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@sadolite
According to Biden, Cornpop was 215 pounds.
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I approve of the expert opinion.
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Because crack cocaine is a big part of Democrat family values
I approve!
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@FLRW
I approve.
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FLRW= First Lady Republican Whitehouse? OMG!
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@ebuc
In the realm of Dartland, a land woven with the threads and posts of faith and destiny, a powerful movement known as MAGA arose. It wasn't about politics or power; it stood for "Make God Great Again." This profound truth was known to all Dartlings who, guided by their devotion, ascended the sacred Orange Mountain Top to commune with the divine.
Beneath the watchful eyes of the heavens, grand juries convened at the foot of the Orange Mountain Top. Their purpose was to safeguard the realm's equilibrium, yet their influence was limited. At best, they could only delay the ascent of the MAGA God to his celestial throne. The evangelicals, bathed in the radiance of his glory, held greatness bestowed upon them high above the valleys below.
Within the valleys, however, strife was rampant. Factions fought amongst themselves for the remnants of MAGA's blessings, which they saw as a byproduct of their devotion. The waste, both material and metaphorical, was a reflection of their internal discord.
Yet, a whisper echoed among a few souls who dared to challenge the status quo. They believed that the path to the Orange MAGA Mountain, where unity with the divine awaited, required more than just blind allegiance. It demanded a higher sacrifice – the surrender of selfish desires, the embrace of truth, and the pursuit of justice and fairness, and a complete sacrifice of the Orange Torus.
"Though we traverse the valley of waste," they proclaimed, "our journey's purpose transcends the turmoil. Our ascent to the Orange MAGA Mountain is predicated on the elevation of our own hearts. To rise beyond the discord, we must relinquish our pretenses, and embrace the virtues that define our humanity." Where faith intertwined with reality, the tale of MAGA and the Orange Mountain Top will forever embody the eternal struggle between devotion and discernment. It shall illuminate the potential for greatness within every soul, regardless of the turmoil that might surround them. As Dartland's inhabitants grapple with their beliefs and destinies, they must discover that true elevation comes not from aspiring to an external Orange deity, but from embodying the divine virtues within themselves, and cheeseburgers.
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@cristo71
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Weren’t you a raving conservative initially when you first arrived on the seen here?
He is playing TDS simulator, the gathering.
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@Best.Korea
4,517,034 confirmed cases
in a population of 33 million. Note that this doesn't include asymptomatic cases which are typically never recorded or tested and can include around half of the total, much more in poor countries with inadequate testing.
"Only half of Peruvians with COVID-19 symptoms during the last 4 weeks had undergone diagnostic tests. "
So right off the bat you can double the confirmed number.
So that's close to 1 in 3 getting some form of the Covid.
The idea that you can go flu free within the span of a few years is very rare.
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@Best.Korea
Mask and regulations helped Peru,
Maybe, but not to any substantial degree to make up for the healthcare shortfalls. That's why they were number one in deaths. Slowing the spread doesn't equate to less people ultimately coming down with some form of the Flu strain eventually.
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The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions. There were additional RCTs during the pandemic related to physical interventions but a relative paucity given the importance of the question of masking and its relative effectiveness and the concomitant measures of mask adherence which would be highly relevant to the measurement of effectiveness, especially in the elderly and in young children.
There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low to moderate certainty of evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be different from the observed estimate of the effect. The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. Hand hygiene is likely to modestly reduce the burden of respiratory illness, and although this effect was also present when ILI and laboratory‐confirmed influenza were analysed separately, it was not found to be a significant difference for the latter two outcomes. Harms associated with physical interventions were under‐investigated.
There is a need for large, well‐designed RCTs addressing the effectiveness of many of these interventions in multiple settings and populations, as well as the impact of adherence on effectiveness, especially in those most at risk of ARIs.
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@Best.Korea
So what's the study about the high masking rate in Peru? Why didn't it seem to help?
While your study is very interesting at showing how masking affected the spread rates, it didn't show any actual correlations between morbidity rates. Peru being only one of many examples.
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@Best.Korea
What study? Link it here please I don't feel like scrolling.
Also, Peru was one of the most heavily mandated mask countries, and still has mandates in place even today. So I would like to see that study as well.
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@Best.Korea
As long as there is just 1 exception to statistics, MAGA believes the exception.
Isn't that what you are doing? Using an outlier?
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@Best.Korea
Oh you mean your false correlation between masks and morbidity?
Feel free to post your study.
I posted mine correlating Obesity to a 95% certainty with Covid Morbidity.
You're welcome.
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@FLRW
Remember what I said about everybody in Japan wearing masks?
Japan has one of the lowest Obesity rates in the world.
You're welcome.
