will be there 90 more days.

Gabbin’ Nusciance orders us not to travel or associate.
Lake County Judge orders us to go to Lake County and remove furniture
out of the house we are evicting tenant from by Dec 10th. Tenant has to leave Dec. 31st. Then we have to serve with new 60 day notice.

Who do we “obey” the Governor or the Judge?
Who’s responsible if he gets covid?

Who will complain about what ever decision we made?

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago
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SG, what I would like to see is that there are posts where the thread deals with the issues of the virus and then a different thread where they discuss politics or conspiracies. What happens now is someone will put up something about the spread of the disease and then someone derails it by saying its bs to worry cause its all a hoax and the next thing you know people are trying to convince someone its real. Its called backsliding. If people ignored the hoax response and kept the issue the disease it would be so much better.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
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The virus pages are here every day, but I haven’t seen a politics tag so everyone claims their issues wherever they can.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Bull pucky. The left has politicized even questioning the deadliness of this plague and politicized questioning authority because it’s an election year. If the left really thinks that their railroading of every different view point is justified, then they will happily take responsibility for the fall out their lockdown demands have createdlong before any natural economic cycle would have created such failures. Having spent like the Kardashians on vacation to half added cope with their own lockdowns, they can’t now those closer to the economic edge have gone over at their insistence. https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/05/un-warns-number-of-people-starving-to-death-could/#:~:text=Workers%20from%20the%20garment%20sector%20block%20a%20road,more%20afraid%20of%20starving%20than%20contracting%20the%20coronavirus.

Then there’s the inevitable violence from wars to riots created by a constant stream of political rhetoric and campaigning. “Terrorists of all kinds have stepped up their propaganda, hoping to influence anxious people largely confined to their homes by lockdowns and compelled to spend more time on the Internet and social media. ” https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/covid-19-pandemic-counterterrorism-practitioners-assessments

Then there’s the despair of those targeted in well meaning obliviousness to differing needs – “I don’t think they’ve ever shut down the world like this, I mean we’re in this huge metropolis and there’s nobody here, there’s nobody downtown,” the owners of Dan and Louis Oyster Bar, Keoni and Michelle Wachsmuth, said.” https://www.kptv.com/news/historic-portland-restaurants-that-survived-great-depression-world-wars-now-struggle-with-covid-19-restrictions/article_3ad5be18-362d-11eb-b4f7-9f064e5b853e.html

So much for stiff upper lips and carrying on in the face danger that is admirable among medical personnel but subjects ordinary people to abuse as they are dismissed as irrelevant by those who think government actually can fix their screwed up lives.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions but that is no bloody excuse in the end. Demonizing the right wing while canonization yourselves for the same behavior is also no excuse.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
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In other words, what you’re saying is this:

The right:😇

The Left:👹

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
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He would massively underestimate the carrying capacity of Planet Earth, because he lived before the industrial revolution. He would also fail to take into account the reduced birthrates of industrialized societies.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  SG

Washing hands should have been first on your list.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago

Sardonic comment

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

There is a viral story that needs to be debunked concerning JHUs supposed study about deaths related to covid. This is a long post but I want to post the whole article. Its an important read into how misunderstandings begin.

https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/johns-hopkins-covid-mortality-study-briand-15764249.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

Sweeping the right-wing media ecosystem, amplified by massively viral tweets, is the claim that Johns Hopkins released — and quickly deleted — a study showing COVID-19 hasn’t led to an increase in deaths in the U.S. this year. It’s being used to justify false narratives that the pandemic isn’t deadly and that lockdowns are tyrannical overreach by state governments. One often-linked write-up on PJ Media, a right-wing political site, describes the story thusly:

“According to the study, ‘in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.’ Wait, what? Really? That’s what it says. And, it should come as no surprise that the study was deleted within days.”
There are, however, major issues with this so-called study.

For one, calling it a “Johns Hopkins study” is inaccurate. The now-broken URL didn’t point to a study at all, but an article that appeared in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, a student-run publication, on Nov. 22. The story, headlined “A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19,” was based on a YouTube webinar hosted by Genevieve Briand, an assistant program director in Hopkins’ applied economics department. Briand is “neither a medical professional nor a disease researcher,” the News-Letter notes.
In her presentation, Briand used CDC data from early February to early September to claim 2020 does not appear to have more deaths, something you’d expect to see when a deadly pandemic is sweeping the world.

“All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths,” Briand told the News-Letter. “Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.”

This is not accurate. This data point didn’t use raw case numbers. Instead, Briand used proportional comparisons to make her determination. Per the article, “Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category … The percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.”

