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this is just a random image from dragoncon. imagine this across four hotels

DragonCon is one of the most crowded, least healthy looking things you've ever seen in your life. Hambeasts shoulder to shoulder, sweating and panting, spread out over 4 hotels, drunkenly humping each other in secret orgies every single night, half of them are on mobile oxygen already DragonCon this year would simply be referred to as "The Incident" by future epidemiologists

almost like things were closed down for a long weekend or something

one of my patients is an old man who gets a steroid shot and rocephin shot every week "SO I DONT GET PNEUMONIA" he's had the covid test 3 times lmao it doesn't even phase him we do whatever we can to get him the fug out

closing in on 100k boys

except in asheville where the housing bubble never fuging crashes

if anyone buys these i will fuging find you

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I had a patient yesterday asking if he should take it because the president told him to.

All the scab nurses come from like Micronesia, at least in Asheville. In Asheville all the russians work in waste management and that one dry cleaning place near biltmore.

people have this really big problem understanding how job responsibilities are broken down among the medical profession. Like at their accounting firm or oil change shop they can tell you exactly what every single members role is and how it differs etc. But generally people hear doctor and think all health. That is incredibly incorrect. The people you want to listen to here are... infectious disease - smartest people in med school go into ID. virologists - they study viruses epidemiologists - they study how things spread pulm/internal med/intensivists - these are the ones taking care of people after they're tubed or convalescing For things like this, look at what they do, what their exposure would be, and why we should listen to what they say about country wide policy. What does an emed doctor do here? Looks at a CT and sends them upstairs. The fact she's going on Fox news and complaining about a drug we know to do nothing being politicized, well, that should tell you all you need to know. This could also be like those old right wing 1,000 SCIENTISTS DENY CLIMATE CHANGE. Then it turned out half were meteorologists and the other half just had a problem with one piece of data out of a corner of canada but never actually denied the broader science. Or the last time earlier this year where the list was just posted online and anyone could sign it. Unless there really is a Dr. Weedlord BonerHitler who works in proctology.

Midland, Michigan just had a couple of dam breaks that for some unthinkable reason were to be managed by HOAs that just ignored them. 10,000 people ordered to evacuate. Going to be close to ten feet of water just washing a town away. There's a nuclear powered DOW chemical plant downstream of it. During a pandemic. You couldn't write that.

well they didn't inject them someone just had the bright idea of taking the scabs from people dying and just like shoving it into the blood of healthy people. so they literally just took a dying person around in a mule cart, cut off a piece of them, and shoved it into a wound they had just made. it was not the most efficient way to go about doing this but it might have worked. if you watch the Knick (and you should, it was an amazing show and only two seasons) they do a scene where he innoculates a village from smallpox by grinding up old scabbed wounds and blowing it up people's noses. it's pretty cool

this is a really good graph to pay attention to basically if you remove the places that actually had aggressive lockdown procedures, you don't have a large mass pulling the overall numbers down. rest of america is uh, not doing great. and again, this is with georgia, tx, and fl cooking the books.

https://fightcovid19.hku.hk/hku-hamster-research-shows-masks-effective-in-preventing-covid-19-transmission/ the institute is legit this hasn't been peer reviewed yet, however. Though it kinda lines up with common fuging sense so

i mean yeah that's a pretty horrific worldview you have there but go off i guess

because they were unable to work during the lockdown due to the pandemic. you know, that thing that's sweeping the world. UI systems were used because that system was already in place. i don't know why i'm responding to you because you're basically cosplaying's sartre's quote about fascists.

In georgia the governor literally declared the emergency over, while cases were rising (and he was cooking the books) so that employees could no longer claim unemployment benefits. and since the lockdown was lifted, if they didn't go in to work that meant they quit and couldn't apply for UI. This trick was repeated in Florida, Ohio, and Texas. So yes, they were forced. Whether or not you can think two moves ahead and understand this, well, the thread waits with bated breath

maybe forcing people to work menial wage jobs to prevent foreclosure and ruin during a global pandemic is a massive problem, and breaking quarantine to go to great clips isn't anything to be lauded for.

new study coming out of hong kong says masks decrease transmission by about 75%. hasn't been peer reviewed yet but they're publishing it in a journal so it's just a matter of time.

Can't have a second wave if the first wave never ends.

9/10 when people die with preexisting conditions, the most recent thing is what tips the apple cart and goes on the death certificate. This isn't some grand conspiracy.

That's a huge caveat that you're just blowing past since almost NONE of the appropriate actions have been taking to start opening up. Not in Wisconsin, Georgia, or Texas. This has just been republican governors and judges saying "yeah fug it who cares." you seem to think "do x if y" means "do x....a little"

no they are not. how many baseless claims are prepared to just throw out in this?

lol so the AEI and Heritage foundation are both right wing "think tanks" that are referencing the Johns Hopkins paper, which I'm sure you didn't bother reading. For anyone that actually wants to be educated here's the actual link. https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200417-reopening-guidance-governors.pdf The john's hopkins paper is not recommending loosening restrictions. It is outlining HYPOTHETICAL WAYS IT COULD HAPPEN. I just read this for you because I know you're never going to but here's the meat and potatoes. So no, that in no way is epidemiologists saying taking aggressive measures is over with. That's saying how things COULD move forward AFTER appropriate actions were taken. Which of course they never were, except in places like NYC.