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@Vegasgiants
Just think of words as a type of video, unless you want braille. I could make a video on Braille. :)
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@Vegasgiants
Sure:
Results
In total, 3,140,413 patients from 167 studies were included in the study. Obesity was associated with an increased risk of severe disease (RR=1.52, 95% CI 1.41-1.63, p<0.001, I2 = 97%). Similarly, high mortality was observed in obese patients (RR=1.09, 95% CI 1.02-1.16, p=0.006, I2 = 97%). In multivariate meta-regression on severity, the covariate of the female gender, pulmonary disease, diabetes, older age, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension was found to be significant and explained R2 = 40% of the between-study heterogeneity for severity. The aforementioned covariates were found to be significant for mortality as well, and these covariates collectively explained R2 = 50% of the between-study variability for mortality.
Conclusions
Our findings suggest that obesity is significantly associated with increased severity and higher mortality among COVID-19 patients. Therefore, the inclusion of obesity or its surrogate body mass index in prognostic scores and improvement of guidelines for patient care management is recommended.
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@Best.Korea
Thats why US had such high covid mortality rate,
It was actually due to the US having one of the highest Obesity rates in the civilized world.
You're welcome.
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@Best.Korea
No. The hoax was that masks could prevent you from catching Covid when it actually made people believe they didn't have to social distance or quarantine themselves.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I have no reason to doubt or agree with that claim.
Food for thought then:
Masks
Effectiveness:
The debate regarding the effectiveness of masks is still ongoing. Indeed, some believe masks are ineffective (for both this coronavirus virus and influenza variants) (29–31), others defend the simple surgical mask efficiency (this is the most common scientific opinion), and others are calling for more effective masks (32).
Even supposing face masks might provide some measure of protection, there are side effects that could undermine any efficacy they may have. First, wearing a mask may give a false sense of security and make people less compliant with social distancing, ventilation and other important infection control schemes (33, 34). Second, people have to avoid touching their masks and adopt other management measures, otherwise masks may be counterproductive (35).
While face masks can stop larger droplets, such droplets tend to fall to the ground due to their weight (36–38), and are not the route for viral transmission. Viruses spread via smoke-like aerosols (39) via breath (or flatulence), which go through and jet out the sides of surgical masks, and infect mainly by inhalation deep into the lungs. Despite the risk of inhaling/exhaling infected virions via leaks of particles, this was never evaluated in applied norms for surgical masks, and only for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) under the Filtering Facepiece Particles (FFP) norm in Europe, and N (e.g., N95) in the USA. Moreover, the European norm for surgical masks (EN14683) as well as the US (ASTM) only applies to Bacterial Filtration Efficiency (BFE), and the size of the bacteria used for testing (3 microns) is much larger than the SARS-CoV-2 [maximum size of 140 nm (40)]. Virus filtration efficiency (VFE) was never tested in Chinese and European norms.
Psychological Effects
Masks severely handicap us in our most fundamental way of communicating—our emotional expressions (51–53), something that is as relevant in health diagnoses (54) as it is in regular life. For instance, a randomized clinical trial has shown that health care professionals wearing masks have a significant and negative impact on the patient's perceived empathy and diminish positive effects of relational continuity (55).
A recent study also showed that each type of mask caused a low-pass filter effect, attenuating higher frequencies (2,000–7,000 Hz) in the speaker's voice by 3–4 dB (medical mask) and nearly 12 dB for the N95 mask (respirator/FFP) (56). In addition to this, masks significantly prevent binding mechanisms through which de-synchronized auditory and motor signals from language are usually fused into conscious workspace—a phenomenon known as the McGurk effect (57).
Also, a review notably supports the idea that panic-prone individuals may be at higher risk of respiratory discomfort when wearing RPDs, thereby reducing their tolerance for these devices (58).
A final consequence of universal mask wearing worth mentioning is one at the societal level: once an unmasked face becomes verboten in most public circumstances, it can end up psychologically treated as a “private part” that must be covered, like all our private parts, something that can be difficult to undo.
We are breaking down a fundamental part of society, essentially the ability to communicate and read each other. The dire cost of this policy has to have equal or better benefits to justify it.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I am a little worried when the science being broadcast comes exclusively from Pfizer board members...
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Research shows that under most circumstances, mask wearing has no significant adverse health effects on the people who wear them
Do you really agree with this CDC claim?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
You were more coherent arguing for pedophilia, are you trying to see how well you can simulate TDS?
Lol, TDS simulator seems like an idea for a fun computer game!
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I meant to say, if masks can't protect you from farts, they most certainly can't protect you from Covid. The particles are just too small.
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@IlDiavolo
I hope the fucking governments don't place us on lockdown again, that would be terrible for today's recessed economy.
But it would be a great thing for door to door ballot harvesting.
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@Best.Korea
I noticed you stopped using the word "bleach"
I call that a win.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
The best analogy is that underwear doesn't protect others from farts. Even if you wear it around your nose, it won't protect you.
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@FLRW
Vivek has that position. OMG do you like Vivek?
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@FLRW
Trump described Dominion Voting Systems as “horrendous,” “Radical Left,” “poorly rated,” “very suspect,” and “a disaster.
I wonder if he left a one star rating on Google as well. The absolute worst.
The only way the USA survives is for Trump to be imprisoned.
