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(10-02-2020 01:59 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  LOL. Dear tiny baby Jesus, help me to see the roundball pounded against the hardwood, let me hear the clank of the rim, and be blinded by the laser light show. Hallelujah!

We ARE having a moment here!

(10-01-2020 12:38 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(10-01-2020 12:08 PM)ODBlue Wrote:  I have a friend who was a doctor in NYC during the AIDS/HIV epidemic of the '80s. Although AIDS/HIV wasn't a big deal here, it WAS a bid deal in NYC. He currently works with cancer patients now. He says that a vaccine or cure for COVID is highly unlikely anytime soon. More realistically, is that the treatment for COVID will be like that of cancer/HIV. No cure, no vaccine, but treatment will improve so that the death rate of COVID will be minimal. So instead of the less than 1-2% COVID death rate now, it will decrease to such a minimal level that it will be accepted and we can return to normal (no masks, packed stadiums, etc.)

Each year tens of thousands of people die in car accidents. If we dropped the speed limit to 15 mph, I'll bet that number could be cut in half. We don't because we accept a certain number of car accident deaths each year. We need to do that with COVID. It sound harsh, but that is reality. A life without risk is not a life.

I'm no doctor but from what I've read the vaccine trails have produced promising results. If there is no vaccine then I guess it will be herd immunity the old fashion way, many more people will die but those that survive will gain some sort of immunity. Even if you catch it twice it would likely be milder and eventually it would be like the seasonal flu. And yes the treatments will get better. We certainly have to accept risks but if 200K+ people died from car accidents in 9 months you can be damn sure there would be changes made.

I have a friend who works for a Top 5 Big Pharma here in VA. According to him, there will be a vaccine sometime next year. These are a few of his posts on another board. I edited a few names to protect anonymity.

Quote:

This is a lie. We're distributing the vaccine. Nothing is coming in October.

The other lie is the prioritization. Yes, the government gets to decide but it's my understanding the CDC has already prioritized health care providers first.

Quote:

Quote:Just got off the next content session. This was an MD expert on the virus. Dr. Nick Riviera

I got pulled from the session a couple of times but his message was basically this.

1. Number of cases will get worse, not better. Mask fatigue and the fact 1/3 of the population still thinks its a hoax.
2. Facilities have improved their ability to prevent death. Mortality rates dropped at least 25% since the beginning. No miracle drug or anything. Just good science to learn what works/doesn't.
3. He expects us to be talking about handling Covid until at least 2024. The developed world may get it under control but international travel to less developed nations will continue to cause spread and small outbreaks. He literally said our kids and grandkids will be dealing with this, just not on the scale of today.
4. Someone asked if the number of deaths reported was accurate. He said WAY under-reported especially in the beginning. Said when the chaos settles we will go back and determine the death count but it'll be much higher than what's reported. Gave an analogy on co-morbidities and how some claim those conditions were the cause of death. Here goes... Let's say you live in an area that's heavily wooded and hasn't been cleared out in a long time. It's hot, it's windy, it has low humidity. Look at those conditions as co-morbidities like diabetes, obesity, old age. You can live perfectly fine like that. Covid is the match. Once it gets lit all those conditions work together to destroy. But it was the match that started it all and is therefore the cause.
5. It will take at least 2 vaccines per person. If 50% of the US gets the vaccine he considers that a major victory. But that's not herd immunity of course.
6. He did not have a good take yet on if the vaccines would last a long time or a short time, meaning is this like a measles vaccine (once in a life) or a flu vaccine (annual)?

Quote:A sobering reminder about the vaccines furthest along and the challenge of getting them to the populace... my company is one of a group distributing the vaccine. And we're doing all the "kits" to go with it. The kits are easy. I don't know how we're going to transport stuff at -94 degrees.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...er/616521/

The two leading vaccine candidates in the U.S.—one developed by Moderna, the other by a collaboration between Pfizer and the German company BioNTech—have progressed so quickly to clinical trials precisely because they are the fastest to make and manufacture. They rely on a novel vaccine technology whose advantage is speed, but whose downside is extreme physical fragility. These vaccines have to be frozen—in Pfizer/BioNTech’s case, at an ultracold –94 degrees Fahrenheit, colder than most freezers—which will limit how and where they can be shipped. The ways these vaccines are formulated (without added preservatives) and packaged (in vials that hold doses for multiple people) also make them easier to develop and manufacture quickly but harder to administer on the ground.

In other words, speed is coming at the expense of convenience. “For this first generation of vaccines, we won’t trade off safety. We don’t want to trade off effectiveness,” says Kelly Moore, the associate director of immunization education at the Immunization Action Coalition. So instead, the U.S. is planning for a vaccine that requires brutally complicated logistics. Public-health departments in states, territories, and major cities are currently drawing up vaccine plans for the end of October. It’s still unclear whether these vaccines are safe and effective—and it’s extremely unlikely that data will be available by the end of October. But the departments are getting ready. Many are already stretched thin by the ongoing pandemic, and they are now helping plan, as Moore puts it, “the largest, most complex vaccination program ever attempted in history.”

(10-02-2020 11:44 AM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:49 AM)FearTheLion Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 05:38 AM)Grommet Wrote:  The wife just told me POTUS and FLOTUS tested positive. Asymptomatic at this point.

The NYT reported early this morning that they were indeed symptomatic.

