Officials say some Georgians treat COVID with bleach-like cleaner https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgi...to-fight-covid-19/URQAM7I6JZDWRCZYI3NMJCSFZI/
Odd... https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/heal...utm_content=2020-08-26T11:27:13&utm_term=link Updated CDC guidelines now say people exposed to coronavirus may not need to be tested
I've seen firsthand how this can spread at a business. Employees all get sick around the same time. Many are out for over a month. The entire business takes a massive blow. We all need the infected to stay home. This approach will cripple otherwise healthy businesses. It will destroy schools.
You see, we do too much testing, and because of that, we have too many cases and deaths. So if we cut down on testing...
I didn't see this mentioned here earlier but VIkings' QB Kirk Cousins expressed some rather extreme views regarding COVID-19 in an interview recently. I'm listening to him right now on a press conference. While he's not quite apologizing he's reiterating that he still wears a mask or out respect for other people. One funny note. Local sports anchor Mark Rosen who does a weekly radio show with Kirk Cousins just said he's not going to make sure to not be anywhere near Kirk Cousins. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29793295/vikings-qb-kirk-cousins-coronavirus-die-die Vikings QB Kirk Cousins on coronavirus: 'If I die, I die' Kirk Cousins said he is taking a "survival of the fittest" personal approach to the coronavirus, even if it kills him. "If I die, I die," the Minnesota Vikings quarterback said during a recent interview on Spotify's "10 Questions With Kyle Brandt" podcast. "I kind of have peace about that." Cousins indicated during the interview, published Wednesday, that he does not believe face masks work in helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but he repeatedly said that he also tried to respect others' "concerns" about the virus. Brandt asked Cousins to rate his level of concern over contracting the virus on a 1-10 scale, with 1 being "the person who says, 'Masks are stupid, you're all a bunch of lemmings,' and 10 is, 'I'm not leaving my master bathroom for the next 10 years.'" Cousins replied: "I'm not gonna call anybody stupid, for the trouble it would get me in. But I'm about a .000001." When asked to elaborate on that answer, Cousins said: "I want to respect what other people's concerns are. For me personally, just talking no one else can get the virus, what is your concern if you could get it, I would say I'm gonna go about my daily life. If I get it, I'm gonna ride it out. I'm gonna let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I'm going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that." Cousins continued to say that for him, wearing a mask "is really about being respectful to other people. "It really has nothing do with my own personal thoughts," he said. Earlier during the podcast, Cousins was asked what the general reaction would be if a teammate sneezed while in the huddle. "I even think within the building, there's gonna be a dichotomy of people who couldn't care less about the virus, have no concern about it, have never lost a minute of sleep about it," he said. "And then you get people on the other side of the spectrum who, every second of every day, they're consumed with fear about it. "What you don't know is who's where on the spectrum when you first go back." The NFL has updated its game-day protocols by requiring every coach and staff member in the bench area to wear a mask and reducing the size of each team's travel party. The league and the NFL Players Association announced Tuesday that 10 players and other team personnel tested positive for the virus during the league's latest testing period of Aug. 21-29. According to the data, 8,739 players and personnel were given 58,621 tests during the Aug. 21-29 time period. That included 23,279 tests to 2,747 players and 35,342 to 5,992 personnel.
Was just listening to an NPR piece that while hostility towards the PRC is increasing in the US over COVID-19 there is greater support within the PRC towards the CCP. One reason is as people in the PRC see how much the US and Europe has struggled with COVID-19 they are feeling more confident about how their own government dealt with it. Further they feel that criticism and blame of the PRC is unwarranted and is making them feel more nationalistic.
"Wear a mask while having sex, Canada's top doctor suggests": https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-sex-idUSKBN25T2Y9
The CDC literally came out with a report last week stating that only 6% of deaths were solely from covid. The others that have died had on average 2.6 other conditions or causes of death. ....and the New York Times (you know, that extreme right wing publication) had an article stating that up to 90% of all positive tests barely carried any virus at all. and yet you have folks like B-Bob continuing to claim "SCIENCE!" and lap up the fear p*rn that he sees every day in his echo chamber. ...and now I'm sure the angry responses will follow, because it's easier to fool someone than convince them they've been fooled. Especially if they believe their political desires will be advanced...
If you are a 60 year old man, you have two conditions against you and, thus, you must be sacrificed to The Great Bull God to make line go up.
Do we have to care about people with conditions? Ugh, I say good riddance. Burdens on society I tell you hwhat.
bigotexx has gone full Q and no one was surprised. CDC data: Experts say new COVID death toll report widely misinterpreted False theories that the country’s top public health officials drastically decreased the estimate of the coronavirus death toll went viral on social media over the weekend, in part thanks to posts President Donald Trump shared. The posts, which have been shared by supporters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its data to say that only 6% of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. were real. One such post the president shared has been removed by Twitter. Although the numbers cited did come from CDC data, they were widely misinterpreted, health experts say. The viral posts quoted a weekly update from the CDC that lists co-morbidities, or conditions that contribute to COVID-19 deaths. Co-morbidities listed on the chart include pneumonia, influenza, hypertension, obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. To determine the number of COVID-19 deaths and co-morbidities, the CDC uses death certificate data. Death certificates list all the causes and conditions that led to a person’s death. As of Aug. 22, 161,392 people died of COVID-19, according to the CDC’s data. Of those deaths, COVID-19 was listed as the only cause of death in 6% of the cases, the CDC said. The other 94% of people had other conditions listed that contributed to their deaths. Those people are still included in death totals, and the other underlying conditions don’t discount the fact that they died from COVID-19, health experts say. “If it hadn’t been for the COVID virus infection, these people would be living today,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-diseases expert at Vanderbilt University, told The Associated Press. “So yes, although they have contributing underlying chronic health factors, it’s still the COVID virus that killed them.”