What if USA continues to be screwed after Trump is in jail? It's not like everything was perfect before and after Trump....
It's my firm belief that just as Trump can't fix the country, eliminating Trump also won't fix it.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Thanks, that clears things up a lot.
Again, there are a ton of things Trump has done to hurt the country. This is most certainly not one of them. I am much more outraged at the modern high tech Orwellian propaganda so pervasive that it creates large swaths of people who can only remember a false past than anything Trump did; as the former has much more lasting detrimental effects for America than any 4 year politician.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Whips and bleach. The bread and butter of modern propaganda.
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Clearly Trump with his vast medical knowledge read this study and was referring to this
I have no idea what goes on in the mind of Trump, but in the full context of his comments, it's more likely he was talking about UVA than Bleach. Or at least making an attempt in layman's terms.
There's a ton of things to hate Trump about. Creating insignificant narratives such as "bleachgate" for the sole purpose of getting a ratings boost in a single week of corporate media ratings is totally unnecessary to expose Trump as bad for the country.
Disloyalty to the fuhrer will not be tolerated!!!!!!
Right lol, I guess this is where the term "Grammar Nazi" came from because Hitler is best remembered for using strange words and unclear antecedents that may have referred to "bleach"????
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@Best.Korea
I'll leave the good or bad ideas to the NIH. They are the ones looking to see if it can be done safely. The preliminary study claimed it worked in 4 out of 5 terminally ill Covid patients.
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@Best.Korea
Lol, or just use one aspect of a definition to create the word "Bleach"
UVA light is a disinfecting AGENT.
I hope you guys will recover brain when Trump is gone.
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@Best.Korea
I didnt realize UV light can be given by injection.
Well now you know.
NIH has tons of articles on it. Consider yourself un-misinformed.
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@Best.Korea
Are you now going to misunderstand all words to justify...
Still waiting on the words you would insert in parenthesis to indicate exactly what the pronouns referred to.
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@Best.Korea
A disinfectant, exemplified by UVA light as an agent, refers to a chemical substance or physical element employed to eliminate or deactivate harmful microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. UVA light, in this context, serves as a disinfectant by disrupting the structure or function of these microorganisms, thus preventing them from causing infections. Disinfectants are typically applied to surfaces, objects, or the air, aiming to diminish the risk of infections by reducing the presence of these pathogenic microorganisms in the environment. This process is essential in numerous industries such as healthcare, food production, water treatment, and sanitation. The effectiveness of disinfection, using UVA light or other agents, hinges on factors like the specific microorganisms being targeted, the concentration of the disinfectant, the duration of exposure, and the prevailing conditions during application.
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@Best.Korea
Yes, ultraviolet (UV) light can be used as a disinfectant. UV light has germicidal properties that can effectively kill or inactivate various microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and molds. This is primarily because UV light, especially in the UVC range (short wavelength, around 254 nanometers), damages the genetic material (DNA or RNA) of these microorganisms, preventing them from reproducing and causing infections.
UV light disinfection is commonly used in various settings, including healthcare facilities, laboratories, water treatment plants, and even in consumer products like UV light sanitizing wands and boxes. However, it's important to note that the effectiveness of UV light as a disinfectant depends on factors like the intensity and duration of exposure, the type of microorganisms being targeted, and the cleanliness of the surfaces being treated.
Proper safety precautions are necessary when using UV light for disinfection, as direct exposure to UV light can be harmful to human skin and eyes.UV light can also be less effective when trying to disinfect surfaces with shadows or areas that are not directly exposed to the light.
UV light disinfection is commonly used in various settings, including healthcare facilities, laboratories, water treatment plants, and even in consumer products like UV light sanitizing wands and boxes. However, it's important to note that the effectiveness of UV light as a disinfectant depends on factors like the intensity and duration of exposure, the type of microorganisms being targeted, and the cleanliness of the surfaces being treated.
Proper safety precautions are necessary when using UV light for disinfection, as direct exposure to UV light can be harmful to human skin and eyes.UV light can also be less effective when trying to disinfect surfaces with shadows or areas that are not directly exposed to the light.
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looks like the EPA agrees with Trump's interpretation.
I suppose this is the part where the MAGA strawman approach would be that the EPA is full of Orange people....
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@Best.Korea
I already stated my interpretation to you
no really, tell me exactly what those pronouns refer to. Use real words, not a MAGA strawman.
Of course, it wouldnt be their first time to do such a thing.
Exactly, which is why the WAPO crowd still thinks Trump said the word "bleach" while attacking a MAGA strawman
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@Best.Korea
Disinfectant meaning:"a chemical liquid that destroys bacteria"
source?
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@Best.Korea
I like how you added your own words to text to change meaning.
It's a common practice to insert parenthesis when someone is unclear of what the pronouns are referring to. Feel free to insert your own interpretation.
The strawman crowd didn't even bother to use parenthesis when using the word bleach.
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@Best.Korea
You should try to steelman people you disagree with from time to time instead of tossing MAGA strawmen around.
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