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Genero36
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Posted: 04/02/20 12:56 am ::: |
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More than 40 spring breakers who ignored public health advice test positive for coronavirus
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(CNN) — Dozens of spring breakers from Texas boarded a plane for fun and came home with coronavirus.
About 70 people in their 20s chartered a plane from Austin, Texas, to Mexico for spring break two weeks ago. They went against the advice of White House officials who asked that people avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 and nonessential air travel.
Now 44 of those people have tested positive for coronavirus -- all of them University of Texas at Austin students, a university spokesman told CNN on Wednesday. |
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/austin-spring-breakers-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
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Genero36
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Posted: 04/02/20 12:59 am ::: |
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2 dead from coronavirus, 45 ill after March choir rehearsal
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Of the some 60 people who attended the Skagit Valley Chorale rehearsal in Mount Vernon, 28 members have confirmed cases of the virus, according to Kayla Schott-Bresler of Skagit County Public Health.
The practice was in full compliance with state guidance at the time, a statement from the group said.
"Please know that this has been an extremely difficult and sad time for chorale members and leadership," the group said. "Our group feels like a family, so you might imagine our grief." |
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/us/washington-choir-practice-coronavirus-deaths/index.html
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tfan
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:38 am ::: |
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I don’t understand the “no gatherings more than 10”. The virus is quite capable of spreading within a society doing gatherings of 2.
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Genero36
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:41 am ::: |
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You Shouldn't Be Wearing Gloves to Go Grocery Shopping
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This novel coronavirus doesn’t enter the body through your hands, so you don’t need any kind of barrier there. If you touch a contaminated surface with gloves, and touch something else, you’re as likely to spread it as you are if you touch things with your bare hands. Maybe even more likely: “The adhesive properties of viruses differ among viruses; it’s possible the coronavirus could adhere to the latex gloves better than it could adhere to your own skin,” says Reynolds. And hands can be effectively washed and used again right away. |
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/you-shouldnt-be-wearing-gloves-to-go-grocery-shopping/ar-BB11YPuZ?li=BBnba9O
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Genero36
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:43 am ::: |
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tfan wrote: |
I don’t understand the “no gatherings more than 10”. The virus is quite capable of spreading within a society doing gatherings of 2. |
The more people, the less likely you are practicing social distancing properly.
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sambista
Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 16951 Location: way station of life
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Posted: 04/02/20 4:02 am ::: |
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After Threats, Anthony Fauci to Receive Enhanced Personal Security
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The idea that Dr. Fauci is responsible for the country’s hardship — and for whatever political damage Mr. Trump might suffer as a result — was fueled in part by a moment during a news briefing in which Dr. Fauci dropped his head and touched his forehead as the president was speaking. The image went viral online and right-wing supporters of Mr. Trump cited it as evidence that Dr. Fauci sought to undercut the president.
One anti-Fauci Twitter post last week said, “Sorry liberals but we don’t trust Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
The hashtag #FauciFraud has been used by more than 70 Twitter accounts, some posting hundreds of times a day, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Criticism of Dr. Fauci has also come from leading conservative voices and supporters of Mr. Trump, including Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, the host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email. |
these people are more dangerous than the virus.
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sambista
Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 16951 Location: way station of life
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Posted: 04/02/20 4:29 am ::: |
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if you really knew me - no, i mean, like family knows me, like friends of 40-plus years know me - you would not believe that i'm sharing this video. but if you watch it, just ask yourself: isn't it true that, armed with the force described here, there is nothing we wouldn't do to solve and resolve our troubles, from personal relationships to global matters?
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Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 814 Location: Kau Rubbish Dump
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taropatch
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Posted: 04/02/20 4:42 am ::: |
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sambista wrote: |
After Threats, Anthony Fauci to Receive Enhanced Personal Security
the new york times wrote: |
The idea that Dr. Fauci is responsible for the country’s hardship — and for whatever political damage Mr. Trump might suffer as a result — was fueled in part by a moment during a news briefing in which Dr. Fauci dropped his head and touched his forehead as the president was speaking. The image went viral online and right-wing supporters of Mr. Trump cited it as evidence that Dr. Fauci sought to undercut the president.
