Yep! The masks don't even matter unless people coughs or sneezes directly in your face.

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GO BEARS!!!

MANY succeeded and should be fired the next time they're on the ballot.

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GO BEARS!!!

I was on this six weeks ago. I thought you were fast track.

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IDK

I follow a doctor on the twitters. Said, after this he will close shop. Claims independent doctors will all be closed and it will be all extension of hospitals.

It will go way down quickly. Unemployment payouts are remarkably generous now. Average payout is the equivalent of 52k a year right now.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Which means that it could take until September for things to go down.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

God that would be sweet. Trump could sell the shit out of the idea. Just call it Freedom Medicine and people would lap it up.

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I never favored restrictions. In fact, I laughed at you guys because my state was able to avoid them.

The correct way to handle this from day 1 was to have adequate testing like SK and Taiwan, two places that managed to weather this without complete shutdowns while also controlling the outbreak.

The US had nearly 2 months to try that route, but instead those in charge decided to put their head in the sand and pretend the virus didn't exist when priority #1 should have been testing those who had a travel history or had been in contact with the few cases we had at the time.

My state still doesn't have a lockdown or stay at home order. We got to enjoy our Saturday out. People kept their distance and it worked out nicely.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Look at the sacrifices the rest of us made so that your precious mountain bike trails weren't shut down. You can thank us all with a lovely steak dinner.

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You guys made that sacrifice yourself when you voted for the dyke and fatso.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I've only ever wrote in Lara Croft.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

for me its X amount of lives lost vs Y amount of lives economically ruined. I believe Y is clearly going to be a much larger number than X

keep in mind that it is likely that over 800,000 people have died in the US to date (2.5-2.8 million people die each year) from everything to cancer, old age, car acidents, heart attacks, etc etc . the 20k dead from corona is 2% of that.

That dude has been having a lot of stuff on twitter. I have also heard him on Tucker Carlson. He has some good stuff.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

The reason I'm paying attention to him is he's not some Alex Jones whacko. He's a former NYT guy himself.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

This is absolutely correct. There is no shortage of healthcare workers, and we gutted all other functions of a hospital not related to COVID treatment. A big ole fucking scam because we couldn't stomach what amounted to a strong flu season.

You said we were going to be worse than Italy, which would have resulted in nationwide shutdowns for weeks on end. Maybe you didn't favor restrictions, but you were cheering for them pretty loudly.

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We have not been or ever will be close to Italy. They have quintuple the deaths per capita. We were not exponential at any point but very early when we were talking 10 to 100s of deaths. That's pretty much like comparing the first week of MLB batting stats and extrapolating them for the entire season.

another bit of information i would be interested in is rural vs suburb/small metro vs urban.

30% of the population live in these sardine can urban areas. the largest amount of infections are in NYC/NJ/Boston/Detroit/LA/Chicago where peopel are packed in like sardines. move into the submetro and rural areas its a fraction of the infections for the other 70% of the population. they account for only like 25% of infections as of april 2 (some citylab article i read a few days ago). so 30% account for 70% and the other 70% account for the remaining 30% basically.

you can use that information along with Age "discrimination" to allow rural/small metro get back to some level of business. they don't affect the GDP for sure and there is supply line stuff that has to be sorted out but common sense can prevail. if your population density is 2000+ per sqr mile shut it down or somethign like that. otherwise, take precaution but open this crap back up.

there is no reason why rock island county with a population density of 150 per sqr mile should suffer because chicagos is 11,000 per sqr mile

I had to talk to my MD last night and had to go get a precautionary chest X-ray today (negative) but didn't need to see her. She's in her late 30s, MILF with three kids, probably liberal. I'm pretty sure that she's from a Rust Belt state originally.

And she is fucking furious about the fact that so many people with minor heart attacks and strokes are not going to the ER because the media has scared them. She started to go on a full out rant. Came really close to saying "don't their lives matter?" and caught herself.

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I am glad that you shared this because I am very pissed also. My right knee is fucked up right now and is hurting like hell and I cannot get treated other than by phone with people who I have never met. I think that this shit is totally bullshit and a total over-reaction based on a terrible scare put on us by China and the WHO. The hospitals in this country are hapless right now in the treating of people who have significant medical problems other than this virus. IT really pisses me off. I have had a family doctor for over 15 years who has treated me and my family and I cannot get in touch with him. They even closed the fucking clinic that he resided in. I have no notion what the hell he is doing now but he isn't treating me and my family because of this fucking virus. Its really fucked up.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

That was the working title for Bob Smigel's 'The Baby, The Immigrant, and The Guy On Mushrooms'.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

No it isn’t

Kaiser? If so, I haven't heard good things about them from coworkers.

Don't they have EMR such as Epic/MyChart? One thing I insisted on when I moved was a practice where the MDs are on call for themselves. My regular quarterly appointment next week got converted to a teleconference a month ago, but she told me then to use the EMR message function or call in if anything was going sideways.

When I lived in Illinois, I went to a large suburban group that is at probably a dozen hospitals (DuPage Medical). Generally excellent care, several after hours clinics with near-ER capabilities, their own surgical centers. But what I hated was that they used hospitalists in lieu of your regular internist. Totally pissed me off when my mom was having her difficult last year with cancer and was hospitalized several times.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

New York state has surpassed Italy as the deadliest single region for the virus outside of Wuhan (using the real numbers for Wuhan that is)

NY state has lost 552 people per million in this outbreak vs. 348 per million in Italy

NY State is still losing 750-800 per day, and that's likely an under count as deaths in the home aren't being counted.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

NY state vs the country of Italy huh? Ok lets go hardest hit province in Italy. Lombardy. 1142 deaths per million

NEXT

NY State will be there in 2 weeks, perhaps less, and if you really want to break it down, look at NYC and compare that to Lombardy. NYC accounts for roughly 2/3 of the deaths in the state.

Oh and let's wait until they tabulate the deaths at home, which haven't been added to NY's count.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

No, When you get your NYC, I'll get Milan. Why do you insist on comparing apples to oranges?

Are those the 3700 non-tested dead you are hoping for to be added? That was unclear to me whether they had already fake counted those or were about to fake count them.

The major difference is unemployment benefits right now are on average $1000 a week. That's not bad for sitting at home.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Can you give me a breakdown of that $1000 a week?

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