But given that the subject has spent the past 3 3/4 years discrediting everything that has come out of there, who knows?

Yep, mild symptoms now. Biden and also Pence negative. Hope Hicks, Mike Lee, Rona McDaniels positive.

https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/...e-updates-

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 11:44 AM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:49 AM)FearTheLion Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 05:38 AM)Grommet Wrote:  The wife just told me POTUS and FLOTUS tested positive. Asymptomatic at this point.

The NYT reported early this morning that they were indeed symptomatic.

But given that the subject has spent the past 3 3/4 years discrediting everything that has come out of there, who knows?

Yep, mild symptoms now. Biden and also Pence negative. Hope Hicks, Mike Lee, Rona McDaniels positive.

https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/...e-updates-

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 11:44 AM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:49 AM)FearTheLion Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 05:38 AM)Grommet Wrote:  The wife just told me POTUS and FLOTUS tested positive. Asymptomatic at this point.

The NYT reported early this morning that they were indeed symptomatic.

But given that the subject has spent the past 3 3/4 years discrediting everything that has come out of there, who knows?

Yep, mild symptoms now. Biden and also Pence negative. Hope Hicks, Mike Lee, Rona McDaniels positive.

https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/...e-updates-

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

I'm politically mercenary, but a humanist at heart. I've had several respiratory illnesses in my time, one somewhat serious. I wouldn't wish that kind of suffering on anyone for any reason. For the sake of the power and importance of his office, I wish him well.

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 11:44 AM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:49 AM)FearTheLion Wrote:  The NYT reported early this morning that they were indeed symptomatic.

But given that the subject has spent the past 3 3/4 years discrediting everything that has come out of there, who knows?

Yep, mild symptoms now. Biden and also Pence negative. Hope Hicks, Mike Lee, Rona McDaniels positive.

https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/...e-updates-

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Let’s quote him re: our military: America’s war dead are “losers and suckers.” Yet this weeny went to the hospital with a fever. Lord save him if he ever had to pick up a rifle and defend our country.

(10-02-2020 08:17 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 11:44 AM)Grommet Wrote:  Yep, mild symptoms now. Biden and also Pence negative. Hope Hicks, Mike Lee, Rona McDaniels positive.

https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/...e-updates-

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Let’s quote him re: our military: America’s war dead are “losers and suckers.” Yet this weeny went to the hospital with a fever. Lord save him if he ever had to pick up a rifle and defend our country.

I can’t believe ODUDJ96 comments...beginning to really dislike this board....

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(10-02-2020 08:17 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Let’s quote him re: our military: America’s war dead are “losers and suckers.” Yet this weeny went to the hospital with a fever. Lord save him if he ever had to pick up a rifle and defend our country.

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I can’t believe ODUDJ96 comments...beginning to really dislike this board....

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(10-02-2020 08:17 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Let’s quote him re: our military: America’s war dead are “losers and suckers.” Yet this weeny went to the hospital with a fever. Lord save him if he ever had to pick up a rifle and defend our country.

[/quote]

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 11:44 AM)Grommet Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:49 AM)FearTheLion Wrote:  The NYT reported early this morning that they were indeed symptomatic.

But given that the subject has spent the past 3 3/4 years discrediting everything that has come out of there, who knows?

Yep, mild symptoms now. Biden and also Pence negative. Hope Hicks, Mike Lee, Rona McDaniels positive.

https://www.pilotonline.com/coronavirus/...e-updates-

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Trump with Covid... that’s what we like to call karma

(10-02-2020 11:10 PM)ArmyROTC86 Wrote:  I can’t believe ODUDJ96 comments...beginning to really dislike this board....

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(10-02-2020 08:17 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Let’s quote him re: our military: America’s war dead are “losers and suckers.” Yet this weeny went to the hospital with a fever. Lord save him if he ever had to pick up a rifle and defend our country.

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If you’re offended by ODUDJ96’s comments and not offended by trump’s comments (which is what 96 is talking about), than you probably think the proud boys and boogaloos are “very fine people”

(10-02-2020 11:10 PM)ArmyROTC86 Wrote:  I can’t believe ODUDJ96 comments...beginning to really dislike this board....

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(10-02-2020 08:17 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:30 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 07:12 PM)ODUDJ96 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 04:45 PM)Grommet Wrote:  

I can’t wait to see how this story unfolds. So ironic. And what a weeny going to the hospital over a fever.

Like him or not, he is our president and should receive the best treatment possible. If that means going to Walter Reed for an experimental treatment, so be it. If he doesn't make it through this the only winners are terrorists and opposing nations.

Let’s quote him re: our military: America’s war dead are “losers and suckers.” Yet this weeny went to the hospital with a fever. Lord save him if he ever had to pick up a rifle and defend our country.

[/quote]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...rs/615997/

Hate trump, but would rather go the route of Obama and wish the President well. He's a lying, stealing, cheating scumbag but he's our president and I can't wish ill will (or COVID) on anyone.

I don't have any nice things to say about that Snapping Turdle but i hope he recovers soon.

Officially time to shut down this thread. Had a good civil discussion but now it has turned disgusting.


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Officially time to shut down this thread. Had a good civil discussion but now it has turned disgusting.


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Officially time to shut down this thread. Had a good civil discussion but now it has turned disgusting.


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Third time is a charm?

Just curious - what is so disgusting that you can’t take it anymore?