One anti-Fauci Twitter post last week said, “Sorry liberals but we don’t trust Dr. Anthony Fauci.”
The hashtag #FauciFraud has been used by more than 70 Twitter accounts, some posting hundreds of times a day, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Criticism of Dr. Fauci has also come from leading conservative voices and supporters of Mr. Trump, including Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, the host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email. |
these people are more dangerous than the virus. |
Can't believe these scumbags. We have a fully-credentialed man who's trying to help us survive this crisis and they want to take him out?
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sambista
Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 16951 Location: way station of life
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Posted: 04/02/20 7:09 am ::: |
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all right. so, i know how dangerous broaching a religious subject can be. this isn't intended to provoke anyone. i myself am not "religious" in a conventional sense. i believe in a higher power, or powers, but i wouldn't deign to name or characterize it or them. (i did, however, enjoy the years of "game of thrones," when i often said, "i swear, by the old gods and new . . .")
it's just an interesting read. that's all.
The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times
Shamain Webster, who lives in the suburbs outside of Dallas, has seen the signs of a coming apocalypse for a while now, just as the Bible foretold.
Kingdom would rise against kingdom, Jesus taught his disciples in the Book of Luke. Ms. Webster sees widespread political division in this country. There will be fearful events, and great signs from heaven, he said. She sees biblical values slipping away. A government not acting in the people’s best interest. And now this — a pandemic.
But Ms. Webster, 42 and an evangelical Christian, is unafraid. She has been listening online to one of her favorite preachers, who has called the coronavirus pandemic a “divine reset.”
“These kinds of moments really get you to re-evaluate everything,” she said. As everyone goes through a period of isolation, she added, God is using it for good, “to teach us and train us on how to live life better.”
For people of many faiths, and even none at all, it can feel lately like the end of the world is near. Not only is there a plague, but hundreds of billions of locusts are swarming East Africa. Wildfires have ravaged Australia, killing an untold number of animals. A recent earthquake in Utah even shook the Salt Lake Temple to the top of its iconic spire, causing the golden trumpet to fall from the angel Moroni’s right hand.
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Shades
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Posted: 04/02/20 8:45 am ::: |
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cthskzfn
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 12851 Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
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Posted: 04/02/20 9:19 am ::: |
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sambista wrote: |
all right. so, i know how dangerous broaching a religious subject can be. this isn't intended to provoke anyone. i myself am not "religious" in a conventional sense. i believe in a higher power, or powers, but i wouldn't deign to name or characterize it or them. (i did, however, enjoy the years of "game of thrones," when i often said, "i swear, by the old gods and new . . .")
it's just an interesting read. that's all.
The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times
Shamain Webster, who lives in the suburbs outside of Dallas, has seen the signs of a coming apocalypse for a while now, just as the Bible foretold.
Kingdom would rise against kingdom, Jesus taught his disciples in the Book of Luke. Ms. Webster sees widespread political division in this country. There will be fearful events, and great signs from heaven, he said. She sees biblical values slipping away. A government not acting in the people’s best interest. And now this — a pandemic.
But Ms. Webster, 42 and an evangelical Christian, is unafraid. She has been listening online to one of her favorite preachers, who has called the coronavirus pandemic a “divine reset.”
“These kinds of moments really get you to re-evaluate everything,” she said. As everyone goes through a period of isolation, she added, God is using it for good, “to teach us and train us on how to live life better.”
For people of many faiths, and even none at all, it can feel lately like the end of the world is near. Not only is there a plague, but hundreds of billions of locusts are swarming East Africa. Wildfires have ravaged Australia, killing an untold number of animals. A recent earthquake in Utah even shook the Salt Lake Temple to the top of its iconic spire, causing the golden trumpet to fall from the angel Moroni’s right hand. |
Seems like humans generally assign some pious meaning to catastrophic events, and every generation seems to have its "signs of the apocalypse" moment.
I'd guess similar things were said in 1918.
I would agree Trump is very anti-christ-like.
