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Shared sacrifice and patiently playing the long game. What an innovative solution.

So what? Scientists and people with advanced degrees and high IQs aren’t exactly Trump’s demographic. Just because someone votes a certain way or makes donations doesn’t mean they are idealogs. Their life’s work is to protect the US from deadly pathogens not engage in political brinkmanship. It’s obvious the anti-cdc and anti science stuff is coming from a political agenda. You’re being manipulated.

Just got off a call with a friend of mine. She’s been stranded at her beach house in SC for the past few months since she can no longer travel for work. Her neighbors have been having large daily ‘Covid’ parties since the bars started closing early. I’ve never wanted to move out of the country before but....

We’re going to run out of testing capacity really soon.

For the 1000th time. Masks do more to keep the infected from spreading Covid than it does to keep the healthy from contracting the virus. Since spreaders can be asymptomatic, everyone needs to wear it. Why is this such a problem? Btw..Walmart now requires them. Prepare for the riots.

It’s possible to have good data on one thing and not enough on another. Again, the issue is, do kids spread it? They probably do, but we don’t have a good study on that yet as far as I know. As a dad to a 6 year old, I really hope she can go to school full time.

Science still does not have a firm understanding on how much kids can spread Covid. The data is just not there since schools were shut down so fast back in March. Since we don’t know, Governors and schools are taking a cautious approach. Low risk does not mean no risk.

Remember that if you ever need surgery. I’m sure the trash man is cheaper.

Don’t look at raw numbers. NC is much larger than SC.

Do you know any medical professionals? My neighbor (a nurse at Levine’s children’s hospital) was going around the neighborhood collecting n95 masks because she and her fellow ‘frontline hero’s’ desperately wanted them. My best friend is a nurse in Seattle. Works with Covid patients in the ICU daily. He happily wears a mask 12 hours a day and told me to do the same when I’m out. BTW...my friend in Seattle says he typically sees 15 or so flu patients a year in the ICU and a handful of deaths. He’s seen over a hundred Covid icu patients so far and many many deaths.

Exactly why is the mask thing such a big deal? It’s just a really minor inconvenience at best. If it helps, why not do it? Countries that wear masks have much lower cases of Covid than we do.

A mask is more for protecting other people from you than to protect you from others. Put a mask around the nozzle of fabreeze and spray and get back to me. Even if the spray gets through, the amount and velocity is greatly reduced. A physician assistant friend of mine gave me this example. Imagine two kids with no pants on. If one kid pees they both get wet. If one kid pees and the other kid has pants, the other kid kinda gets wet. If they both have pants on, only the kid who pees gets wet.

My Dad is like that. Despite the fact that he struggled in school, didn’t get into college, has fallen for multiple scams throughout his life, he still firmly believes he is smarter than everyone and knows how to vet information. The guy loves some conspiracies. He texts me a new one every week.

You should get an updated chart. TB kills about 4K daily. Covid is now killing 5k daily. At one point a few weeks ago it was close to 7k.

Civil discourse isn’t your thing is it?

We don’t have a shot at doing what really needs to be done until January (assuming one important job change happens)

Arms races aren’t cheap. But yeah, what a crap show.

Not enough donor cash to keep them out of huge debts apparently. These are just the top 10 though. Tons of smaller schools with similar debt to revenue ratios that don’t have a big donor base.

The problem is a lot of big and small programs are built on debt. Losing a full year of revenue could mean financial disaster.

I don’t watch cable news anymore, but I still glance at their websites too much. The nbcnews.com site (msnbc) drives me nuts. It’s like reading a college newspaper sometimes.

37 members of the unc athletic dept have tested positive. This thing clearly spreads fast in athletic environments.

I saw something similar. Basically, Fox polled republicans and found people could be grouped in 3 distinct ways. They then created 3 prime time shows that appealed to each of those groups. Their 9pm show appeals to the largest of the 3 groups. I see the same thing on msnbc now.

Revoking the fairness doctrine is the reason for most of this.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine We need something like this again.

True. I’ve unfriended everyone who talks politics so my FB feed is pretty tame these days. Twitter is just a digital mob. Full of bullies and people who just want to complain or think they have the world figured out.