A quick search of the CDC shows there are more total deaths in 2020 than in 2019; the agency even tracks those numbers in a dashboard here. An October report from the CDC estimates the U.S. has experienced approximately 299,028 excess deaths from late January through October 3, 2020. Nearly 200,000 of those excess deaths can be attributed to the coronavirus. Two recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association support these findings.

Briand also claims the number of deaths among elderly people were consistent before and after the pandemic. Data from the CDC does not back this assertion:

Briand also repeats a common misunderstanding about how deaths due to the coronavirus are categorized. In the story, she suggested deaths caused by heart disease, flu, pneumonia and more may be getting classified as COVID deaths. As health experts have repeatedly explained, this is not happening at any kind of scale that would lead to hundreds of thousands of misreported deaths. A doctor, coroner or medical examiner is responsible for filling out death certificates. There are separate fields for the chain of events that led to a person’s death and pre-existing conditions, sometimes called comorbidities. Although a person may have heart disease as a pre-existing condition, if they tested positive for COVID-19 and experienced the series of symptoms that are associated with the virus, ultimately resulting in death, COVID-19 is listed as the cause of death.
“Even such a person with a potentially life-shortening pre-existing condition such as heart disease or diabetes may have lived another five, 10 or many more years, had they not become infected with COVID-19,” an excellent explainer in Scientific American says.

Even such a person with a potentially life-shortening pre-existing condition such as heart disease or diabetes may have lived another five, 10 or many more years, had they not become infected with COVID-19,” an excellent explainer in Scientific American says.

Despite PJ Media’s conspiratorial tone about why the News-Letter story was taken down, there’s no subterfuge there. The students at the News-Letter realized the article had taken off in the misinformation-sphere and, in an attempt to stop it, took the article down and issued a retraction.

Unfortunately, by simply nuking the link off the internet, the publication made the problem worse, giving rise to conspiracy theories that because the story ran counter to the “media narrative” about COVID deaths, it was removed. Although the original link that circulated online is dead, the News-Letter uploaded the original story as a PDF which can be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tnb1a8TXHj_jJCM2BDfGSriUgdn-2gec/view

Mr and Mrs
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3 years ago

Dq and the rest of you emotionally week liberal sheep which I used to be one and saw how ignorant you are to actually entertaining policies. You only resort to dumb things Trump does which seems to be the go to defense. It means you have no other intelligent discussion to offer. Yeah Trump is an idiot he says shit that makes me cringe. We all know he is a horrible leader. He has some moments though. I do appreciate Joe bidden tries to take a more professional approach by uniting more despite his short comings. And i welcome that. You see its not about what team your on. Because the both are the losing team lol. But this necessarily be the debate its what did we learn from our mistakes? Oh yeah your all to emotional to have a intelligent conversation where we could actually learn from each other its easier to blame everyone else for the world. You reap what you sow. BTW sorry for my personal attack im sure you are all strong spirited good people just my filter isn’t working today.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

Watch this, 2min. and tell me how this is ok.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1335007535070253057

There is a lot more going on than just please wear a mask.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Remember when you were telling everyone to take hydrochloroquin six months ago?

Humboldt Boss 2020
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Humboldt Boss 2020
3 years ago

Trump has no fucking room to talk he is 75 years old and has real bad health problems himself and he is a lying fucking piece of shit who allows border patrol to lock up fucking human beings and their kids in cages and losing kids in the process after he put up the fucking wall that is not going to keep them from coming over the border they will still get over it
by driving their fucking vehicles over it if trump told all of his fucking supporters to jump off the golden gate bridge or a fucking cliff they would all do it and if he told them all to suck his fucking dick they would all do it

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago

So much misunderstanding in one paragraph. So many lies from people who created the Trump phenomenon in the first place by their own fixation. The anti Trumpers are yappy little dogs driving the herd over the edge of the cliff then complaining about tthe stupidity of those who refuse to leap.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago

There’s a period in there somewhere

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

If Biden is POTUS the border will open and you have all the fetanyl (sp) coming in your little heart desires. Especially since Oregon has legalized it
Oh and more cartel leaders for Covelo too.

And as the migrants come in will you be checking them for Covid?
Although it’s beyond me why so many people want want to come to this fascist, evil, racist Country. In fact so many want to come we need a wall to keep them out, just defies logic doesn’t it?

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago

Who cares, there is a new circus coming to town, guaranteed to keep the media busy. I’ve already seen countless lies about Biden , but the best is yet to come , he’ll be facing just as many criminal charges as Trump, fun for all, can’t we find a real leader?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

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Just as millions of Americans are preparing to roll up their sleeves for a COVID-19 vaccine, the federal government scheduled a mandatory public hearing about vaccine injuries.