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 66773 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 04/02/20 9:35 am ::: |
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“The Campaign Panicked”: Inside Trump’s Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/inside-trumps-decision-to-back-off-of-his-easter-coronavirus-miracle
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Trump also grew concerned as the virus spread to Trump country. “The polling sucked. The campaign panicked about the numbers in red states. They don’t expect to win states that are getting blown to pieces with coronavirus,” a former West Wing official told me. From the beginning of the crisis, Trump had struggled to see it as anything other than a political problem, subject to his usual arsenal of tweets and attacks and bombast. But he ultimately realized that as bad as the stock market was, getting coronavirus wrong would end his presidency. “The campaign doesn’t matter anymore,” he recently told a friend, “what I do now will determine if I get reelected.” |
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FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 04/02/20 12:42 pm ::: |
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In a Pandemic, Do Doctors Still Have a Duty to Treat?
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I believe health care workers will continue to make the sacrifices necessary to treat patients. However, it would be a mistake for people to assume that our professional obligations are unconditional. An unconditional obligation would absolve society of its own responsibilities. And there are many.
For instance, health care workers should not be forced to incur additional risk because people don’t want to practice social distancing (vacationers flocking to Florida beaches during spring break come to mind). We shouldn’t have to pay for shortsighted government policies that have already eviscerated our public health infrastructure and may soon lead to the premature relaxation of social distancing rules. And of course, we need proper masks. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/coronavirus-doctors-duty.html?referringSource=articleShare
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toad455
Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 22470 Location: NJ
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:22 pm ::: |
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Wrestlemania is the first sporting event to be held since all sports were shutdown a month ago. Wrestlemania will be held this weekend in Orlando at the WWE training camp facility . No fans will be present.
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sambista
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:32 pm ::: |
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i'm sorry. that's just a mean-spirited god fuckin with us. or maybe it's the devil, showing who has the upper hand now.
and i really am not religious. not really. well, not a lot.
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Genero36
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:34 pm ::: |
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Some Americans could wait 20 weeks to receive stimulus checks, IRS tells House Democrats
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Washington (CNN)Americans likely won't begin to see direct payments from the coronavirus stimulus bill until at least April 13 and it could take 20 weeks for all the checks to be mailed, Trump administration officials told lawmakers, according to a House Democratic memo obtained by CNN.
The timeline means tens of millions of Americans will have to wait to get badly needed assistance, despite repeated suggestions from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that the money would go out as soon as April 6. He said this past Sunday after passage of the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill that payments would not go out until mid-April.
CNN reported in March that former IRS officials said the wait would likely be weeks or months. |
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/politics/stimulus-20-weeks-irs/index.html
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pilight
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:47 pm ::: |
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toad455 wrote: |
Wrestlemania is the first sporting event to be held since all sports were shutdown a month ago. Wrestlemania will be held this weekend in Orlando at the WWE training camp facility . No fans will be present. |
Wrestlemania isn't a sporting event
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Shades
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Posted: 04/02/20 1:49 pm ::: |
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PUmatty
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Posted: 04/02/20 2:08 pm ::: |
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Shades wrote: |
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He clearly is lying about this.
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pilight
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Posted: 04/02/20 2:13 pm ::: |
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PUmatty wrote: |
He clearly is lying about this. |
Probably. However, I have no problem believing he's that ignorant.
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PUmatty
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Posted: 04/02/20 2:17 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
PUmatty wrote: |
He clearly is lying about this. |
Probably. However, I have no problem believing he's that ignorant. |
It's hard to decide which would be worse.
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Randy
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Posted: 04/02/20 2:21 pm ::: |
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PUmatty wrote: |
He clearly is lying about this. |
Our idiot governor of Georgia has also taken "I'm stupid defense."
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Shades
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Posted: 04/02/20 2:47 pm ::: |
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I was talking about players being carriers for the coronavirus before symptoms even show up in the WNBA section over a month ago. I’m that much more informed than a governor?
http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=97569&start=558
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I would guess this player would have to go through a two week quarantine just to play it safe. You can be a carrier for coronavirus for two weeks before symptoms show up, and this virus spreads as easily as a cold.
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Genero36
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Posted: 04/02/20 2:49 pm ::: |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W9mZRNZwVE
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