OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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  1. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    No no no, that doesn't work with our angle. FAKE NEWS!!!
     
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    CupWizier Well-Known Member

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    and can we beliewve our administrations numbers? They seem to lie a lot as well.
     
  3. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Does our federal administration have control of the numbers being released/reported by the individual states?

    Why even waste people's time with ridiculous false equivalencies?
     
  4. TorturedBlazerFan

    TorturedBlazerFan Well-Known Member

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    It might be? lol. Maybe they made the article said it was from Japan, I have no idea...

    I just remember seeing stuff pop up throughout the month of February about Japan was setting up trials for a few of different drugs and this one was one of them they said was having positive results. - They noted the trial testing was in small sample sizes in the article I was looking out over a month ago now.
     
  5. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    Whatever you want to do to make yourself feel better. '

    100000 cases fucking sucks no matter how you slice it, even if China is masking their numbers. That is where we will be this wknd.
     
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  6. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    It's not about the drug, it's about the phoney promoting it.
     
  7. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Nobody said the current status in the US is good. Just saying that the idea that China didn't actually have more is laughable.

    IMO, the really interesting case will be India. If their numbers end up better than the US's (and I won't have any reason to doubt their legitimacy), that will be the true indictment of the US's system and response.
     
  8. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    It's like saying that there are cures for cancer so all people who are promoting cures for cancer are legit.
     
  9. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    Why do you even need another country's response?

    We had more time to control the spread than any western country. We had more time to build the infrastructure to address the unmet medical needs. We have more $ and resources than any other developed country. The realities we are seeing today in our hospitals are enough to tell me this admin has blood on its hands.
     
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    calvin natt Confeve

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    It’s not debatable
     
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    More than a thousand people have died from this here over the past week or so. More than a third of 9/11 and almost a half of Pearl Harbor.

    I am really curious to see if this asshole will show one ounce of compassion and offer condolences to those who have died. How much do you want to bet he will bring up the economy before he brings up those who perished in his PC today?
     
  12. Chris Craig

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    Who cares, he has the tallest building again in lower manhattan
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    He thinks Harvard is 'the libs' and so he's busy owning the libs.

    barfo
     
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    Oh I can't wait! Trump's and his task force is about to do a White House briefing again.
     
  16. e_blazer

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    Yes, but that article you posted isn't being fair (so what else is new in these days). That guy that's referenced has zero credibility, but there are credible sources who are supporting the drug's use. They seem to relate back to a French biologist's report on them:

    https://www.thelocal.fr/20200324/ch...french-scientists-say-could-treat-coronavirus

    This is what the Surgeon General, Jerome Adams has to say about it:

    “Here is the thing about those drugs: There is may and actually does,” Adams noted. “These may be promising. So we are trying to make them as available as possible to people across the country. We need to verify through studies that they actually work.”

    “But I also, again, want to go back to the fact that it’s not practical to think we are going to treat our way out of this problem with new drugs or with ventilators or with supplies,” he continued. “We need to lower demand. We need more people talking about staying at home.”

    Trump is being very reckless in touting this drug as some panacea that's going to resolve COVID-19, but we can't let hatred of Trump support the use of other propaganda that's just intended to make him look worse than he is. There are studies underway in the US, France, and elsewhere that will tell us in a month or so whether there's anything to it, but in the meantime we can only do what they're telling us to slow the spread through isolation and social distancing.
     
  17. TorturedBlazerFan

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    I got some advice. Don't watch it.
     
  18. SlyPokerDog

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    Then Fox News needs to use the credible sources.

    Why use that dipshit?

    If the drug treatment is legit, not saying it is or isn't, if the drug treatment is legit, using a fucking phoney as your expert hurts that fact.
     
  19. e_blazer

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    I'm not here to defend slipshod reporting by Fox. Just saying that the piece you posted is crap in that it tries to make it look like there's absolutely nothing behind the drug other than that dipstick. Political propaganda by both sides isn't helpful.
     
  20. TorturedBlazerFan

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    Seems like it all boils down to propaganda. One propaganda machine, talking about Trump and Fox news (so basically another propaganda machine).
     

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