But a mistake led to confusion over if the public would actually be able to sign up to speak.

Critics call it an effort to silence the public on an issue that affects thousands of people who’ve suffered from the leading cause of vaccine injury and potentially anyone injured by a future COVID vaccine. The federal agency is now calling it a scheduling mistake.

End quote

more
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/public-hearing-on-vaccine-injury-program-changes-after-deadline-for-speakers-to-sign-up/2460630/

New Push Could Block COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries From Program That Usually Pays Victims

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/new-push-could-block-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-from-program-that-usually-pays-victims/2415521/

Drugmakers Shielded from COVID Vaccine Liability But Funds for Injury Claims in Doubt

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/08/14/579150.htm

Bubble indemnity: Big Pharma firms will NOT be held …

But despite its healthy balance sheet, AstraZeneca is unwilling to be held responsible for any potential side effects of its ‘hopeful’ vaccine candidate. In other words, the company is completely protected, or indemnified, against lawsuits from people who are injected with their vaccine and experience negative effects, regardless of how …

What does this tell you?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

So can the government mandate you inject something into your body and then
completely protect, or indemnify, against lawsuits from people who are injected with their vaccine and experience negative effects?
Are you good with that?

Do notice when asked common sense questions, usually no one answers. It doesn’t fit their TDS rants.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Maybe you forgot, the liability waivers and protections from litigation were part of Trump’s own Operation Lightspeed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-trump-speed-vaccine-safety-concerns-20200430-hef633fdrjf7fivkq4tuxlfpte-story.html%3foutputType=amp
Who’s got TDS again?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

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medpagetoday.com reports:

“Healthcare professionals want more data about a COVID-19 vaccine before they take it themselves, the Washington Post reports.

Surveys and statements from medical societies revealed a degree of vaccine hesitancy among doctors and nurses.

For example, a report from the University of California Los Angeles released last week showed 66% of Los Angeles healthcare workers who responded to an online questionnaire said they would delay taking a vaccine.

The American Nurses Association said a third of its members do not intend to take the vaccine and another third are undecided.

Two-thirds of doctors in New Jersey said they would take the vaccine, but some contacted by the state said they “did not want to be in the first round, so they could wait and see if there are potential side effects,” New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said during a Nov. 9 press briefing.” [1]

A now retracted post from Johns Hopkins University (but preserved on the Way-Back machine) admits there is little to any need for such a mass vaccination of the global population because excess mortality rates are low to negligible. The university admitted:

“Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same. ” [2]

Indeed, even the CDC now admits their alarmist COVID19 claimed deaths were off by huge amounts. [3]

In light of all the mistakes, shenanigans, “rushed through” vaccines, misinformation and propaganda, we should all take a long pause for reflection and heed the sage words of one of Britain’s most respected published medical doctors, Dr Vernon Coleman.

Dr Coleman writes:

more here

https://principia-scientific.com/bill-gates-admits-covid-vaccine-changes-dna-now-doctors-rebel/

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Again, the liability waivers and protections from litigation are part of Operation Lightspeed. You can address your complaints to the Republican party.

Diane
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Diane
3 years ago

With all these hateful comments – I wonder how many of them have those “We Believe” signs in their yard. Would be interesting to find out how many hypocrites there really are.

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Malcolm X

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Diane

The “Media” are not a monolithic entity. The most popular MSM news network in America, Fox News, is still pushing anti-lockdown, anti-science Covid policy.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago

At the rate America is going, in order to stop the spread of covid, we would be better off not letting people leave America, rather than trying to stop the spread of covid by not letting people into America.

I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but we have it the worst.

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Im surprised Mexico and Canada haven’t started building a wall.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

Canada made crossing the border alot tougher a few years back, where you been? And being Mexicos minimum wage or should I say the majority of salaries is 36 bucks a week if you work 6 days a week , they are very happy to see our tips south of the border. But their hand sanitizing and masking is at a much higher level .

Crimestopper2
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Crimestopper2
3 years ago

UPDATE THE DASHBOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday you’ll probably say there’s 67 new case.

Nonaligned
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Nonaligned
3 years ago

I grow increasingly confused at the inability of people to use the Internet as a research tool. Is it known that all you have to do is type a question into the url/address bar, hit enter and viola! you get a listing of results to look through.

Here something I searched for to give some of you a baseline;

average daily number of deaths in the us 2016

And found in the resulting list;

Quoted: “In 2017, an average of 7,708 deaths occurred each day…” (yes, that’s each day) at the following link;

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6826a5.htm

So do the math and find out how many people died in 2017 from all causes. The result is an example of the normal in the U.S.

The data is available if you simply search for it.